Jack Turned 7

Back in May. I think I forgot to post a picture. If this is a duplicate, he's worth it :).

Future Ammunition

I'm not sure what I'll use this for, but a little boy sleeping in his car seat in a pink shirt with flowers and his underwear has to be good for some kind of embarrassment or bribery... right?

Did you hear about the kid who climbed Mt. Everest?

We did. Once. On the news radio. And then there we were in Big Bear, which happens to be this kid's hometown and he happened to be doing a book signing that night at the local book shop. We had to go. His name is Jordan and he's climbed seven (I believe) major peaks with Mt. Everest capping it off in May of this year. Pretty impressive!


There he is, signing their book.

What are they looking at?

We went on a hike that had markers to stop at and a brochure to read from at the markers to tell you a little bit more about what you were looking at. The last stop on our morning hike that day was this tree but I forget what was interesting about the tree because we got distracted by the wildlife. See that, there by the bottom of the tree? No? Look closer...

Yup, that's a rattler eating his breakfast. In half gulp. He rattled at us once or twice, but I felt pretty safe since his mouth looked pretty full. And for those of you more interested, there's a slightly closer shot next...

Down the hatch. Yum Yum.

Camping #2

This time we headed up to Big Bear and even got a chance to go canoeing for a little while.

Camping Trip #1 and Mosquitos

I managed very few pictures of this trip, but we had a lot of fun. Everyone was a good sport with my campfire cooking attempts. One thing we found out about the beautiful Palomar Mtn campground... they have mosquitos! We had spray, but Anna and Jake ended up with a considerable number of bites on their foreheads. It looked like Anna had chicken pox!

Yes, there are 5 kids here. Jake joined us for the trip!

Little League Closing Ceremony

Jack really enjoyed baseball again this year. Here he is receiving his trophy for the year at closing ceremonies.

More Buzz

Luke loves his Buzz costume. I know I put one of these up before, but I think he is so adorable!

Promotion Night

At the end of the school year, our homeschool group holds a promotion night to recognize graduates, promotions to the next grade and accomplisments.

Leah was a graduate this year (from Kindergarten) and she had memorized a short Psalm to say at the program. But she froze. Badly. I guess she isn't as stage-fright-less and her ballet performances indicated.

Anna about to receive her awards.

Jack receiving his.

A Very Big Balloon

We were going up in that thing...

so first we climbed into this thing.

The view from above.

More view. Great free ride in a very big balloon!

The Garden Progressing

A few months ago...

I've been terrible about updating the blog, but I'm going to attempt to do a better job. These first few posts will be mostly pictures from the last few months.