It's been a Good Friday..

today. Yes, it's Good Friday. I've always wondered why we call this day "GOOD Friday." Don't get me wrong, I understand the good that came from the death of Jesus but to think of my Jesus being beaten, spit upon, insulted, and eventually dying the worse death ever in the history of mankind, I have a hard time with calling it "good." Seems like it should be called dark Friday or sad Friday. But I know that Sunday is coming and we will celebrate the best day of all, the day our Savior was raised from the dead! Halleluhua! Praise His name!
Our family has a tradition of hiking on good Friday. We have done it the past several years and it is always a great teaching opportunity to tie into the Easter story. But we postponed our hike until tomorrow since we are doing a longer hike than usual and didn't want to rush home this morning to get Michael off to work. So we are all really looking forward to it, I will post about that tomorrow. So this morning we decided to dye Easter eggs and we had a great time.











After our Easter eggs were complete we spent some time working on a homeschool science project. We just finished our science unit on the solar system. We have been studying the solar system since August and man have we learned a lot! So our big project is to create a replica of the international space station. Anna finished hers but Jadon being the detail oriented kid he is will be working on his for quite some time. It looks awesome so far though, I can't wait to see the finished product. So here is a picture of the picture they are working off of and here is Anna's international space station.


Miss Anna decided to have a tea party today so since the camera was out, I snapped some pictures from that as well. I love her imagination, she sat out on the patio for a good 30 minutes having fun!




I can't leave this post withhout talking about Spike and the trouble he has caused lately. This is one of his not so finest moments. Jadon was holding him in our room and he jumped onto our window screen and found his way in between the screen and the window and then puffed himself up so we couldn't get him out. I am sure he was laughing at us but we are smarter than him and with a little team work between Michael and Jadon, Spike was removed and placed back in his cage right where he belongs. I won't even mention how we had to remove the baseboard and piece of wood from underneath the bathroom vanity after Spike found his way underneath it. I guess I just mentioned it so why not explain it further. It was my idea to let Spike have his run around time in the bathroom. There was no way for him to escape (or so I thought) and would give him some freedom to run around. Well, he found about a 1/2 inch space between the bottom of the vanity and the baseboard and crawled up and over and ended up beneath the vanity. The only way to get him out was to remove the baseboard and saw a piece of the wood that holds it to the ground so we could reach in and grab him. Of course Jadon was so concerned about Spike but he once again was placed back in his cage WHERE HE BELONGS. Someday we will come up with a creative way of letting him run around without having to remodel our house.


So that sums up our Good Friday, tomorrow we look forward to our hike and an Easter Egg hunt followed by church tomorro evening. Sunday we will have a relaxing moring at home and then have a family gathering to celebrate Easter. Happy Easter everyone!