tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304940032024-03-07T03:29:15.874-05:00SCHOOL-N-SUCHAmber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.comBlogger425125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-37666068825813059582012-08-11T00:38:00.001-04:002012-08-11T01:26:45.061-04:00Wensday & ThursdayWensday was Rob's day off. The kids all had cereal for breakfast. I didn't make lunch (Rob or Travis must have done it for me) so I don't know what they ate. Rob bought Pizza for dinner. I was going to make ham steaks, mashed potatoes, and carrots but he really wanted pizza. I'm wasn't happy about spending money on pizza. I felt like he was trying to ruin all my hard work! I've been working so hard on saving every penny and he ran out to get a pizza? Rob often buys pizza on Fridays he also buys take out food for himself at lunch several times a week. I haven't let him spend any money on take out food so he has done much better than usual. I have no photos. Sorry!<br />
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Thursday the kids had left over pizza, ice-cream, and cereal for dinner. I let the kids eat ice cream for dinner 2 or 3 times a summer (on very hot days). This was my first time this year. Rob was working and the kids were tired. I had to feed them quick to get them to bed. I got the "fun mom award" for giving ice cream for a meal. I found a box with a bit of ice cream in the back of the freezer and I don't know how long we've had it so I wanted to let them eat it before it got freezer burned. <br />
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We are running out of milk, coffee filters, and some other items. I have things to make dinners (chicken breast, meatballs, some dark meat chicken, soup broth, ham steaks, potatoes, and such). We've ran out of most lunch items, we're down to a loaf of bread, peanut butter, Nutella, tomato soup, mac N cheese, a tiny bit of hard salami, a bit of sandwich cheese, and a few rolls in the freezer. The only fruit we have left is some apples and a honeydew. We're out of yogurt. We have a few boxes of pudding, some jello, and animal crackers for snacks. We have just over a box of cereal and some pancake mix. hmmm.... I wonder how far I can keep it going before I run out of all the stuff needed to make a full meal?Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-21150669578152656312012-08-11T00:16:00.000-04:002012-08-11T01:30:12.552-04:00Monday and TuesdayRob bought coffee with his allowance so it didn't come out of our food budget. What a nice guy! We are out of most breakfast foods. The only items we have left is one and a half boxes of cereal and some apples. Lunch was salad, soup, or sandwich (PB&J). Monday and Tuesday dinner we had sloppy Joes, potato wedges, and veggies (carrots on Mon. a salad on Tues). <br />
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The only salad veggies we have left is a small bit of dark lettuce, a few cucumbers, the grape tomatoes growing in our yard, lots of carrots and some cabbage. I don't know if I can make anymore salads.Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-77283084235817426162012-08-11T00:05:00.002-04:002012-08-11T00:05:46.165-04:00SundayI've fallen behind on blogging! We got busy. I'm going to play catch up by posting seveal days back to back. I did keep planning my meals. I don't know if I remember everything but I'll try to catch up. Sunday Rob wasn't feeling well (he's still sick) and my kids were a bit worn out. They all missed breakfast (a no no in my house but they were all too tired to wake up). Lunch was a pick and choose from soup, sandwiches, toast and such. Dinner was pasta, meatballs, garlic bread, and salad (I'm almost out of salad stuff). <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Meals today were almost no food cost at all. The girls had dance class early this morning. Travis and I did Zumba class. The kids didn't have much time to eat (it takes a long time to get 2 girls in dance clothes and hair pinned up). I tossed some dry cereal in baggies and let them eat in the car on the way to dance. After dance was my family reunion. I didn't know what to take for a meal! After all, when I started this food order I didn't plan for a large dish to pass! Saturday morning I turned on my computer and saw fresh made cucumber salad in an advertisement from a local grocery store. I thought hmmm... that looks good. I then realized I would need cucumbers to make it. A few minutes later I thought about how most summers my MIL is trying to get me to take cucumbers home because he garden grows like crazy. I must admit I've never asked anyone for food before! I gave my MIL a call (feeling a bit uncomfortable about asking but hoping she had too many cucumbers to eat). I said hello and then asked her what she was doing. The first words out of her mouth were I'm going to see a friend downtown she is giving me a pile of cucumbers so if you need any cucumbers I'll have lots later today. I was SHOCKED! I hadn't even asked her for cucumbers yet! I then told her I was calling to see if she had any cucumbers and dill. She laughed and said stop over later she'd have lots of cucumbers and she has TONS of dill growing in her garden. WHAT A BLESSING! It was perfect! So for lunch today we took a large dish of cucumber salad and jello cups. We ate picking from all the choices (large family= oodles of choices for lunch). <br />
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For snacks they had cookies and candy. I was in charge of games at the reunion. Here's Travis sucking candy up with a straw to move it into a cup. Another game I had them put a cookie on forhead and try to get it down into mouth. Game time was snack time for the family today. <br />
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At the end of the day I had more food in my house than I had yesterday! I wasn't trying to do that but in the end thanks to my mom and my mother in law that is how it turned out (it's so nice to have parents).Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-15302326567126259812012-08-04T20:02:00.000-04:002012-08-04T20:02:21.325-04:00Friday pizza night gone wrong!<br />
I'm almost at the one week mark! I am 2 meals (breakfast and lunch) away from 1 week. I'll try to give a quick rundown of the food I still have in the house over the weekend. If I start to plan my meals now for next week I might be able to make the food last longer. I think this morning we had pancakes for breakfast. I had to put our last two bananas in the freezer to use for bread later on. They were becoming too ripe for my kids to eat. The kids had toasted PB&J sandwiches with yogurt for lunch. Dinner almost turned into a problem! I had a frozen pizza kit in the back of my freezer. The kit had 2 crust, 2 packs of sauce, and a bag of cheese. Rob bought it maybe 3 weeks ago and I put it in the freezer the night he bought it. Tonight I took it out of the freezer and opened it up (still frozen) and found mold on the cheese. EWWWW!!! This is one of the reasons I don't like to buy a lot of packaged foods. The store this was bought from was NOT Walmart. I won't shop that store for a pizza kit again! The sell by date was Aug 21. I'm guessing at some point the store didn't have it in the refrigerated section? Now that I'm way off track I need to get back to dinner tonight. I was in a hurry to find something. Most of the food I keep in the freezer (cooked chicken breast, bread, chicken broth, and everything else I want to stay fresh). I didn't have time to defrost a meal. I had some ground beef in the fridge so I quickly made up 2 burgers and tossed them on the grill. Everyone else had hot dogs/chili dogs (we finished off the end of our old pack and opened up the new pack I bought this shopping trip). To go with the burgers and dogs I made up french fries and the rest of the frozen corn. I'm snacking on grapes right now. My kids snacks were candy from Grandma when we stopped at my MIL's house this afternoon. <br />
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I was at my MIL's today and she told me that I would NOT be able to feed a family of 5 for 3 weeks for $150. She said it is impossible to feed a family of 5 (even with 2 being small girls) 3 meals a day for $50 a week. I'm kind of driven to try to prove her wrong. I hope I can! Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-90005983635989725112012-08-03T00:44:00.002-04:002012-08-03T00:44:41.645-04:00Thursday Day 6 or is it 5?<br />
I think today is only day 5. I think I got off track with my days. I know at dinner time Sat. night it will be one full week. I'll get this back on track with the days soon. Everyone got up and ate breakfast but they all made it themselves so I'm not sure what they ate. I'm sorry to say I don't remember lunch or snacks. I think Travis made lunch for everyone. I ran out to deliver 2 flower girl dresses so Rob made dinner for everyone. WOW! I just realized I didn't make any meals today! My family is feeling better and they helped me so I could do some sewing jobs and house work. Day 6 was a good day! I think I needed a day out of the kitchen! It's been almost a week on this food stretching thing and I can see my family knows I have lots of choices for meals and snacks and they need to check with me before opening something new. I no longer have to police the food AND I got a day off from cooking!<br />
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Rob made a tossed salad for dinner. He went out in the yard and picked some ripe grape tomatoes for us! BTW my family hardly ever cooks meals. Today was a real treat!<br />
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He made Rigatoni and garlic bread (from a frozen loaf that was hid way back in the back of the freezer weeks ago). Most plates were fuller than this. I'm not a big pasta eater so I had less than the men. We have left over pasta that Rob will eat for lunch at work the next day or two. <br />
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I'll be back tomorrow. I hope to work out my plans for this weekend in my head tonight. Not only do I have to figure out some quick take on the go type of meals, I also need a take to a large group thing for my family reunion. I didn't buy anything to feed a large group! I don't want to buy food yet. I pray I can come up with something!Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-7454903647294839832012-08-03T00:13:00.000-04:002012-08-03T00:13:53.886-04:00Day 5Wed (sorry I'm posting this a day late).<br />
Rob and Travis were still sick so they slept in. I have a rule if you don't get up by 10 AM you don't eat breakfast. You have to wait until at least 11:15 for lunch. If you don't eat lunch by 1:00 PM you have to wait until 3:00 for snack time (that is just a piece of fruit most days). I do this so everyone will be hungry at dinner time and it keeps me from having to do dishes all day long. The girls had small bowls of cold cereal and pink milk for breakfast. Lunch was tomato soup and or sandwiches. Dinner was chef salads and chicken noodle soup.<br />
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I thought a meal full of fresh veggies and soup would be good for Travis and Rob's cold. The soup was left over chicken noodle soup from last night. The salad was made with Romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, grape tomatoes, onion, egg, cheese and a bit of ham cut up from one of the ham steaks. I think I used about 1/4 ham steak split up into 5 salads (all cubes I tossed on top for my meat loving men to see). The girls liked picking all the things out of the salad (most of the things they liked but a few things like egg yolks they didn't care for). Today was a hard day but not as hard as yesterday. I'm starting to worry I'm going to run out of many things soon and not be able to make it another week or two. I've cut back on how full I set the coffee pot and I'm only having a cup in the morning to see if I can make it another 10-15 days with the coffee left in the can. All I can do is keep trying. I know if I can't make it I can easily go spend the rest of the food money Rob told me I could have for 2 weeks of food... BUT if I go out and buy things and end up spending all the money he has set aside for food I will end up feeling like all this meal planning and POLICING the food was for nothing! Yes, you read that correct I did say I am policing the food. I stand guard over the food making sure someone (Rob and Travis) doesn't sneak into the fridge or freezer and eat up one of my meals for a snack. In my food planning a snack of 3 hot dogs could be 1/2 a meal for one night next week. When I see someone looking for a large snack like that I offer them carrot sticks or an apple instead AND I remind them that the next meal will be served soon. <br />
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I have a crazy weekend ahead of me. The kind of weekend you're on the go from sun up until after dark driving from one thing to the next (away from my kitchen). Weekends like that are the times I often pick up fast food for the kids to make it from place to the next place in time. I'm going to try and keep meal planning to avoid spending $ and I hope to remember to pack and take sandwiches and baggies of dry cereal to avoid the drive up meals! One stop at the "big M" I'll blow $10-20 on a few happy meals for the girls and food for my 12 year old son. That doesn't usually sound like much but right now I'm trying to save every penny. I can buy one or two kids a T-shirt on the boardwalk on vacation for $20! The shirt they will enjoy a long time. Fast food doesn't give them much enjoyment at all. Over all I can say I'm in a better mood (better than yesterday) and I'm keeping my eyes on the prize.Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-61569102908643659072012-08-01T01:21:00.001-04:002012-08-01T01:21:16.279-04:00Day 4 not a good day!Yesterday's praises for a true homemade meal didn't continue into today (sigh). Some of my family members were sick today. I don't remember what the kids ate for breakfast (yes, my day was that bad). Lets say fruit, milk, and cereal? Lunch was sandwiches, noodles (Travis had Ramen noodles), the rest of the pineapple, pretzel sticks, and I think some apples (had apples left from last week)... I'm not sure I ate lunch today. Snacks- popcorn and no bake cookies. Rob and Travis are sick so we had chicken noodle soup for dinner.<br />
