Toad-a-ly!

Last night when Luke and I went

outside we found this little guy

by our shop. I freaked out and

Luke was able to shew him away

before he became more upset

than he was by my screaming!

First Day of School 2010.

We are celebrating our 19th year

of homeschooling!!!

Traditional BACK TO SCHOOL breakfast:

ABC pancakes.

Luke begins sifting through his

SIXTH GRADE curriculum . . .

Treats for later on during the day!

My sophomore!

Hope you had a wonderful

day celebrating BACK TO

SCHOOL!!!!

First Place!

A be-a-uuuuuutiful day for the

final round of the Farmer's Cup

golf tournament today at Mountain Falls!

Sam and Luke were both in FIRST PLACE
coming into today's round . . .

BOTH WON FIRST PLACE with

45 series points!!!

Sam and his partner Will Bertz

prevail in the to win their divison

in the adult-junior golf tournament.

First place loot!

Luke won FIRST PLACE

in his division in this Parhump

Valley Junior Golf Association

tournament . . . Woot! Woot!

Congratulations all the

way around!!!

A Girl and Her Guac.

You just can't separate a girl and her

yummy guacamole.

Happy Saturday!

One Ringy Dingy.

Don'tcha just love this cute little

bugger . . . A girl has to celebrate

finishing statistics somehow!

A Kiss for the FedEx Man.

Smooooooooooooch!

Yep, its true! When that FedEx man

drives up with vintage fabric, I just

want to plant one right on the kisser!

As soon as school gets out . . . I am

going to tackle my new fabric.

I have the coolest new quilt pattern.

Don't you just love it.

Made.by.Moda.Punctuation.

Countdown to School . . .

In celebration of back-to-school and a huge

thank you to TWO BOYS that help me

constantly with any little whim that I might

have . . .

I see PLENTY of flix, fun, and food in our

future.

Have fun celebrating back to school!

Accomplishments!

Today was most definitely a

busy, busy one:

1. God and I finished all of my

statistics homework. There are

still 2 1/2 weeks left in the course,

but I can definitely see the end

of the road!! PTL!

2. The boys and I worked and

worked outside . . . busy day

cleaning the pool, mowing lawns,

weeding, trimming rosebushes!

3. Continued putting finishing

touches on BIG papers that are

due this week!

4. Packed, packed, packed!

5. Manage to snuggle with the

boys and watch a couple of

our favorite TV shows . . .

We are hooked on "America's

Got Talent".

Counting down the last days

of summer vacation . . .

Confucius Say . . .

I.like.it!

Paper Due?

Oscar is one of my strongest supporters . . .

He lays by my side most of the day while I

type or read. Do you think that he contributes

a thing . . . heck no!! I get to march outside

and feed him twice a day!!!

Paper writing day takes a form all

of its own . . .

I think best with EVERYTHING spread

EVERYWHERE. It is amazing, but I

can easily pinpoint which pile a paper is in

and where the exact information I need is

located.

This stack denotes samples of previous

work that I may need to rely upon

for reference.

This stack is within close reach, however

it has not made it to the "A Table" yet.

Last Week of Summer.

Last week of summer plans:

1. Stay up late, late, late.

2. Bake, bake, bake.

3. Play cards with friends.

4. Go to the movies in the Big City!

5. Purchase a few more school supplies.

6. Swim and BBQ.

7. Float on the raft in the pool.

8. Pack, pack, pack.

9. Invite friends over.

10. Think about snow in Reno.

Move 'Em Out!

Hummm! A kindergarten teacher

must live in this house!

All of the boys have r.e.a.l.l.y.

been helping out as we get

ready for this big move.

Anytime we have asked for

the slightest bit of help, the boys

have jumped to it and have

really made everything happen!!!

We have been packing for

about two months and still

have a ton more to pack!!!

Mike brought a trailer home from YESCO

in Reno and the boys are busy loading

it up for the big ride to Reno.

It is a task keeping the boxes separate

for storage and for the rental house!!!

Despite all of the hard labor, we are

really, REALLY excited!!!

Lazy Crazy Summer . . .

One thing I am certainly going to miss

about summer is staying up until

2:00a.m. with my favorite people

watching our shows, eating treats,

and laugh, laugh, laughing!!

Ups and Downs!

The boys, especially Zach, took one

for the team and went over 20 feet

up in the air to get some of our

homeschool quilts off of the walls.

It is kind of sad to see everything come

down, but we are certainly excited

about our new adventure!!!

Truthfully, I do not know how

he did that . . .

Sam and Luke were ready and waiting

to hold the ladder and encourage

Zach as he went all the way up that

big, big ladder to get the quilts.

Up, up and away!