Praising God for his unique design and plan for our family.
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| Love that we were able to capture a picture of a female ruby-throated hummingbird a couple of weeks back. It happened to be the same day we were focusing on it for our nature study time. We enjoyed running around "chasing", while at the same time trying not to scare it away. |
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| Big Brother just loves to make Baby Sister giggle. They had so much fun with this plastic container. |
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| The kids love dancing around during music time. Love to see what new moves they will come up with. |
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| Big Sister's crazy spinning hair! |
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| Love this picture of Big Brother and Big Sister! |
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| A little bit of hula hoop. The funny thing about this picture is that it appears Big Sister really knows how to use a hula hoop. She just spun it really fast and she spun with it. She keeps practicing however! |
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| Our focus right now for PE is basketball. About every three to four weeks we venture into a new sport. Big Brother also does tumbling weekly and you will frequently see him running around outside so definitely a bit of physical education happening in and around the Core home these days. |
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| Baby sister is now pulling herself up to standing against everything. |
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| She is also feeding herself with a grown-up spoon : ) |
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| We are in the process of digging out an area for a brick patio and fire pit, but in the meantime, a hole in the ground with rocks around it works just fine for a nice fire. |
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| Grillin' hotdogs! We also made some fun dessert packets in foil. Tortillas with various fillings such as: marshallmallow, strawberry, and chocolate chips; bananas, chocolate chips, and marshmallows; blueberries, marshmallows, and chocolate; were a few of the ones we tried. |
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| Bacon and eggs on the fire in the a.m. |
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| Brother and Big Sister sitting outside the "schoolhouse" on their first day back. We started back on August 27th! This is Big Sister's first year to participate with us during our school time. We have some great preschool activities ready and a wonderful Fruit of the Spirit curriculum that a friend of mine and I pulled together using various resources online and a little of our own creativity. |
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| Outside the schoolroom, aka, the basement door : ) |
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| Big Brother did a bit of decorating for our first day back. |
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| Big Brother is really enjoying having Big Sister participate during our school time. Here he is explaining how his math manipulatives work. She was enjoying building with them when they were not in use. |
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| Made some funfetti cupcakes and dinosaurs to create our "2nd" grade snack. |
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| We always enjoy our times playing at Great Grandma's farm. These are a few pictures from a few weeks ago when Aunt Leah and Andy were back from AZ. Love these action shots that Andy was able to capture. |
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| Big Sister throwing leaves at Aunt Leah. |
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| Always love the golf cart rides. |
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| Everyone knows that Big Sister has a ton of naturally curly hair... |
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| Or does she... |
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| Homemade ice cream!!! Yummy! Grandpa makes the best! |
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| We had the opportunity to spend the day at Ledges State Park recently with Aunt Leah and Andy! We had so much fun having a picnic and building dams in the water. We were also very blessed to have Andy (and Leah) take our family pictures. They turned out so great! These are just some of my favorites. |