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A long day with cranky sick family members, with my young demanding healthy family members, and a lot of dishes from all this cooking had me ready to give up today! I KNOW why people cook out of boxes or buy takeout! The cleanup from a good old fashioned meal is so much more work! I have dirty crock pots, dirty soup pots (I've been making tons of soup stock with my chicken carcass). My family is too sick or too tired to do chores so today I had to pick up the slack (again). I feel like I'm wearing down. I am trying hard to not explode in frustration. I get a bit upset seeing my "sick" family members all playing video games while I run around trying to do everything. I was to tempted to hop in the car and go pick up takeout. I DID NOT DO THAT! I made it another day so in the end I guess the "saving money for vacation plan" is going good (I'm still stretching out the meals and trying to save money). I am not as joyful about it as I was yesterday. My fridge and freezer seem to be getting fuller every day (All the leftovers and soup stock are filling up my food storage areas). I just wish I could say today was fun and rewarding but I can't.<br />
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Tomorrow is a new day. I will try again in the morning. I feel that I have no choice but to keep pushing along! I see a need to save some money so I know my family is counting on me to do it. I don't feel giving up is an option. With or without family support I will keep moving along. I hope to do it with a joyful look on my face tomorrow (wish I could say I did today). I didn't want to write this ugly truth about my day but I feel I have to be honest. I guess saving money is sometimes hard work! Okay, making soup isn't really hard work but making soup with sick people at home can be "work". A kitchen full of dishes from soup and stock making after a night of tons of dishes from roasted chicken, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing and such is work. AND! Lets not forget Sunday with a large canister of oats spilled ALL OVER the floor with a pile of baking dishes is a LOT extra to take on when you have so many other things to do! BTW I do have a dishwasher BUT this type of baking/cooking uses too many dishes to fit in the dishwasher. The work to keep the counters clean is never ending when you're cutting up tons of things each day. My mom did it when I was a kid so I know I need to "suck it up" and do the same. You never know how hard your mama worked until you're in a similar situation! Maybe I'm dealing with some diet soda withdrawal today? I don't buy much soda much anymore but I think I probably buy one or two small bottles a week when I buy gas and such I add one at the register (I gave that up to save money 4 days ago). I hope to be back tomorrow with a happy report of my meal stretching day! I'm too tired and worn out to read over this blog post.... Good night blogger friends. I think some sleep will make everything look brighter in the morning (I hope).<br />
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<br />Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-17245683023154657572012-07-31T00:19:00.000-04:002012-07-31T00:19:14.786-04:00Monday splitting the chicken and cooking like MamaToday I COOKED! I am not much of a cook but I did and I have to admit it felt good!<br />
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For breakfast the kids had milk, cereal, and some berry dessert my mom gave me last night. I don't normally feed my kids dessert for breakfast (our sleepover guest asked so I gladly said yes to all the kids). <br />
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One full bag of frozen corn, mashed potatoes, homemade stuffing, roasted chicken breast, gravy, bread and butter with Koolaid to drink.<br />
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I have a lot of corn, gravy, and mashed potatoes left over (my hubby will eat leftover mashed potatoes as long as we have gravy) so expect to see some of this food again. I served lots of bread and butter because my two youngest kids don't like stuffing (bread helps make the food go further). This was my first time ever making my own stuffing from scratch (I was worried it wouldn't be good so the extra bread was ready to replace the stuffing for everyone)! The meat I served was ONLY 1 chicken breast. I cut the one breast off the chicken and told the family if they were still hungry I would cut off more but I would like them to eat all the side dishes and see how hungry they were when done. I also reminded them that we had lots of cookies to pick from after dinner. I didn't have to cut anymore meat off the bird. I actually ended up with left over chicken (enough for a sandwich or two) from this one breast! I made my own gravy (saving us more money). <br />
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If you don't already know gravy is easy to make. Just take the liquid from the bottom of your roasting pan (after you take out your roasted chicken). Pour it in a pot. Take any kind of plastic container with a lid and put some flour in it (I use prob. about 1/4 a cup) add in a cup of water. Put lid on the plastic container and shake hard. Make sure you have no lumps in the flour/water mixture. Put your pot of chicken liquid on med heat. Stir with a fork as you slowly pour in your flour-water mixture. Continue to stir until it gets thick (a gravy thickness) add salt and pepper and BAM you have gravy!<br />
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Stuffing was a new adventure for me and I'm happy to say my family LOVED it (well the 3 of us that like stuffing loved it). All I did was cut up 6-8 pieces of bread (I didn't count) into 1/4 inch cubes. I put them on a cookie sheet to crisp them some in the oven (about 10 minutes at 350). I cut a stick of celery and 1/2 a large onion into tiny bits. I tossed onion and celery into a fry pan with a bit of butter (did this while the bread cubes were in the oven). Once I had the onions and celery cooked I buttered a baking dish, dumped in bread cubes, mixed in the celery & onion, then added in some seasonings (I didn't have the seasonings listed in the recipes I found online so I added a bit of what I had (I freely tossed in whatever looked good thinking if it didn't turn out loosing a few slices of bread wouldn't be too much of a loss in this food stretching adventure). I then spooned a bit of the drippings (liquid I took from the bottom of the cooked chicken pan before I made gravy) until it was all damp but not real wet (no pools of water in the dish). I put the the dish in the oven and baked until it turned brown and looked done. My husband ate a big plate of seconds with the stuffing and asked that I never buy Stove Top again! WAY TO SAVE! WOOT!<br />
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My future chicken plans are to serve the other chicken breast for dinner. The meat from the legs and back of the chicken I put in the freezer. My family doesn't like dark meat, BUT! If I take the dark meat and heat it in gravy for hot chicken sandwiches OR heat it in BBQ sauce for chicken BBQ sandwiches they will enjoy eating it (never seeing or tasting the dark meat). ;-)<br />
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The left over bits of chicken from the one breast we had tonight I plan to serve on top of a tossed salad with some garlic bread for a meal one night this week. <br />
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<br />Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-34390062027767956632012-07-30T22:57:00.000-04:002012-07-30T22:57:22.328-04:00Day two (first full day).I did amazing at the food planning today! The kids had yogurt, cereal, and milk for breakfast. I was rushing to get ready for church so no pictures of it (hubby and I didn't eat breakfast). Lunch for 5 people (my son has a friend sleeping over) today's lunch looked like last nights dinner, Pretzels, carrot sticks, pineapple, and sandwiches (PB&J, Nuttella, and pepperoni).I didn't take a photo of lunch because it looked just like last nights dinner. For dinner tonight we ate at the church! Our church had a community corn roast! What a blessing when you're trying to stretch out groceries! I made no bake cookies for the corn roast. My first batch turned out a bit gooey. The second batch turned out better.'<br />
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Then my middle child (7 year old) dumped my box of oats all over the floor. I think they ended up being rather expensive cookies (2 tries to get a good batch then 5 cups of oats dumped on the floor). The oats I have been in the cupboard for several months now (nobody wants hot oatmeal in the morning when it is 90 deg. outside) so it didn't really hurt me with my food stretching. OH I almost forgot! My mom gave me her leftover dish from the corn roast so I came home with some of the cookies I made and 1/2 a dish of some delish berry treat my mom baked (my mom is amazing in the kitchen so I really made out today). Snacks were cookies today and some popcorn I'm going to make now. Hubby was at work all day so he took 3 sandwiches with him and I plan to make him tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches when he gets home.Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-74977863994774066112012-07-29T00:58:00.000-04:002012-07-29T00:58:22.729-04:00Food budget (saving money for vacation)OK, I know I haven't wrote on this blog in years. My oldest 2 children went to private school last year leaving me homeschooling only one child. I guess I didn't think I was doing anything "new" with her (same things I did with my older two) so I didn't bother to write. I feel kind of sad leaving this blog get all old and dusty so I'm going to use it for a project I'll be working on for the next two weeks (maybe longer). I'm looking to save some money for a vacation we are going on in the near future so my project is to save money! We ended up with some unexpected car repairs (big ones) that set us back a bit. The first thing I do when I am trying to save money is cut our food cost. We often spend about $90.00-$110.00 a week on food. I can cut our food bill down to $50 a week but when I do that I have to plan in advance. I didn't have time to plan out for that kind of savings so I'm jumping in "real time" and going to plan and stretch the best I can over the next two weeks. I did make a shopping list before food shopping and I stuck to it earlier today (if it wasn't on my list I didn't buy it). I cut out a lot of the "extra junk" that sometimes sneaks into the cart (I shop with 3 kids at my side so extras often sneak in). My kids helped me stick to my list and my oldest picked out the item that cost less on his own several times today (I have amazing kids).<br />
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Please understand this is a very personal journey for me! I don't like having to plan meals and stretch them so much but I do when I want to save cash. To be honest, I feel a bit uncomfortable letting anyone who might find this blog take such a close look at my dinner plate,peak inside my kitchen cupboards, and get a look at my wallet! I've decided to do it so I can take a look back sometime in the future and the thought that someone might see what works for me and in some way use it to come up with a plan that works for them makes me feel like I have to share (I'll try not to cry if I get nasty comments on the food we're eating this week).<br />
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Here is what I have to work with this week. I had very few items left in my fridge, freezer, and food cupboards (blush). The items I have I will use but for the most part I'm working with $151.54 of food. I didn't use coupons at all. I bought everything at Walmart. I think I can stretch this food for 2 and 1/2 or 3 weeks. It HAS to make it 2 weeks. My husband gave me a food budget of $185 for 2 weeks (about $20 less than our normal food budget). On top of that $20 savings have an additional savings of $33.46 by only spending $151.54 of the $185.00 (that's if I don't run out of food) we will be ahead $53.46 in two weeks. . If I can stretch it out 3 weeks I'd be saving another $100 we normally spend on food (money can add up quick if I can stay on track, plan, and S T R E T C H out the meals).<br />
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One whole chicken, 5lbs of beef, 2 ham steaks, and one pack of hot dogs. <br />
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I would love to use this meat to make 11 meals. I don't know I'll be able to stretch it that far for my family of 5 but I'm going to try my best. I'll let you know. I know I will get at least 6 meals with this but I hope to make it more like 11.<br />
