BH is showing off his skills at grabbing the ghost peep with no hands
EH is playing the music for the family Harvest Festival
Momma is showing how much fun she is having, yummy want some?
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
So What Exactly Have We Been Up To?
Looking at our Blog you would have thought we had abandoned our efforts to keep everyone informed as to what we are up to on this end of our world. Rest Assured we have no abandoned our blog instead we have updated it to include for pictures & other fun features. Last time I posted was Oct 11th our lives have been anything but boring since then. As you can see from the slide show we have been working on our house & trying to have fun in between. We were going to have a Halloween party this year but EH got sick the morning of so we moved some of he party events up a few days. As you can see JH is trying so very hard to get that apple.
BH is showing off his skills at grabbing the ghost peep with no hands
EH is playing the music for the family Harvest Festival
Momma is showing how much fun she is having, yummy want some?
BH is showing off his skills at grabbing the ghost peep with no hands
EH is playing the music for the family Harvest Festival
Momma is showing how much fun she is having, yummy want some?
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
So What Have We Been Up To?
looking at our Blog you would have thought we had abandoned our efforts to keep everyone informed as to what we are up to on this end of our world. Rest Assured we have no abandoned our blog instead we have updated it to include for pictures & other fun features. Last time I posted was Oct 11th our lives have been anything but boring since then. As you can see from the slide show we have been working on our house & trying to have fun in between. We were going to have a Halloween party this year but Evelyn got sick the morning of so we moved some of he party events up a few days
Saturday, October 11, 2008
October News Letter
Steve & Chantelle Family,
The last few months have been busy as usual. We have been filling our days with kids, school, and keeping the resident dirt monster in the house at bay. BH is doing very well with home school this year. I got a comprehensive workbook for him. The week before school BH and I sat down and put together work packets of about 4 worksheets. As I had just gotten a new stapler he was very excited about he wanted to staple them. So we made a deal. If he stapled them he was agreeing to complete the work. This has been a wonderful tool to call on when he gets 1/2 a worksheet from finished and wants to quit. BH is also improving in his behavior overall. Although we are entering our hard time of year with him he is trying very hard not to "go off the deep end" with anticipation for the upcoming holidays and events. (Every year we have major problems from the time they set the Halloween stuff out at the stores until they put the Christmas things away.)
EH is in public school for Kindergarten and loving it. She is a perfect little angel at school. I was worried that she would get bored with the work as we did kindergarten with her at home last year. I only put her in to get her more acclimated to sitting and listening to learn. Instead of getting bored when she is done with her work she helps other kids. I think she is so excited to be in school that she hasn't noticed that she isn't learning anything new. That's ok with me.
JH is going through the following directions stage. You know the stage where they don't know if the should do what you tell them to. It is very disheartening for me as I had so enjoyed having one child who just wanted to follow directions. I'm sure this will work its self out. I just have to try and be patient in the mean time. She has so many cute qualities it is pretty easy to be patient. She has been making up cute little songs about everything. It is so sweet to hear her sing.
As for the whole family we had to take a shortened family vacation this summer. Steve had the whole week off but I had agreed to watch the daughter of BH's first teacher here the last week before school started. So instead of a week vacation we just went camping at Chippokes planation for 3 days. It is the longest operating farm in the country. We got to collect seashells and swim in the James River. We have some pictures posted of it on our blog. http://sorryumissedit.blogspot.com/
Steven has been busy as a bee with work. Then when he gets home the kids want 110% of his time so we have been staying up late just to get some time together. It has become almost a sacred time. The few hours you get to have and talk without kids saying "I want...(insert anything from the necessary to the ridiculous.)
Steve and BH refinished an old radio flyer wagon and painted it all up with a lightening bolt. They had a lot of fun at that. Steve also had the opportunity to go to the hospital and give a baby a blessing a few weeks back. There were twins born here and placed for adoption. The adopting family is an LDS family from Utah (Steve actually happened to have worked with the wife in SLC at the call center.) One of the twins was able to go home with his family but the other was sick still and couldn't leave. So Steve was called to give him a blessing. That was about a month or so ago. This Tuesday we got a call from the relief society president who the lady had stayed with saying the baby was dying and could he please assist in giving a name and a blessing before the baby died. So he went to the hospital to bless him. The relief society president's husband was the other one there. The r.s. president's family had gotten quite close with the mother as she stayed with them for 2 weeks when she came to pick the healthier baby up. The relief society president held the baby after they took all the cords off of him until he went home to his heavenly father. This was quite an experience for everyone involved. We were grateful to be a part of it, and were touched by his short little life.
As for me I'm just plugging away. I've been enjoying reading some political/economic blogs and commenting on them. It helps me feel like I have a link to the outside world. The one I like the most is by the guy that sent out the plan about the economy bail out. We are hoping to take a trip out west this next spring so we can see all of you.
