The Joys Of Home Ownership

So while we had company we realized that the one day it wasn't raining there was an awful lot of water in our garage(it normally runs in there from rain). We then figured out that we have a leak, when we use our kitchen sink apparently the drain under the concrete slab is leaking and coming up through the concrete in the garage. Fun fun! So the plan is to cut out the concrete in the garage and dig up under the house to find the leak.

Joshua

You can tell your kid is used to DVR(recording and pausing tv) when you are reading at story time and he says please pause it I have to go pee pee. LOL  TOO CUTE!

School

School is going well, much better than last year. I am loving the curriculum we chose again. I will be posting more once we get in the swing of things about what we are doing and pictures with that. Right now we are looking forward to a much anticipated visit from my sister in law and her two kiddos. Jaimie, James, and Anissa. James is a little older than Bren but they get along great! And Anissa and Tayler are the same age, boy Tayler needs some girl time! So we will be busy for the next week. I will post pictures after they leave, they plan to stay for a week. We will be going to do lots of fun stuff! Yeah fall and cool weather!!

Soccer 2009 The Athleticos

Tonight was our first soccer game of the season. We missed 4 games due to our 17 days of rain in a row! The Athleticos are a good team. Bren has 2 guys from last years undefeated team on the team this year, and they are really good. They won 7-5 tonight, Bren says that he got 3 of those. Joshua kept me so busy I only managed to see 1. ;( He says he has his lucky number as this was his # last year. He even had lucky boxers with soccer balls on them. But Shhh don't tell him I told you! ;)

Our School Room 2009

Wall #1 and My Desk

Wall #2

Wall #3

Wall #4

School

Well we start Monday. I thought I would share what will be doing this year. Brenden will be in the 3rd grade and doing My Fathers World http://www.mfwbooks.com/ecc_2nd.htm(this will be Brens Core Curriculum), you can read all about it here.
Tayler will be joining us on the science and geography adventures. Tayler will be in 1st grade and we are doing A Beka with her https://www.abeka.com/ABekaOnline/BookDescription.aspx?sbn=123617 (this will be Taylers' Core Curriculum), if you are interested you can click on the item number and it gives a description. I chose A Beka for Tayler because we have lots of work to do on her reading. She used this program in K3 and K4 to get her started on reading and did well with it. Many private schools use this curriculum.

We are also doing for handwriting-Handwriting Without Tears Tayler-http://shopping.hwtears.com/category/1stGrade, and Brenden- http://shopping.hwtears.com/category/3rdGrade (Bren will be learning Cursive)

Bible- A Bible Study for All Ages-http://biblestudyguide.com/a13.htm

Science-Considering Gods Creation- http://www.eagleswingsed.com/products/cgc.html (this is extra Bren cant get enough of science and really wants more than our core curriculum offers)

Character Training- http://www.characterbuildingforfamilies.com/

English-Bren-http://www.rodandstaffbooks.com/item/123--/?list=Rod_and_Staff_Grade_3

Singapore Math-Bren and Tayler- http://www.singaporemath.com/Primary_Math_s/21.htm

And I think that covers it!
I will post pictures of our school room and our first day on Monday.

The Best Part Of My Day Today!

Been a rough one. Raining every day since we got back from vacation. The forecasters say we will have more and more rain for at least the next 5 days. The kids are going through vacation detox. And here we are back in Grenada, no one to see, and nothing to do. Well that all of us can do "fun" together. Of course Brens' soccer games have been canceled to. We are out door people and miss the sunshine!

I call this my Hallelujah time! You can ask Joshua is it Hallelujah time and he will say no it not!