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Pasta sauce, Manwich, Hot dog, sauce, bread crumbs, egg noodles, hamburg buns (2 packs), and hot dog buns.<br />
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Snacks. I hope I can make it 2+ weeks with jello, sugar, butter, popcorn, freeze pops, and animal crackers. I will also use fruit and yogurt for snacks if the kids don't eat them all up for breakfast. <br />
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Here I go with my new food stretching adventure Meal #1</h2>
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Dinner #1. Hubby was at work and it was late when the kids and I got home from shopping so we had quick and easy sandwiches for dinner. My youngest had Nuttela on a wrap with a slice of cheese. My middle child had toasted PB&J with a slice of cheese, My son and I had pepperoni and cheese on sandwich rolls. Pretzels (we had an open bag on hand), carrot sticks, fresh pineapple (I had over 1/2 a pineapple in my fridge from last week), and glasses of water finished off the meal. End of my first day and I didn't dip into our dinner meats yet (I'm sure that will help stretch my meals to go a bit further).<br />
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SNACK TIME!</h2>
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I didn't want to buy the kids candy at the register so I told the kids we could bake cookies at home after dinner instead of candy (they loved this idea and saved myself $3). I had a cookie mix in the back of the cupboard. I made up 30 cookies with it. 30 cookies for a family of 5 gives each person 3 snacks this week (serving size 2 cookies each). I gave the kids 2 cookies each after dinner. I wrapped up the rest for tomorrow. <br />
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<br /> My husband came home around midnight and had 3 burritos that were left over in the freezer from last week. I'll be back tomorrow night to share how I managed the meals for the day.Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-9252247875663085452010-08-31T21:13:00.006-04:002010-08-31T23:37:08.094-04:00Plans for the future.I want to do some special things for my girls this year. Demi is now school age and I want to make her school year as fun for her as it was for Travis when he was 5 years old. The problem is Travis and Demi are such different children. I figure the easiest way to make it fun is to start with the things she likes. She LOVES the TV show Little House on the Prairie. We DVR it every day so she doesn't miss any of it. She pretends to be Laura. She talks about her Ma and Pa all day long. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOWeiYNftWbkeTgehcoriusUmXdHaQX3SEprHLKLElxLrpZY5anbHM_NPU31_H7onqZjNbN8bTrbaTNdy6lLWXma1iUuSb0PkXi7ZgbloFxIlVi0B1JiCTvsN6Iq8oh6o9BAGYYw/s1600/little-house-prairie.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOWeiYNftWbkeTgehcoriusUmXdHaQX3SEprHLKLElxLrpZY5anbHM_NPU31_H7onqZjNbN8bTrbaTNdy6lLWXma1iUuSb0PkXi7ZgbloFxIlVi0B1JiCTvsN6Iq8oh6o9BAGYYw/s400/little-house-prairie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511760252405896530" border="0" /></a>This is wonderful because it does fit into some of our history reading. I plan to read all the Little House books to her this year. I am sure doing some of the things we read about in the book will be fun. I know my girls would love to have a corn husk doll and a rag doll or two. This should be a good way of making history fun in the winter. <br /><br />Making mosaics, spinning yarn, sewing, hand embroidery, knitting, baking, candle making, and painting might be good school projects for Demi. She doesn't sit for hours reading the history Encyclopedia like Travis did BUT I think she will listen to me read our history encyclopedia while she crafts. <br /><br />Another idea I have is to let her have a proper tea. I would like to make up some new princess costumes (or finish the one I have started for Demi) and teach her some etiquette for an afternoon tea. Our history class starts out with Late Renaissance so this will fit nice and make history more fun for her. Hmm.... I can invite some of her friends over and have new princess costumes sewn up for all of them. They could all have tea time together. Maybe after tea they all could make some crafts that go along with that time in history. We have done princess parties with friends a few times in the past. We have tea parties all the time but I never thought to invite friends over to join in. I think my girls will love it. YES, they will love it! I am adding a tea party in Oct. on my to-do list. Fingers crossed stuff like this will create a wonderful school year for Demi.<br /><br />My plan right now is to do some catch up blogging in the next week to share some of the school things we have done already this year. While I am doing my catch up blogging I need to get busy sewing up some school clothes for my girls so they don't freeze this fall (the temps. drop fast in PA in Sept). After the girls have some jeans and tops with sleeves in the dresser I will whip up some princess costumes and work on teaching some etiquette to my girls so we can have our tea party before Halloween. The only problem with working out our tea party might be that our public school friends only have Saturdays free and Travis has soccer games on Saturdays. I will either need to plan the party for a Saturday that Rob is off work. I can send him to the soccer game with Travis so the girls can party at home. If I can't work that out I will need to find some homeschoolers with free time. Most homeschoolers I know are busier than pubic school kids so I might have a hard time finding any free homeschoolers. I'll am sure I will be able to work something out. If nobody is free will will have a formal tea with family (and Grandma Em). <br /><br />I am signing off of blogland so I can get busy making up patterns for my girls school clothes. I will be back tomorrow to catch up with some of what we have been doing over the last month.Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-75995014188569619682010-07-22T15:29:00.017-04:002010-07-22T20:29:53.509-04:00American Revolution why read about it when you can live it?<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >I have to take a small break from summer fun pictures so I can blog about our school year. A few weeks ago we went see <a href="http://www.battleofwyoming.org/"> Escape From Wyoming</a> a Living History of the American </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">Revolutionary War</span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"> It was a wonderful way for the children to learn about a part of the American Revolutionary War (the part that took place where we live). </span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK2i7GPF7l8ZrFcA3P77ow0iHV_CWnTQ76_o-QnhILe74p3hz9k9g00O_ZwzQ3AqeI5GwWfIttOaK6XRlsfwWwcSe0Wm7comc1Z45SK9SReXXqIgi7r7h95zLqzCikFWYOngNsvQ/s1600/July+10+380.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 380px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK2i7GPF7l8ZrFcA3P77ow0iHV_CWnTQ76_o-QnhILe74p3hz9k9g00O_ZwzQ3AqeI5GwWfIttOaK6XRlsfwWwcSe0Wm7comc1Z45SK9SReXXqIgi7r7h95zLqzCikFWYOngNsvQ/s400/July+10+380.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496825470800496466" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >The man in the picture above gave us a lesson on clothing, weapons, the war, and the way of life in 1778.<br /><br />He told me the girls might not like it in the woods with all the noise and they might have a hard time. He kept stressing to everyone in the group how "dangerous" it was and how you needed to be very careful you didn't get hurt on the rugged trail in the woods. He said the battle was very safe but the woods are the woods and be careful you don't trip on a stick or stone. I reassured him that it wouldn't be a problem that my girls are not afraid of loud noises (we had just celebrated the 4th of July). I let him know my girls are use to walking/running in the woods and if they didn't move along or if they had any problems my husband and I would carry them. He did an awesome job at preparing everyone! He had several people in flip flops and summer shoes a bit afraid to enter the woods. I could see the path was a very clear worn path and it was short (very short compared to the hiking my girls have done). I knew once the guns started firing if my girls got afraid all I would need to do is say "It's OK it is a boom boom fireworks" and that would keep them from getting afraid</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" > (funny side note: if a loud noise happens around my girls and you say "boom boom fireworks" they will start singing Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas and not be afraid).</span> </span> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >I knew if that didn't work picking them up in our arms at any thing </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" > scary </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >would comfort them and keep them from being afraid. We had already told the girls that we were going into the woods to see a pretend fight that would have some fireworks. I was a little worried about the older man in front of us he was "afraid" of the woods and told his grown boys that he had not been in the woods in the 20+ years he lived in PA (I felt sad for him never being able to see how beautiful our forest, mountains, and trails are in NEPA).</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgA7-JFcceNXnJNRW2ACgMVOXzrVl52wwrfPz0hHZNrgMHIffJw_WOkewqxk_vJBETfyJ7ps1rYK6JUAGvZsizm3BAO7nUXjCwmj6HL1jk4kGWZhMbCNLpHL_pAnmqdamS7yyuEg/s1600/July+10+360.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgA7-JFcceNXnJNRW2ACgMVOXzrVl52wwrfPz0hHZNrgMHIffJw_WOkewqxk_vJBETfyJ7ps1rYK6JUAGvZsizm3BAO7nUXjCwmj6HL1jk4kGWZhMbCNLpHL_pAnmqdamS7yyuEg/s400/July+10+360.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496825463506852866" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />The man in the pic above was so nice to us! He represented the Oneidas. The Oneidas and Tuscaroras supported the settlers at the time of this war. You can read a little about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wyoming">Battle of Wyoming here</a>.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFfOM7cpCEIYDmIASXmfSv1S40o9PctxLgsrbYckC33yZxYV8cJkKdMZuK2gx7zngCix_0SdukhnY8qsSMQaTHP29TwT1yvAiKQpgOrA3Tu9qhIsYS-ctLzQcxGXMD6amqsp-jA/s1600/July+10+421.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFfOM7cpCEIYDmIASXmfSv1S40o9PctxLgsrbYckC33yZxYV8cJkKdMZuK2gx7zngCix_0SdukhnY8qsSMQaTHP29TwT1yvAiKQpgOrA3Tu9qhIsYS-ctLzQcxGXMD6amqsp-jA/s400/July+10+421.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496825473297743618" border="0" /></a> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">Travis learned so much on this adventure! I learned a lot! I learned that this area wasn't part of PA <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennamite-Yankee_War"> It was part of Connecticut!</a> This sounds very odd to me because NY is between PA an CT. I wonder if the bottom of NY was part of CT. at that time? I had never even heard of the Battle of Wyoming until a few days before this event (I think I must have been sick the day we read about it about it in school).</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyE3Myx7rOwaWho9Z1OYGCTKFFc-kqVT4HR57RNsLLJC7SrgaqfXjtveE56N68AlvmXQF7E74kn-9KC6hQSKvDY42Wgbhd7m1Fc8Hd1sZwjC44YnZeVoQLnlAkUA4iYC0qsFRa0A/s1600/July+10+468.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyE3Myx7rOwaWho9Z1OYGCTKFFc-kqVT4HR57RNsLLJC7SrgaqfXjtveE56N68AlvmXQF7E74kn-9KC6hQSKvDY42Wgbhd7m1Fc8Hd1sZwjC44YnZeVoQLnlAkUA4iYC0qsFRa0A/s400/July+10+468.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496825481341351106" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Here is Demi with Daddy just before we went into the woods.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir5DeqBnoOSDn_WyiR085HoFFECKiWBIbiXVl0Mppe2Od1irTyPpbfKDasIROH9V6_bG2jbF40HeK-tzuc_aRaCQ1-ruRrLjpZR_dv5nH-Zr_kIJZJx1bTHuNoPuD4yyGzDwELig/s1600/July+10+479.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir5DeqBnoOSDn_WyiR085HoFFECKiWBIbiXVl0Mppe2Od1irTyPpbfKDasIROH9V6_bG2jbF40HeK-tzuc_aRaCQ1-ruRrLjpZR_dv5nH-Zr_kIJZJx1bTHuNoPuD4yyGzDwELig/s400/July+10+479.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496825485388226354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Here is Zee holding her dress so she doesn't trip in the woods.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjRNhAi0DK7zZJC_MhMl7xtqIkke8Kv7n6HWoT5Jb7ctHrgLSso30oxg97fjg7h6Z7uCv_4WLYbxNTlX30-DYF2dBUBTqqZEvM9UpN5DLnBKtHTFHKjIaC16XHJF0fNlJmlyfkcA/s1600/July+10+482.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjRNhAi0DK7zZJC_MhMl7xtqIkke8Kv7n6HWoT5Jb7ctHrgLSso30oxg97fjg7h6Z7uCv_4WLYbxNTlX30-DYF2dBUBTqqZEvM9UpN5DLnBKtHTFHKjIaC16XHJF0fNlJmlyfkcA/s400/July+10+482.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496826520592886578" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Travis is one excited boy! He loves history and reading about the wars is his favorite part of History class.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ZLzeguiupW_lzJY60PBmRfI7hUZfGVglPqtGldTqjQY92drlCK9CImi3R39cX0x8FMJXQ2DHsV-MS_LF8Fbc_bJXfNtj_dez_MgA2lubxXVHQR6yh8nj2nRbiMUZ41HKsytbnw/s1600/July+10+492.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ZLzeguiupW_lzJY60PBmRfI7hUZfGVglPqtGldTqjQY92drlCK9CImi3R39cX0x8FMJXQ2DHsV-MS_LF8Fbc_bJXfNtj_dez_MgA2lubxXVHQR6yh8nj2nRbiMUZ41HKsytbnw/s400/July+10+492.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496826524307449458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Some pics from the battle in the woods.