Sunday, May 27, 2018

Week 21

 This kid has an inner grandpa. Daddy wasn't home yet but it was bed time so I let him read the sunday comics (That his grandma sends him in the mail) while we waiting for daddy. Love him.


 Mac made this dragon costume for Oak. So cute.


 Another hike. First we hiked to two different water falls that were close to each other.



 Then we hiked to the place with giant boulders. This place was amazing. And my legs were sore the next day from climbing all over those boulders for several hours.














 Daddy is a genius. He occasionally will help comb out Oak's crazy tangly hair. He hated the little bottle with the detangler in it so he brought this home. We love it.



 Just my cute kids before church.

These were two of our read alouds. The Door in the Wall was for history and we loved it. Oak got teary eyed at the end because of the what happened because of the boys bravery. And By the Great Horn Spoon is now one of our favorite read alouds ever. We loved it so much. I would totally read it to my kids again.

Sunday, May 20, 2018

Week 20

 Learning to clean a lot more thoroughly than she had been. The dried blue toothpaste needed taken care of.


 I asked this boy to do a bit of chores but he kept finding a book somewhere around that he hadn't read yet so he kept getting distracted. Secretly I love it.


 Same here. He was supposed to be folding towels. Found another book.


He really wants to open a bakery someday but he tells people he has a bakery now because occasionally he makes banana bread and sells it to friends. In these pictures he wanted to come up with his own banana bread recipe so he got all of our cookbooks out and found banana bread recipes and used them as a guide to create his own recipe. He then tried it out and it was delicious.



 We got some books for kids on healthy eating from the library. She found a page on rainbow foods and wanted to make us lunch. YUM!





 We decided to eat it outside and read our current read aloud.





Daddy caught some mice to hopefully intise our cat to start catching some. So she decided she needed to do  a little research on mice. This is part of the amazing thing about homeschooling...she wanted to do this on her own and she loved it.

 The kids decided they needed to make a fancy breakfast for grandma and I. It was delicious.


 Rarely does it rain here and even more rarely to we have puddles to splash in because it is so dry here. But occasionally we get a downpour that allows for such fun. This day was on our way out of the dentist. She had a blast. Funny thing was when we got home there wasn't a drop of rain at our house.

 One morning Oak found this giant moth on our deck. It was pretty beat up. We think our cat got to it. Oak was fascinated by it.




 That cat totally looks guilty. Oak decided she wanted to try to journal it.




 We decided we needed to go hiking more this summer. It's my favorite thing to do. We made a bucket list of sorts of hikes we wanted to do. This was our first and it was pretty close to home. We plan to go back.





 She would much rather sleep on the floor then in her bed. She actually sleeps most nights on the floor of my room. But this night she wanted to sleep in a fort in her room. Which actually happens quite often too.


 Dressed up for the royal wedding.


 Helping daddy plant some new plants to replace the ones that didn't make it through the winter.



 We invested in some tennis rackets and balls and headed to the court. The kids loved it.




Sunday, May 13, 2018

week 19

 We went on a bike ride almost every morning this week.


 Reading aloud to me which is not her favorite thing to do so she was doing it in a british accent which she is surprisingly good at. 


 Found this funny poster in my son's room. The name of the poster is my hubs. So I guess dad is in trouble lol.


 My seven year old always shocks me with her drawing abilities.

 Getting ready to head out to the father and son outing.


 Being not so helpful in helping him get ready.



 And they are off.


 She hates this every single year. She hates goodbyes.


 However she loves that I let her sleep in my bed when they are gone.


 When Mac got back we headed over to the park for the migratory bird festival. We live in a migratory highway so we get at least 500 different kind of birds migrating through our town every year.


 dissecting owl pellets.


 The pelican is kinda our town bird. There are a ton here and everything is named pelican.



 holding a bee.


 Sitting in an eagle nest.



Mother's day. I also had to speak in sacrament meeting. Ugh.