The Girls Outside Justice

BUSY !!!

We have been so busy. Here is a run down of the last month.

B turned 13 and had a ROCKIN B'day party. We took the girls to Justice and they enjoyed it so much. It was worth every penny.

B & D were at the local t.v. station taping a segment about Canine Good Citizenship with Reeses and Lady.

We are apart of way to many 4- H clubs. We belong to Puppy Pals, Cooking, Scrapbooking, Home Grown, Ecology, and soon to add to our list Archery. I have to say that although it keeps us busy it is a wonderful addition to our schooling.

Saturday we did the Coastal Clean up and had fun. While it was disgusting it taught the kids a good lesson on not throwing out trash. After that B had to work a booth at the local Tractor Supply for another 4- H club. We ended the day with having about 4 kids come and hang out for the afternoon.

We have been busy training the dogs for upcoming shows.

The kids got to go to ROCK THE UNIVERSE at Universal Studios with Friends.

B got to go with girls to the JONAS BROTHERS CONCERT. They had a blast!!!

B is part of a Planning committee for a 4-H group. They are working on planning a city. If they were to get a lot of land and build their own city where would things go, what would you need. She is really having a blast with it.

Of course we are trying to get some school done with all those activities. Who ever said homeschoolers don't get any socialization.

We are having fun with our local PE group.

We will be starting a group that will be working on election stuff for the month of October.

We will be making a trip to Wannado City soon with a bunch of the families from our homeschool group.

BUSY, BUSY, BUSY MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Movies

The kids enjoyed a nice day at the movies with friends today. We went to the free movie and saw Evan Almighty. The kids enjoyed it because they were with 6 of their friends, so that always makes for a good time. After the movie we went to a local park and ate lunch. Then T and I went walking for an hour.... who's brilliant idea is it to walk at 1:00 in 95 degree weather???? We definitely got our workout. We then did some Walmart shopping and came home to chill out! Tonight B was thrilled to do some math, oh how she loves math... NOT!!!! The kids are looking forward to Friday. We have youth group at our house and B has 4 girls spending the night afterwards. D is trying to find someone to go hang out with... .... to many girls for him!

I DID IT AGAIN!!!!

I did it again and this time was even better. I sent in another picture to the local news station of a sunset last Thursday night. That evening on the news he announced that he had gotten so many sunset pictures he would show them on Friday night. Well Friday night he showed a picture and gave it an honorable mention, then another honorable mention, and then.... yep ME... I got 3 rd place. His comment this time was he still had no idea where TGA was. I of course did the happy dance. I was excited to get another one on the news but 3 place out of all those pictures he received.... WOO HOO!!!

CHECK IT OUT!!!

CHECK IT OUT!!!! This picture was taken by ..... ME!!!!!! And guess what.... it was on the news tonight. I am so HAPPY!!!!!!! Our local news station always shows some pictures taken by local people. I took this picture tonight and emailed it to them and to my surprise it was on the news tonight. Not only did he say my name and location he made a cool comment about wanting to tickle the clouds. I am just so happy that I took a picture that was good enough to be on the news!!! Yes, I was lucky enough to have it on TIVO. I will be happy to share it all with you when you come for a visit. WOO HOO !!!!!!!!!

Fourth Of July Fun

We had a blast this fourth of July. We had 4 other families come and join us for a day of fun. We started off the day with some nice grilled dogs, baked corn, baked beans, italian pasta salad, chips, cookies, and a strawberry blueberry something. YUM YUM !! Oh, lets not forget the watermelon. After we stuffed ourselves with good summertime food we let the kids shoot off the parachute men. They fly into the air and pop open a parachute and float softly to the ground were little children anxiously await their arrival. J also shot off about 20 bottle rockets, we have about 200 left. NO I AM NOT EXAGERATING!!!! That boy bought 2 suitcases full of fireworks. They really are called suitcases. They even came with a free shirt! The kids will now be sporting around Alien Fireworks backpacks/rolly bags.

After that the kids all ran around shooting each other with water guns and slipping down the slip and slide. I got some of the adults up for a WILD game of volleyball. First we were good adults and let the small children play then we were in it to win it and played ADULTS ONLY!!!! We ended up playing for like 4 hours with a few short water breaks in between. I talked to everyone Saturday morning and we were all feeling the burn. After our fierce volleyball playing we all had some more hot dogs, I am glad it is Monday and they are finally all gone! It was starting to get a little dark so everyone got prepared for the firework show. J started shooting them off around 8:30 the show ended at 10:30 we had more fireworks then the city could put off. We all had a wonderful day and can't wait till next year. In fact we all had so much fun we are having another family day at our house in August.

In School

We started school this week and we have had a blast! B is really enjoying her new books. One of her favorites has been her new Apologia General Science book. She is really LOVING the experiments. Yesterday she did a really neat experiment about density. She took water, vegetable oil, and corn syrup in a large cup. They of course fall into layers. She then took a small rock, grape, cork and an ice cube and dropped them in the cup. They all went on different layers. Today she did an experiment where you take a cup of hot water and put in one jar, a cup of cold water in the other. You then take 3 drops of food coloring and put them in the jars. In the hot jar it mixes up quickly, the cold water the coloring just sits there. She is loving it. She is also enjoying that she is doing stuff all on her own, not including her brother.

D is doing well in school. I think he likes that he gets me to himself a lot more this year. We only do a few things all together. They both love the new math curriculum on the computer.

I am hoping that we all still love our new stuff a few weeks down the road!