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNq0UYFes8Mib_fcSbkmYz83USKFZ2vHTknh5O23XpestU829hz2rhfiIYzn9Mbf1grpB_c0rws0IUEWHkslYA-pArXIrpvnvnxUcj_s2MIyitkMRYB-9b7xxAkJhI33pSNO8bBA/s1600/July+10+544.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNq0UYFes8Mib_fcSbkmYz83USKFZ2vHTknh5O23XpestU829hz2rhfiIYzn9Mbf1grpB_c0rws0IUEWHkslYA-pArXIrpvnvnxUcj_s2MIyitkMRYB-9b7xxAkJhI33pSNO8bBA/s400/July+10+544.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496826525617368882" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Man down! </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_RtspLfvvCIda2kA5In9z72lx8wMIyZBUkmQJlnQ9ekGKJmsulr1eoHYTNmQtSYqItG-bueMOuRZmCV9JDdSCgqbR4YQi8HtAUXxsbS0cxBuNyVssHGh43j5OtVnbD4YZG_LWPw/s1600/July+10+578.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_RtspLfvvCIda2kA5In9z72lx8wMIyZBUkmQJlnQ9ekGKJmsulr1eoHYTNmQtSYqItG-bueMOuRZmCV9JDdSCgqbR4YQi8HtAUXxsbS0cxBuNyVssHGh43j5OtVnbD4YZG_LWPw/s400/July+10+578.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496826531843889362" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">It is so cool being right next to the action! Travis learned (by watching) how to load the muskets by tearing off the paper (using teeth) then pouring it in and packing it down before you could shoot</span>.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgaHFFZq1-1YU1yiyXy_lP36Bmsj3Ik5oCfoeuaOlLGQ9jofH2D6CEEPZZCy45u7VQPT6ghCxm5NjwtWFBR0aLC8LFmz3aIci5vXQm7wNHHEjA6tiA37mFn-RRdQmGUYcS4GXpA/s1600/July+10+589.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgaHFFZq1-1YU1yiyXy_lP36Bmsj3Ik5oCfoeuaOlLGQ9jofH2D6CEEPZZCy45u7VQPT6ghCxm5NjwtWFBR0aLC8LFmz3aIci5vXQm7wNHHEjA6tiA37mFn-RRdQmGUYcS4GXpA/s400/July+10+589.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496826534868239778" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">This was a bit sad. Our Native American friend didn't survive the battle.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKAtgh4GrDmvvjjLvr1tLhhDzv0RhC16slWdSIZ3yZaX7DG3hihoVKrrPYllxWgtQti-txf1eqLEwkCK27IJ_0_xyCQ73a-IIQGpnSxt6swIV1D9m2daZSKvd9MCIZrjdEEJA27g/s1600/July+10+656.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKAtgh4GrDmvvjjLvr1tLhhDzv0RhC16slWdSIZ3yZaX7DG3hihoVKrrPYllxWgtQti-txf1eqLEwkCK27IJ_0_xyCQ73a-IIQGpnSxt6swIV1D9m2daZSKvd9MCIZrjdEEJA27g/s400/July+10+656.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496827056075840914" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Pictures from the field battle...</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOPIZV9LJZ2XxEtnH-7WN7W2NBrgO3Yx3Up_xne84Gj8eQ9Z3i4grWHQsPX1LqJn3l9I7Og0DDA2zn56wU1Rl1itpbGf092EhIf5GFxvwz4WKgK6NeZNM-ANoMHK5v9exxCocbpA/s1600/July+10+669.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOPIZV9LJZ2XxEtnH-7WN7W2NBrgO3Yx3Up_xne84Gj8eQ9Z3i4grWHQsPX1LqJn3l9I7Og0DDA2zn56wU1Rl1itpbGf092EhIf5GFxvwz4WKgK6NeZNM-ANoMHK5v9exxCocbpA/s400/July+10+669.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496827058212139138" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCYr_n26CjJDCYdsE_FzyYRCTO7CBY4Ogq4Q_33RjbzU7rmXOg-v203pq0-wnYCilKaZmxDC41e6L52spU2hSXdu53dHiRk6okVhQzRJ1N2ADBR1P8wD3mdaqWE_t4_G3ILi1Pw/s1600/July+10+707.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLCYr_n26CjJDCYdsE_FzyYRCTO7CBY4Ogq4Q_33RjbzU7rmXOg-v203pq0-wnYCilKaZmxDC41e6L52spU2hSXdu53dHiRk6okVhQzRJ1N2ADBR1P8wD3mdaqWE_t4_G3ILi1Pw/s400/July+10+707.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496827064585336162" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQZl6KRp4s-JbsxpMAcVs_p1y1P7R-PIN0WHFSwsGfFTBk8ufEb8LH1z5G_8iAE9LTn2HWTP-f5xCsES68pGlFRBhoDIVKZTF3D4Fxr28VOBuXT1JPSsD0mbW0SX8xSwHclLFwUg/s1600/July+10+711.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQZl6KRp4s-JbsxpMAcVs_p1y1P7R-PIN0WHFSwsGfFTBk8ufEb8LH1z5G_8iAE9LTn2HWTP-f5xCsES68pGlFRBhoDIVKZTF3D4Fxr28VOBuXT1JPSsD0mbW0SX8xSwHclLFwUg/s400/July+10+711.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496827074425690130" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">OH NO! Things are not looking good for us.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuV0jGGZtbqGhw2mnVwaqmCaPKfh5XEJU6DBx3KCSguQGfk4KqozdSZw-wmobO6ZTI8gOfEzsvsmsKZZYBIjSULoKLWPR9iFJSHwvYGCdLO3H3dlXkLOtz_-e4yfAQXXYBacQ0yA/s1600/July+10+731.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuV0jGGZtbqGhw2mnVwaqmCaPKfh5XEJU6DBx3KCSguQGfk4KqozdSZw-wmobO6ZTI8gOfEzsvsmsKZZYBIjSULoKLWPR9iFJSHwvYGCdLO3H3dlXkLOtz_-e4yfAQXXYBacQ0yA/s400/July+10+731.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496827077007677794" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA3gI5slnTr-gDzo6kpJ8iZxYxYCkJoJL4lLkfF4Y5FtHNo5z6fIzX0Mr1RNxsZZJ_rlWOS4kQEzPBnwbwOG1ryZVT4Kfy2_9WhYTOOg-TprlcAR6AD9fX_Ci5G6ksdaJTcG5h2g/s1600/July+10+742.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA3gI5slnTr-gDzo6kpJ8iZxYxYCkJoJL4lLkfF4Y5FtHNo5z6fIzX0Mr1RNxsZZJ_rlWOS4kQEzPBnwbwOG1ryZVT4Kfy2_9WhYTOOg-TprlcAR6AD9fX_Ci5G6ksdaJTcG5h2g/s400/July+10+742.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496828197102153618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicBkEFuyf7ocPWlorN2naDNVu1y9CQclCqF8CMh7jO0M8shEFSvkwIUbyAvkob2z3jJjXBnhySR-AcVD83gFH19CESX15FmPygKDM-bTmBOwUsL35saooLjfN8m4tgpyyI3UIAuw/s1600/July+10+755.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicBkEFuyf7ocPWlorN2naDNVu1y9CQclCqF8CMh7jO0M8shEFSvkwIUbyAvkob2z3jJjXBnhySR-AcVD83gFH19CESX15FmPygKDM-bTmBOwUsL35saooLjfN8m4tgpyyI3UIAuw/s400/July+10+755.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496828201261522514" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">See all the red coats marching at us? They came to capture us and take us to Niagara! They marched us to a camp up the hill.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgReDFYtI-5ZJHMSVnS-iC9DAY8bFqCpf3QyhfGkj3pu1zeXFu8GCy6nVdRF-kBtmvfrLEFxrkksAqHSz0QMCBZdRMtGrzgEIXuXO8vCbihyphenhyphenGoDicj4HpuBcPXq4IPl1uOZxsSJ5w/s1600/July+10+756.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgReDFYtI-5ZJHMSVnS-iC9DAY8bFqCpf3QyhfGkj3pu1zeXFu8GCy6nVdRF-kBtmvfrLEFxrkksAqHSz0QMCBZdRMtGrzgEIXuXO8vCbihyphenhyphenGoDicj4HpuBcPXq4IPl1uOZxsSJ5w/s400/July+10+756.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496828212082057634" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">After being captured we got to ask questions and see how they lived back in the 1700's.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBeWdcWWaFIMeN9D3Fznbbp2pzGwQfD0YPdR7ZQIQsvMRBSFZKAtlTkU0CMLhJ9lG8UcRed15IAm4QrDDmPa6KP0fodquloO5abPbDKkOwwrf7CIiR57YiaH87W09_nRugKC2q1A/s1600/July+10+767.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBeWdcWWaFIMeN9D3Fznbbp2pzGwQfD0YPdR7ZQIQsvMRBSFZKAtlTkU0CMLhJ9lG8UcRed15IAm4QrDDmPa6KP0fodquloO5abPbDKkOwwrf7CIiR57YiaH87W09_nRugKC2q1A/s400/July+10+767.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496861280827554658" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsvJiKA7wAbcmbWQUk66rs7Jp8D7mUvG0wIFlmit-Ap_gRyioJr6yVe0PHAOGi3m4ZMIZ67f9sZf4t3DtKWtTWf4Ad7XaY5CUA1zozZMsF7UIIWywwtFfkvLcb72vB-SEDciYsyw/s1600/July+10+767.jpg"><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhp8J2vB6gL5mIwygk_bo8-2qEDY3_V5SUlUtPEy8Etm79OEDlAslBhjDApAxVXh8-iL1ebpa5M6NwLmKxqpTeRqtFIz0tE67GyiEbxUHtO48XYC6iQY17EMoknKQdNbkz1UsP8A/s1600/July+10+769.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhp8J2vB6gL5mIwygk_bo8-2qEDY3_V5SUlUtPEy8Etm79OEDlAslBhjDApAxVXh8-iL1ebpa5M6NwLmKxqpTeRqtFIz0tE67GyiEbxUHtO48XYC6iQY17EMoknKQdNbkz1UsP8A/s400/July+10+769.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496828225244619650" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">A camp stove.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBEZIlneh9qctlp1HLtqVwzst1aHirztI_8_QhtuLsc10weiqAYJCRYcd5cIcOIOjls5iTjbROTYzK2fenv8Azj2JvfTs-D5tAripAMRdI6szkUl26ag5fbN4M8UsLzHLWlPKWA/s1600/July+10+771.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBEZIlneh9qctlp1HLtqVwzst1aHirztI_8_QhtuLsc10weiqAYJCRYcd5cIcOIOjls5iTjbROTYzK2fenv8Azj2JvfTs-D5tAripAMRdI6szkUl26ag5fbN4M8UsLzHLWlPKWA/s400/July+10+771.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496828691075323330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Spinning wheel. I spin yarn on my wheel and on a drop spindle so I love seeing people spin yarn.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCawCvM8VEsiUkv9DIGcUa1cT35KMuvUyQXeajBrX1majOaa3_Wh38cNdvby2MO8raSOnenj3HFolirixOnYP5gPVZ0qHqg5rXyicizEvhwEBM8dEea-mIQo7tQZmokpHhxvAQ3w/s1600/July+10+777.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCawCvM8VEsiUkv9DIGcUa1cT35KMuvUyQXeajBrX1majOaa3_Wh38cNdvby2MO8raSOnenj3HFolirixOnYP5gPVZ0qHqg5rXyicizEvhwEBM8dEea-mIQo7tQZmokpHhxvAQ3w/s400/July+10+777.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496828695794297618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFRMoyC9lK2OQv0dKn8nPRLlEwcIFTqNljGaAjgoTFwEMNAk3zcZDWi-huyXG99MFNr3t8Hl1FM26LRnzn6CXwtX1clRiJKyvOrxiQL-g3AETAlofQ0A0aZ2weJL2h3iaIeas7lA/s1600/July+10+787.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFRMoyC9lK2OQv0dKn8nPRLlEwcIFTqNljGaAjgoTFwEMNAk3zcZDWi-huyXG99MFNr3t8Hl1FM26LRnzn6CXwtX1clRiJKyvOrxiQL-g3AETAlofQ0A0aZ2weJL2h3iaIeas7lA/s400/July+10+787.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496828700753324274" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUKe0oYwJxjKOx4NpbnsYiORTKnprvfgkggDqd_GgN6wQDeirVN4XfeGKTDIhZ4QyGg3FqQbW1vPoQhojRyQc6PK642PqEE1mKaoB0hQp0QiXAjRHWYusfWV441lDl8g2OFgBhDQ/s1600/July+10+792.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUKe0oYwJxjKOx4NpbnsYiORTKnprvfgkggDqd_GgN6wQDeirVN4XfeGKTDIhZ4QyGg3FqQbW1vPoQhojRyQc6PK642PqEE1mKaoB0hQp0QiXAjRHWYusfWV441lDl8g2OFgBhDQ/s400/July+10+792.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496828713761415250" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">One of the camps.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1vrZWAmh0O1P8wU2RpFjYZKA_O3n4zag9VdsBWzoI_K07xInhULxlMZlUrve-4UIaqOfh2gKcxVYvLElhx2CeirdrO3DvQL6ywva0ja9iyW0_m9EGYX2-jI9Ft5xHa0q-b71XFA/s1600/July+10+807.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1vrZWAmh0O1P8wU2RpFjYZKA_O3n4zag9VdsBWzoI_K07xInhULxlMZlUrve-4UIaqOfh2gKcxVYvLElhx2CeirdrO3DvQL6ywva0ja9iyW0_m9EGYX2-jI9Ft5xHa0q-b71XFA/s400/July+10+807.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496829216034972594" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNsBdGOeCti3YCnd13lE0Qu83zs1M_zHVkl__KGAHvLlv2YDtHNn9tkUiDMx9haa11umu2X2Tqy2bJiFiYzJsLxp648hhQVX8Vekj1LMFy2U827c_1O0wZIewdqR55HXnJbhB4Jg/s1600/July+10+812.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNsBdGOeCti3YCnd13lE0Qu83zs1M_zHVkl__KGAHvLlv2YDtHNn9tkUiDMx9haa11umu2X2Tqy2bJiFiYzJsLxp648hhQVX8Vekj1LMFy2U827c_1O0wZIewdqR55HXnJbhB4Jg/s400/July+10+812.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496829221772580050" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">This boy was so cute! He shared his wooden gun and sword collection with my children so they could play with him.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yTl1nMZ6Uly10Dh6tFIr0D3285X5HlWIyWeQIgNnJAWoWocr5uZKxwfvp5AiCGSHk1-bUmMnzPaK2BSdKx9dTyyujhiTjO-mwJ4Fwa6Kon-hhrrKPvK57-x91H4XGOR8Pqs8Ug/s1600/July+10+821.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yTl1nMZ6Uly10Dh6tFIr0D3285X5HlWIyWeQIgNnJAWoWocr5uZKxwfvp5AiCGSHk1-bUmMnzPaK2BSdKx9dTyyujhiTjO-mwJ4Fwa6Kon-hhrrKPvK57-x91H4XGOR8Pqs8Ug/s400/July+10+821.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496829223620333922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">I made the girls dresses. They look sort of colonial. I didn't want the girls to have to wear all the heavy hot layers people wore back then. I also wanted to make the dresses a bit more modern so if they wanted they could wear them out in public today without looking odd.<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDQsPr0N8ZFDaeIBwrDeXrNW-GLZvUiGTNkiwcNULIBnzl3WHdOjZRmndFkFoBzamaNZPqR4MmRFAoOpLF6b2uFGQTLPaKUUmiZkWKnxD_CwNeFh17ElX811Cs5KRxWEe6eBiwJA/s1600/July+10+834.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDQsPr0N8ZFDaeIBwrDeXrNW-GLZvUiGTNkiwcNULIBnzl3WHdOjZRmndFkFoBzamaNZPqR4MmRFAoOpLF6b2uFGQTLPaKUUmiZkWKnxD_CwNeFh17ElX811Cs5KRxWEe6eBiwJA/s400/July+10+834.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496829229802664450" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I decided to make up the dresses at the last minute. I had less than 2 days to make up a pattern and sew both dresses. They are not my best made dresses but they look good when I think how little time I had to make them.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6lIhL_0RVPf1kq9k2gp6wvX5SUYnWyjOtbi1x6Kd5ags6CyxquRITws9h5vYgai-iffeFDUdNh0gWn07ZMpgfdN0Lv4gjsPX3O1KZyPDlNJuDUjjxP0KIy9qayAHo-_mhT90M3g/s1600/July+10+869.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6lIhL_0RVPf1kq9k2gp6wvX5SUYnWyjOtbi1x6Kd5ags6CyxquRITws9h5vYgai-iffeFDUdNh0gWn07ZMpgfdN0Lv4gjsPX3O1KZyPDlNJuDUjjxP0KIy9qayAHo-_mhT90M3g/s400/July+10+869.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496865633188435714" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Demi making friends with a little girl.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc5bv5KA0pCoN-MappqssLQwIw25vBGZJa4yamGmggZVkM0fuuwOoDdIH699a0hsABO4kEMLC3SDzjn2xbloC-g_yAkugb_CgIGj067ClBIrTXevX02rbFBj8H6zzKlaSnfwS5lA/s1600/July+10+876.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc5bv5KA0pCoN-MappqssLQwIw25vBGZJa4yamGmggZVkM0fuuwOoDdIH699a0hsABO4kEMLC3SDzjn2xbloC-g_yAkugb_CgIGj067ClBIrTXevX02rbFBj8H6zzKlaSnfwS5lA/s400/July+10+876.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496829392183860434" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Rob talking history and politics with our new Native American friend.