Our Boys: 2012

Monday, October 29, 2012

I love this time of year!!! So many fun shapes and colors!!!

Left with a yummy block of cheese, a jar of salsa,

3 cute mini pumpkins, 1 large pumpkin to carve,

and 4 stomachs ready for....LUNCH please :)

The boys love a visit to the Home Depot!

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Fall Fun

Below are some photos and videos from Sept and some from today. Enjoy...

This was a video from the fair...

The boys took a tour of this WWII ship.
It was at our riverfront for a week or so and was so large that it could hold 30 tanks!
They leaned a lot from the vets who volunteered to give the tours.
Wonderful homeschool activity!

the boys inside the ship

"Hurry and take the picture dad, they stink!"

Afternoon hike

Family Photo!!!! It is so rare to see one of these :)

What a sweet memory this was- I can hear the water and the giggles in this picture

He LOVES to help with any and everything

I love technology, that I can see pictures of what the guys are doing during the day. This was a breakfast picture I got one morning.
Scott said A was so proud of his stacking. He likes milk on his Cherrios.

Monday, September 3, 2012

crowd pleaser

Labor Day weekend we enjoyed a beautiful wedding. Click on green words below to see a big highlight.....ENJOY!

crowd watching O's moves!!!

Wonderful change in our home

This year we have decided to school Owen at home. We had been thinking about this since December and started on Aug 7th. We have loved loved loved what it has done for Owen and our family. Scott now stays home with the boys and functions as a "Learning Coach" through the virtual academy we are using. This program sends us curriculum and we log time and organize our schedule online. We are loving the flexibility and the one on one teaching that Owen gets. It is also awesome to have Scott home more than ever!! We are enjoying all this time together! Every week Owen comes and takes an art class at my school with our Pre-K blended class and then he reads to a classroom of 1st graders that really enjoy his attention. My schedule is perfect for this set up as well. I work 7:30-3:15 and so I am able to teach some when I get home. The transition has been easier as we get use to all the ins and outs of the program- we have also been assigned a certified teacher and she has been so wonderful. Owen requires information everyday every moment it seems so the teaching is something we have been doing anyway. The program is nice in that it helps keep us organized and allows us to expose him to things that maybe we would not have on our own. We love it!

Below is Owen's first assignment that we had to send in....
They wanted to see Owen's starting point asking him to draw a picture and write a few sentences about it without any help.

This is about the dolphin show we saw in Atlanta. In his drawing he labeled people in their seats, the spotlight, splashes and, the curtain on the side of the stage. The arrows in his writing are because he was trying to use the insert (^) symbol. We will have an on-line conference with the teacher on Wednesday about this assignment and his other work so far.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Lake 2012

This year's lake crew in our AWESOME new shirts!

We got a few good ones :) You parents know how hard this picture was to capture!

Sweet siblings in the kitchen

I love large VTech sweatshirts on toddlers!!! Too cute!!! Who could argue??

Lake 2012 (part 2)

Beautiful weather - lots of time to play out in the water!!!

Owen worked with legos when we needed to keep him occupied inside

Asa kept busy inside with a broom and dustpan

One afternoon Scott took us out on the small boat and we were able to watch 2 bald eagles!

We collected various rocks, mosses, plants, and pine cones and created a terrarium to take back home with us.

Of course the neighbors kids scheduled to be up when we were. It is so fun to watch the kids grow up together.
In this picture they are trying to pull up a tree root