The last few months have been busy as usual. We have been filling our days with kids, school, and keeping the resident dirt monster in the house at bay. BH is doing very well with home school this year. I got a comprehensive workbook for him. The week before school BH and I sat down and put together work packets of about 4 worksheets. As I had just gotten a new stapler he was very excited about he wanted to staple them. So we made a deal. If he stapled them he was agreeing to complete the work. This has been a wonderful tool to call on when he gets 1/2 a worksheet from finished and wants to quit. BH is also improving in his behavior overall. Although we are entering our hard time of year with him he is trying very hard not to "go off the deep end" with anticipation for the upcoming holidays and events. (Every year we have major problems from the time they set the Halloween stuff out at the stores until they put the Christmas things away.)
EH is in public school for Kindergarten and loving it. She is a perfect little angel at school. I was worried that she would get bored with the work as we did kindergarten with her at home last year. I only put her in to get her more acclimated to sitting and listening to learn. Instead of getting bored when she is done with her work she helps other kids. I think she is so excited to be in school that she hasn't noticed that she isn't learning anything new. That's ok with me.
JH is going through the following directions stage. You know the stage where they don't know if the should do what you tell them to. It is very disheartening for me as I had so enjoyed having one child who just wanted to follow directions. I'm sure this will work its self out. I just have to try and be patient in the mean time. She has so many cute qualities it is pretty easy to be patient. She has been making up cute little songs about everything. It is so sweet to hear her sing.
As for the whole family we had to take a shortened family vacation this summer. Steve had the whole week off but I had agreed to watch the daughter of BH's first teacher here the last week before school started. So instead of a week vacation we just went camping at Chippokes planation for 3 days. It is the longest operating farm in the country. We got to collect seashells and swim in the James River. We have some pictures posted of it on our blog. http://sorryumissedit.blogspot.com/
Steven has been busy as a bee with work. Then when he gets home the kids want 110% of his time so we have been staying up late just to get some time together. It has become almost a sacred time. The few hours you get to have and talk without kids saying "I want...(insert anything from the necessary to the ridiculous.)
Steve and BH refinished an old radio flyer wagon and painted it all up with a lightening bolt. They had a lot of fun at that. Steve also had the opportunity to go to the hospital and give a baby a blessing a few weeks back. There were twins born here and placed for adoption. The adopting family is an LDS family from Utah (Steve actually happened to have worked with the wife in SLC at the call center.) One of the twins was able to go home with his family but the other was sick still and couldn't leave. So Steve was called to give him a blessing. That was about a month or so ago. This Tuesday we got a call from the relief society president who the lady had stayed with saying the baby was dying and could he please assist in giving a name and a blessing before the baby died. So he went to the hospital to bless him. The relief society president's husband was the other one there. The r.s. president's family had gotten quite close with the mother as she stayed with them for 2 weeks when she came to pick the healthier baby up. The relief society president held the baby after they took all the cords off of him until he went home to his heavenly father. This was quite an experience for everyone involved. We were grateful to be a part of it, and were touched by his short little life.
As for me I'm just plugging away. I've been enjoying reading some political/economic blogs and commenting on them. It helps me feel like I have a link to the outside world. The one I like the most is by the guy that sent out the plan about the economy bail out. We are hoping to take a trip out west this next spring so we can see all of you.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Gluten Free Smores
Step 1: Smile really pretty and say "MO MASH MAWWOWS PEAS"
Step 2: Give marshmallows to Daddy to place on roasting stick aka skewer.
Step 3: Watch anxiously as the marshmallows are cooked to order.
Step 4: Inspect for proper level of doneness.
Step 5: Add cocoa pebbles, sit back and enjoy. (Spoons are optional)
P.S. To be more specific these are gluten (wheat, barley, rye, oats,) milk, egg, soy, nut free smores. But who's counting? :)
Vacation at the James River
This is the trail down to the James River. We were right across from James Town. BH is the orange speck you see down the trail 100 feet. You'll just have to imagine me as I am on the other side of the camera.
Shells!
Shells (I told him to show me his shell so he struck a pose!:)
Shells! EH loves every shell she found so I took pictures of the prettiest ones.
Shells!
and yes, MORE SHELLS. This river is brackish water which means part salt and part fresh. It is actually not very deep until you get quite far out. We all swam in it and had a ton of fun. Sorry no pictures of swimming something about cameras, water and really white skin just doesn't mix together well.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Summer is over School starts
We finished the summer off with a bang. We went camping at Chippokes Plantation State Park an hour away from here. It is the oldest continuously operating farm in the country! It is on the James River just miles (and a fairy ride) away from Jamestown. We got to drive our car onto a fairy. I was going to post pictures but we are having memory card issues.
Evelyn started kindergarten in public school. BH started 2nd grade homeschool. We are adjusting well. I will post pictures as soon as we get the kinks worked out.
Evelyn started kindergarten in public school. BH started 2nd grade homeschool. We are adjusting well. I will post pictures as soon as we get the kinks worked out.
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