Awards night

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WHEW, today was a busy day!  Busier than our normal busy, LOL.  This morning I had Serving Hearts at church and today I choose to serve in with the Big Kids Sunday School.  What a lively bunch of kiddos, and I mean that in the nicest way possible.  You see, I am trying to find my NICHE where God wants me to serve.  I know it’s with the kids but which age group, that is the question? I’ll keep you posted.

 

Well, like I said, it was Awards night for gymnastics, cheerleading, and AWANA.  Cheer awards were canceled and rescheduled for Monday because of the storm that moved through the area early this morning, it brought much needed rain.  I think the girls and the Lt. ate enough hot dogs, hamburgers and sweets today to last them a month.  I, on the other hand stuck to my new rule of B.Y.O.F after my last bout of food poisoning.

Madison and Mikayla both received a big trophy for making it to State and for completing the season as Level 4’s.  Mikayla also received and award for best strength and Flexibility for the season out of all the team level girls, 4-7.  I think her new nickname should be Gumby instead of Lil’Bit. It is still up in the air as to whether they both will advance to level 5 or not.  No matter what happens we are all so proud of you both, way to Go!!!

 

We then came home to regroup and then head off to AWANA awards.  It came down to the wire but Mikayla said her last Sparky section with 5 verses tonight to earn her 3rd book ribbon and Sparky Plaque. Madison received a participation award for this year while Montana finished up her 2nd year as a Cubbie and received her Blue Ribbon and a new Bible for Sparks.  Wow! I can’t believe Montana is going to be a Sparky next year…I remember dropping her off at Puggles just like it was yesterday.  My babies are growing up…too fast!!!

 

 

How was your weekend???

Make new friends, but keep the old

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Today was our last day of Girl Scouts.  Yep, you will need to find a new cookie supplier.  We ended our Girl Scout career seeing our friends bridging to new levels.  It was fun and the girls had a great time.  Montana cried at the end because she wanted to walk over the bridge and be a Brownie.  She is not old enough to be a Brownie for two more years. 

Right now, we are in a different place in life… with different priorities.  This past year, I have been pulled in so many directions and after much prayer and counseling from others I knew something had to change.  We have had so many fun times and met so many new and wonderful people, but I needed to cut back somewhere and sadly Girl Scouts was what was put on my heart.

Cheryl and Tracey, it’s been a great year, we’ve had fun times!!!  I wish you the best in your scouting journeys and endeavors.  Cheryl, please get in touch with us come cookie time because we will need cookies.  To all the girls it was a blast to be your Daisy leader and all the parents thank you for letting me spend those two hours with your girls on Tuesday’s.  I will be seeing a lot of the Girl Scouts throughout the year with different activities so it’s not “Good Bye” forever…

     

 It’s see you around!!!

We were missing about 8 girls today, hopefully we can get a big group shot when we go to our beach day on the 14th!

Ring the bell ~ Mikayla got her kip

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Ding, Ding!!!

Mikayla got her kip tonight at the end of practice, YAHOOOOO!!! She hit the skill two times in a row for it to count.  We are so excited that she got this new skill needed for the level 5 team.  Mikayla has been working really hard at building her upper body strength and it finally paid off today at practice.  Coach Mariah gave her a $1 bill and she got to pick a new gym monkey, the red one.

            Way to go Mikayla, follow your dreams!!!

On another note, today was our last day of the 2010 ~ 2011 school year!  We made it, 2 years down.  I am very proud of the girls for their effort and dedication and hard work this year.  We had some pretty shaky parts but God guided us back down the right path and now we are back on track.  We start back up our summer session on June 20th for six weeks of of math, science, and LA arts.  We will be doing lots of reading as we complete our summer reading goals.  I will post our plans for that sometime next week.  I am still trying to put the last finishing touches on the project part of it. 

Next week we will be doing our yearly testing and then I will be heading to my very first Homeschool Convention on Friday.  I am pretty excited and can’t wait to hear all the wonderful speakers and experience the exhibitor’s hall. 

What have you been up to this week?

Wordless Wednesday~ gymnastics 24/7

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Popsicle goatee

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I may have to start making our own popsicles from now on.  See McKenzie’s face, yes she is sporting a orange goatee today.  Her face and belly are stained orange from her snack this afternoon.

See’s pretty happy about it!

TOS Reviews ~ year 1

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Reviews from March 2010 ~ May 2011

~ Download n’ Go: Expedition Australia

~ WannaBe

~ Travel the World (June 2010 Module)

~ Travel Kits

~ Peterson Direct Handwriting

~ Time 4 Learning

~ PyraMath

~ Salem Ridge Press

~ Schleich

~ Vocabulary Cartoons

~ LanSchool

~ Read, Write & Type

~ Brill Kids Little Reader

~ 2010-2011 Middle School Planner

~ Yuck

~ Corps of Re-Discovery

~ Apologia Press: Good Morning, God

~ ALEKS

~ Tiny Planets

~ Positive Action, 4th Grade

~ Math Facts Now

~ See -N-Read

~ Easy Classical

~ Maestro Classics - Peter and the Wolf

~ Speekee

~ The Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary for Kids

~ TenMarks

~ Times Alive!

~ Dig it! Games ~ Roman Town

~ VocabAhead: SAT Vocabulary Cartoons, Videos, & MP3s

~ Curiosity Files: Zombie Fire Ants

~ Kid Scoop’s Reluctant Reader Solution

~ Apologia- Who is God?

~ Brill Kids – Aesop’s Fables

~ Big IQ Kids

~ Classical Academic Press, Latin for Children

~ GoGo Kabongo

~ KinderBach

~ Science Weekly

~ Yesterday’s Classics

~ MonkieSee

~ GoTrybe

~ Mad Dog Math

~ Wordy Qwerty

~ Reading Street

~ Eagle’s Wings: Considering God’s Creation

~ Read for the Heart