Fighting for Computer time

As you can see, in a family of seven you sometimes have to fight to get a few minuets on the computer. :-D

Trent played basketball again this morning. We were all very proud of him, Trent shot a three-pointer! You should have seen the smile on his face had heard Trey call "that's my brother"!

Tyler Hunting

Tyler has gone hunting, again, today. We dropped him off at the Glick's farm (people from church). They have a lot of property, perfect for Tyler and his friend Tuck to hunt. When we dropped Tyler off we were able to hold some cute little puppy's. The younger kids enjoyed the wrinkly puppies the most and played with them for a while.

We had another beautiful day today and the sun looked is gorgeous over the trees i had to take at another picture.

Virginia Weather

View for Our Front Yard

My last post was about our first Va snow of the year but today all the snow and ice has melted away. We are enjoying the 50 some degree weather without coats and with opened windows.

Tyler went hunting again today and Amber, Trent and Trey were out, so Mommy and I relaxed for most of the afternoon. Before that, all of us (except Trent) had our piano lessons for the week. I am in the process of getting ready for my senior recital and soon the others will be starting music for the spring homeschool recital.

First Snow

Yesterday we had our first snow of the year, which amounted to about 1/2 inch. That's Virginia for you! Well, it was pretty while it lasted. Today we have had some freezing rain that was beautiful on the tree branches.
This evening Daddy took us to Koto, a Japanese steakhouse, near where we live. We always enjoy seeing all the fire and tricks they do while cooking our meal. Tyler and Trent had fun catching rice balls in their mouths and Trey got a kick out of the Japanese man joking around with Trent and calling him "Deary". I think we would all agree that Koto's is our favorite place to eat and that we would highly recommend it to others.

Book-Keeping with the Boyer's

This afternoon I went to the Boyer's house and helped them do some innovatory on their learning parent products. The Boyer's are a larger family in our Church who have home schooled all of their children. They have a website with a line of products to help encourage parents. All their stuff is great and for those interested you can visit http://www.thelearningparent.com/ or visit their blog at www.thelearningparent.blogspot.com

Dinner at the Lawrie's

We have some very close friends the, Lawrie's, who invited us to dinner a few nights ago, along with our grandparents. We had a great meal and really enjoyed the company! We get together with them often. We've even gone camping with them on a couple of occasions. One of our favorite things to do with the Lawrie's is play a card game called spoons which always bring on lots of fun and laughs.

Craft Projects

Trey's cookie

Amber with candy

Amber and Trey have been doing a lot of craft projects the last few days. Mom bought them a leather wristband making kit which they throughly enjoyed. They have also been experimenting with creating melted candy on a stick. This was by far one of Amber's favorite projects this week! She LOVES sweets!!!