Earth

Jackson had his very first school project last month.  His class learned about the planets, and each student chose a planet for his project.  Jackson chose Earth.  He said it's his favorite, but I think it's his favorite because all the pictures of Earth are blue and green.  Blue is his favorite.  :)

 His 3 facts he had to research and present to his class:

 He came up with 2 of the 3 facts on his own!
Can you guess which ones were his?!

Katherine can't be left out.

She's such a pretty little thing.

Smell my Feet

We did go trick-or-treating this year!  I thought Friday was a great night for trick-or-treating, but our city thought otherwise.  Because the football game on Friday was a home game, the city moved trick-or-treating to Thursday.  Zach and I were not pleased since we had to rush homework and make the kids go to bed at a normal time rather than fully enjoying the night.  But, I digress.

Jackson was a soldier and Katherine was a mermaid.

Jackson creeped me out and put this mask on at the last minute.

Hitch hikers going house to house for loot.

Back at our home

 Katherine proud of her little pumpkin for a pumpkin contest at school the following day.

Field Trip!

Jackson finally had his first field trip of the year!

 They started out with a 30 minute train ride to a homestead

with a day's worth of activities.

 Below is the "Mystery House".  It's built on a huge incline and you can't walk vertical inside--you're always at a slant.  It plays with your mind and makes you dizzy.  At least it made the parents feel that way!  The kids never seem to mind.

 Jackson wanted me to walk through with him just once, and he said he would hold my hand.  He was being sweet and I couldn't say no, so I went through with him.  The little stinker decided halfway through he wanted to do something else and dropped my hand and ran off.  I had to fend for myself on getting out.  Boys.

 The Shooting Gallery was one of his favorite houses of the day!

 Gem mining wasn't far behind the Shooting Gallery

on the list of favorite things to do.

 The day was enjoyable and it was nice going somewhere we haven't been before!