Happy 9th Birthday Cam Cam

Happy Birthday Camden Michael!

Our Camden turns 9 tomorrow, 2-9-2010. His last year as a single digit. We had a great time celebrating Camden by having some of his friends over for a party. It was great to see his wonderful friends, some new and some old. It was a great group of boys and we are so happy that Camden has chosen such great friends. We had fun doing boy things. Shooting a paint ball gun at baloons, playing tug of war, and running around outside. You know your boy is growing up when he lights the candles on his cake and gets a knife for a present. Wow! It was a great day. Here is a little bit of what we did at the party!

Happy 98th Grandma

Today we celebrated my grandma. She turned 98! Happy Birthday Grandma! Tomorrow we celbrate Camden, he is turning 9 on Tuesday. And tomorrow night we celebrate Annagrace, she will be 5 on Wednesday. It is a weekend of birthdays around here. Let the fun times begin!

I'm back

OK, so I have been neglecting the blog. But I have a lot to share and will do so by letting my pictures do the talking.

Papa and Grandma came over for our traditional Sunday evening meal and we took a walk to the playground. Annagrace was laughing her head off with Papa pushing her on the swing. She had a super fun time as you can see!




The boys were being monkeys on the playground equipment but I still managed to sneak in a sweet picture of each of them. Man, they are growing up fast!



A few weeks ago we had a huge rain storm that brought some much needed moisture to our dry desert land. The kids and I enjoyed an outing to see the flood waters and the swollen salt river. We had such a fun time being adventerous!






And here is Spike. He has become such a sweet little guy. He is a creature of habit. He wakes up when the boys do, warms himself under his light, waits for his breakfast of spring mix, lentils, and split peas. Eats, poops, basks in the sun, gets his excersise by trying to climb the walls of his terrarium to free himself, watches us as we watch him, sleeps a bit off and on throughout the day and then promptly puts himself to bed around 7:30 by crawling into his house and closing his eyes. He is a lot of fun. I am still amazed that even reptiles have a personality.

I am still in denial that my baby will be turning 5 next week. I said 5! Can you believe it? And then my youngest boy will be turning 9! Oh my goodness, that is crazy! We have two birthday parties on Saturday, Camden's special day is Tuesday, Anna's is on Wednesday and then we head to Mund's Park on Thursday for a weekend up north. We are so excited to get away and hopefully play in the snow! Fun times are coming soon!!!!

hello blog

Hello blog,
I have missed you but lately I have simply been too busy to visit you. I have not forgotten about us and will plan to show you some pictures and update you on our life real soon. Just wanted you to know I am still here. Maybe later we can catch up over a cup of coffee.
Love,
Korri

100th day of school

I cannot believe we have finished 100 days of homeschool! It felt like such a huge accomplishment! We celebrated our 100th day with some fun activities. We started our morning with some excersise where each of us came up with an excercise and we did it 10 times. We took turns coming up with a new one. So we did 10 different excersises 10 times each to equal 100. I learned a lot with this activity, I learned that I am very out of shape and my kids are not.

We always start our morning with devotions so today we read Psalm 100. It is such a beautiful Psalm!


And we checked the weather and were pleasantly surprised that there was a 100% chance of rain. I have NEVER seen that on weather bug before for our area.


We then did a science project to see if something would sink or float. The kids wanted to try out 100 things but that wasn't going to happen. So we really didn't incorporate the 100 into this experiment but the kids still enjoyed it. They each made a chart with their predictions and then saw if they were right. Jadon guessed right 100% of the time. He loves science!


They also counted out 100 cheerios, Pops, and noodles. Anna grouped hers in 5's, Camden did 10's and Jadon did too.



We are not sure how this happened but it does make for a funny picture.


For Camden's reading time, he read this book:

And yes, he read 100 words! I was such a proud mommy!

The kids also did what they wanted with this 100 chart. Camden chose to count by 3's so he colored all the other squares leaving the 3's times tables. He has such a mind for math.

Jadon chose to be artistic and create this.

Anna was not interested in this project but did manage to color in the first 20 squares before she lost interest. And we still managed to get our math lesson, grammar, spelling, and reading in and after a busy morning of homeschool and Karate class, we went to DQ for some yummy ice cream to celebrate!
W are looking forward to the next 100 days of homeschool.

I've missed you blog

Here we are three weeks into January and I have only blogged once! That is so unlike me. I guess I have been busy around here and not wanting to spend much time on my computer. So what have we been up to you ask? Well, let's see. Last Saturday we met my parents at my Grandma's house (she will be 98 next month) and since she is now living in a group home we had to pack up her apartment. It was bitter sweet going through her things and picking out a few things to keep her memory alive at our home. It helps that she is doing well and has settled in nicely at her group home. So with that said, we enjoyed going through her things and allowing our kids, her great-grandkids to pick out some special things to bring home. Here is what they chose:

I would say that Camden was the most into it, he has the love language of receiving gifts so this was very special to him. Here he is unpacking his finds and organizing them.



Annagrace enjoyed herself too and found some special things to display in her room.

I love this lamp for her nightstand. I got a matching one and have it next to my bed. It makes for a perfect reading light.

And Jadon kept it simple. He took two things and created this: (I'm reallly not sure what he plans are with it, but he keeps reminding us that we may not remove it from his room.)

So that is how we spent our day on Saturday.

On Sunday morning we decided to head to the PF Changs half marathon to cheer on some friends who were running in the race. Even though we were not at church that morning we spent some time reading to our kids some passages that were fitting for this event:

1 Corinthians 9:23-27 (New International Version)
23I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.25Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 26Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. 27No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

And then we talked with them about encouraging others as found in 1 Thessalonians 5:11 and it was great practice for them to cheer on the runners.

11Therefore encourage one another and build each other... up

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We enjoyed a dinner out with my parents on Sunday night to the Olive Garden, just us adults. We had a great night and I ended up with these pictures. I actually ended up with a whole lot more. My mom gave me all the photo albums of us growing up and so we have had fun looking through those. Here I am at 6 years old and at 12 years old.


And then there is this silly goose. She made up a song the other night in the bathtub called "clean your armpits because it's your birthday." The funniest part is that she laughs so hard as she sings it and then she just giggles and giggles. So here she is singing her new song while washing her pits. Can't you just see the laughter!



And that brings us to tonight. It's RAINING! I am so excited because I love the rain. Especially since it hardly rains here in the desert so when it does it brings back wonderful memories of growing up in the northwest where it rained 9 months out of the year. At least when it rains here I know I will be seeing sun sometime in the next couple of days. It is always short lived. So here are two of my cuties playing in the rain. I walked outside and saw them playing so nicely together so I snuck these when they didn't even know it. But once they did realize I was taking pictures, Anna of course had to be silly and make some funny faces. That's my girl!