Attitude of Gratitude

The M Family came to visit for the week of Thanksgiving and Felicity was in heaven playing with Lyla and Mylie, 24-7! and we were all in heaven having baby Kodee around for a little while!  18 months old are exhausting but so adorable!

And we had a super fun Friendsgiving dinner and gift exchange at Young Women's!

California History

We spent some time in November discovering CA history...

We went to the Cube Museum in Santa Ana (mostly because Hunter need to take kids to a science museum for extra credit in one of his classes) but we connected the Earthquake sections to our CA history unit.  We had a great time and I realized I went there all the time when the boys were little but the girls had very little memory of it! It was a beautiful day and a fun last minute field trip!

 

After reading some books about CA missions and doing some mission inspired art, we decided it was time to San Juan Capistrano Mission.  It is beautiful there and we had an amazing Mexican dinner afterwards.

We finished up our CA history unit by attending Knott's Berry Farm CA History Field Trip day with friends.  We learned a lot and got to spend the remainder of the day exploring the park.

This sweet lady who taught us how the early California pioneers made clothing was named Felicity.  So our Felicity and friends had to get a picture with her! 

Civil War

 We spent a few months learning about the Civil War.  We went to a Harriet Tubman play at Lifehouse theater, which was great!

We had a book club, reading Heroes of History:Abraham Lincoln, A New Birth of Freedom, a great biography for kids, and made molasses cookies, a common treat during the Civil War, during book club. Charity liked them, Felicity gave them a half thumbs up! 

We spent a day at Riley's Farms Civil War field trip with friends.  It was a great time, as usual!

Helping out a widow with her chores...

The nurse really got into her part of teaching us about surgery and medication during the Civil war...

We reenacted a battle and we were representing the South, 

so we all died!

I love the ending of the field trip, where they bring all that we can learn from history into our every day lives.

It was fun to go with some new found homeschool friends!

We stopped by the Abraham Shrine in Redlands on the way home...