Well we have been enjoying the beautiful summer weather!!!  The days have been gorgeous and long . woohoo.  Summer is here!  Another sign of summer is the ice cream man that plays fun music as he drives around  the neighborhood selling ice cream to the kiddos!   We were outside playing tonight and heard the music.  The kids got so excited and asked if we coul buy some treats.  We did, and what fun we had.  We sat out on the front lawn and ate our icecream.  YUMMY!!  It reminded me of when I was a kid. 

Well we have finalized our homeschooling calendar for the end of this school year and the beginning of next school year.  Still new at all of this so we keep trying new things.  We will finish school on July 14.  On July 20 the boys and I will head home to CT to see all of my family for 18 days!!   We will be taking the midnight flight on the 20th arriving at 6:15am.  It will be quite and adventure but airfare began to go up and it was either that or drive 32 hours home and that wasn't too appealing!!!!  So after our Ct trip we will do lots of camping and we end the summer camping the first week in Sept.  Soooo we will begin school again the second week of Sept.  It is sure nice to have this all figured out.  We are just finishing up gathering our curriculum for next year and I am very excited. 

We will be using FIAR for both my 4 year old preschooler and 1st grader.I love the books from the critical thinking company so we will add some of those books also and a grammar book and of couse Bob Jones Math 1 for Jake.  I can't believe my oldest will be in 1st grade.  I have been quite emotional about him growing up so fast.  We just signed him up for summer nature camp at the nature center we go to.  He will go for 1 week  9- 12 every day.  It will be the last week of June.  The first week of June he will have Vacation Bible School at our church.   We are also checking out piano teachers for the Fall, as well as getting a piano . WOW.  I am so blessed to have such great boys and a wonderful hubby.  Our life is an adventure with both good and bad days but I look at how the boys have grown and matured over the past year.  My older son told me that his little brother was his very best friend and that he loved him so much.    It isn't always that way but it is getting to be more and more of the time.  

We became members of our church this past Sunday.  We really have grown to love our church and couldn't ask for a better children's program.  The kids enjoy their classes so much and it is great to see them connect with their teachers. 

Well I have rambled about many things tonight!   Hope you all have a great evening!

Allison