Our homeschooling and home building story.
For the second weekend of Spring Break we went to Black Butte Lake and camped with my family. It was my dads birthday and my sister wanted to test out her new teardrop trailer before her baby is born this summer. It was chilly but we had a great time. My brother brought up a... Continue Reading →
Although we book-ended our spring break with travel, we did get some work done at our house as well. Our contractors came and got a bunch more of the trim done and patched the holes in the walls created by the hvac guy. Our trim is almost finished! We got several Red Hot Pokers planted... Continue Reading →
For our last day in LA we went to a fun aquarium store and then found a nice playground to burn energy before our flight back. All of the aquarium stores in our area have closed so it was fun to find one still open and it had quite a few unique offerings. It had... Continue Reading →
Ari is in a Pathfinder club and within that club she is on our Pathfinder Bible Experience team. This year they had to memorize the Gospel of John in the NKJV. Ari was given chapters 18-21. Her club had passed the Area and Conference tests and so we went down to LA for the Union... Continue Reading →
Had a bit of a crazy week. Snow and sun and rain. But the flowers are out! We went out on a flower hunt around our property and we went up on Table Mountain and found flowers and newts. As our house projects have been settling down a bit, we've been able to get the... Continue Reading →
This last week was full of adventure. Cas had high fevers, vomiting and diarrhea for 2 days and then developed spontaneous itchy rashes for 2 days after the fevers went down. Threw a complete wrench into things. We also had a leak in the plumbing between our two floors that was tricky to find, tricky... Continue Reading →
This week has continued to be quite crazy. We've been having more random snow and snow days but we also had 3 days of sunshine and...50 degrees feels like 70 right now so we did school outside. We continue to have various contractors working on our house keeping things interesting and...our HVAC finally got finished!... Continue Reading →
Last Friday we woke up to nearly a foot of snow! It was amazing! We knew a storm was possible so I'd done our grocery shopping ahead of time and the school had called a snow day so we were able to all just hunker down at home. The kids had a blast in the... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow we hand in the last key to our old duplex. We've lived in our house for 2 weeks already! It is different moving into an unfinished house. Our last house was old but everything was in place and it was finished. Our HVAC still isn't complete and we've had a rare snowstorm...thankfully we have... Continue Reading →
Since my last post we have had many friends and church members and family come and help us on our house! Ari commented on it one day, that we have such a caring and helpful church community. She asked if all churches were like that and I said...well, they should be. We did everything on... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 