March week 3

This week started out with 

an exciting visit from 

Aunt Burp and the mini burpos :)

We spent the afternoon exploring downtown.

Surprised to find the river with this

beautiful fog.

We had lunch and played at 

this great new play land, the kid oasis.

Followed the day up with ice cream.

We all love hanging out with 

our family!

Our Tuesday was more

lesson plan focused.

It was a rainy day 

we spent watching 

documentaries on ancient Egypt.

Matthew's homework involved 

taking notes from multiple sources.

One of which was said documentary.

This class has been so good for him.

Very structured and formal.

Very unlike me :) and so him :)

Wednesday we had our violin lessons.

Wesley is progressing at a very 

rapid pace.  His teacher is encouraging.

He has a nice helper at home that makes 

learning an instrument a lot better.

It was also Saint Patrick's day this week.

I love telling Saint stories to the kids.

Of course we had to set a trap!

We almost caught him this year too!

He left us a nice pile of chocolates

along with his little jacket and top hat.

Thursday Matthew had a skate 

training session.

We are aiming for once a week to 

keep his legs under him.

Friday we finished up the week 

jumping at Skyzone for their homeschool day.

The weekend was capped 

with a sleepover at grandpa's!

Thank you Grandpa!

Until next week

~blessings

March week 2

Continuing with our nature
hikes this week!

Tillie graduated out of
her kindergarten workbook.
Now she has moved into a
first grade one!

I have her doing workbooks
along side the boys when they
work in their books.
Soon when she has more
of a foundation in her reading
I will move into the
Climbing to good English
series.

This week on Tuesday we
skipped out on our homeschool
co-op class and opted to have
Matthew's good buddy over.
It was a 70 degree day we thoroughly
enjoyed by a walk to the library and the park.



On Wednesday
we had two violin lessons.
Scope was off for the
week due to a spring break.

On Thursday we
went back to the ski hill.

It was the very last time
we could enjoy the hill of the year.
It was around 50 degrees and the
skiing was very slushy.
The kids still had the best time.
Skiing in sweatshirts and tank tops!

Friday we spent the day at
the pool for a good friends
birthday. 

Until next week
~blessings

March week 1

We started this week 

with a walk and playing at 

our favorite park.

We are all loving the warmer 

weather and mostly the 

return of the SUN.

Tuesday we were with our 

homeschool co-op group.

We spent the whole day at 

the Minnesota History Center.

We participated in a class

that was really well done.

The class was called 

"when we were young"

The kids all pretended to 

be children from 1910.

Here, Taggert is showing how the

kids bathed in 1910.

Matthew was a paper boy,

Tillie washed clothes,

and Wesley collected
water from a well and his name
was Byrd :)

It was informative and fun.

We loved it.

Wednesday Wesley started his 

first violin lesson!

He is doing great.

So far he loves practicing and 

is very excited about the instrument.

We spent Thursday with 

our friends at the 

ski hill for the homeschool day.

We stayed so late we even 

skied under the lights!

We celebrated Wesley's hockey 

season over the weekend.

He finished up with his jamboree.

Grandma, Grandpa and uncle Chad

came out to watch his last game as a mite.

Until next week
~blessings

February week 4

We are experiencing an early 

spring this year.

Melting snow and warm sun

feels really good.

We have been doing more

nature hikes.

Of course Matthew has been back to 

his best climbing trees.

For lessons we have been

continuing our focus

on ancient Egypt.

We watched the movie

called the Prince of Egypt.

With Wesley we are talking 

about Jacob and
 Moses from the Old Testament.

I had been reading a classic to 

the kids every week.  

This week I decided they might like 

something lighter and maybe 

funny...

I checked out a little Roald Dahl.

We went with

George's Marvelous Medicine

The kids thought it was wonderful.

I still prefer the classics,

although this was a nice break.

On Tuesday this week we 

decided to go swimming with

our good friends.

We spent 6 hours in the pool.

The kids had a blast.

On Thursday we spent the 

day at feed my starving children.

I believe deeply in 

the power of service.

I love that we had this opportunity.

The kids benefited from this 

more than I could've dreamed.

I would love to do more volunteering 

whenever possible. 

With the sunshine we started 

exploring our hometown again.

I love going downtown.

We went out to a nice dinner this 

week with our friends/neighbors as well.

Until next week
~blessings