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My Handiwork
Since you were all so impressed with Brett’s sewing skills, I thought I’d show off some more of our skills. These are some examples of the hats that we’ve crocheted and sold: Brett has also...
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Tiger Cubs
Have I ever mentioned that Colter wants to be a zoo keeper some day? He’s really excited about it. The Louisville zoo has a program, but he’s not old enough yet to participate. We also have a neighbor...
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Apple Picking
One of the best parts of Fall is going apple picking. Our favorite apples are Fujis because they taste the best and store in our root cellar really well. It was a gorgeous day and everybody had fun...
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Rugged Terrain Ahead
When we were done playing (and showing off) on the playground, we decided to take a hike. We usually do the 1.5 mile, easy trail. But we had been wanting to take the 2.3 mile, rugged trail that...
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Football Fans
We love watching NFL football games on television. The children know most of the rules to playing football from watching these games. But they’ve never been to a live game to watch it in person. Since...
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Enjoying the Jumpy Things
During August, Jim saw that in honor of “National Family Night Out”, our town was hosting free food and entertainment near the town square at Greenway Park. We never turn down free food, so we finished...
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The Room Fairy
Brett has been having a tough time lately getting Indigo and Jade to help in their room. Indi and Jade are excellent when it comes to trashing the room, but definitely lacking on the cleanup part....
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St. Louis Arch
As a homeschooling family, we always take every opportunity to explore cool educational things. My brother is stationed near St. Louis, so when we went to visit him last year, we had to visit the St....
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Tangled, the Movie
We’ve had a lot of family staying with us for the Thanksgiving weekend. All together there are 17 cousins staying here. We took everybody into town today to watch Disney’s Tangled in 3D. The children...
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Thanksgiving Play
You’ve seen our professionally produced Happy Thanksgiving Video. Now you get to see our personal family Thanksgiving play. This play was written by my children and directed and produced by Brett all...
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Grissom Air Museum
When we travel places, we always try to visit something in the area where we can learn something new. It’s the homeschoolers in us. On our trip to Pennsylvania, we had intended to take the children to...
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Happy Birthday, Brett
Brett started to write my blog tonight, but decided last minute that she couldn’t blog about her own birthday. So I’m just going to share her birthday photos: My baby girl is growing up!
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Almost Christmas
We love the fact that our business is growing. But it has interfered with some of our Christmas traditions. At the very least, it has pushed many of them back from the first half of December to the...
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Spaghetti Sauce?
Jim and I were working hard the other night and I was late for making dinner. My darling daughter came out and announced that dinner would be ready in 10 minutes. I was so proud of her that she knew I...
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I Love my Nook
I think Mom already told you I got a Nook for Christmas from Grandma. I was SO excited (still am). I had wanted one, but never thought that I would get one. Mom kept it a big secret. I did think I...
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Ulterior Motives
Everyone around here always loves Christmas. But this year, Brett, Cole, and Emery got really excited about it. Most of their gifts were very altruistic and something the receiver would really desire....
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Oh No!
We were driving to wrestling practice around sunset last night and the Hulk was acting strangely. We thought it was either a tire or the transmission. We were about 2 miles from our house, so Jim was...
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Charades!
Mom and Dad had a date tonight. So they left for Louisville, and we finished up all of our work. Afterwords, I called all the kids together to make sure all the work was done. Once I was sure it was...
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This morning, after we were all awake, Mom challenged all of us to a jumping jack contest. The person who could do the most jumping jacks without stopping, would get extra chocolate chips in their...
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