<br /><br />I think this was a WONDERFUL way to teach children. It was a fun day and we all learned a lot. Seeing, touching, living in the time can give let you experience things you can't get by reading a book. He will read about this time in history later in our school year. I hope when he does he remembers how much fun we all had on this day! I would like to take my children to this next year. I hope to see you all at it. ;-)</span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span>Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-91543843234719685372010-07-19T22:00:00.009-04:002010-07-20T09:19:19.900-04:00Just a few more pics.A bit more ball play...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO3HV2u3FQ0s0QSjM6Fy88OEvQEXk7vMN_vN8A-16owgv81k-EF0l8JEpX4iKyrD4bbGiZzgSXCvwc1y_4Glh-UvyiUqZ7vInSpOc1uMOUdy-rU9cThCNY1DLr75XhMrVAtq2ATA/s1600/July+16+075.jpg"><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBSrF0SkYRQDFQj8L8A0O4ilg7osZCanxwKQa9uwcNY-GY1OpHm55GfT4BTgbR8fVgNcf-JD3gBW-d2Bd_VPHAGDvWb0ZzMzjZtwfEvwCP4y75151tm1K8A6ToTfzDiYdx5gBpA/s1600/July+16+086.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBSrF0SkYRQDFQj8L8A0O4ilg7osZCanxwKQa9uwcNY-GY1OpHm55GfT4BTgbR8fVgNcf-JD3gBW-d2Bd_VPHAGDvWb0ZzMzjZtwfEvwCP4y75151tm1K8A6ToTfzDiYdx5gBpA/s400/July+16+086.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495805251092956898" border="0" /></a><br />I already have play ball listed as a summer fun activity #2 so I am not counting this. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuneIhnpuVUiUOD4hS6qzN_AYIqpGV31JnpofjgT2PeySL4UoZaaz8Oto-JJFUaFCw-NHhaqRQZayFsH1PDwMy2l5XBFBjSV_q6r-GfzyhinzDfKf9nqMz-5ChTaUCH1PebEWDw/s1600/July+16+080.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuneIhnpuVUiUOD4hS6qzN_AYIqpGV31JnpofjgT2PeySL4UoZaaz8Oto-JJFUaFCw-NHhaqRQZayFsH1PDwMy2l5XBFBjSV_q6r-GfzyhinzDfKf9nqMz-5ChTaUCH1PebEWDw/s400/July+16+080.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495804622350758290" border="0" /></a><br />When Travis had a friend over after they made a movie, swam in the pool and they played ball in the yard. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFp70o2oCH4lWlO1U1Y2-Se_h2SUCitn3oWXFZ9IFYU7a80ohE9uUG_F8-nYvBuHiPIrtdbRLGwjcgHRaVdp1G-tCa9Uqf3hK70uPk2IVYvoHDvo8yNmtzDqPhOGQN9P7Y_OoxuQ/s1600/July+16+087.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFp70o2oCH4lWlO1U1Y2-Se_h2SUCitn3oWXFZ9IFYU7a80ohE9uUG_F8-nYvBuHiPIrtdbRLGwjcgHRaVdp1G-tCa9Uqf3hK70uPk2IVYvoHDvo8yNmtzDqPhOGQN9P7Y_OoxuQ/s400/July+16+087.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495805257572701698" border="0" /></a> This was so much fun for Travis I felt that I needed to post it here.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfhPoXmYI-mT0VP-_kRaf-GgmZ0tQivVlcZ2dg5rRFrmM8ZuYxceQ1IYxtpufagZGKzMqWkrIQgf-oVT1ssXXNglXotGV8SlpheCmbPuvfNbzvxSnZK7g02dujIHUZiSgHgydSQ/s1600/July+16+091.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSZn5lyLQvw5I2UPMOknZGMG4q3tKm3sBas4KoDdFUdFjFKW-5lK98gCb-pXRdx37Vnd12jbVUwKPZCcYrI-FD1KIRgCwkqFzUDVO1s_3VaQEyNzx1AAhM-0jIpejonmKeZ4LrPA/s1600/July+16+079.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 368px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSZn5lyLQvw5I2UPMOknZGMG4q3tKm3sBas4KoDdFUdFjFKW-5lK98gCb-pXRdx37Vnd12jbVUwKPZCcYrI-FD1KIRgCwkqFzUDVO1s_3VaQEyNzx1AAhM-0jIpejonmKeZ4LrPA/s400/July+16+079.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495803898033914258" border="0" /></a>I think the only thing that could have made this more fun would have been to play ball then go together to see a real ball game.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-SJhJfid8M8NwcW3nGqtOTJQnPprUwb7vaCeq74VUVYuleBU24AuUV0v5_bp4OlhwmHB7Dgzw-rWZpOYh6kdOuUlEBCinf8uz-A5ah5kj7nJNy2Znc4Vpz8mtwkZ0nblhcY_MCA/s1600/July+16+076.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-SJhJfid8M8NwcW3nGqtOTJQnPprUwb7vaCeq74VUVYuleBU24AuUV0v5_bp4OlhwmHB7Dgzw-rWZpOYh6kdOuUlEBCinf8uz-A5ah5kj7nJNy2Znc4Vpz8mtwkZ0nblhcY_MCA/s400/July+16+076.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495803881319330082" border="0" /></a>I think baseball is something that all men have wonderful memories of playing with friends when they were young.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizkrMPLMCM6jqmOZ3T5z-H5IezOCi9UNq9dZZz1I1KUy1mJ1CnalI4TIV7ayTcoRQDZ4-WwEJSlXQ9t879EO3sDNDHMkAPtIMK0a5P5zjDuFlF7pyesb7RD9Fn-d3futpk2GvQvA/s1600/July+16+078.jpg"><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfhPoXmYI-mT0VP-_kRaf-GgmZ0tQivVlcZ2dg5rRFrmM8ZuYxceQ1IYxtpufagZGKzMqWkrIQgf-oVT1ssXXNglXotGV8SlpheCmbPuvfNbzvxSnZK7g02dujIHUZiSgHgydSQ/s1600/July+16+091.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfhPoXmYI-mT0VP-_kRaf-GgmZ0tQivVlcZ2dg5rRFrmM8ZuYxceQ1IYxtpufagZGKzMqWkrIQgf-oVT1ssXXNglXotGV8SlpheCmbPuvfNbzvxSnZK7g02dujIHUZiSgHgydSQ/s400/July+16+091.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495805775503262610" border="0" /></a>Did you make time to play outside today?Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-10787790977136039782010-07-18T00:48:00.005-04:002010-07-19T21:59:23.574-04:00Summer fun #6Fun #6 is play football in the pool with a friend. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNYJ4mGmbrGhwAQpVf17NSfbLdBNUnTBxisXQRQz4y2WrNM10I65TpISt29qS4nRgkzMfIXhuB58xvemBzyCXT2KZ_kEoAl7rl1-UgYtIPjAiaE0-I-_Rtmg17BfSb4zoEulQ9KA/s1600/July+16+106.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNYJ4mGmbrGhwAQpVf17NSfbLdBNUnTBxisXQRQz4y2WrNM10I65TpISt29qS4nRgkzMfIXhuB58xvemBzyCXT2KZ_kEoAl7rl1-UgYtIPjAiaE0-I-_Rtmg17BfSb4zoEulQ9KA/s400/July+16+106.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495105129058528450" border="0" /></a><br />This is another thing the boys did when Dante was over for the day. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgDS_ay8byIa8qUrUq2wkhQlFs70FaI3w8JfeFqUxnvCsB0LeY6ucHyyTTNojJ2C68kMSD-5H5uzWssT_4mFIho7V7a7Q-HFgzOZxQKfwzQis5Akz5uRuqQhjLFOBXFlkblRiZw/s1600/July+16+103.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgDS_ay8byIa8qUrUq2wkhQlFs70FaI3w8JfeFqUxnvCsB0LeY6ucHyyTTNojJ2C68kMSD-5H5uzWssT_4mFIho7V7a7Q-HFgzOZxQKfwzQis5Akz5uRuqQhjLFOBXFlkblRiZw/s400/July+16+103.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495105121313866210" border="0" /></a>This was so much fun for Travis because we have only had our pool for a couple weeks.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrnAQVGwqx1BWWlWwIlqT4fbfwYinOtjdiG5zfv-Ln144lmvEWeKcBbflbbYIqn_WlPHVPXBcgdVge0LY4DTWIJED4U9yIsiUxTW7vMRnRSuQ092U0wxZDmOG1KLp_t4YeAzBN9Q/s1600/July+16+119.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrnAQVGwqx1BWWlWwIlqT4fbfwYinOtjdiG5zfv-Ln144lmvEWeKcBbflbbYIqn_WlPHVPXBcgdVge0LY4DTWIJED4U9yIsiUxTW7vMRnRSuQ092U0wxZDmOG1KLp_t4YeAzBN9Q/s400/July+16+119.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495104615338997250" border="0" /></a><br /> I have been busy trying to get the two girls adjusted to the new pool. Because of that I don't get to play a lot with Travis when we are in the pool. I play with him but it isn't very fun when I have his 2 year old sister on my hip (she was against getting wet in the pool until today).<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEininWmrPLGXdKb5R3-W-vXj9mJIeUxvWMnmEFYWTawKC7ZEbGU8fSd0dGnd1pfIDO4MD7f1Vsd9mL2bb_iy3N7jK0z6aSNELZhUB4-G9ln0rCCIxJuQAlhfMht2NvzPdrRsdkwIw/s1600/July+16+155.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEininWmrPLGXdKb5R3-W-vXj9mJIeUxvWMnmEFYWTawKC7ZEbGU8fSd0dGnd1pfIDO4MD7f1Vsd9mL2bb_iy3N7jK0z6aSNELZhUB4-G9ln0rCCIxJuQAlhfMht2NvzPdrRsdkwIw/s400/July+16+155.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495104593810948146" border="0" /></a> Travis had so much fun playing a game of touch football in the pool with a friend. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4kFgMELyqJYBARHs_Gu6LIzlWuCTcTT7C91KC6UgrvC-EGPS2m_PuZ4bsdsR-24HzKp2W3WV_io4_LUYB1z0AE0splfgi5o7eVerEjYe2gpMgK21qqjjPf3yG1ymSl60nrFpG6A/s1600/July+16+107.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4kFgMELyqJYBARHs_Gu6LIzlWuCTcTT7C91KC6UgrvC-EGPS2m_PuZ4bsdsR-24HzKp2W3WV_io4_LUYB1z0AE0splfgi5o7eVerEjYe2gpMgK21qqjjPf3yG1ymSl60nrFpG6A/s400/July+16+107.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495105134011252498" border="0" /></a> It was so much more fun than the normal game of catch a football with mom who has little sister in her other arm. I'm sure Travis will be talking about this for months.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEf86JdYw5lhK5KNFmTB6HumqxPS8dweNUypp9jokZ-tIrdfuT3edoHUBZIWcmvS6bJdZeOUy4i32NXlSIE4LD7jG7qHn9ezTrCGDKK4nWGPUh1TfUi2MsYUzZuTkU8Vg4JNZAA/s1600/July+16+147.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEf86JdYw5lhK5KNFmTB6HumqxPS8dweNUypp9jokZ-tIrdfuT3edoHUBZIWcmvS6bJdZeOUy4i32NXlSIE4LD7jG7qHn9ezTrCGDKK4nWGPUh1TfUi2MsYUzZuTkU8Vg4JNZAA/s400/July+16+147.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495104592940934770" border="0" /></a>If you don't have a pool you can take a friend to a public pool (we don't have a public pool near us).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuMZihp49wgpSWcRJv16VLv_oEvg7c4G8NaXAt9AT2T5bldPxQDBCAyQ5GM3nas4WoS7G5jJMLPf3g4RodhyxPg-pzGl6wfq_Sg-HXzgj8cW9RpymIq5vckkNRXMBJy5jhn2VoQ/s1600/July+16+105.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuMZihp49wgpSWcRJv16VLv_oEvg7c4G8NaXAt9AT2T5bldPxQDBCAyQ5GM3nas4WoS7G5jJMLPf3g4RodhyxPg-pzGl6wfq_Sg-HXzgj8cW9RpymIq5vckkNRXMBJy5jhn2VoQ/s400/July+16+105.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495105124243143730" border="0" /></a>or you could set up a sprinkler in the yard to play football in.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgDS_ay8byIa8qUrUq2wkhQlFs70FaI3w8JfeFqUxnvCsB0LeY6ucHyyTTNojJ2C68kMSD-5H5uzWssT_4mFIho7V7a7Q-HFgzOZxQKfwzQis5Akz5uRuqQhjLFOBXFlkblRiZw/s1600/July+16+103.jpg"><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyFhi2umFrkUsP_FoVNbQtoNyDQsKRsrTRGSDsf5ZhZSaq2nyEmTxSwK0vDrgywLaXQ3Ab7vvYM8v2X_E9cdm76w-d9AzkoUa49ZBTLNLlM6XwCAXGRDkNsl_K0VHf2J4wa5MXA/s1600/July+16+127.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyFhi2umFrkUsP_FoVNbQtoNyDQsKRsrTRGSDsf5ZhZSaq2nyEmTxSwK0vDrgywLaXQ3Ab7vvYM8v2X_E9cdm76w-d9AzkoUa49ZBTLNLlM6XwCAXGRDkNsl_K0VHf2J4wa5MXA/s400/July+16+127.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495104607578465426" border="0" /></a>Until we got a pool football near a sprinkler was a favorite summer activity for him.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4ZQkPSlobOVp4PfjrTAlN2zM81cEmfKrjhiQhfoDgPS1d2Fp9oUzNhZCFxnzk6ULZqtyf4Ifbn9-P6OelQ_tIlBi7Mbf4Dpii26KTVmAVyz8C36pBA-mP3FhbS5OaTqG9phkTw/s1600/July+16+140.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4ZQkPSlobOVp4PfjrTAlN2zM81cEmfKrjhiQhfoDgPS1d2Fp9oUzNhZCFxnzk6ULZqtyf4Ifbn9-P6OelQ_tIlBi7Mbf4Dpii26KTVmAVyz8C36pBA-mP3FhbS5OaTqG9phkTw/s400/July+16+140.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495104604267759810" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEf86JdYw5lhK5KNFmTB6HumqxPS8dweNUypp9jokZ-tIrdfuT3edoHUBZIWcmvS6bJdZeOUy4i32NXlSIE4LD7jG7qHn9ezTrCGDKK4nWGPUh1TfUi2MsYUzZuTkU8Vg4JNZAA/s1600/July+16+147.jpg"><br /></a>I hope everyone is enjoying summer as much as we are!Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-55504462569008677802010-07-17T21:57:00.007-04:002010-07-18T00:46:33.131-04:00Summer fun #5#5 is invite a friend over and make a stop motion movie. Travis has a friend named Dante that he only gets to see once or twice a year.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguK7uEMKIGrXJFhyphenhyphenf9FkFoT1XHmYrHhyiW822zSmkIH1gNgY2YC2-wqUAp-1eePsXovhqj-5QA47OK2nB9mB4moW5GqJ1bE5g-KVEdB-4wwXibs_zXOnR974gO6bD0Ec_PdiwcFQ/s1600/July+16+045.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguK7uEMKIGrXJFhyphenhyphenf9FkFoT1XHmYrHhyiW822zSmkIH1gNgY2YC2-wqUAp-1eePsXovhqj-5QA47OK2nB9mB4moW5GqJ1bE5g-KVEdB-4wwXibs_zXOnR974gO6bD0Ec_PdiwcFQ/s400/July+16+045.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495092052388105394" border="0" /></a> He often says this boy is his best friend. I have always been a little confused why he calls someone a best friend that he hardly ever sees. I understand how as an adult we can keep a best friend without seeing them every day but I thought a childhood best friend is someone you see a lot. After the other day I have changed my mind. Watching the two boys together I could see they understand each other.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE8X4lB_xL0KEz5E0i8tSh-XkA8rMTnfj59WOMbbGM9kPM6HJ31GZhBrjR40evsn6kDW9w6TLnU1NehdX3Rv6VKTHcyGxhHSMJn0u1MqYOWiYqy7KdR2VDq2iwL6-Fj36t1Zm-fA/s1600/July+16+046.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE8X4lB_xL0KEz5E0i8tSh-XkA8rMTnfj59WOMbbGM9kPM6HJ31GZhBrjR40evsn6kDW9w6TLnU1NehdX3Rv6VKTHcyGxhHSMJn0u1MqYOWiYqy7KdR2VDq2iwL6-Fj36t1Zm-fA/s400/July+16+046.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495092058574111106" border="0" /></a> They are the type of kids who will spend hours planing out a pretend war. The planning to them is more important than the playing war. Other boys who come over to play get right to the war play. They could care less about creating a story.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFKFoAt8PI_40z9v0JGnsnLUQdZPQeetz_Xg913nBqgQtK1mImeJibymqFGvy1F7leBzC1SDLXkNLmbFHUWPlzOMaujP_91engH_ky8qyWQG0qH3zqu5-TMMXTy2lwvOyXooVAww/s1600/July+16+067.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFKFoAt8PI_40z9v0JGnsnLUQdZPQeetz_Xg913nBqgQtK1mImeJibymqFGvy1F7leBzC1SDLXkNLmbFHUWPlzOMaujP_91engH_ky8qyWQG0qH3zqu5-TMMXTy2lwvOyXooVAww/s400/July+16+067.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495092061924878082" border="0" /></a> Dante is so much like Travis I think they could have spent the entire day planning out this Lego war. Making the story and creating the characters was very important to both of them. Making a plan, thinking things out, being as historically accurate as possible is what they both care about.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VmiUeZofNbQV-DJILV_UbCURLUM-UDCzJpOWt59BgjnE2xoAGruQanTl_Nndqyzj-EVaFrn7sImqz5INy4xw_ttlUw3MPthyeafrX82iwuZ6Zsys9qhJwagO5WTkjT_YQdnQ2A/s1600/July+16+071.