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It looks as if everyone went home from the Fun Fest and posted on their blog, so I thought I should just knock mine out too. Our internet has not been functioning properly for the last month so my online happenings have been limited. Sometimes I don't understand how life is really just so busy! About a month ago we made a trip to the park. It had been a long time since we had done this as a family. In the end while our three oldest were digging in the sand, Colten decided he would just keep putting some on his head! They had fun just being kids and getting dirty.

We just finished up our first nine weeks of school and had a Halloween/End of quarter party! It was just at the house, but the kids loved it! They iced cupcakes, made goody bags, hunted candy, ate pizza, and played pin the nose on the pumkin. They thought it was great!

Our Bible Quizzing is getting up and running. We have had our first two practices and the kids are picking up fast on what needs to be done. We are truly proud of all the kids who have learned any number of verses. No matter what the number is on the amount of scripture learned, it is just that much more of God's word that they had not known before they started quizzing. As for our own children, I must say it is going well with Ryan. Mom and Dad just have to keep reminding themselves that he is only 4(almost 5) and we can not expect the same thing out of him as Haiden. So believe me it is a challenge for us to be patient and understanding! Ryan does have 38 verses memorized though, and when I say 38 I mean he can quote them word for word without mistakes, he really knows them! Haiden is on about the 110th verse I think. So as usual he is moving right along. We are making him have all his material learned before the first tournament in January. Somedays we spend 2 hours reviewing verses, the Word of God, but one day it will be worth it all!

Our Fun Fest at the church was EXCELLENT tonight. Brother Todd, Sister Julie and all the helpers did a fantastic job and THANK YOU all for the FUN you made possible for our kids and our visitors. I have limited pictures of this fun night due to the breaking of my camera, OH NO!!! When I picked Colten up from his chair to put him down after he ate, his foot caught it and knocked it off the table. It has been a great camera for 4 years, and I had been wanting a new one anyway. The thing about it now is that I'm not sure how we can manage to buy the one I want before all these holidays get here. Oh well, this is just life, and life is GREAT!! Hope you all have a great weekend!

GOOD 1st WEEK

Our little school got off to a good start and I feel like we had a successful week. You know I have thought so many times what if I can't do this or what if they don't learn. How am I really going to teach my children? Lots of questions run through my head, so to see the difference in the children from Monday until today makes me feel good. Ryan, Breann, and Abigail have all had a successful week! They are already listening to stories more closely and answering the questions correctly. They mastered the Abbie Antelope letter sound, and mastered connecting dots to make circles and straight lines. This of course doesn't seem like much to those of us who are older, but when you think about it in the fact that if before Monday we would have given these kids these same papers they would have had no clue what to do with those dots. My three kids are very good students and it really is going well. I'm enjoying it very much! I am very thankful to have Abigail being a part of this as well, and it is such a blessing to have Michelle take Colten so we can totally focus on our schooling. I love what I'm doing!

READY TO START SCHOOL

I finally finished up our little school room. Everything is set and ready to go for Monday.

JUST STUFF

Well I am finally making my self sit down and make a post. Things have just been busy and non stop since returning from Branson. Just to let everyone know I have seen and read your post and enjoy them as always. I just never made time to post comments, sorry! I have been trying to get everything ready for the kids for schooling. Getting Haidens things ready is no biggy, I just have to get his books for him and he pretty much does his work on his own. However, I am going out of my comfort zone to try and home shcool Ryan and Breann this year. Ryan is not suppose to start Kindergarten until next year, but I didn't want to wait until then in case it doesn't go well then he will not have lost anything by us trying. On top of teaching Ryan it just makes sense to get Breann in on it as well. They are both very excited about it! I have gone all out in Breann's room in decorating and making it as much of a classroom as possible. We have the ACE letters and number train on the wall, a couple of posters with shapes and signs on them, dry erase board, and a calendar that we will change out every month. There are still a handful of things left I need to do before we are all ready to go. They have their own little table desk and chair. They have decided this week they are going to go ahead and start calling me Mrs. Teacher, lol! I'm excited about the challenge set before me, and I hope it all goes well! Here are just a few random pics put together for a slide show. It may be a while before I get around to another post again.