cheprbyddozn - Homeschool Blogger

Back to the blog!

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:41:00 -0600

I am not yet sure how often I am going to be able to blog, but some people have asked if I would go back to it and I decided after almost a year to go ahead and go back to blogging. The last year has been quite the ride with many ups and downs...have learned so much about God, His character, myself, my wonderful husband, and my kids who are just themselves. We have been through incredible adventures, changes, gains and losses, love, tears, laughter...and here we are...all together! We just completed a month long visit with Oma and Opa as well as Oom Jan and tante Betty. We had many adventures and they blessed us both with their time and materially...thank you ...all of you. We have had much tragedy in our lives in the last month, I had an accident and lost a baby, our friend and church member passed away, and my children's friend, sadly another child passed away. Grief. I wish it was not part of life but it is. So, with becoming self employed and all the grief and all the changes I am feeling a strong need to get back to the roots of what I love. Michel and I love spending time with the kids, especially around water (there is lots of that in Hawaii). We love to garden and now get to YEAR around...woohoo! and we love to grow chickens and of course eventually eat the eggs. Here are some pictures to get you started with what the children did today.

This is Joey and Elijah reaching into our Americana chicks that just came home today.

Big grins are had by all!

Ben told me he is trying to decide which one he will name Twinkle!

This is the cage Michel and I put together! They seem happy enough for now.

I will be back soon here to go ahead and add more pictures of our adventures...update each of the kids and keep everyone abreast of our adventures.

Michel on a yacht?

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:21:00 -0600

Well I miss my dear husband, but am so happy he is having fun!
This was on his way to go to the boat.
They left the harbor about 2:30 in the afternoon.
Ok I will be quiet the pictures speak for themselves...

The sun began to set...
They pulled back into the harbor just after sunset.
This is beautiful...Aloha!

The house is on the market!

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:13:00 -0600

We had friends that I met on a parenting board I am on....Tyson just finished with the Navy and Amy is a homemaker and runs her own daycare, They graciously have come to help us paint.They were so kind to do this,,,did I mention besides their two kids they brought the other family member.
Bucko...I love his eyes, he is such a good puppy.
The next day our realtor came and listed the house.

Aloha...finally happening!

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:05:00 -0600

Well for those of you who do not know...we are moving to Hawaii. The first has gone,Michel and the car.
yes we had police traffic control....

The kids were a bit bewildered about the whole thing. Since most of our children have not been to hawaii they really have no concept of what it is like..

Homecoming Dance!

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:07:00 -0500

Rebecca went for her first homecoming dance...her date is not in the picture...but she went with a friend and it was fun!

choo choo

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:51:00 -0500

After months of Joey saying "choo choo" with the museum train...big sister finally took him and Elijah.

All Aboard!

Definitely a fun fall event!

Homecoming Game!

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:48:00 -0500

We took the kids to a football game. Homecoming is a big deal here. We enjoyed the traditional bonfire as well.

This was lots of fun!

Fall is upon us!

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:38:00 -0500

I think fall is a neat time of year. We were blessed by an orchard near us to be given as many apples as we wanted. So I went about canning apple pie filling and had a little helper.

This is Elijah making the sauce of the apple pie filling.

yummo!

we made apple sauce too!

So fall has begun!

Turkey Run State Park

Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:33:00 -0500

Labor Day we went here.

We were in a canyon...my favorite place to hike when I was young.

The kids were busy discovering creatures in the water...

Eden was not quite sure about crossing creeks...

Joey and papa really had fun hiking hand in hand.

More discoveries:

This picture makes me giggle because as usual Elijah was into something besides the picture!

Joey was "King" of this rock!

Elijah and Christina really enjoy each other.

Eden managed to "get a little love" from her Big Sis.

That was a dead squirell and the kid in red is not ours!

I tried to get some pics of all the kids!

The best part was at the end playing in the water...

Naomi found a shell.

Big sisters are nice :)

We went to Arby's and took up an entire section (excuse the lighting)

we had good times in the car...

The faithful captain...

Yes, if you ask an Illinoian they will say the world is flat!

School days return...Firsts

Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:26:00 -0500

Elijah and Christina (and Elisha their friend) started kindergarten.

there are always oodles of parents there to tearfully say goodbye. Here is the scene from far off.

This is a new season for me. JOEY started school. YES! you heard that right. he is going on Tues and Thurs afternoons for 2 1/2 hours each. Here he is (sniff sniff)

See the cars on the carpet...those are his favorite!