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School is going well ....

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:57:00 -0500

Well so far this year seems to be going well. My little guy Z is so happy to sit and do schoolwork with his older brother J. We are doing lots of fun preschool stuff with Z and he really likes to do school. We are also involved in lots of fun activities at our church each week. The kids look forward to their times at church with their friends. Since we have started school and began our church activities again time has been flying by.

This Friday and Sat. I am taking some time for myself and I will be traveling with 70 other women from my church to the Women of Faith conference in Denver. It should be a blast!! We will stay overnight and return late on Sat night. My boys and husband have lots of fun things planned for when I am away and I am thankful my husband is so good with the kiddos and I can go.

Tomorrow we start MOPS at my church.( Mothers of Preschoolers) This is our first year doing it at our church and I am very excited to meet more ladies from my church. This will be my last year to do it because my little one will be in K next year. So I will enjoy the fellowship 4 hours a month!!

I am enjoying the cool breeze blowing through my door right now . I just love the Fall! I am starting to make our thankful tree so it is ready to start in Oct. I cut out a brown tree trunk with lots of branches and glue it to a big piece of poster board and then I cut out lots and lots of colored leaves from construction paper and put them in a basket. Then the kids pick a leaf and write something they are thankful for and we tape it to the tree. By Thanksgiving it is filled with leaves of things we are all thankful for. It is a lot of fun and gets us thinking about all that God has given us. I have one thing right now that I am thankful for: We will be traveling to MI to spend thanksgiving with my Hubby's family!! I am very excited because it has been several years since we have been able to spend a holiday with family. Yippee :)Well hope you have a wonderful day and I will post pictures soon.

I am still here......

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:22:00 -0500

I am still here but have been very bad about blogging! I am ready now to get you caught up on what we have been doing. Well, let's see....... We stopped school on July 14 and went to CT for almost 3 weeks. We had a wonderful time with family and friends and the boys loved playing with their cousins . We arrived home on August 7 and began school on August 14th. We decided that we would try a 4 day school week this year with 9 weeks off from school throughout the year :) My oldest is in 1st grade and my little guy is in preschool, ages 6 and 4. This is our 5th week of school and we are very much enjoying ourselves!!! We are using FIAR and we love reading the classic books. Even my little guy is doing great. My oldest is also doing 1st grade BJU math and Grammar made simple. We also pick an animal a week to learn about and each boy has their appropriate Gotta Have God Devotion book. I absolutely love the critical thinking company and have many of their books for both boys!! It is great and really gets them thinking. We went on a family camping trip the first week in Sept and had a blast. This is my favorite time of the year and I am feeling quite blessed to be able to homeschool my little guys. We went apple/pumpkin picking this past weekend. The pumpkins were great but the apples not so good. They were pretty much picked over but we got a few golden delicious. Anyway it is good to be back with you all :) I will get some photos up soon. Have a great week.

Allison

Beautiful days and great schoolwork

Thu, 25 May 2006 10:44:00 -0500

Summer has arrived here in CO. (I know summer isn't officially get here until the end of June but we are loving this wonderful weather). There has been lots of playing outside and I even got to rides bikes with my oldest this past weekend. What fun that was. It was the first time I had used my bike since my kids were born. It gave me a taste of what life will be like in the next few years once my little one can ride a bike too!! Fun stuff. Our school time has been very productive these last few weeks. I was worried when I extended school into July that it would be hard to concentrate but the boys are doing well and working hard to get their schoolwork done. There are lots of outside breaks but that really helps them get the work done. We are going camping this weekend after Jakes last t-ball game. We are very excited to go camping. There is a fire ban around here, so no campfires :( I love sitting around the fire reading and just relaxing. Oh well. We need to protect our forests and it is soooooo dry here that fires are just starting all over. Well school is almost done for the day :) Time to play. Have a great one!

The Ice Cream Man!!! and many other topics :)

Thu, 18 May 2006 22:12:00 -0500

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

Cinco de Mayo

Thu, 4 May 2006 22:42:00 -0500

Well I am just finishing our lesson for Cinco de Mayo. I have fun coloring sheets and we'll make sombrero cookies in the morning and then we will have fajitas and tortillas and salsa and guacamole. Yum, yum. I have printed out some facts and will tell the kids about Cinco de mayo as we prepare all our fun food.

This week went well. The other day my youngest ( three) was playing outside and came to the back door very excited. He had found a ladybug. He was holding it between his 2 fingers and he wanted to put it in his bug jar. He has enjoyed watching it crawl around. He wants to keep it forever!!!!!!!

Well that is all for this evening. Hope you all have a great weekend.

A was tagged awhile ago

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:21:00 -0500

I was tagged awhile ago by both www.homeschoolblogger.com/msacademy and www.homeschoolblogger.com/carrielouise , so here we go :) I have to tell 6 random things about myself.

1. I would love to go to Culinary school. I have a degree in Hotel / Restaurant management but would love to have a culinary degree!!

2. I would love to learn how to ballroom dance.

3. When I was in Jr. High and High School I went on 2 missions trips with my youth group. We went to the Dominican Republic and fixed up a youth camp and we went to Guadelupe and built a house. It was a life changing experience.

4. I love learning about my family history. I could sit for Hours and listen to my Gram talk about her life!

5. I would love to play the saxaphone. I play the flute.

6. I love the snow!!!!!

ok that is it for me. Whoever reads this is tagged too.!! ENJOY

Photos from the last few weeks

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:44:00 -0500

We have had a busy few weeks and are glad to be back to normal. We had to cancel our camping trip this weekend because of possible snow :( Hope you all have a great weekend.

Good morning to all!!

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:59:00 -0500

It has been quite some time since I have blogged and I have missed it. The past month was full of sickness and 2 weeks of company. It was wonderful to visit with family . The boys sure enjoyed all of the attention and loved getting to know their older cousins. My mom and dad were also out to visit and we enjoyed the time with them as well. We also got to go away for 3 nights!! woohoo. It was wonderful to rest and relax at a beautiful Bed and Breakfast in the Mountians! It is great to be back to normal though !! We started school again yesterday and it went well. We are planning our first camping trip this weekend if the weather cooperates!! I missed checking in on all of your blogs and will try to get caught up on everyones lives in the next few days :) I will also try to post as few photos from the last few weeks.

Allison

Fun with family from MI

Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:05:00 -0500

Well our company is here and we are having a blast. They arrived on Saturday night and the boys have been loving it. We took them hiking yesterday. It was a beautiful day and we all enjoyed it very much. The older kids in the photos are my niece Leanne, and my nephew Ryan. Today they are skiing at Breckenridge. We stayed home to let the boys rest after being so sick last week. On Wed my SIL will watch the boys and I will be able to ski at Keystone with the rest of the family. Woohoo. I can't wait. Well I must run for now. Have a great week.

Allison

Random photos

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:27:00 -0600

Well here are just a few random photos of the monkeys. Enjoy your day.