A Favorite Book

One of my new favorite books that we use in our home school science program.

I said last year that I just wasn't crazy about the science program. I was giving it one more year before I started looking for something different.

However, this year I am enjoying it. We started the year off with cell structure. Jason caught on quickly and after all these years I think I finally get it too.

We talked about cell differences between plants and animals. So now we are talking about different animals and later we will go back to plants. Jason will get a chance to use his new microscope and he will be doing a lot of planting.

The thing I like most about this book is, it is Internet linked.
You go to their website and type in the page number you are working on. It gives you updated links to websites for more information, videos and games related to that animal. The video on swarming bats kind of creeped us out. We also saw a video on pangolin's and river dolphins that help fishermen catch fish. Who knew. Of course I could search for this information on my own, but who has time for that.

In the future I will be checking out more of these Usborne Internet linked books.

No Sun at 5am

How do I know this????

Because we left our house this morning at 4am to go fishing. It would be light soon not a big deal. The sky started to lighten up at 6:10am. We had our lines in the water well before that time. However, it was nice to see where we were casting to. Megan and Jason didn't last long both were tired. No fish today.



She is asleep



Jason playing with the bait.



Anthony trying his best.



Sunrise



Turned out to be a beautiful morning.

Todays Soccer Game

They won 5-2 and Megan was responsible for 2 of the goals. Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from today.

Gotta love this one.


Her kicking in a goal.



And one more.

Last Nights Game

Last game before league games begin. They won 41-6.

It was a good game and Anthony made a couple of killer tackles. One tackle caused a fumble resulting in us getting the ball back.

Today we are off to Washington for a late soccer game. And Sunday we will try to put a dent in getting the bedroom redo done.

Have a great weekend.

Another Teenager

It has come to my attention that I may have missed posting about a couple of important events.
One of which, Steve and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. I can't believe it's been 20 years and Steve feels like it's been longer.

More importantly, my baby girl is 13. We celebrated in Sacramento which is something we haven't done since she was 2 years old. She is caught between wanting to be an older more mature teenager and still wanting to be a ninja.



I love how she is just herself and won't let anyone else tell her who she should be.

I love how she is not afraid to stand up for her friends no matter what others think.

I love how she asked for permission to punch a boy for making fun of her hat. We said no.

I love how she is rough and tough but still gentle when it comes to little kids and animals.

I love her creativity.

I love her signing voice and how she chooses not to use it.

I love how just when we think we have her figured out she changes everything.

Happy 13th Birthday sweetie.

Saturday Morning

I am missing Megan's soccer game today because Jason is down sick. It looks like it is a really bad cold but he sometimes has asthma attacks when this happens. It just seemed like a better idea to stay home with him. Steve is here so he went to the game with her.

Last night was Anthony's football game. It wasn't as bad as it looked. This is another really tough team. A 5A school when we are a 4A. It really makes a difference. One more out of league game to go before we start our league games.


Anthony looked good last night. He played a little offense but played some defense as well. He is thinking about making the switch. This kid is fast. We used to tease him about running like a chicken. I video taped one of his games and when he watched he said "why am I running like that?" Sweetie you have been running like that since you were little. That was the last time he did it. What ever he did, he fixed his run and he is fast.


He played in the JV game Thursday and took a pretty good hit to his leg. He took another hit last night. So today he is sporting a pretty good bruise. I don't like to focus to much on injuries because makes me start to worry. But having said that, another football player that Anthony is friends with from another team took a bad hit last night. I am not sure if it is one or both ankles are broken and he was looking at surgery last night. Jordan, our prayers to you for a very speedy recovery.


The final score was 13 to 49.











Thought I would throw this one in to. Ummmm, I think I have figured out what I want for Christmas.

Happy Birthday

Happy 16th Birthday Kagan.



I can't believe this is the most recent picture I have of her. I will be working on that fixing that.