Time off for Thanksgiving

It has been a while since I posted an update, eh? You know how life goes some weeks. Brady had the week of Thanksgiving off work (he had to take it off, not optional), so we spent a lot of time painting the basement and getting it finished. This is especially exciting since one of the two bedrooms that will soon be done is our future schoolroom! Hurray for designated desk space! Hurray for not working in the family room where they are used to being able to play! Hurray for getting to hang up silly school posters and not have people think we are nuts! I am really liking how the room is looking. I picked a light sage green colors for the walls which feels calming, and therefore seems like a nice choice for a room of learning.

The other bedroom that will soon be finished is my husband's future office/writing room. His choice in colors tends to be a bit more on the darker side than mine. I also really like how his room is turning out.


After the construction is complete, we will also had an additional bathroom in the basement, but I did not take any pictures of that.

The week after Thanksgiving, it was mostly back to school as usual, expect for being sick. They were feeling lousy, and I was feeling lousy, so we had several sessions of snuggling up all together on the couch for math. They did pretty well, and I only had to give them one day off when I felt they both really needed extra rest.

There was a field trip opportunity on Wednesday to go to the Festival of Trees with other kids from Washington Online. Wednesday was a no go with sickies, and Brady wanted to come with us anyway, so we went on our own field trip on Friday. The Festival of Trees here in Utah is a huge event. We did not make it through the entire thing to see all of the trees, but enjoyed ourselves nonetheless. We all decided the best part was the gingerbread houses that were on display. These were some of our favorites.


A pretty bird house.The house from the new movie Up!
This gingerbread castle was huge. I think I would have paid money just to see how they carried it in.

In the kids' area, the girls both bought elf wands which they were playing with in this picture. Sprout wore the princess dress every day this week. She had a total meltdown when I said they she could not take a bath with it on.

And Spike got to stand in a really big bubble.