"Little Women" Family: Karina's 7th Birthday

Saturday, December 01, 2012

Karina's 7th Birthday

For breakfast, we brought her the breakfast of her choice—fresh fruit and vanilla yogurt parfaits, donuts, and orange juice. She was so happy and loved the attention from everyone.

For lunch, she chose to bring lunchables to school. That is a special treat because we don’t buy them very often.

For dinner, she chose B.L.T.’s, French fries and apple juice. Of course she would choose something with bacon, that girl loves her bacon!! ;)

And for dessert, she chose a gumball machine cake off of my pinterest for me to make. It actually turned out really cute! I had Grant buy me some special red frosting in a tube because I was worried about matching the color. And the gumballs were actually M&Ms. We bought some red licorice ropes and we just happened to have one red lollipop in Calyssa’s leftover Halloween candy, which she gobbled up afterward. Karina was so happy and the next day when she was eating the last piece, she said, “Mommy, this is your awesomeness!! Best cake ever!!!” Oh my goodness, how cute is that? It made it totally worth all the effort!! What a cutie!

Karina loved all of her presents and cards. She especially loved the secret compartment in one of the books Chris and Mandy gave her. And she loved her Rainbow Unicorn Dreamlight, which projects special star lights onto the ceiling.

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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. :)