Sunday, November 7, 2010

Meeting Apollo

One of the dad's in our group came to our Parthenon as Apollo. He brought along his twin Artemis, aka his daughter, and his lyre and sun chariot. He was a riot. He told the kids all about his adventures and even gave them rides in his chariot... and who knew that those Greek gods were so full of themselves!


Apollo gave each of the heros a wooden tablet to write on....he said there is a clay shortage on Mt. Olympus...Robert used his to make a chart to keep track of how many kids rode on the chariot. He lost interest after about 7 though!

Meeting Paul Revere

A family in our school group set up a meeting with Paul Revere. This guy was amazing! I could have listened to him all day! (You might recognize him from some old westerns with Roy Rogers)


He told us all about his midnight ride and being a silversmith! He even showed us the gun that he made that could be used as a dagger!

Marching thru History

In October we went to the Marching thru History Exposition. We saw some war reenactments from the revolutionary war and the civil war and walked through several military camps to see what life was like then. Our favorites were the pirates and the Romans, no surprises there!


Robert was watching me work on pictures and said, "We HAVE to go there again next year!" I agree!

Cloudy with a chance of... laughter

This weekend David brought home his projector and we had a movie night, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. I thought the kids might bust a gut they were laughing so hard!

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Halloween

From left to right: Anna, Robert, Anna again, William, Alahna
Everyone except William carved their own this year.




 Pumpkin is always a Halloween favorite and eating the roasted pumpkin seeds is my favorite!


And finally, pictures in their costumes! These are the costumes they created for our school opening day in the "Parthenon". We spent so much time on them they also became our Halloween costumes which made Halloween easy!
Alahna-daughter of Poseidon who was kidnapped by Hades, then rescued and raised by the amazon queen Hypolite. (that's her story and she's stickin' to it!)

Anna- daughter of Zeus and hunter of Artemis. She was given the gift of animal language after defeating a mighty python.

Robert- son of Hermes who has the gift of "speedy flying"!

William- also a son a Hermes who has the gift of cuteness!


Because Halloween was on Sunday this year and we don't live in a place that does Saturday trick or treating we just did trunk or treating at church. I have not missed all the candy and I think we had enough fun on Sunday doing family activities that the kids didn't miss it either.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

ELEVEN!!!

Last week we celebrated another birthday! I can't believe we only have one more year until she is in YW! This has been a year of growth and maturing for Anna. She has changed so much and become such a great help to me. I don't know what I would do without her.

Halloween continues to be her favorite holiday!



Some of Annas favorite things are reading, reading, reading, riding her bike, playing with her sister and little brothers, and cooking. She is full of life and has an infectious personality! We are so blessed to have her in our family!

We took her to Medieval Times for her special day and we all had a great time! And with the web coupon it was well worth the money! Unfortunately, I didn't take a single picture!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

A looooong time

I realized today that it is coming up on a month since my last post.  I have been waiting for a chance to get the pictures from the camera to the computer. It may never happen at this rate....this is why I am no longer doing pictures for others. Keeping up with my own is hard enough right now.

But don't confuse lack of posts with lack of activity....we have been pretty busy. Some activities over the last few weeks include, meeting "Paul Revere", Marching thru History (where we watched several battle reenactments and visited military camps throughout the ages, including our favorite, the Romans, where we had a chance to practice our Latin and watch a gladiator fight!), soccer games, the girls have started going to book club, and we have started Latin with another family (and yes, I know it's a "dead" language...although it's really not...do some research!), building and erupting Mt. Vesuvius and other school projects.

As far as my health goes....well not much has changed. I wish I could say I was all better. I have had some more tests done and still no answers. I have another apt in a couple of weeks and hopefully something good will come from it. I manage to get everything done that needs to be done but there is little left for much else. (like pictures!) As David says, "the cake is getting baked but there's no frosting." I miss the frosting things, like shopping, running, photography, and cooking yummy food rather than whatever is easy, but I am trying to be grateful for the cake, after all it's a pretty good cake.

Speaking of Dr. apt's, because of some symptoms Robert has started experiencing with increasing frequency he will probably be having that surgery sooner that we had hoped. More on that later...

Hopefully I will get to work on pics soon!