Aug. 31, 2007
Summer days
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Summer days have come and gone. It seems like it was just yesterday that we went camping. Now our noses are back in the books, fingers back on the keyboard, and eyes glued to the screen. We did have a good one, so good I had no time to blog. My mom came and spent a couple of months with us, the kids always enjoy her visits, and so do I. We went camping at the beginning of May with Perry and the kids. We went to lake Ouachita again, and had a good time. We ran into a bunch of other homeschoolers, that was so cool, and some even were members of the church. It was great. We spent the rest of the month planning Emi and TT's b days. We picked up mom at the end of May. The month of June had Kaitlyn in Shiprock, NM for her first mission trip. We also has Vacation Bible School at the end of the month. We had a great time. We spent a few days going to parks, and water parks. Also staying in Karate class and trying to make progress. We went camping again, this time with my mom and my sister Jennifer and all her kids. We had a lot of rain but the kids had a great time anyway. It was not cold, it's Arkansas in July, that's never cold. The kids swam in the rain and enjoyed every minute of it. Lali even managed to be the first in the lake with a whopping record of only being at the camp site 10min before she fell in the lake. Kids !!!! We visited Hot Springs on our last full day and toured the bath house. We spent the rest of July just hanging out and trying to keep up with all that laundry from camp. Then mom decided to go ahead go go back to Belgium a little early. She had a few things to take care of there before she left for Africa again at the end of August. The week after she left was church camp. We went to camp Tahkodah near Batesville, AR. We had 100 kids and 26 adults. We had a great time with them. I had the 14-18 year olds with my friend Stephanie and I couldn't have asked for a better cabin or a better friend to share it with. We had a few devotionals with Jamie and the older boys at the bluff. A 10 min hike up the side of a mountain at night, and I would do it again in a heart beat. Kaitlyn got baptized at the end of camp, and so did Derek and Rachel. What a great week. You come back really recharged spiritually. The weekend after we got back we had a karate tournament. Kaitlyn brought back a first place and a third place trophy, TT got a 2nd and 3rd, and I got 2 third places. Emi skipped this one. We had a few more fun days in the sun and water and then we had to get school started...... Les jours de l'ete sont venu et reparti a une vitesse incroyable. I me semble que ca ne fait que quelques jours qu'on est alle camper au mois de mai et on est deja tous de retour aux bouquins et a l'ordi. On s'est bien amuse cet ete, telement que je n'ai pas eu le temps d'ecrire sur mon blog. Au debut du mois de mai on est alle camper a lake Ouachita avec Perry et les enfants. On a rencontre bcp d'autre familles qui font l'ecole a la maison. C'etait tres gai d'echanger nos experiences avec eux. Quand on est rentre on a du se preparer pour l'anniversaire d' Emily et de Tristan. Et puis on est alle chercher maman a l'aeroport a la fin du mois. Le lois de juin s'est deroule assez vite aussi. Kaitlyn est partie au Nouveau Mexique en mission avec l'eglise pour le premiere fois, sans nous. Aussi on a eu des jours au parc et a la piscine, et a jouer dans l'eau. La fin du mois de juin a ete consomme par notre semaine 'd'ecole de vacances a l'eglise. Bcp de boulot. Au debut du mois de juillet maman et Jennifer et moi et tous les enfants sont alle camper de nouveau a lake Ouachita. Il a plu la pluspart du temps mais comme c'etait juillet en Arkansas il fasait pas froid du tout. Les enfants ont simplement nage dans la pluie. Tres gai tout ca. Lali tient le record pour la premiere dans l'eau, avec 10 minutes apres qu'on est arrive. Elle etait trempee et les tentes n'etaient meme pas encore montees!!!!! Le dernier jour on est alle visiter Hot Springs et on a visite une maison de bains. Super. Et puis on est rentre et on a fait une tonne de lessives. Encore des jours au parc et a la piscine. A la fin du mois on a du raccompagner maman a l'aeroport. La semaine d'apres on est alle au camp avec l'eglise. On a eu 100 enfants et 26 adultes. Moi je m'occupait des filles de 14-18 ans avec ma copine Stephanie (et aucun de mes enfants!) On n'a pas pu demander pour une meilleure semaine. Je suis rentree rechargee. La semaine d'apres on a eu un championat de karate, et on a tous recu des trophees. Maintenant c'est retour a la routine de tous les jours. Bisous a tous. |
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