our two little blessings: August 2013

School Update

We had a great year homeschooling. I would not have chanced our decision to do it. I think with the extra year at home Owen gained more confidence in him and has opened up a little more. The biggest down fall for me was the lack of socialization – a lot of homeschooling families are flakey!! If they showed up at all it would be very late, like hours late- to me punctuality is very important and I think its extremely rude when people feel that they can show up hours late. With that said, we decided to enroll both Emma and Owen at our small local Christian School in Ventura. Emma will be attending (Pre-K) M-F 8am-1pm and Owen will be attending (2^nd grade) 8am-3pm. The days are longer than I would like, I sure will miss them but given our choices of schools we feel that it is the best fit for our children. The school actually goes all the way through High School. There are a few families that live in Ojai so we are hoping to make some new local friends. Emma is very excited to start, Owen has accepted it but I would not say that he is excited about it. School is school. We have met both teachers and I feel that both kids will have a wonderful year. We will keep you posted! School starts August 21^st!

Owen's Solar System Presentation

Solar System

We spent about a month and a half learning about the Solar System. Typically we learned about 2-3 new planets a week and Owen had to write down a few facts that he learned about that planet. We made a planet poster, a 3-D solar system, we named / made our own planet and wrote a story about how life was on this new planet, and at the end Owen did a oral Solar Planet presentation about what he learned.

The video is too long and will not post :( sorry

Annettes Visit Home

Confetti Easter egg

After Emma attacked

Owen's birthday

Emma's birthday at zoo

Annette was back home for a little while and stayed with us. Luckily it was during Easter and both kids birthdays!

Happy Birthday Owen

Happy 7th Birthday Owen!!!

Funny thing, last year Emma’s birthday was on Easter and this year Owen’s was on Easter! At first Owen thought it was great – we always camp at Lake Casitas for Easter so Owen was excited to be camping on his birthday, but he soon realized that you cant really have a party because all of your friends are busy doing Easter stuff. We still had a great little party in our trailer with family, despite the rain. Another thing we realized this year- it has rained on all of Owen’s birthdays.

Happy Birthday Emma

Happy 4th Birthday Emma!!!

I honestly do not know what happen to the last four years!!! It has gone by so incredibly fast. Emma wanted to go to the Santa Barbara Zoo for her 4^th birthday. She brought a long a couple of friends and we had a great time. It started off with Emma falling into the koi pond and within the first 15 minutes of arriving, but yes I did have extra clothes and everything turned out great! There were two pregnant giraffes during this trip who look like they were ready to pop any day!!