A New Year…

I pray this is a blessed year filled with precious memories and many smiles. I pray that God holds tight to our family and grows us closer to Him.

Christmas 2011…

A blessed Christmas together….

Fall Choir…

This year the children were involved in two choir programs. Both have been wonderful and the children have loved them very much!

Junior Rifle Shooting…

Winter Sprout has found a new sport, or actually it found him. It started with a free 2hr session of air rifle shooting with the local game and fish dept. Simply put, he is a natural. The instructor told us that he’d recommend Winter Sprout join the Junior Rifle Team. We signed him up and he has showed his natural talent grow over the past few months on the team. He actually won 1st place gold at his first competition after only a bit over a month shooting. Impressive, especially since we don’t own a gun (the team provides ALL materials). As he gets better, he can participate in several more competitions and iirc eventually on an Olympic level. He can also try to earn scholarships.

The poor kid is such a good sport, he had to wear pink ear protection for the competition as those were the only ones left at the store. We took him out after the competition to get nice manly gray ones.

9th Birthday…

My sweet Winter Sprout turned 9! He is such a blessing and I cherish every day with him.

As a family, he requested hot dogs by the fire pit. A simple boy. He was super excited to open his gift of MarioKart Wii. He’d been asking for this game for 2yrs. He was exicted to be able to play it with his buddies.

Again, he is a simple kid. He only wanted a few buddies to come over and play video games. He requested vanilla ice cream, because that is his favorite. Vanilla. Again simple guy. He had a blast hanging with his buds and laughing hard. These boys crack me up! They are all such silly characters!

Thanksgivng 2011…

We went on a fun hike, geocached and letterboxed! We then came home and let the kiddos decide what to eat for dinner! A fun adventure! After dinner we decorated the Christmas tree!!

Konos: Resourcefulness – Inventions – Copper Plating

We were really excited to see this experiment work. Unfortunately, we did not use enough copper, but we learned new things! It was fun to watch….for the first minute or so….then it got sort of boring. Next time we will use more copper and I am sure we’ll get a better result. It was still fun.

October 2011

Halloween 2011

We spent the evening trick-o-treating with hanging out around the fire pit with great friends!

Konos: Resourcefulness – Inventions – Simple Machines

Levers! These were fun to play with! We discussed many uses for levers. We were surprised at all the many uses that we use everyday!

We discussed several other uses for the simple machines. We played with gears and have a plan to run a pulley to neighbor’s house. While we were discussing this unit our car broke down and we got to watch all the simple machines in use at once as the tow truck driver loaded up our car. Learning presents itself is everywhere!

September 2011

Bones!

Our science unit was on bones. This experiment showed the breakdown of bones. It was neat to watch the vinegar slowly breaking down the bones and exposing their porous structure.

September 7, 2011