{Plymouth Day at school}

So the next day at school the scholars celebrate the pilgrims by doing activities those children did all day long at school and having a feast....not the feast we have now but the foods the pilgrims ate. It is always interesting and always fun. I had always helped as a parent in the past few years and I have to say the day was a lot less stressful as a teacher.....this is was a lot more fun on the other side this time.

This day the kids also dress up. K stuck with the pilgrim costume (which he says he will use as the pirate costume he will need later in the year by changing hats and adding weapons) E went with his last years Indian costume. He came home looking like this...feather headband, war paint and shoe-less. I guess the Indians didn't really have slippers back then.

{Plymouth Plantation Play}

Our school put son a play each year for Thanksgiving. It tells the story of the Pilgrims coming to America and how Heavenly Father's hand was in it all.

This year the lower grammar were the stars of the show. E was a pilgrim in America, and K was the first Governor of Virginia. He got to be in Holland, England on the Mayflower and die in America. Both boys had a few lines and got to do a lot of acting.

Here they are before the play getting all ready to leave.

This is during the play.....

on the boat

the final bows

C was in charge of pictures since I was helping with the play and he wasn't really close to E's side of the stage so the pics form there are blurry and hard to tell who is who. But E was happy because he got to wrestle on stage too.

{Same Picture 5 years ago}

So somewhere in my collection of pictures I have this same picture

Only they were smaller like around 3 and 4 years old


Wearing capes made by the darling little girl's mother


and they couldn't touch the floor.



I would share it with you but first I have to find it (it was before we all went digital (the olden days as my boys call it)

{Trick or Treat}

We took all our costumes and headed out with the cousins. It was great to be in a place where there were a lot of other kids on the streets instead of just us and a few other random teenagers. It was cool and felt more like Fall weather up there.

Here they are before the fun began....

{Pumpkin Fun}

So I'm behind again in our blogging world but we are alive and well here.

We spent Halloween with our part of our Walker family in St George...so it is really our Salmon family but it all works itself out.

We took our pumpkins up and the boys had fun carving their own pumpkins with their cousins. K was happy because we let him do it all....the cutting the de-seeding everything on his own.

E was happy to pound the light brights into his. He doesn't like the cleaning out part though, if you couldn't tell.