Beach baby

I did this layout for a couple of GDS challenges, I used another of Christy's fun kits. This one is My Man... Nathan was just being too cute at the beach today..

Kite Festival

Today is Mike's birthday so we spent the day at the beach watching kites and playing in the heat. Above is the first page of the day. It is all the first page I've created as a member of Christy Skaggs' Creative Team at GDS. It uses pieces from her fun Shabby Boy kit. Stop by GDS and check it out...

Travels Lapbook Day 1

Summer school is going well. Now that I have my camera charged again I can hopefully post some pictures of our "classrooms".  We found a wipe off calendar grid in bright colors at Staples the other day so we can officially have calendar time now. Thank goodness as Cameron was not happy about not having calendar time.

Today we finally got started on our "CARS" themed travel/transportation unit. We are making a lapbook/ activity book. A race track game using dice and little stampers from the Dollar Tree as markers starts off the book. We talked about writing home while traveling and postage stamps.. Cameron drew his own stamps (I think the 2 mini books about stamps are from the Flat Stanley Lapbook at HomeschoolShare's website. We also built a LARGE library pocket for a car parts matching game Cameron and Mike are going to make.  Since there will be a lot of activities in the book we put the lapbook inside an old folder I had from college.. I think it was an Avery brand folder in a portfolio style with 2 wrap elastics... Any way the folder is perfect for carrying everything and gives us some extra surfaces to decorate... Again the Dollar Tree finds were perfect, Cameron added some wallies decorations to the outside of the folder and then added a colored picture of DocHudson to the back cover.

Tomorrow we are going to the kite festival for the day and won't be doing traditional school, but might do some carschool and talk about traveling since we have an hour drive to the beach...

Mowing the Lawn

My husband loves his lawn mower and my boys love the trailer, so they combined their loves and got the job done... Mike mows the lawn at high speed so the boys get a crazy fun ride. Some days you've got to love them

Dancing with the Stars

WOW!!! What a night... 2 numbers stood out for me.. The Viennese Waltz and the Contemporary numbers tonight were incredible. Twitch was amazing with Kherrington, where did that come from... I was literally crying it was beautiful. And then Courtni and Gev another beautiful number. I almost called in... I don't vote on these shows but tonight I really thought about it. Can't wait for the results tomorrow.
On a note from last week... Honestly if Raven had danced on Pointe she'd still be here I'm sure... If you are a Pointe dancer then by all means use it... If you get put in the bottom 3 and have to dance to keep your spot , it is time to pull out all the stops and put your all in it. I was sad to see her go, let that be a lesson to the other dancers... Use your talents, show them why you are there.

Remember Tim

In my high school years I was very political and had very different opinions on lots of things. Now, I'm more conservative and more take care of it ourselves and leave the government out of my business. That aside, I still am not a big fan of political talk radio or television commentary, for the most part it drives me up a wall. But, over the last year or so I have come to enjoy Sunday mornings and Meet The Press on NBC. Since church service doesn't start until 1130 and we don't have to be there until 11 or so, I found Meet the Press and Tim Russert to be a good way to catch up on politics and the goings on. I was saddened to hear of Mr Russert's early death last week and touched as I watch NBC this week including Sunday as a tribute to a man who was solid in his convictions but approachable and sincere. Watching MTP had become my way of seeing the candidates for who they were not what they wanted us to see.
I only hope NBC can find someone half has committed and knowledgable.

First Blog on the "New " computer

I plugged the new computer in tonight and only ran into a few glitches... I am currently typing this blog on the new computer so all is good for now... I am running updates to Ubuntu and installing all my firefox friends, but all is good in my world... well in my computer world.

I'll post tomorrow regarding the Mommy life (I'm trying to recover emotionally from today on the Mommy front..) Raising boys in more than a full time job, it is hazardous to one's health.