I added a little something to my Fall decor yesterday - a black cauldron that I filled with some Fall leaves - total cost $3 from Dollarama ;) I got an extra cauldron to fill with candy too :) I can't find candy corn anywhere though......hhhmmmmmm!!!
The Mustangs won their first game of the year yesterday :) Laurence is the team Captain :) It was a very exciting game - though I have to say that it is a dangerous spectator sport!!! The ball kept flying in to the crowd!! I was there at the start, and Lloyd arrived halfway through with Chris, as they got there after work/ school. It was nice to have the whole family there to watch!! :)
Sorry the pics aren't great - I just snapped them with my iphone!!!
.....and a painting Abigail did with leftover paint!! She was happy to explain why she painted the sky ALL the way down to the grass (her art teacher has taught them all that the sky is NOT just a line of blue at the top of the paper but that actually if you look, it goes all the way to the horizon, where it meets the ground (or whatever it touches first) - I think this is an important skill to learn as an artist and she was very proud to have learned it :)
Sam saw me looking at this blog yesterday and thought it looked soooo much fun!!! So while we were at Saver on Foods, we picked up some mini pumpkins just to paint!!! This afternoon is windy and nasty outside and very Fall-like!! The perfect weather to do a Fall craft - like painting pumpkins :)
I've been working on the 'base' of my mini album for the online class I took last week - 'Fall in Love' .......now to do the fun part and fill it with all the interesting 'stuff'....answer all the juicy prompts, journal the memories, get creative and collage!!!
a few snapshots of Fall touches around our home.....
Edited to add that most of the things in these pictures come from Homesense lol - my Sister Karen will be just THRILLED to hear that - she used to work for them ;) I LOVE Homesense :)
One thing I am loving about geocaching is that it leads you in to some places that you would not see otherwise!! I never knew this park existed and it was lovely! I must have driven by it a hundred times!!! And who knew there was treasure buried there!!!?? ;)
I didn't feel very well this weekend so we cancelled our plans and instead we just went out to find a geacache fairly close to the grocery store we had to head to. This was a GREAT find - and the kids were THRILLED!!! We had taken things to trade with and so they were really pleased that they got to pick something to keep and they exchanged several things from their stash and took one thing each. Sam took a yellow ball and Susannah took some pencils. In exchange we left three things and signed the log book. It was a really good cache and the kind that we plan to make because I think this is the kind of cache that is best - adults are happy just to sign a book but kids LOVE treasure and it makes it soooooo much more fun if there is something to find - this is the third real 'treasure' find we have had now and the kids really get excited but I have to say this was the BEST one!!! :)
Last night we all watched Coraline as a family movie and Abigail, Sam and I got to compare the movie to the book!! Wow - it is VERY different from the book! It was a great movie and we all enjoyed it (although Sam was scared at the end). It was just very interesting to see how different the story was from the book. I also thought how they interpreted the characters was very interesting - especially Miss Forcible and Miss Spink - wow their show was hilarious in the movie.....and kind of odd for a childrens animation.....although I guess the kind of parents who let their children watch movies like Coraline wouldn't mind things like that anyway - I just thought it was hilarious!!! ;)
It has been an interesting learning experience anyway - to read a book and then see a movie. Onwards and upwards - we move on to 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'. We have read the book a few times but this time we are reading it with 'meaning' as part of our unit study on comparing books and movies. So we will be heading off to the movie theatre this week some time!!!
Abigail and Susannah cycled to one of our neighbours today to get some eggs, and then stopped off at the mailbox on the way home to collect the mail from yesterday. In amongst the mail was a letter addressed to Sam and Abigail!!! They were THRILLED!!!
Thank you sooooo much JoAnne! They were thrilled with the coupons and I see a few trips to McDonalds for breakfast in our very near future :)
