This is what a homeschooled baby learns

This is what our schooling was competing against the other day. She's discovered the pencil sharpener.................and loves it.

Happy Birthday, Sierra

Sierra's other cake decorated according to her instructions.

Zach said that it looked like Dora was doing splits in the mud.

Cake and presents. I bought five presents from the dollar section at Target and put one in each bag so she felt like she got a lot.


Sierra with her opened presents...
an erasable board, a wallet, sock slippers, paint by number set, and a cup.


Yesterday was Sierra's actual birthday. We had a small celebration at our house for her complete with another cake and $1 presents from the Target dollar section. She was thrilled.

It's Wednesday, so it must mean it's time to update. I'm sorry about not being able to write as often, but school and housework are keeping me pretty busy lately.

Tomorrow will be my third child's birthday, so we celebrated it this past Saturday. That day turned out to be quite eventful. The night before a tornado had passed through the area, and my husband's cousin's house was damaged. Though quite traumatized, everyone is ok. We went over there after the party and helped move things out. Later that evening we went to my parents' house and visited with my aunt and uncles who were up here from Texas for a couple of days. As I said, it was quite an eventful day but also good.

Right after blowing out the candles

PRESENTS!

The tornado stricken house. You can't really see it from this side, but the far end pillar is completely missing, and the far side of the roof was gone. It also took out part of an upstairs wall inside the house.

Cracks like this are all through the house

The girls playing snakes and ladders with my uncles. Dumb me forgot to take a picture of my aunt.

Another Typical Day

One of the kids left the water running in our slowly draining sink. Of course I didn't know about it until I heard the baby splashing and having fun.

Around Town........Well, a Town Close By

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Bad advertising. I took this at the Wal-Mart fishtank.

Fall has officially arrived in our neighborhood making a beautiful backdrop for some pictures I took of the kids. More pictures will probably be taken because of the absolutely beautiful weather today and tomorrow.

Not only does the weather bring a chance for beautiful pictures, but it also brings a lot of festivals to the little towns in our area. We had the opportunity to go to the festival held in our town last weekend. There was a whole lot of good looking food, art, and other items of interest, but we ended up spending most of our day in the Kidz Zone. I think everyone had a lot of fun.

I was taking this picture more for the fall colors than of the kids.

This ride lasted WAY too long, but the kids loved it.

This was a pirate show the kids loved watching. He used a horse whip to break these spaghetti noodles.