Summer time!

Well this summer has been really busy and packed with fun, and we have really been trying to enjoy the time off from school. Buster and Sweetpea have still been reading and doing a bit of handwriting practice but other than that we haven't done any school work. The girls are doing a once a week art class at our church and they really enjoy that. The kids also have had the chance to play with cousins from out of town. My husbands brother and fam were up in June and had a new baby in July, and my brother and his kids were here visiting yesterday. My big kids got to spend the night with them and have some fun. Buster is continuing swim team through the summer and Sweetpea is now in the Shark level of swim lessons which is kind of a transition class between lessons and team. Buttercup is taking the summer off of swim lessons because there was not a good time for her class. I have been trying to take her to open swim time and she is swimming like a fish. Also my nice camera broke so I was without a camera for most of June and these pictures are not the best since they were taken on a  little point and shoot. Other than this here is some of the things we have been up to. 

 Board game time!

  

4th of July!

 

Waiting for the city fireworks! 

 

Berry picking!

   

Our half price fireworks.

   

Slip and slide and fireworks!

   

Park time!

   

Buster turned 10 and had a Hobbit sleepover!  

Graffiti night cruise!

  

Buster got to ride in a friends car for a spin around the parade route.  

Buttercup with cousin E!

  

I'm starting to think ahead to this coming school year and getting things ready. Hopefully I will be able to post soon about curriculum and such.  

Lent week 7 and Easter!

We had a very blessed Holy Week and Easter! Here are some of the highlights.

 So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately. Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,’ so now I say to you. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:31-35

We read this book and had an egg and spoon race.

   

We learned about Jesus being the Lamb of God and the kids made these lambs.  

Maundy Thursday!
 So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.  For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.  If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. John 13:12-17

 Feet washing and learning about the Last Supper.    

Good Friday!
 Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’” Having said this, He breathed His last. ⁴⁷ So when the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous Man!”Luke 23:44-47

 Hot Cross Buns and a caterpillar that Sweetpea put on the cross.  

 Holy Saturday!

 It was a gorgeous day and we had lunch and an egg hunt at my Sister and Brother in law's house.

   

Egg dyeing and Resurrection eggs with daddy.  

Easter baskets ready while the kids are asleep.

   

He is Risen!
 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.  But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.  And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.  Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? ⁶ He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,  saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’”Luke 24:1-7

   

Egg hunt at Gumpy and Moogy's!