Pictures

I'm so excited. We are going to have family pictures made this weekend in front of Old Main at the UofA. I've always wanted pics there. It is beautiful this time of year! I've fretted about what to wear and I think I have come up with red for everyone and jeans. I just hope I got our reds close enough! I'm also going to take pictures of the kids myself around here as soon as the trees get a little more color. My mom's place is a wonderful spot for pictures, especially in fall.
Trent wraps up soccer this weekend. I"m glad-tired of trips to Ft Smith, but never fear, it is ending just in time for Rachel to start basketball! We are just glad gas is going down!

Party Time

One of our homeschool friends had a Halloween/birthday party. One of the perks of homeschooling, you can party in the middle of the day! We had lunch, cake, games and crafts. Can't beat that! I didn't get food pics but it was all so cute-ghost pizzas, brain watermelon, pumpkin cheese ball etc. They also made the cutest tshirts. They were tie dyed orange w/ white cirlcles. They used markers to make the faces. They were a big hit.

Richard laughs so hard he cries everytime he sees the picture of the girls. They were all American Girls except our sweet little skeleton! He said it looks like a sinister skeleton invaded the Duggar family. She wouldn't be caught dead dressed like an American Girl! T was Darth VAder but we forgot to get pics of the boys.

The kids had a great time and we really enjoy getting together with our homeschool friends.

New find

I just found a new blog that I thought might be interesting to my friends that have girls. I haven't had time to look thru it much but it looks good.
I have been spending too much time on Facebook thus not much here. We went to a great birthday/Halloween party today. When I get time to download my pics, I will share.

Learning Fun

We have been learning about sea turtles and our activity suggested drawing out the largest sea turtle, the Leatherback Sea Turtle. It gets up to 9 ft long and 6 ft wide! That is one large turtle!

We also went to the Janet Huckabee Nature Center last week. We used a seine net to find fish in the lake, looked at different snakes and took a nature walk. It was fun. Ended up being a little cold but we survived!

Apples & blubber!

We did an semi-impromtu unit on apples last week. We read a few books and tried several different kinds. I got out my trusty Handbook of Nature and read about apple trees and we did a few of the experiments. We never did get around to making apple pie.

This week we ended our unit on seals and sea lions and did a quick experiment on how blubber works. I opted for shortening for the

blubber(tho I had several people offer me theirs!). They did get to experience how the blubber keeps them warm. Now they also know why dad stays warmer than mom!!!!HA Just kidding!

I'm never washing my hand again!

Since we homeschool and play sports, Tim Tebow is our hero. We went to the game Sat and managed to get up close. It ended up being luck we were in the right spot when he came out. There were lots of people waiting to see him. Even Razorback fans. He stopped right in front of Rich and Rachel and turned around to ask someone a question and slapped Rachel's hand. Afterwards, I realized my camera got bumped at some point and the setting was moved to b/w. At least it let me get continuous shots. Even tho we lost, it was a fun day!