Last Tribute to Autumn

I've wanted to post these pictures for a while and yet have been so busy! Last night I saw this post by Jessica who just welcomed her new baby girl, Rose, into the world. I thought to myself, "She just had a baby and is already blogging about it!", Surely I had to find the time to post about what we've been up to the past two months.

In November, we went to a beautiful lavender/organic farm with our Catholic Montessori home school group. They usually don't allow visitors unless there is a public event going on, but they were kind enough to let us have an Autumn nature walk with the children.

Fun at the State Fair!

We had a blast at the State Fair recently and I just posted some pics on our Montessori co-op's blog. Check it out at St. Francis of Assisi Montessori Academy

For those of you who don't know, my husband and I are hosting a 3-6 traditional Catholic Montessori co-op in our home this year! All of the families involved have the hopes of opening up a Catholic Montessori school for the little one's all the way through high school. We have been working toward this goal since the beginning of June this year, and the start of the co-op is a wonderful beginning toward our school. Our group started a blog to document the journey and as time allows,we will post what the kids are up to, special outings, and feast day celebrations! Check it out at the link above!

What we did on Monday!

Photo courtesy of St. Francis of Assisi Montessori Academy

Check out our great day at our Montessori home school co-op blog:

St. Francis of Assisi Montessori Academy

Last Saturday of Summer: Farmers Market, Parade, & Urban Farming Harvest Festival

We had a great day yesterday. In the morning we went to the Farmers market and bought apples for our Montessori co-op this week, we also bought flowers so the children could arrange them and put them on our little class altar. We sat on the grass and enjoyed some bluegrass music and tasted some delicious fire baked pizza from an oven brought all the way from Naples Italy!

Later we went to a parade and festival at an art school where my husband teaches. The children enjoyed seeing some old cars turned into garden beds for pumpkins and sunflowers. We even saw a tumbleweed sculpture there. It was pretty cool.

After lunch and naps, we headed out once again for an urban farming harvest festival. We got to enjoy an afternoon hayride underneath clear blue skies dotted with puffy white clouds. It was a lot of fun and later we got to watch a short documentary on our local "farm to table" program. That got the children all worked up about eating the apples we bought at the farmers market earlier that day. It was a really great day, one that we'll surely remember! Thank you Lord Jesus for days like this! The pictures below are snippets from our day. Enjoy!