I haven’t had much time to post anything lately. This is “supposed” to be our SLOW time of the year. Normally, it would be cold outside and dh wouldn’t be working. However, it’s WARM and he is working which means I have to do all of the shuffling of kids …

Istarted this book quite awhile ago… way back when we started school and had a three week review of the Pilgrims. I had every intention of reading a book a week, but life is too busy for that right now. I decided that I will keep up with “my” reading …

We bought this piece at a family reunion a few years ago. It was drawn by a distant relative of my dad. It sits on our mantle in the living room.

This a quilted wall hanging that Tim’s mom made for his birthday a few years ago. It hangs in our living room on the wall that goes upstairs. Like the other things in our living room, it adds to the lodge look so we can at least dream about those …

Being the “good” scientist that he is, Nathan “always” wears his goggles when performing an experiment (LOL). This experiment involved two cups each with seeds planted in them. One was grown in the refrigerator. The other in our light hut. We were suprised that the one in the refrigerator actually …

The botany teachers found this fun project at one of our local stores after searching all over for them. It was very cool to watch the plant grow to the point that we could finally read the secret message. Here is Josh taking care of his Secret Message bean. You …

These books came from a dear family friend of my grandmas who passed away last year. They were given to me on one of our visits to see her a few years ago. The set is now displayed in various spots all over our house. Here you see them on …

Sunday morning’s sunrise was BEAUTIFUL! I was in a hurry to get ready for church, but it was too pretty to not take a minute to grab the camera.

We have two of these lamps and they both sit in our lodge style living room. My dad made these lamps when he was in high school. We found them in the garage, dusted them off, and brought them in the house. We added some lampshades, little elk embellishments with …

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 …