Good question! Take a look and see ...
The girls LOVE hanging out with their friends: Lillian, Joel and Caleb!!
Lillian recently started taking piano lessons! She loves her teacher, Mrs. Romportl. Lillian is doing an excellent job!
A couple weeks ago we attended a nearby Apple Festival. Here the girls are learning what life was like before washing machines. Thank you, Lord, for automatic washers and dryers!!
Daniel taking his little date out on the town :)
This was taken right before heading downtown to our Fall Festival (different from the Apple Festival!)...
... digging in the sawdust for money ...
... showing off their balloon creations made by Lillian's piano teacher's son (small world!)!
Reading to her little sister
After 3 weeks of Lillian practicing piano on a sheet of paper (I drew a life-size keyboard for her!), she finally got to practice on the real deal! My DEAR brothers and parents hauled my mom's piano to our house and managed to make it up all our steps without ANY injuries (Daniel helped, too!)!
Almost there!!
Success!! Lillian loves playing on her new piano...
... and so do her sisters!
Four future pianists! HA!
After I took that last picture of the girls sitting at the piano, it reminded me of this picture! So I dug out the picture from a scrapbook and took a picture of it (we don't have a scanner)! Dan (aka: "Boy"), me, and Mike (aka: "Buckey") from back-in-the-day... 1982ish. Cute!
Rachel: "Boy, I sure wish Lillian would finish up school so we could go outside and play!" ...
... "YIPPEE! We made it!!"
We took our first "Field Trip" to Underwater Adventures at the Mall of America. They were having a super great discount for home schooling families, so we took advantage of it!! Grandma Lucy came along as a chaperone!
Lillian finding Nemo :)
Rebecca found a little creature
Fascinated by the jelly fish
A girl (well, in this case, 6 girls) can't go to the Mall of America without hitting up a few stores, right?! I caved in and let the girls get a little something at American Girl. That store is way too tempting!
Rachel helping out her big sister with some schoolwork
Some fun pictures of our four giggling girls...
Today Daniel was busy working outside all day, so... Lillian put up signs all around our house for Daddy :) The girls sure do love their daddy!
I had a last minute idea of getting some pumpkin pictures today. It was such a beautiful fall day.
Here is their personal clown at work, helping to get them to smile for the pictures...
Too cute!
I can only imagine what their clown is doing here...
Lillian took this picture (I did a little cropping to center it, otherwise, not too bad!)
There goes that clown again!!
Chuckle being silly...
... there's that smile we love!!
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Happy October!!
