"Today in the Town of David, a Savior has been born unto you. He is Christ the Lord!" Luke 2:11


Merry Christmas everyone!!!

May God bless you all!

Digital Scrapbooking

I found a cool website for digital scrapbooking and thought I'd give it a try so forgive my silly playing around but it's fun!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Science Fair

We did our first ever science fair and somehow we survived! I told Hannah that I couldn't believe we had conquered our first science fair and she said, "What do you mean? I thought this was just for fun." I guess Mom's see it differently! This is Hannah showing our homeschool group leader how to play the game she invented to go along with her Arctic display. Dakota and Kayla somehow are always ready for a picture!

This display was really neat and I assume the people involved had much more experience with these kinds of things! The kids all got to do hands on learning about the body.

Hannah is showing Grandma her display. She made an igloo out of sugar cubes and frosting. It was harder than it looks!

This is Jacob showing Papa his display on the Rainforest biome. We had products that came from the rainforest there as well as an aquarium with the plants we grew.

The biggest fun came in the form of legos that someone brought with them for their display. All the kids enjoyed sitting between the booths and building their own creations. No it had nothing to do with the science fair itself but did they care???

My little saleswoman hooked quite a few kids with her game and display. She had so much fun and had so many kids interested-I am very proud of her!

Of course what would a science fair be without an exploding volcano??? I think it was the hit of the fair!

Here's the proud Zachary in front of his display on deserts. He had a small desert complete with sand and cactus as well as a book of all his research and display. He did most of it on his own. I am very proud of him!!

This is the proud Jacob in front of his rainforest display. They were so proud of themselves!

Hannah completed her display with a foam demo of an ice cap. She labeled all the sections of the ice. She did her science project all on her own. I honestly didn't help her much at all except for a few suggestions. She is extremely independent and I think this will serve her well!

The kids learned so much not only about the biome that they chose to do the project on but also on each other's. I am amazed at all the knowledge they gained!

This child will amaze you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43yCiKlbCo

You guys will get quite a kick out of this toddler!

Hannah's Birthday Part 2

Maybe I should have labeled this one, "Who says homeschoolers are lacking in socialization?!" Well we finally finished the week-long birthday celebrations for Hannah! She had so much fun! There were 12 girls that came to celebrate with her and I marvel at how well behaved every one of them were. They watched the movie "Kit Kittridge, An American Girl Story" first. Then they came upstairs and we had cake and sang Happy Birthday. Then back down to open presents which I must add she loved every one of them! Then they played hide and seek and some other games until parents came. I am so thankful that my daughter is blessed with so many amazing friends! Thanks you guys!

This one is a little blurry because it was dark downstairs but I just couldn't believe how quiet 12 girls could be so I'm showing everyone the proof!

Our egg experiment

We learned that the shape of an egg (arch) is one of the strongest and sturdiest shapes in architecture. We proved it! First we tried to crush an egg with our bare hand wrapped around it. We couldn't do it! Then we opened the small end of the egg and emptied out the insides. We tried to make them pretty even and started stacking books on top of the four eggs.

We made it to 29 books. The 30th did the eggs in!

What an amazing example again of the wisdom and creativity of God! We had such a great time with this experiment!