Dressed up for Church

I wish I could remember what had Jackson so tickled....

The Cow and the Monkey

Trick or Treat 2009

Homeschool Fall Party 2009

We have several homeschoolers at our church and we have sort of formed our own little group and decided to coordinate and each host a party for the year. I hosted the fall party at our house. The day consisted of making a pumpkin out of construction paper, making carmel apples, pumpkin bowling and pizza.
Madelyn and Clara waiting to dip there apples.

Jackson and Mommy dipping apples.

Pumpkin bowling! I think all the kids got a kick out of this. By the end we only had one pumpkin that survived. So funny!

All the kids, what a wonderful group!

Holly Farms Pumpkin Patch

We went to Holly Farms Pumpkin Patch with my friend Shawna and her children Carson and Emilia. It was so much fun. We got to go on a hayride, pick out our own pumpkin, play in the corn maze, play on the playground and pet the animals.
Here we are in the corn maze.

Oh yeah and we got to ride these. It is five gallon drums being pulled by a lawnmower.

A Fun Day doing School

Ok we do actually do school work but we took a break to teach Jackson colors using the balloons and things kind of got out of hand.
Madelyn is too silly!

All I can say is now Jackson does know his colors.

Here is Madelyn working with the balance scale for a math assignment. I wish all math work was this fun!

Bible Time

This is why we homeschool. One morning before we started school this is how I found Madelyn and Jackson. She looked up and said "Momma we are having Bible time" Which is how we start our school day. When I have those hard days and wonder what on earth am I doing, I need to see this picture. Thank you Lord for allowing me to teach my children your word.

Our First Day of First Grade

Our first day to homeschool! Here is Madelyn working on Math. For some reason the flash did not work in most of the pictures I took that day so no I did not make her work in the dark...ha ha
Our first geography lesson.

Madelyn making shapes on the geoboards and Jackson building with the linking cubes.

It is so ironic that I am just now posting this in April of 2010 when we are actually about to wrap up the first grade. I hate that I have not kept up with my blog so that I could have journalled about all our fun times together. It has been so much fun to teach my little girl to read, do math and learn about science and history. But most of all I have been so blessed to lister to her read her own children's Bible to me each morning.