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VmiUeZofNbQV-DJILV_UbCURLUM-UDCzJpOWt59BgjnE2xoAGruQanTl_Nndqyzj-EVaFrn7sImqz5INy4xw_ttlUw3MPthyeafrX82iwuZ6Zsys9qhJwagO5WTkjT_YQdnQ2A/s400/July+16+071.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495092069617225090" border="0" /></a> I watched them for 15 minutes deciding what would be the best way to have a Lego man hold the gun (they called it a flintlock musket loader or something like that). The day was full of things that they both do in the same way. I think it was a dream day for Travis.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaeaeNaYk5ODmhbFlOheDN4Ni_0J4q0u6-roaHL0xeAgavYsc_tFawBI65fwHQG9CRY1GH3AZhaKUX1VgbHlnWZ4bwm1jXv1oSnw5AWXMDz5j2tCFH-y_4Nz_3pOjvmQWxrCWFbA/s1600/July+16+068.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaeaeNaYk5ODmhbFlOheDN4Ni_0J4q0u6-roaHL0xeAgavYsc_tFawBI65fwHQG9CRY1GH3AZhaKUX1VgbHlnWZ4bwm1jXv1oSnw5AWXMDz5j2tCFH-y_4Nz_3pOjvmQWxrCWFbA/s400/July+16+068.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495092066469549730" border="0" /></a> I think 100 play dates with other children would never equal one afternoon with Dante. Travis likes making plans, learning about things, reading books, writing his own books all things his friend Dante also likes to do. I am not sure what kind of friendship Dante thinks he has with Travis. With only seeing him once or twice a year he might not even think of him as a friend at all. No matter how Dante sees it I will never again wonder why Travis calls him as his best friend.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4vpq3PTy-kEwPMWH6BhEbMMKsdLdP0l2GBcbKTv04XTe0ZkcKSPIs8xciaqDaQRwyNCuvFfJ9DuzA0Y78V3XM6PoldUilsxj7jjoCJfGfaDhC7a8_5G0V6yHNPt7BoC2KKDWsg/s1600/July+16+074.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4vpq3PTy-kEwPMWH6BhEbMMKsdLdP0l2GBcbKTv04XTe0ZkcKSPIs8xciaqDaQRwyNCuvFfJ9DuzA0Y78V3XM6PoldUilsxj7jjoCJfGfaDhC7a8_5G0V6yHNPt7BoC2KKDWsg/s400/July+16+074.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495092556887925858" border="0" /></a> After all isn't a person who understands how you think and has fun doing the same things you do reasons we cherish our best friends?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiua2ErQ0wI4Qe7rt9GQBnQsmsgOReQnNSFD0dAq7St-ZsXCrs70tkTf_cMpqWn9FqXnYkDTYDfMpv7YQMx9waCI-6zgrCBszFf4rnOWwPpJoD0Tk0lLReMH-cAufCVL0ErgYUpww/s1600/July+16+072.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiua2ErQ0wI4Qe7rt9GQBnQsmsgOReQnNSFD0dAq7St-ZsXCrs70tkTf_cMpqWn9FqXnYkDTYDfMpv7YQMx9waCI-6zgrCBszFf4rnOWwPpJoD0Tk0lLReMH-cAufCVL0ErgYUpww/s400/July+16+072.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495092550832919442" border="0" /></a> Dante had never made a stop motion movie before so I don't think he knew how short they are when you put the pictures together. Travis knew but I think he was so excited making this with a friend he forgot how stop motion works. They spent a lot time acting out the Revolutionary War (or maybe it was the Civil War). They took about 100 pics. I think they both were shocked they only had a 12 second movie in the end. Once they added in the voice they thought it was very cool and wanted to make more movies. That is when Dante's mom came to pick him up. Maybe they will get a chance another time to make more movies or do some other thing they both like. Here is the movie they made.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wRjzCurGj_I&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wRjzCurGj_I&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-23204308365219979772010-07-17T12:48:00.004-04:002010-07-17T20:12:46.175-04:00Summer fun #4#4 is put on a show. It cost nothing and will entertain everyone for a long time. Demi entertained us all the other day with her show. She dress up in one of her last years Halloween costumes (Dorothy from Wizard of OZ dress) and slipped into her old rain boots. She used our porch for her stage. <br /><br />She did some kind of ninja moves.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyEZhEfYSBa_4gJiOOt8Mf6wR5qhY9QU9JyTsLFRKa5yU1lKwo1eDPwKwR08Tt9y9dl7T3JDqYtrHOl3X2zpaQxTvvdh_iLPyveLNFEAJ2JZWbZsHFuFKalVxifu-GldKCPf1raA/s1600/July+14+006.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyEZhEfYSBa_4gJiOOt8Mf6wR5qhY9QU9JyTsLFRKa5yU1lKwo1eDPwKwR08Tt9y9dl7T3JDqYtrHOl3X2zpaQxTvvdh_iLPyveLNFEAJ2JZWbZsHFuFKalVxifu-GldKCPf1raA/s400/July+14+006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495027268024969586" border="0" /></a><br />I don't think I have ever seen moves like this.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZLec8rA5Y-FBY7WO0DqAJBKwI-HR_5tZYBBeHR4PtehfMbvmVx7-7oa4bHxEBnVsCuMOzQGLm3iqFaPhGafCnPzlPdeDqALgB-yhSmOfFT0-kw_XQc5UsNFOAi8gn7k5Ts9a2Zw/s1600/July+14+007.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZLec8rA5Y-FBY7WO0DqAJBKwI-HR_5tZYBBeHR4PtehfMbvmVx7-7oa4bHxEBnVsCuMOzQGLm3iqFaPhGafCnPzlPdeDqALgB-yhSmOfFT0-kw_XQc5UsNFOAi8gn7k5Ts9a2Zw/s400/July+14+007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495027260326577362" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2H_YQhF1JtzurYVgeeWM2VnFittAbUH4jaCkiZytWLGK-gGF6ibySSaeHsQmVlSFb28tcYHcgwdqlRFoJo1T59rk3NFQQC0utH0xrj1yhb_oEcVN9_p4e-nQKurl9_dDG0v-fw/s1600/July+14+008.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2H_YQhF1JtzurYVgeeWM2VnFittAbUH4jaCkiZytWLGK-gGF6ibySSaeHsQmVlSFb28tcYHcgwdqlRFoJo1T59rk3NFQQC0utH0xrj1yhb_oEcVN9_p4e-nQKurl9_dDG0v-fw/s400/July+14+008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495027254341229026" border="0" /></a>She started out very serious. I didn't know she could go that long without smiling. I guess she was concentrating on her moves.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4iZEm_kjuhkEy2sxbAOTBdm_QqJnQ9A9S4jBR3HgxY2LMAQC3c-F8zsS-pLKou5FrUgGqhius6hq4pDPXJPafINO5UyCaFgRHnbB3cB9LJ7VpyJ_CCYtTwbfMOtergM5K5V02rg/s1600/July+14+009.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4iZEm_kjuhkEy2sxbAOTBdm_QqJnQ9A9S4jBR3HgxY2LMAQC3c-F8zsS-pLKou5FrUgGqhius6hq4pDPXJPafINO5UyCaFgRHnbB3cB9LJ7VpyJ_CCYtTwbfMOtergM5K5V02rg/s400/July+14+009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495027249344457618" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRoNEijRDRZuZL2mlsuvqImjfl3c6TLlfHu-n3roFDDZvKoisiuaE3OCBmP_4j7ezu_a6oLTVZAnS1EgSQ3Eiwj49qzToZiCLjRBkOS1jWq7GzqearOV0D_Tf1jt6X9RNgXLNeJQ/s1600/July+14+010.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRoNEijRDRZuZL2mlsuvqImjfl3c6TLlfHu-n3roFDDZvKoisiuaE3OCBmP_4j7ezu_a6oLTVZAnS1EgSQ3Eiwj49qzToZiCLjRBkOS1jWq7GzqearOV0D_Tf1jt6X9RNgXLNeJQ/s400/July+14+010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495026731971607602" border="0" /></a>I think she is ready to fight.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwLjL0DLrp2sCGO5Ebml4jP6Y0NORgzQl2ZD9ARLp2lK5e-W-ryggSXmshccZqiJVa_JRcPTFMKVdFi-NhAjJl72RCHLORS0MhHHg2H3njhAzZlV4Wu5XtTpl_qvYDH-UBNcQdZw/s1600/July+14+013.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwLjL0DLrp2sCGO5Ebml4jP6Y0NORgzQl2ZD9ARLp2lK5e-W-ryggSXmshccZqiJVa_JRcPTFMKVdFi-NhAjJl72RCHLORS0MhHHg2H3njhAzZlV4Wu5XtTpl_qvYDH-UBNcQdZw/s400/July+14+013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495026721738465762" border="0" /></a>Just when I thought it was going to be all fight moves she put down the stick and....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVjb6qqcLRq0SHOqO4KlUMFjxW5LpRdAs7o4aLShv2dLqTEvghXAJ-M06ey_Gfip_K-BPu4JLYzIw7U7qpqPGdV21SZR7KWKHZ1j_UIE6ZObpTwbGijQ9vo-38MXFtAvjl5fDwsQ/s1600/July+14+014.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 325px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVjb6qqcLRq0SHOqO4KlUMFjxW5LpRdAs7o4aLShv2dLqTEvghXAJ-M06ey_Gfip_K-BPu4JLYzIw7U7qpqPGdV21SZR7KWKHZ1j_UIE6ZObpTwbGijQ9vo-38MXFtAvjl5fDwsQ/s400/July+14+014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495026718738733490" border="0" /></a>She started to dance. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYnd81IVXRBlVGQtPxz613X8Qv4KSCF2Yr65fXPVWK_LsWzdY3fer6Mz3sFFI1G443kJ6yfNt6Zithj8I-TAYD_DddzimnW5Qa7tu9CZdGweU-GQC1jy3ilMmEMl1yMx-K9gN_w/s1600/July+14+018.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYnd81IVXRBlVGQtPxz613X8Qv4KSCF2Yr65fXPVWK_LsWzdY3fer6Mz3sFFI1G443kJ6yfNt6Zithj8I-TAYD_DddzimnW5Qa7tu9CZdGweU-GQC1jy3ilMmEMl1yMx-K9gN_w/s400/July+14+018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495026714518872034" border="0" /></a>And sing! She didn't seem to care her sister was in the way eating a slice of cheese. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxvRu0lwNnGIC7Sqt-X57Fq8qn05uC9MqO2QtfnKxXvLGD2y5PWqPsQme68nEXGijwDZdgs7LP6zMKm7JX1dn3MrbhwYnhXNDWnFyQkCIWtmlO8GVoMWPpIXi6iUQgJIjJb3Afkw/s1600/July+14+021.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxvRu0lwNnGIC7Sqt-X57Fq8qn05uC9MqO2QtfnKxXvLGD2y5PWqPsQme68nEXGijwDZdgs7LP6zMKm7JX1dn3MrbhwYnhXNDWnFyQkCIWtmlO8GVoMWPpIXi6iUQgJIjJb3Afkw/s400/July+14+021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495026705933977826" border="0" /></a>I found it very entertaining. I might have to pull out my mud boots and give this a try. I doubt I can do an action/musical the way Demi did but I can give it a try.Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-35634361446609489672010-07-16T01:35:00.004-04:002010-07-16T01:52:37.813-04:00Summer fun #3The #3 summer fun activity is one anyone can do. Sing loud into a running fan to hear your voice sound really strange. If you have several children they can all take turns trying different songs or sayings. This should give you a good 30 minutes of laughter. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMRKjdRbxb3T9WySdSTpzdrnnW9DXunYiW3SGx4PA68_ef-lAn0vjye5yYULe3zf-QmrVWHp5pczSych54C5ZTDIQaMbESKtdEms5TUHRgeymm7946AhMYS93uVq8ZD03FSS8p0Q/s1600/July+14+001.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNdmekpSK5_UFiw381mZcEUZS-xX96a7FAUel5w9-SLbyjCCA_Mrsex6nIpVh4NYHBX_xhSa8zbW-jUSXSoT6GHfJyCzlOpGlIrw7YW1gUDx3c6t5iManLi_y53DHBBWpjNWdBw/s1600/July+14+002.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNdmekpSK5_UFiw381mZcEUZS-xX96a7FAUel5w9-SLbyjCCA_Mrsex6nIpVh4NYHBX_xhSa8zbW-jUSXSoT6GHfJyCzlOpGlIrw7YW1gUDx3c6t5iManLi_y53DHBBWpjNWdBw/s400/July+14+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494374888827576738" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNdmekpSK5_UFiw381mZcEUZS-xX96a7FAUel5w9-SLbyjCCA_Mrsex6nIpVh4NYHBX_xhSa8zbW-jUSXSoT6GHfJyCzlOpGlIrw7YW1gUDx3c6t5iManLi_y53DHBBWpjNWdBw/s1600/July+14+002.jpg"><br /></a>When it looks like my children are loosing interest in this activity I go over and ask a question to them in the fan. They follow by answering in the fan then the fun starts all over with them asking and answering questions to the fan.<br /><br />To get even a bit more fun time out of our box fan I will say lines from Starwars into the fan. A simple "Luke, I'm your father" is enough to get the children to try saying voices from movies into the fan (giving me a bit more free time to work on other things).Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-576947298766326842010-07-15T15:15:00.000-04:002010-07-15T15:00:33.614-04:00Summer fun #2#2 for our summer fun is Play ball. My children love all kinds of ball play. On this day they chose to play baseball and soccer. We have a very large back yard (over 10 acres) but my children choose to play in the small front yard most of the time.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpc78mJKYldwcKaZwAlQz1RLoeWwE9FpZqpmhX0LQ99H973cdAwDglbn8rq_ES5yO3nMZQ8cQwuyxhuy6qIHHFC8lifBqcJ6BXGBVskxAia-eUjjJUUcGsT_XpMSYUk2GVVhOcg/s1600/July+4th+143.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpc78mJKYldwcKaZwAlQz1RLoeWwE9FpZqpmhX0LQ99H973cdAwDglbn8rq_ES5yO3nMZQ8cQwuyxhuy6qIHHFC8lifBqcJ6BXGBVskxAia-eUjjJUUcGsT_XpMSYUk2GVVhOcg/s400/July+4th+143.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494188739469506178" border="0" /></a>Picture above you can see all 3 children playing games alone yet together.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIf2_7-D7kVPwTOGZmqUZd5rmZRWWSPf1nIVIFNvjjynjRQuTlGXobwLXJVXfxnTznb6MjcoTAlhLSqqFhLbh94wSZq0cGxbgRhmVWYlHbx3_jd9QqyldTCSw42CWdXsfq_BC9Ng/s1600/July+4th+087.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqUPCGD4PQ9nZLVNZLC8eVQ1vSGKvV9MNZYBszvtPgmcaZwvtkATR5f20cdFEnUAk0suKA9utD2GzMnzKs5QUmcOXXmy9wgzUphA0EW5_03CyybqgUEPDpCrzWRbUSeoqFaBO9iQ/s1600/July+4th+088.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqUPCGD4PQ9nZLVNZLC8eVQ1vSGKvV9MNZYBszvtPgmcaZwvtkATR5f20cdFEnUAk0suKA9utD2GzMnzKs5QUmcOXXmy9wgzUphA0EW5_03CyybqgUEPDpCrzWRbUSeoqFaBO9iQ/s400/July+4th+088.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494189198768044898" border="0" /></a>If nobody is around to play ball with Travis he will spend hours tossing balls in the air and hitting them with a bat. He will run the bases as fast as he can to make sure the imaginary other team doesn't tag him out.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEK0u2X887DLbjUlGWssgE59OoEP6E5QXvA8bv1LKqSBd7wVC64vpPxX_FavNiKz5myWh0X7yPZxQrMfdeuPfOTn-0QRclYttCqsxJ7T5g4N2sv-Oi7GNDH1ko2yMu38dfTjpKg/s1600/July+4th+089.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEK0u2X887DLbjUlGWssgE59OoEP6E5QXvA8bv1LKqSBd7wVC64vpPxX_FavNiKz5myWh0X7yPZxQrMfdeuPfOTn-0QRclYttCqsxJ7T5g4N2sv-Oi7GNDH1ko2yMu38dfTjpKg/s400/July+4th+089.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494189182259988226" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Demi is getting good at soccer. She decided she didn't want to join a soccer team (she wants to join dance this year) but she has fun playing soccer in our yard. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIf2_7-D7kVPwTOGZmqUZd5rmZRWWSPf1nIVIFNvjjynjRQuTlGXobwLXJVXfxnTznb6MjcoTAlhLSqqFhLbh94wSZq0cGxbgRhmVWYlHbx3_jd9QqyldTCSw42CWdXsfq_BC9Ng/s1600/July+4th+087.