Monday, September 28, 2009

11 Year Old Scout Camp

Andrew was able to go to his first overnighter with the Boy scouts. He was a bit reluctant to go but thats what parenting is all about right? Making your kids do things they dont want to do.

He got to do so much cool stuff I wont be able to write about it all.



Thats my boy always being silly and never standing still.

They learned how to rescue someone from the water.
They learned how to do a flag ceremony.
They learned how to tie knots.
They learned how to identfy plants.

He is to cool for his own good.
He got to make a rocket.He loves to draw and illistrate


They even got to shoot the rockets off.


Winlock and Toledo boys and leaders.

I am glad he was able to go and have a great time.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

First day of school!

2009 School Year I can't believe another school year has started. Everyone was pretty excited to start school this year. The kids are at 3 different schools now.



Jenna has the same teacher that Andrew has last year and she has lots of her old friends in her class so school should be easy to adjust too. She got above average scores on both sections of the WASL test that she took.

Andrew will get to do neat things in science this year. He is trying to be the first to beat the 100 book goal this school year. He also got 100% on the reading portion of the WASL test. Something they said they have never seen before.Katrina is finding that school can be alot of work. She has never had to put too much effort into school before. This year will be a good learning experience for her. She is being very responsible about doing all the many tasks she is assigned.Brianna is loving school and she has lots of friends. She is taking German this year. She got 100% on her first test in that class. We are very proud of her.

My cool girls!



Jenna is now in the 4th grade and feisty as ever!



Brianna is in the 10th grade and loving school this year!


Katrina is in her first year of Middle School, 7th grade, and is already tired of all the homework!

Making Cookies

I had the kids help me make a new recipe this last week and we loved it. It even has oatmeal and coconut in it. Yum it was good!