Good News!

I wanted to share this new movie coming out next month.  Looks good!!!

Hot days of Summer...

Walking in the Zoo

It has been a very nice summer here in Hecknville.  We've been busy and lazy all month.  Some weeks we are non stop heading to the Zoo & parks and having so much fun.  On other days we are just staying cool in our family room and watching "Finding Nemo" for the  10th time (or more, we've lost count)  this year.  We are working hard on getting our learning room (play room/school room) together.  It is painted!  Yea!  Now, we are just "setting" it up.  We will post pictures of the room next month, when we hope to have it all finished.  We did set a goal to have the room ready to start school on July 1st, well it is Aug. 4th and we still have not celebrated our 1st day of school.  Can anyone say " a little behind".  Oh well...  Our  homeschool Co-op starts  in Sept, and that is when we will start our school, no matter what!  Even if our learning room is not finished!   Our schedule will be very easy this year.  It will look like this for the week:

Sunday: Church/rest day

Monday:  Monday fun (Co-Op)

Tuesday: School

Wednesday: School

Thursday: Field trip day or MOPS day

Friday: Library day or Catch up day. 

Saturday: Family day

Very easy!  I like it that way.  The First Daughter will start dance lessons this fall, but not until November.  In about 2 years she will start music lessons.   By then the First Son will be doing something also.  Plus we will have a"full" day of school, so our lives will be very busy then.  Right now we are LOVING our small children.  

We had a break through with our Daughter today.  She has been struggling with a lying tongue, and telling stories.  Today she tried to deceive us, but she was convicted!!  And told us the truth, right from the beginning!  She even told me, "Mommy I was going to tell you a lie, but I didn't, I told you the truth and it feels good"!  Out of the mouth of babes!  We've been praying & reading verses out of the bible to her about lying.  Our biggest prayer is that she and the First Son, know Jesus, and want to serve Him with all their hearts, and that they know His voice and listen to Him.  A little time after this happened we read a very good blog (who happens to be our very good friend), and this is what he had to say:

postmodernpilgrims.wordpress.com/

Great words!  We love it!  God is so good, we really needed to read the words he wrote, so from this day on we can help the First Daughter with over coming this struggle (even the "small" lies) she will always have in her life, but if she listens to God now, then His voice will be louder than her struggle.  Break through, we think so!  God is smelling a VICTORY!!!!  Thank you Post Modern Pilgrims for the wise words!  We bet you didn't know, God had you write that blog for us!  

 

The Chief brought these beautiful flowers home yesterday!  

                                                         What a wonderful surpirse!!!  
A friend of mine http://fountainacademy.blogspot.com/   asked this question:

"What says "Summer" to you?"  She lists a lot of good (and I agree with them all!) "feel like Summer" things, but I would like to add some:  

1.  the smell & sound of the ocean

2. feet in the water

3. jumping in the pool 

4.  watermelon

5.  red, white & blue (anything)

6.  fireworks

How about you?  What says "Summer" to you?

Weekend Project?

Our little man loves to help!  He sanded the project like a pro!  A boy after his Papa's heart!  

Ok, so we thought this was going to be a "weekend" project.  It ended up being a 5 day project, so a "week" project.  We LOVE how it turned out.  It really looks great in our kitchen.  Also, the color was a mistake, but we love it!  We wanted black, but the color turned out to be a dark blue.  Our kitchen colors are red, white & blue.  So it works!  Yea! 

Everyone else in Hecknville, is doing great!  The 1st daughter had her first gymnastics class.  She did great, but afterwards she told me "I wanted Ballet classes instead".  So she will be starting that in the Fall.  

Ok, until next time....

A day in the life of living in Hecknville....

Today after a trip to the store, the 1st daughter & son water painted.  What fun they had!  We have water painted before, but this time the 1st daughter really took her time to do her picture.  Also, we bought the "paint with water" book.  She loved it!  The 1st son, well he is 2 years old, so he enjoyed it as much as a 2 year old would.  For about 3 minutes.  It was so nice to see our daughter really take time and pride in her work.  

  Also, while shopping I found a great find!  This last year at my MOPS group we had a collage professor recommend this video.  So, today I found it and bought it.  The 1st daughter & son watched it and loved it.  They even started to sing the songs, after just one time watching.  Yea! So, if you need a gift or if you would like something to help your wee one with reading I would try this...