"Little Women" Family: October 2012

Thursday, November 22, 2012

October 2012

1-2) Rachel and I went out to lunch, to Red Robin, for her birthday. I always love hanging out with that girl!! And I love this picture of us! It makes me happy!! :)
3) Riana made this shrine to Hunger Games... LOL!-- a bow, her mockingjay pin, her mockingjay earrings, and the necklace she made.
4) Callie and I-- she's so cute!!
5) A rainbow of glowsticks from Halloween
6) All of our signatures for the cards we made to send with the Ward packages for the missionaries and servicemen from our ward.

1) Karina made this cute little picture for me-- a picture of Karina, Aurora, and I

2) My nasty bruise from co-ed soccer, I swear I always have a bruise from soccer or basketball... but it is so worth it! I love playing sports and am so thankful that my body is healthy enough to play.

3) Sariah's smiley french fry that she wanted a picture of.

4) My new sweater (and headband) that I found at Romy's, for 50% off, while shopping with my favorite shopping buddy, Jen! I love it! And my new skirt that I bought from Costco. Cute!

5) The girls having fun during piano lessons.

6) Sariah and just about everything hair flower in our house... LOL!! Silly girl!

7) Sariah had the opportunity to attend a special 11 year old girl activity, where she was able to make these fun things. She really enjoyed the activity!

8) I have never seen such a colorful gummy worm- they are usually only 2 colors, but this one was rainbow. Our family loves sour gummy worms.

9) Riana and Callie- the redheaded buddies

10) One of my favorite meals- sweet and sour chicken and salad, with Lone Ranger cookies for dessert

11) Look what we saw on display at the Library! :)

This October, for General Conference, we tried something new. We assigned different treats to each word and whenever the girls heard one of the words, they got to eat one of those treats. They loved it!! And it worked great! They all paid wonderful attention to the talks. I think I would probably choose less treats next time or just do 5 different ones for each conference. We also had our favorite missionaries (Elder Holmes and Elder Cox) over for breakfast! We sure love our missionaries!!

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My Favorite Part of The Book of Mormon

3 Nephi 17:21-24

"21 And when (Jesus) had said these words, he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them.

22 And when he had done this he wept again;

23 And he spake unto the multitude, and said unto them: Behold your little ones.

24 And as they looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and they saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them."

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/3_ne/17

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Our homeschool program!!

My style of homeschooling is "public school at home." We began homeschooling on our own, the 1st year. Then we were enrolled in the Washington Virtual Academy (WAVA) for 3 years. Now we are enrolled in ORLA. Our girls are taking several classes at an Elementary School that is no longer used for a typical Elementary School. Instead 450 homeschooling students (K-12) take classes there with certified teachers (you choose which ones and how many) but you do have to be at the school with them until they are 12 (in another room with toys for the younger kids) or sign them out to a friend. Then you fill in the rest at home. For example, my girls take Music, Art, P.E., and Science at the school 2 days a week and then I teach them Math, Language, and History at home, on the other 3 days. The school also pays for an additional $300 a year of curriculum (like the Math, Lang, Hist.) We do have to keep up with a certain number of hours per week. We also have a "home room teacher" that helps us with everything, like deciding what extra things to do at home and making sure we don't miss anything. We are really enjoying this program-- it truly is the best of both worlds! If you have any questions, email me. :)