week 18

A majority of the time this is what our school room looks like. messy.

Of course this is how family scripture reading goes. 

Learning about adding cents. 

We had to get some pieces of our new table replaced and the furniture guys brought the parts in a box fully of styrafoam peanuts. The kids loved playing with it but soon learned how NOT fun it is to clean up. I tried doing school while they played but they were so distracted. 

My massive amounts of gray hair. I was almost tempted to keep growing it and just embrace that I am so gray so young. But I chickened out. 

This boy loves to snuggle. 

Doing school while waiting in the car. 

School on the deck before the weather gets too hot. 

This boy has been loving his pocket knives lately. 

And this girl LOVES to hang from the tree. 

All of a sudden some pea fowel just showed up in our neighborhood. They really took to our neighbors trees for roosting and boy are they noisy all night long. Our neighbor found someone to come and take them away. 

We had an exciting night just after we put the kids to bed. We were just about to start a movie and sit down and watch it. All of sudden we heard a weird sound and look out the window to see a van driving in the cow field after it swerving to miss a road sign. We were hesitant to go and see if they were okay so we called 911. By the time the police got here the guy was long gone. Turns out he had just gotten out of the drunk hold of the jail just a few hours before. He was driving too fast and went off the road into the gravel in front of our house and swerved and wrecked into the cow field. My kids were in hysterics and Oak was crying so worried that I had to call 911.  

Two wards in our stake were able to go and help clean up the pioneer cemetery in our town. The kids absolutely loved doing this and were so respectful and interested in the names they would read on the head stones. 

Then we went home and helped daddy plant some cucumbers and carrots in our green house. 

I am so disappointed in how our homeschool closet looks like at the end of the year. My kids have destroyed it again. They are terrible about putting things away when they are done. And as much as I tell them to stay out of it, they still find themselves in it all the time. 

We were shopping for plants at Home Depot when I guy walks in with a snake wrapped around his neck. The guy was nice enough to let my kids hold it. He said its was one of many of his snakes. 

Oaks found a slug and kept it as her pet all day. She kept on saying how much she just wanted to kiss him. YUCK!

Planting flowers on our porch. 

Building a table for their hideout in our shed. 

Their hideout that they cleaned out all by themselves. 

Another read aloud we finished. This was a fun book but not our favorite.