Em was on her way to a great run until she got a little too close to Josh!

Every winter our homeschool group heads off to the mountains to go skiing. We go two Tuesdays in February and two Tuesdays in March. This past Tuesday was our first time for this year! The kids had so much fun. Above are the pictures of the mountains as seen from …

Ididn’t take the time to load a link for La Bamba so you’ll need to hum it to yourself as you read this post. (LOL). Our co-op decided to do Spanish this year. It’s been a great introduction to the language and culture. For our 2nd end of unit celebration …

Ihad originally planned to only post pictures of “me.” But, I LOVE this picture of one the kid’s handprints. I wish they would all stay this small a little longer…. Since it’s not a picture about me I’ll at least say that time goes fast and I can’t believe that …

OOur annual counting of the pennies! The kids like to go through all of our change and see how much it adds up to each year. They always hope there’s enough to go do something fun! I’m not sure why they decided to use Emily’s jewelry making organizer for this …

TThis is quite the story. It was SO FUNNY that Emily decided to write about it for her free journal assignment for co-op last week. You’ll see it below. On a side note, after Emily wrote her free journal there was one more little switch-a-roo with the KEENS. I really …

Emily takes an art class a couple of times a month from a friend a college friend of Amanda’s who is majoring in art and wants to become an art teacher. Here is their latest project which required gluing a hard back book. NOT ANY OF MINE! We went to …

These posts are a little late, but here we go. In Sept we studied the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies. It was fun to look back through pictures of our vacation from last year to the east coast which you can look at by clicking on the vacation label to …

THE FALL BALL!!! We had heard about the Fall Ball in the past, but we’ve never had any reason to consider going until this year when Emily decided she would like to attend. We know quite a few people who attend so the dads can be “back up” for any …

UPDO!!!Emily had her hair put up into an updo for the Fall Ball. Here she is talking over whether or not she wants it entirely up, 1/2 way up, or curly and down. She decided she wanted it up all the way. First curled all of it and sprayed it …