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIf2_7-D7kVPwTOGZmqUZd5rmZRWWSPf1nIVIFNvjjynjRQuTlGXobwLXJVXfxnTznb6MjcoTAlhLSqqFhLbh94wSZq0cGxbgRhmVWYlHbx3_jd9QqyldTCSw42CWdXsfq_BC9Ng/s400/July+4th+087.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494189201773942274" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgof6DjPTuQiuFRM1wTP0htyFe6qihDvkVr5TEh0Z3iCfdW4Qocri4IszMaccHJMv_zyolyGDspoiuI6iYImbxmQ0aWP950TBUFF5B3X_6be_zlyR8a10rVoTkzSTi4f_0-VuyCwA/s1600/July+4th+091.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgof6DjPTuQiuFRM1wTP0htyFe6qihDvkVr5TEh0Z3iCfdW4Qocri4IszMaccHJMv_zyolyGDspoiuI6iYImbxmQ0aWP950TBUFF5B3X_6be_zlyR8a10rVoTkzSTi4f_0-VuyCwA/s400/July+4th+091.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494189178563568290" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Zee also likes to run with a soccer ball. I love that my girls choose to do it barefoot! My children do own shoes. My girls have a very large collection of shoes. I have no idea why they always play in the yard barefoot.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZW6fA3IxIVQAZLFNb3q2I-8oTKxpJpwEwlgTWiHrVRIRZI0HIxng8q2RWEETwGyi-u85I0BOzz_8DpzfROhObEYGM71dJORHREcmolmLJ0tj6LjV8ZdqxLItmI6cYddBsH_Ua6A/s1600/July+4th+109.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZW6fA3IxIVQAZLFNb3q2I-8oTKxpJpwEwlgTWiHrVRIRZI0HIxng8q2RWEETwGyi-u85I0BOzz_8DpzfROhObEYGM71dJORHREcmolmLJ0tj6LjV8ZdqxLItmI6cYddBsH_Ua6A/s400/July+4th+109.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494188768846439778" border="0" /></a>she wants to be just like her big brother and sister.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0gYOjUsI9xDqwMPLV2yP5PyRIQ2qJo_7tRjwLsHTaQQ_I8P5nqj4Eu9krqI8siIbayNUCTwJolJnGdtTEUbixZ_JfiBuPgOItnKRlHZVbOK4MXvV3FK2jzDzUYDaqV0JU0Hhvuw/s1600/July+4th+112.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0gYOjUsI9xDqwMPLV2yP5PyRIQ2qJo_7tRjwLsHTaQQ_I8P5nqj4Eu9krqI8siIbayNUCTwJolJnGdtTEUbixZ_JfiBuPgOItnKRlHZVbOK4MXvV3FK2jzDzUYDaqV0JU0Hhvuw/s400/July+4th+112.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494188756618305010" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8OPuCCsgV1HoqCx1Z10AxFXkZfjw16xY51aXn2eBqn7TvrqeXQ-x4kLEyj-jD9Vk1y1dxV2otavJ11s2mULqGRYq6Uhz6da0bUfw9WH3L6RsQBB28mdK54WGFAYIl7yJWcwCUBw/s1600/July+4th+114.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8OPuCCsgV1HoqCx1Z10AxFXkZfjw16xY51aXn2eBqn7TvrqeXQ-x4kLEyj-jD9Vk1y1dxV2otavJ11s2mULqGRYq6Uhz6da0bUfw9WH3L6RsQBB28mdK54WGFAYIl7yJWcwCUBw/s400/July+4th+114.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494188748573197586" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpc78mJKYldwcKaZwAlQz1RLoeWwE9FpZqpmhX0LQ99H973cdAwDglbn8rq_ES5yO3nMZQ8cQwuyxhuy6qIHHFC8lifBqcJ6BXGBVskxAia-eUjjJUUcGsT_XpMSYUk2GVVhOcg/s1600/July+4th+143.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiL_JHF4VbjHa9ix0Cz6jICiP1DyvBSx4t0zNQd-_YlYQh8_xPurYMxuGBfIt187xI6zmMPv_QnlzeuP-7TavRGr9E0KKVMLwOTgDgDpNzRrgM5fbbNo_uSMuGa_d5Gu1H2pR7og/s1600/July+4th+151.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiL_JHF4VbjHa9ix0Cz6jICiP1DyvBSx4t0zNQd-_YlYQh8_xPurYMxuGBfIt187xI6zmMPv_QnlzeuP-7TavRGr9E0KKVMLwOTgDgDpNzRrgM5fbbNo_uSMuGa_d5Gu1H2pR7og/s400/July+4th+151.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494188284952838562" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJdkxochN-fgFxC9kCBJDDLA7MUDMkV7fQLnZWhaldbzvllhyPZcvtkN0KePBJQTG8P_hh36_ogoTMXUvQLfLyGO7bP-xCV_zpsfZOy4Wf6xpSvX8FX_2uGtPGkEAuNw15KrzFDA/s1600/July+4th+168.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJdkxochN-fgFxC9kCBJDDLA7MUDMkV7fQLnZWhaldbzvllhyPZcvtkN0KePBJQTG8P_hh36_ogoTMXUvQLfLyGO7bP-xCV_zpsfZOy4Wf6xpSvX8FX_2uGtPGkEAuNw15KrzFDA/s400/July+4th+168.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494188276219218738" border="0" /></a>See my little hippie girl? She is wearing a beaded necklace, a hand smocked peasant top, pink bandana pants, and barefoot. I am sure she will tell you it is the only way to dress when you are playing soccer.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiKo02-GbRZryHqRQEzHz8KskpbAnZ5D326WJX_zTC6bBymCtz5E36N2_ULH5yzzL4mkdNs3CEYdhsuguReRwv7mg1XpaiwCBtHOAsRD6dDQeAZMGq2s0TMrNdyDoHmjXvWlIahA/s1600/July+4th+169.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 335px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiKo02-GbRZryHqRQEzHz8KskpbAnZ5D326WJX_zTC6bBymCtz5E36N2_ULH5yzzL4mkdNs3CEYdhsuguReRwv7mg1XpaiwCBtHOAsRD6dDQeAZMGq2s0TMrNdyDoHmjXvWlIahA/s400/July+4th+169.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494188271958837074" border="0" /></a>Carefree, peace, love, fun, all are words I would use to describe her.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJo-noWBIRuM5UGd1ynK9_INIMSlevXQr6pkEUxDUMRhJTn6fCNL_SgqWF6PS3fBBVxXRBO2MrcGERxfUFsZouubEJxG7c_zt6fof5sSCD2ptUJYBHPDPGBNLx7F3L5yqkab6rjQ/s1600/July+4th+176.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJo-noWBIRuM5UGd1ynK9_INIMSlevXQr6pkEUxDUMRhJTn6fCNL_SgqWF6PS3fBBVxXRBO2MrcGERxfUFsZouubEJxG7c_zt6fof5sSCD2ptUJYBHPDPGBNLx7F3L5yqkab6rjQ/s400/July+4th+176.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494188261648869106" border="0" /></a><br />The day I took this set of pictures my children ran around and played ball for a few hours before taking a break (to eat a freeze pop). They played alone and together. lots of running, laughs, and fun.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXbiuVTnnAT74MA9PBYWDxWhM-c0hcq1tLNzqfdfAtyON2_qpxU-GNYpKLWmgvZzMJQ3Z15SMmQ76kt5Rlhg6TBElg2akCJ6u9QBzRfF8DxjNATZy-kW1Pts2aULWFlpZPatrwQ/s1600/July+4th+177.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXbiuVTnnAT74MA9PBYWDxWhM-c0hcq1tLNzqfdfAtyON2_qpxU-GNYpKLWmgvZzMJQ3Z15SMmQ76kt5Rlhg6TBElg2akCJ6u9QBzRfF8DxjNATZy-kW1Pts2aULWFlpZPatrwQ/s400/July+4th+177.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494188243199568626" border="0" /></a><br />When is the last time you ran barefoot in the yard?Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-80787646615899109092010-07-15T07:00:00.001-04:002010-07-15T07:00:08.243-04:00Summer fun #1I notice I have been taking a lot of pictures of my children just having fun. I thought the best way to share them is to do a running count of fun things they do. I think if I take the camera with me as we go places or when I play outside with the children I can easily get pictures of 7 activities in one day and then have a week worth of things to blog. I noticed my children hardly ever say they are bored. I feel so blessed I don't hear my children cry about being bored I thought maybe sharing what we do might help another mom from having to deal with it.<br /><br />Yesterday I shared our fireworks from the 3rd of July. Today is summer fun #1<br />Going to see fireworks on the 4th of July with Daddy. Rob had to work on the 3rd so he couldn't go with us. You can find lots of places to see fireworks even with the 4th being over. Check out ball games, parks, and festivals. I am sure you will be able to find some that you can view from a grocery store parking lot in your area.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikwtM9aw_qqpQATe7nkHAkpOQNeZst4j5LNwu8CDqUDuMShK8HkHk20oxrsB5Pl8alU7RhC_obgFxgffZ_7Uc9ii7AFtlidATs8bzoGNDxjY4xrMhIuMJ_vjRJeNvXuJIdeBYnJA/s1600/July+4th+215.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikwtM9aw_qqpQATe7nkHAkpOQNeZst4j5LNwu8CDqUDuMShK8HkHk20oxrsB5Pl8alU7RhC_obgFxgffZ_7Uc9ii7AFtlidATs8bzoGNDxjY4xrMhIuMJ_vjRJeNvXuJIdeBYnJA/s400/July+4th+215.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493814026469161394" border="0" /></a><br />Below is a picture of poor Zee with a dirty and bruised face. She took a jump off the coffee table.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQSTGkv1AIAuM5G8ugxKVo3Ai3CwfM5yibbxAlvFc0CsgphAtnnxwNpNiFdfZq0sutHibe2B9SaFZKMB7Z0GIwdE9Vd4VZNhaorHG1PEjV-dlNXlL9IDY_Hz1dpGzGNhneaZHoSA/s1600/July+4th+218.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQSTGkv1AIAuM5G8ugxKVo3Ai3CwfM5yibbxAlvFc0CsgphAtnnxwNpNiFdfZq0sutHibe2B9SaFZKMB7Z0GIwdE9Vd4VZNhaorHG1PEjV-dlNXlL9IDY_Hz1dpGzGNhneaZHoSA/s400/July+4th+218.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493814033603910146" border="0" /></a>Travis sitting on the sidewalk watching the fireworks.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHAs-WeXk1xldwPvJSYEOXkhIcJALpXRjqpg1mgoDgR1rW0ZBGVEGtf_SfKveL_MUyq9Tz768fVfnaqIXUe7HetvzLp9Sm7aynx9MdWvUtI4VCFvXNwxkbK0XDmKYYp3MdA65OVA/s1600/July+4th+217.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdakr3QT9mVX7jJpymOfUtvFWzk9Buycad4zHQakPNJ9-KWRhy_FW8WjTMIVb5YBFKMpW6acWT4bDTY2tkPF6S66J6oStVWIrplRM_Tufs8SvLd68872-qjqroEmYqbM9_NGaGg/s400/July+4th+304.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493818194717695058" border="0" /></a>Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-90356099355741831272010-07-11T11:20:00.007-04:002010-07-14T12:26:17.547-04:00I am trying to blog again.Once again I am sorry I have been away for so long. I am once again going to try and blog our school year. I can't promise I will get very far but I will try. Our last school year was our best year ever. My children finished all lessons early and we took some amazing trips. I doubt this year we will be able to go to Disney, Seaworld, or other far way trips. I will try to make it fun even if we can't get out of PA. Last year our school year ran from July 20-June 24. We like to send out our paper work very early then turn in our end of year papers very late so we can count all of our fun learning adventures. We ended the 2009-2010 year June 29 so we got to add soccer camp in our yearbook/portfolio. This year we started July 4th. July 4th you ask? The reason is we will be learning about our independence this year. I thought if it is something we are going to read about why not count the July 4th holiday for a school day? After all, it isn't like we can find a 4th of July celebration in January when we get that far in our history books. We went to fireworks on the 3rd and 4th. We spent the 4th doing fun activity pages, watching a U.S. history special on the History Channel, reading July 4th fact sheets, and having our own celebration. My children learned a lot and I am sure it was the most fun first day of school my children have ever had. July 5th we went back to or normal summer vacation.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsnujwMJe7EFVjYyhHEHjj-ohfQxHYhESCuswHTyJMAgerl1kSiTkBMU_kK3CC_m0kijqwREwA7kP1SJdLijJj4j_hp47QZw274HJ7bPk3z9l9lYmcketS4rgrK4OeSJSRhgFzw/s1600/Travis+camera+323.jpg"><br /></a><br />Here are a few pics from the fireworks taken on July 3rd.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjPooMuxQKxg2Oyv80ulbtcwBHWHkbiIpEHO77N6W49I_-0N2rQr5AVVDb5viY6eoylcZJHwvaaIVoUznrs5KWtCwFTu_Biis_OiUCPZW8-To37KbekqJQ2gKt_tDd6CLi-R-1Jg/s1600/Travis+camera+167.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjPooMuxQKxg2Oyv80ulbtcwBHWHkbiIpEHO77N6W49I_-0N2rQr5AVVDb5viY6eoylcZJHwvaaIVoUznrs5KWtCwFTu_Biis_OiUCPZW8-To37KbekqJQ2gKt_tDd6CLi-R-1Jg/s400/Travis+camera+167.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493793481806331810" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxtblGcZiJjiyrMdYOy4lL7496FA6bETEFEmkAH54f4q2K8taOwcxfbgq8e_rfr_-Zsd9mBMuZnAtGiIcQfvjhgHEKhz3_TRDEMz8SfwZrVBcbIYjt-ue4zt-JtSv2aOoRRTcTlw/s1600/Travis+camera+172.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 347px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AlkgYhUCm7CwKaNRgqcQHA6gKAlietkEwudwykGEPgt6XrW7acoVHRGllaMAuabs_E_Ee3jUPJvavp5741B-zUcf03H2hVU18Ta68PUsUG5eylnnd8A67Ke2XrFeZAoR9-3EfA/s400/Travis+camera+266.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493793501340086578" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I hope everyone is enjoying summer as much as we are!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxtblGcZiJjiyrMdYOy4lL7496FA6bETEFEmkAH54f4q2K8taOwcxfbgq8e_rfr_-Zsd9mBMuZnAtGiIcQfvjhgHEKhz3_TRDEMz8SfwZrVBcbIYjt-ue4zt-JtSv2aOoRRTcTlw/s1600/Travis+camera+172.jpg"> </a>Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-32593232511731308072009-10-22T08:00:00.000-04:002009-10-22T08:00:05.626-04:00Travis in action (soccer pratice pix)If you are wondering why in some of the pix you can see a ton of balls in the goal it is because all the children will take shots at the goal then go off to do other drills leaving the balls in the goal for later. Can't miss him he is the boy in the orange shoes.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_wdcUw-wvUhNtDDSNYA92NTsawMd4zFc94GCDKjHKZIfXVp9qvyEtphoeP-KEUYeABgLSNaK0CLtc432DhTrtnQfZW0-P_-N6Eb5E0GmOR_ogPG1ukHLJ_nvU8PlCMZidypg5NA/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 351px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_wdcUw-wvUhNtDDSNYA92NTsawMd4zFc94GCDKjHKZIfXVp9qvyEtphoeP-KEUYeABgLSNaK0CLtc432DhTrtnQfZW0-P_-N6Eb5E0GmOR_ogPG1ukHLJ_nvU8PlCMZidypg5NA/s400/Oc+t+20+030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395148778003493922" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5B7OcYXv3MZTuSjovkg6Ra2WK1kJeM5Dy5LgmXXz1y9AUpEHN-13Xi_BF5hsRJIrUT6JavBnv96Qvd1Rnnbiw0Pljecr83v59QeNtgXUMWq4owPHUN48HeN7AL4CiSFEQab2Vkw/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+027.