October 7, 2009
One of our home school groups had a Mad Science day recently. It was fantastic! A house full of children and bubbly oozy gooey mess! Great fun! Thank you Shelley for hosting and all your hard work!
Sorry Shelley I stole this from you! It’s too cute! Thanks for a great science day & great pics!
October 7, 2009
Garrett and I traveled to Colorado again this September with my mom & dad. It was beautiful and great weather! 7 days of nature, hikes, games, puzzles, naps, camp fire, 4 wheeling, eating and more! We had a fantastic treat as well, David was able to come up for the weekend riding with my cousin, friend and aunt. Yay! They arrived Friday evening and left Monday. The weekend was perfect and Garrett loved having daddy with him this year!
After David left Garrett and I enjoyed our time playing together and visiting with Gran Gran and Granddad.
October 7, 2009
I am SO behind on posting blogs. Sadly becasue of Facebook I have failed to keep up on my blog. I had a reminder from my mom that the blog is a very nice for family to stay current with our fam.
I’ll be posting soon. Things have been very busy and I have alot to share!
It’s going to be hard to decide where to start Colorado, Cub Scouts, Schooling, Fossil Rim, friends, family…..
July 10, 2009
The 4th of July was a fantastic & fun weekend.
Friday evening Grandma & Grandpa came to visit and brought a few small fireworks. They also delivered the much anticipated Lego table for Garrett’s bday!
Saturday was a great family morning at home. We had a little study about the Declaration of Independence and our flag. Nice little history lesson to remind us and teach Garrett what our Founding Fathers intended and what we should stand to fight for. A very nice prelude to attending the Weatherford TEA party. It was great! Nice to see a good turn out on a holiday. I was very pleased to hear and see Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams and as always it’s great to hear from State RepresentativePhil King. The afternoon was pleasant and the kids had a blast decked in red white & blue celebrating & ”protesting” with us! Later in the evening we made it to our church for Celebration of Freedom. A fabulous night outdoors with worship, Peculiar Party, hot dogs, hamburgers, snacks, homemade ice cream and a wonderful firework show (that made me a little nervous!) Fun fun day & night.
I forgot to mention Sunday night at home the boys did a little target practice and a huge bon fire. The little bit of shower made it possible to have a fire, finally! Garrett thought it was necessary to wear a welding helmet for this job!
July 9, 2009
Great combo birthday party for Garrett and cousins James and Jacob. Happy 6th and 11th birthday boys!
War face painting, timed obstacle course, water balloon launcher target practice (biggest hit), yummy cake and fun for all!
July 7, 2009
Wow! Garrett is 6 today! I can’t believe how fast time moves! I really feel like we just brought him home! My days are full of blessings playing, learning and growing with Garrett. I’m always thankful for God allowing us to raise Garrett and teach him to walk with the Lord. My house is always loud, funny and on the move! We love it all!
I’m off to enjoy a great day with Baby Garrett. I suppose now that he is 6 we have to kick the nickname Baby Garrett - my whole family calls him too. He is still my baby but I know he is nothing but all boy!
Off to the gym (he loves going to the gym, I’m not being selfish), lunch of his choice (I’m thinking he’ll pick Cici’s) and I thought a movie but I just remembered the homeschool group is going tomorrow to a movie. I think we would enjoy seeing some friends tomorrow. Enjoy a great day all! My day is Blessed!
Here’s a funny pic enjoyng some ice cream out & about on G’s Birthday
brain freeZe!
July 3, 2009
no really!
5 chicks in the dining room, 10 puppies on the front porch and more puppies on the way! Yikes!!! Yup, both dogs are preggo!
Garrett really wants a farm and I feel like we are on our way! j/k
Of course, we didn’t plan for the pups but once again our dogs beat us! So this time, one dog will be leaving (the chocolate lab) and one will be staying after she has a surgery! We would keep Jessie too but beings she is a pure Chocolate lab it would be sad to fix her when someone would want to breed her, do you? She’s free with this litter to go! HA!
So things are pretty busy on the little Powell farm ;o )
2 Gardens overflowing, chicks growing, pups arriving! As soon as more fencing is up we’ll have goats too! Garrett really wants a horse and a cow. We may consider the cow for beef….mmm yum!
As of now the trick is drifting to sleep hearing 5 chirping chicks on the left side of the house and 10 whining pups on the right! I’m still baffled how I went from being a “no pet” kind of girl to 5 fish, 5 chicks, 2 dogs, 10 pups, more pups coming and arranging for goats & a cow…
July 1, 2009
I added a couple new posts but I have several great new pics I’ll have to add later.
I have Cub Scout Camp week and the Birthday party pics! It’s 1:00am, I’ll try tomorrow to catch up.
Hope you all are enjoying your summer! We are having a BLAST! So much going on! This week I am SO happy to be home (mostly). We have a couple of slower weeks to catch our breath (although I’m seeing a free Six Flags trip and Chuck e cheese) and then much more fun coming up!
