Goofy Toofy

Just Karis being Karis after intentionally spilling some water all over herself.

Reading and Gymnastics

So this is one way Caleb likes to read.

Crazy hair

What do you get when you take out 2 of the ponies in your hair?

Crazy hair!

Art museum

After mulching at the Y, we headed straight over to the art museum for a family activity based on the current Norman Rockwell exhibit. The art museum puts together some questions based on a few pictures and you have to find those particular pieces.

Joanna reading the background of the Norman Rockwell pieces to everyone.

After you find the paintings, the kids get to do a project based on the topic or artist.

What's a trip to the art museum without visiting the glass floor?!

Community Project

Today our family helped with a community work project sponsored by the churches in our city. Everyone wore matching blue shirts.

For our project, our group helped weed and mulch a whole bunch of plant beds at a local YMCA. The kids had a good time and worked hard!

Our team spread about 400 bags of mulch. Caleb enjoyed using the wheelbarrow!

Joanna working hard. She was the one who had the idea to sign us all up for the work day.

Eliana pulling some weeds. She also helped entertain Karis!


Karis and some toys.

Lots of Rocks

We went to a rock & mineral show with our homeschool group. The first thing we did was a short class on identifying minerals. Each kid got an egg carton of different minerals and a flow chart to help them figure out what each of them were. They each got a piece of glass to test if it scratched the glass and then a scratch plate to see what color streak it left. Some more questions would then help them identify each mineral.


Joanna starting out.


Super-sleuth Caleb

Eliana zeroing in.

We got them all correct! Yay!

Here's Caleb with his big bag of rocks from the rock dig.

Joanna showing off her collection when we got home.

Joanna's "gold" (Pyrite to be exact!)

2 Gold Memory Masters!!

Congrats are in order to Joanna & Caleb. They both earned their gold memory master medals this year from our homeschool group.

Good job, Joanna & Caleb!!

Here are Joanna & Caleb at the closing program. Along with the other 2 memory masters, they took turns reciting the timeline they learned. Always neat to hear them recite them all.

First Balloon

Eliana just realized that she was able to blow up a balloon today. She was so happy, and I loved watching her eyes get nice and big with each breath. I got out the camera and took a gazillion pictures. Check out the slide show below!! It's got a couple of videos after the pictures.

Boys Night

Joel & Caleb had a boys night. They set up the tent in the backyard and read some joke books. Good times and some good sleep until about 4am when Caleb got the stomach flu!

The Kite-Eating Tree

Caleb came in saying his kite got stuck in a tree!

Kind of puzzling to us, since the only tree in our backyard is a couple of feet high.

Had to get a picture! Move over, Charlie Brown!

Trip to the Zoo

Just some pictures from the zoo.
Funny, there are no pictures of animals (other than ours and a friend).

Party Time

We got to celebrate Caleb's & Karis' birthdays together with another cookie cake! They are so yummy. Aunt Patty & Uncle Dan were here for the weekend so we added her name since her birthday is in April too.

Caleb loved all the smoke from the candles. Karis wasn't too sure about it though.

They got some fun presents, but I was unable to take pictures since my camera memory card was filled =( Uncle Scott took some so I'll have to get them from him one of these days.