Our homeschooling and home building story.
Decided to check out a new kid of mini golf the morning before the conference started. We went to a PuttShack. Definitely a new mini golf experience. The ball is linked to you and the computer keeps track of how many times you hit the ball. The course is also computerized and a bit like... Continue Reading →
On Sabbath, we left Phoenix and headed back north to Flagstaff to avoid the insane heat. High in Phoenix was something ridiculous like 112...Flagstaff was in the 70s. We went into the Lava River Cave (Arizona edition, I've also been in the Oregon one) and it was in the high 30s. Rather chilly. The cave... Continue Reading →
On our way down through Nevada, we stopped at this mining park and got to tour the grounds of a silver mine. We got to see equipment used during various stages and phases of silver mining, look down deep shafts and walk through an old burro tunnel. Since we had learned a lot about the... Continue Reading →
For our second night on our road trip, we camped at Hilltop campground on Mt Charleston. Considering it was in the 90s and 100s all through Nevada, it was amazing to go up this mountain and be in the 60s and 70s. We needed to pull out our jackets. We had a beautiful campsite with... Continue Reading →
My husband and I had a teachers convention to attend in Phoenix, AZ. We decided that instead of flying, we would turn it into a road trip over into Nevada, down through Arizona and then to return through California after the conference. There will be several individual posts about things we saw along the way.... Continue Reading →
Ari chose SeaQuest for part of her summer bucket list. We had the opportunity to go with some friends of our who had never been. The kids all had a great time. We usually go in the morning and this time we went in the afternoon. It's a different visit going in the afternoon. In... Continue Reading →
This has been a summer of Redwoods! My brother wanted us to camp in the Portola Redwoods for his birthday. We were happy to oblige! The campground was amazing. We were camped right in the redwoods with trails leaving right from the campground. The campsites were a nice large size and the campground had a... Continue Reading →
We've had a fun and busy summer! I became an Auntie for the first time, which is fabulous. We did several trips, we made progress on our house. We met our kids summer goal of seeing a movie, playing mini golf, visiting seaquest and bonding the bunnies. The kids read and reviewed enough books to... Continue Reading →
Every year I like to take a look at what worked and what didn't in the last year. Bible: We did the Bible Study Club Pack by Not Consumed. This was great. My kids enjoyed it and so did I. They have some new studies this year and I may be interested in adding them... Continue Reading →
This year was our kids second ever backpacking trip. We had hoped to go to the Marble Mountains again but...with the crazy winter we've had, the Marbles are still under snow. I'm not quite ready to do snow camping with the kids. So after consulting with my brothers and calling several ranger stations, we settled... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 