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Class Photo 2010-2011

Dixie Classic Fair

We went to the fair today! We had a lot of fun looking at exhibits and of course eating all the yummy yummy food. We had ribbon fries and an onion blossom ( great lunch huh?) and then everyone got to choose a sweet for themselves.

I got a fried snickers bar, Esther a caramel apple, Nate choose a funnel cake, Abby got a snow cone and Greg reallly wanted corn, so he chose corn, but then got some cheesecake too. I think we hit our sugar intake for the month all in one Friday!

Summer Fun

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Thought for the Day

I Choose ~ 

*I choose to stop myself before I yell
*I choose to phrase things in the positive
*I choose to accentuate the positive
*I choose to see my children as fragile gifts that I have the ability to cherish or break
*I choose to keep short accounts with my kids
*I choose to have a cheerful spirit
*I choose to respect my children
*I choose to discipline in love
*I choose to model Christ for my kids

New Years Eve Bags

We did this last year and it was so much fun, Esther reminded me of it back at Thanksgiving that she wanted to have "the clock bags" again. We had paper bags with clock faces on them and each hour the kids opened up a bag of activities for the hour. I had a little rhyme about each one. Instead of counting to midnight this year, we are going to start at noon and countdown to church time (7:00). Then we can go to bed whenever we get tired! :)


New Years Eve, the Countdown has begun! Are you ready to count are your ready for fun? We will spend the day exploring space! With “Moon Rock Pizzas” We will feed our face! (**ingredients for personal pizzas)


10…9…8 Ready set go! Let’s blast off in rockets made with Play-doh!
(**Space themed playdoh set)


7…6…5… before its too late, lets pop some corn and enjoy the last movie of 2008!
(*The movie Space chimps and popcorn)

4..3…2…That movie was a trip! Let’s make some cookies that look like an alien space ship. (* Sugar cookies with green M&Ms on top to look like aliens)


…1..Blastoff!!!!Here we go!!! The countdown is over tick tock tick tock. Time to make an alien out of a sock! (*Materials to make alien sock puppets)

The fun keeps on going, lets not stop! Let’s read a space book and enjoy a blowpop. ( *A space story and a bag of blowpops)


Only 2 bags left, what going to be inside? A sticker book about space…from these aliens you can’t hide! (*Stickerbook)


Today we went to the moon and to space. We watched a great movie and stuffed our face! We played with Playdoh and with our socks. To remember your spacy New Years Eve enjoy some moon rocks! (*Poprock candy)

Happy Halloween!

The Sun n Fun??? Fly in

Yesterday we went to the Sun N Fun flying festival that comes to Lakeland every year. It coast about $30 to get into the thing, but with our home school group the kids were free and I was 5 bucks. The form also said it was from 10-12. I thought we could handle two hours of airplanes, but boy was I wrong!!!!
It was soo hot and I didn't bring sunscreen or water bottles with us. We were about 20 min late getting started and when the tour actually began, my kids were already beginning to wilt. We walked and walked and heard all about every kind of flying machine imaginable and then we walked some more! Finally about an hour and a half into the tour we went inside a fighter plane and that was pretty cool, but when we walked back out into the sun, Esther had a meltdown!!
She started crying and yelling that she was hot and hungry and tired of walking and everything smelled like Llama poop and she was gonna throw up!! So, I told the leader of the group we were gonna leave a little early, especially when the tour guide said we had another hour of touring to go!!
I took everyone to McDonald's for Happy Meals and after a cheeseburger and lemonade in the air conditioned van, all was right again with the world!! It was funny cause it kinda reminded me of a trip to Washington DC and my dad making us tour the Air and Space museum for what seemed like hours and here I go, putting my kid through the same thing!!!

I have some pictures I will post that I took during the 1st half hour that show us enjoying the field trip.

My Favorite Things

Just for fun, I asked the kids to list some of their favorite things...I loved the list!

Abby:

1. Dolphins


2. The color blue


3. Disney Cruise


4. Basketball


5. Macaroni and Cheese


6. Shopping (she is her mother's daughter!)


7. Swimming


8. Reading


9. Happy Feet


10. Tinkerbell


11. High School Musical

Nathan

1. Video Games


2. Music


3. Drums


4. Playing with Esther


5. Lord of the Rings


6. Computers


7. History


8. Stitch


9. Spiderman


10. Disney Cruise


11. The Color Blue

Esther:

1. Milk


2. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches


3. Swinging


4. Dolphins


5. Mermaids


6. The colors pink and purple


7. Angels


8. Sand


9. Books


10. The Mickey boat


11. Going to the beach