Last year I decided that my Holiday Baking was going to be cheesecakes instead of cookies and other things. My mil gave me little mini cheesecake tins for my birthday and I’ve had a LOT of fun making and decorating all of these little bite sized cheesecakes. I took them …

SYNCHRO TEAM:Here are all of the girls on Emily’s team. Amanda helped coach them this year since we were short on coaches. Amanda judged the figures this year. Here she is on the judges panel… 2nd one from the left. Here is the team entering the water just before the …

GO CART RACING:This was Josh’s second year racing with our church go cart racing program. He REALLY likes it and he drives so much faster this year. I’m NOT sure I’m ok with that type of progress (LOL). He won all of his races this year earning a few more …

TONGUE RIVER CAMPING was our spot of choice this year. We ended up getting to go there THREE times which is a lot for us for one summer. Josh had a BLAST catching fish… we were catching so many that he very quickly learned to take his own fish off …

JUNE BIRTHDAYS:Nathan – June 1st:Nathan turned 3 this year. What a FUN AGE! Here he’s not sure if he should really blow out the candles or not. He blew and blew and blew and got them all out! I don’t think he knows about making wishes, but here he is …

SEATTLE TRIP:In June the girls, Nathan, and I headed out to Seattle on the spur of the moment to go to the homeschool graduation of good friend of ours. A family friend of ours, Bonnie (flower bed planting Bonnie) also came with us. She went to visit her family while …

LANDSCAPINGThis was the summer for landscaping. We have lived in our home for 15 years and haven’t really spent much time nor $$ outside other then a few things here and there. Nothing major all in one year though until this year when we decided to put in flower beds. …

EASTER: We had Easter Dinner at Tim’s parents this year. Here are some pictures from the Easter Egg Hunt. Looks like Amanda is ready to go home. Nathan is trying to share his sucker with GG.

SCIENCE CO-OP: We tried to take photographs of the moon this year when it was not in the position we are used to seeing it in – at night… This year we participated in a science co-op with a few other families using the Apologia Astronomy book. Each time we …

1st Quarter 2006 – SKIING:A word from Amanda: This year I wanted to try snowboarding, so I had my friend Libby help me with that one day. It was alot harder than skiing in my opinion, but I still had a lot of fun.I don’t know if I will try …