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1Bx9OF9LqEdWh33ADgV2jM_0E6ET6dTSExodT-C-T6O_JDxDjPzAVbXjtgD-0HRiZRgmAaaZZ6hwuJ5VAFG1YF-VXp0K6QXVi9F-cn9fYzHr7PmYxSgC7BQhFnoJrgEPjYCEEg/s400/Oc+t+20+023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395148553783752434" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYpV9dAOP2mPkGr5iOvzq-9xaz_9qJUcqkXZPEhsw3J9a601kA-9mx3xA4caRFS8U_djn4GhH2PaCvTgP6qpgf7Snd5bIxees3vxyvhcRs3at3Fv1CqVFEK_zPtyoGMQ7myVzhA/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYpV9dAOP2mPkGr5iOvzq-9xaz_9qJUcqkXZPEhsw3J9a601kA-9mx3xA4caRFS8U_djn4GhH2PaCvTgP6qpgf7Snd5bIxees3vxyvhcRs3at3Fv1CqVFEK_zPtyoGMQ7myVzhA/s400/Oc+t+20+019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395148555351970898" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZxvGZnr9Xia0LGEId-0t1iTRiwA6xUr70THuiczSZ8udWIIiMrnXGTJ78-6kbS2DKgeHLNnw8i6W2dohRVFzvG-C9UsupbdQjmZkgCkgOOCPzHVaQM8chXk9rZD1l8Xnzz0XH-Q/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZxvGZnr9Xia0LGEId-0t1iTRiwA6xUr70THuiczSZ8udWIIiMrnXGTJ78-6kbS2DKgeHLNnw8i6W2dohRVFzvG-C9UsupbdQjmZkgCkgOOCPzHVaQM8chXk9rZD1l8Xnzz0XH-Q/s400/Oc+t+20+018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395148551373652978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiACsW2yQpQEKzVTiWr-PNpRcU0MY6zIozPzSypzb0hhP6i32oJrwPW1kHfp-x_kb9cixEZbuIVGij3-elC83kG92CvKbH4dONf_wMs_rU86wu2CAYYw-MFlj2597vlRjSrenbQ/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiACsW2yQpQEKzVTiWr-PNpRcU0MY6zIozPzSypzb0hhP6i32oJrwPW1kHfp-x_kb9cixEZbuIVGij3-elC83kG92CvKbH4dONf_wMs_rU86wu2CAYYw-MFlj2597vlRjSrenbQ/s400/Oc+t+20+034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395148780847957778" border="0" /></a>Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-1336472247186793022009-10-21T10:36:00.009-04:002009-10-21T15:28:39.710-04:00History project mosaicsI think I might have already posted the activities below (we already did them a couple months ago). We did them again yesterday because our History book had 2 pages on "The Arts". Travis reminded me we don't "write about arts" we are the kind of people who "Do the Arts" (he is so cute I love him so much). Some of the arts popular in the time period we are learning about is wood carving and mosaics. We did 2 mosaic art projects for History class yesterday.<br /><br />The first project was paper mosaics. I know paper mosaics is nothing new. I remember making a lot of them in art class when I was a child. We did them yesterday because we already had all the supplies ready to make them. We had a ice cube tray of colored paper cut in squares in our craft cupboard (left overs from the last time we did this project). I gave each child a large sheet of paper, the colored squares, a tiny cup with glue, and a few Q tips to apply the glue. I let them make mosaics however they wanted. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSd5nu073_rdIzM4QwyCBoOjrWJSzeuQybX45yM_qurorfNhHhEkczmgARV6C2E8adUgDkPsndi-Nu47HrpybFRskEhOzKvb2s2BFx00YsH4Q6c1km9mK3PD0Hf6JTpqVKFXcnw/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+177.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSd5nu073_rdIzM4QwyCBoOjrWJSzeuQybX45yM_qurorfNhHhEkczmgARV6C2E8adUgDkPsndi-Nu47HrpybFRskEhOzKvb2s2BFx00YsH4Q6c1km9mK3PD0Hf6JTpqVKFXcnw/s400/Oc+t+20+177.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395088028515619954" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwzrIHLNEdvbySKWw7kX2sYlKZq2uHPZmvVxlSWtQTkb_Jy2PqH0OyRtdtSwzHXm52SiuLyf65V-jGHcna93pN4m9hczBgFMML0HOm-lLtHOqeFHRlT0oJgRGuN_Oq3UovDv4Jw/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+173.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwzrIHLNEdvbySKWw7kX2sYlKZq2uHPZmvVxlSWtQTkb_Jy2PqH0OyRtdtSwzHXm52SiuLyf65V-jGHcna93pN4m9hczBgFMML0HOm-lLtHOqeFHRlT0oJgRGuN_Oq3UovDv4Jw/s400/Oc+t+20+173.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395088014942998994" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Below is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Zee's</span> finished mosaic.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipoETNm81pBWY7qRu4-jAxHFVE_z-CubPPL-zJFYaHmrHa7aIIPhcZmCv6vNqUkmGvakXNGzkQlZqGQF9_JKYbMjZPFGAmmJNwlg89Y1CJpB212DR3V80YxZnh8sZBPTtMsD16PA/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+174.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipoETNm81pBWY7qRu4-jAxHFVE_z-CubPPL-zJFYaHmrHa7aIIPhcZmCv6vNqUkmGvakXNGzkQlZqGQF9_JKYbMjZPFGAmmJNwlg89Y1CJpB212DR3V80YxZnh8sZBPTtMsD16PA/s400/Oc+t+20+174.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395088021929209746" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Demi's</span> finished mosaic.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuKzoZhAuOib3DV61ObQi9nFKfo3jZgUheyX63yXPDnzmvsS8IQQPSSwSFeL4k46Gyb0YznGPWoo7WPPqmwOzmMAJoEwhg-OlROrWK7N3a344IbSQX5ZIuloYPrkf35bB-mvXCSw/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+175.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuKzoZhAuOib3DV61ObQi9nFKfo3jZgUheyX63yXPDnzmvsS8IQQPSSwSFeL4k46Gyb0YznGPWoo7WPPqmwOzmMAJoEwhg-OlROrWK7N3a344IbSQX5ZIuloYPrkf35bB-mvXCSw/s400/Oc+t+20+175.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395088026709942754" border="0" /></a><br />And this is Travis'. He named it A Sunny Day.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJL7A5hQfKK52wmHkGmI_7hhNyJXgpA0ARWr8PKEP2xA4Ym9KwqM67BN8LRfK7N8Dm8cfDAPFSCOMo23ySUW-LTSXkBcskpa9L5sG4aOUkS4vV0HLuMhAohFEGVymwd9-G-gXLQ/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+190.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJL7A5hQfKK52wmHkGmI_7hhNyJXgpA0ARWr8PKEP2xA4Ym9KwqM67BN8LRfK7N8Dm8cfDAPFSCOMo23ySUW-LTSXkBcskpa9L5sG4aOUkS4vV0HLuMhAohFEGVymwd9-G-gXLQ/s400/Oc+t+20+190.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395089178373923954" border="0" /></a><br /><br />While they worked on making paper mosaics I got busy getting ready for the second project. I got out a large pot, sugar, corn syrup, and a candy thermometer and started to make some candy. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuanNC_0zUll-YpVhyr9r6dTk83NUQ154M68ysfNJxiUC-_0T2JWJJTv5vhkPhzMKlABkVatKS3EGTwQ6IRpn4ZW1ZFBaGm7Msf9jArb3jRUwzORrQBZ_5ClMONGyfU96pLL7S9A/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+180.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuanNC_0zUll-YpVhyr9r6dTk83NUQ154M68ysfNJxiUC-_0T2JWJJTv5vhkPhzMKlABkVatKS3EGTwQ6IRpn4ZW1ZFBaGm7Msf9jArb3jRUwzORrQBZ_5ClMONGyfU96pLL7S9A/s400/Oc+t+20+180.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395089160950200178" border="0" /></a> I am sorry to say yesterday I made a BAD batch of hard candy (not my first time making a bad batch of candy this happens 1/4- 1/2 the time I make candy). I love making candy art but I often mess it up. This batch was thick and dark. It still tasted fine but it didn't spread out as thin as I would have liked it.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiaDJf8Yf5rF5brBkjG2C-PLWKEY4sP2HmM5LnDFpYOft8Ip6kBY-jpezlNr0_Uf0ur9GD7ULHxeolj8dXGF6Na0V67VIc9UVtm_AcAQXgCLw-qqHWPAiEP9Abheiau084AqKhKg/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+181.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiaDJf8Yf5rF5brBkjG2C-PLWKEY4sP2HmM5LnDFpYOft8Ip6kBY-jpezlNr0_Uf0ur9GD7ULHxeolj8dXGF6Na0V67VIc9UVtm_AcAQXgCLw-qqHWPAiEP9Abheiau084AqKhKg/s400/Oc+t+20+181.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395089162860871522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtemJvgCfGhdYcCf6QEwd3UVLKQkqpcKSnIFQczv47VLedgPcvM8UJ5EgcRqrX_UUmMjDdCb_1p6ArmeDnKkVPTPqQLWv1AJQCthWopfkZB8X0c3Ioipwp2DwMf1chqpCPGrC9Q/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+182.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtemJvgCfGhdYcCf6QEwd3UVLKQkqpcKSnIFQczv47VLedgPcvM8UJ5EgcRqrX_UUmMjDdCb_1p6ArmeDnKkVPTPqQLWv1AJQCthWopfkZB8X0c3Ioipwp2DwMf1chqpCPGrC9Q/s400/Oc+t+20+182.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395089168762268770" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDqh5Yo3J91xox2z19WqzkxRTC-0Mlkm8YS-UpMFWV2RQxQsMJ19pQjan6u9rWc-7EWlo5Es5OYSKqFTtugCxNyWlGpFtZj8LfNBqRIl26qf3u9dMmfQauZRQErHj06bBqF88BQg/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+186.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDqh5Yo3J91xox2z19WqzkxRTC-0Mlkm8YS-UpMFWV2RQxQsMJ19pQjan6u9rWc-7EWlo5Es5OYSKqFTtugCxNyWlGpFtZj8LfNBqRIl26qf3u9dMmfQauZRQErHj06bBqF88BQg/s400/Oc+t+20+186.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395089171034964066" border="0" /></a><br />After the kids finished making paper mosaics I cleared and washed off the table (I put the candy in the freezer to cool faster). The children then got busy making candy mosaics. I got this idea a few months ago when I was trying to find a fun way to "do history" (we like to try to do a lot of what we learn about in school) to keep it fun. My first idea was to make real mosaics but I didn't want to have my youngest children touch sharp pieces of broken glass or ceramics. My second idea was to use tiles to make real are pieces from glass or ceramic tiles. My hubby works at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Lowes</span> so I am waiting for him to buy us some tiles to do that project. I really wanted to figure a cheap, fun, and easy way to make mosaics. I really want to make real mosaics but I will have to wait until we have the extra money and until Rob remembers to buy them. Back when we made our rock candy pops (we called it rock crystals to use for science) I started trying to think of other school projects we could do with candy. The children wanted me to make normal hard <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">lollipops</span>. I thought maybe if I poured hard candy on a tray (not in normal candy pop trays) I might be able to make candy sheets to break up and make our own candy mosaics with. I think over all my idea was a good one. I can't say my children made beautiful mosaic art (beautiful to me yes but perhaps not to the rest of the world). It was an easy to make project and fun (and tasty) to make. I will admit that it is 100% sugar project so I am sure many people might not want to try it. <br /><br />I wanted to make it 100% edible so I had the children make some icing by mix a tiny bit of water in some confectioners sugar to use for the mortar to hold our tiles (candy glass). They spread out the icing on some wax paper. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4RAQP9nWmRHVseYX_ek7fdWWpG4NTFs5UMEv4W6gb7b0dcDzxCKVWTZ7X214v-201UxYlHdt9oL6EwmQez-EiL6rHYD9UVwh4can-3LcCKzPSxepNQdc79Ufgh1RxvjOQwuY5A/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+193.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 334px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4RAQP9nWmRHVseYX_ek7fdWWpG4NTFs5UMEv4W6gb7b0dcDzxCKVWTZ7X214v-201UxYlHdt9oL6EwmQez-EiL6rHYD9UVwh4can-3LcCKzPSxepNQdc79Ufgh1RxvjOQwuY5A/s400/Oc+t+20+193.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395090517488494530" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHx-Si5IwGilVaiYKxHSIGpCYqV03ElpiAl_JrABu6VNFkkTpzbWvxdUFUSkmqkgHEroM1bMc_2vpa94ILdSOuKh1U9BXFciTdZFRyl5ose9jrxDstofQpIOrbZwHfnt87yS5jhg/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+198.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHx-Si5IwGilVaiYKxHSIGpCYqV03ElpiAl_JrABu6VNFkkTpzbWvxdUFUSkmqkgHEroM1bMc_2vpa94ILdSOuKh1U9BXFciTdZFRyl5ose9jrxDstofQpIOrbZwHfnt87yS5jhg/s400/Oc+t+20+198.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395090527137020754" border="0" /></a><br />Next they covered the candy sheets with wax or parchment paper and hit it with a hammer to make tiny glass tiles.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNmcjVWZapAQJoDx9V5UtCV5lAEiySYPxfBJ7i8UaU5Qc6X3fNLZMSfwPMQM0NPpD-RPyZOr2pp3yAWMo3UDr3h2IuYyDWVRwGkE9X8fY6-V8glXjMnDr7XZSoinBMUq7Khw90GQ/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+202.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNmcjVWZapAQJoDx9V5UtCV5lAEiySYPxfBJ7i8UaU5Qc6X3fNLZMSfwPMQM0NPpD-RPyZOr2pp3yAWMo3UDr3h2IuYyDWVRwGkE9X8fY6-V8glXjMnDr7XZSoinBMUq7Khw90GQ/s400/Oc+t+20+202.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395093319305762338" border="0" /></a><br />With 3 children all taking turns breaking up candy with a hammer it didn't take long before the table was covered in candy and starting to fall on the floor. To keep the mess from going all over the house I put all the candy in a flat dish.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUXM_7suoid66GEutxb6QWPh1zz50BmsAsJ0ApaYi_tAz_6tBRY8-OrAEloHu5MEFV-pyNyUSg7lACE65hzA9Gu3BaRW82RCasm8gwF1mqVAYdnPB-nmKogPjsaW1mZASZ7hBNAw/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+217.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUXM_7suoid66GEutxb6QWPh1zz50BmsAsJ0ApaYi_tAz_6tBRY8-OrAEloHu5MEFV-pyNyUSg7lACE65hzA9Gu3BaRW82RCasm8gwF1mqVAYdnPB-nmKogPjsaW1mZASZ7hBNAw/s400/Oc+t+20+217.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395099557234501810" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3rbEUXnfxTv5tyiZmnkSLj9wmm7lVr86zw4DXA6NLMprd31Z2N5x1ir3AEmH-dJvJDG-xiFZhusKd2pYhQ8bHKmcp143gT_fBSjJYCuiFr_ymk-WiersxyD8_vRbblhjWI3R4eQ/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+210.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3rbEUXnfxTv5tyiZmnkSLj9wmm7lVr86zw4DXA6NLMprd31Z2N5x1ir3AEmH-dJvJDG-xiFZhusKd2pYhQ8bHKmcp143gT_fBSjJYCuiFr_ymk-WiersxyD8_vRbblhjWI3R4eQ/s400/Oc+t+20+210.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395093943456814114" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5HVEID0AUaGWZZzzFiwuxiQgz2YYslCkvNgqUexSABStyuZbKZoxFfeBHjP3xIuu3eikRpq7ZjCb-513oo3RrBqaXUKEE8GbxeoHfujqeK2MayX4gXmOb3HP1rkiZMgbD4AEQWg/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+205.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5HVEID0AUaGWZZzzFiwuxiQgz2YYslCkvNgqUexSABStyuZbKZoxFfeBHjP3xIuu3eikRpq7ZjCb-513oo3RrBqaXUKEE8GbxeoHfujqeK2MayX4gXmOb3HP1rkiZMgbD4AEQWg/s400/Oc+t+20+205.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395093328491878962" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ7ExamncC8tfJQYXLXoaMfG63jkzqsM7YzF0i8zx3U64AxvdLCA-uod0MPQhNY59CHCe7oEiSJ-hBRNEsaHkmlARDmY4i7qxWVrcdUPW5uSq7U9XQp0Yo_w9ATZTP-niqdE9zjQ/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+221.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ7ExamncC8tfJQYXLXoaMfG63jkzqsM7YzF0i8zx3U64AxvdLCA-uod0MPQhNY59CHCe7oEiSJ-hBRNEsaHkmlARDmY4i7qxWVrcdUPW5uSq7U9XQp0Yo_w9ATZTP-niqdE9zjQ/s400/Oc+t+20+221.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395099561697131394" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcabDK7gftow3PS_404JbsKLHGgh1s6k2JTnUFsy-5S7HiVdZQbNeKa1HMeRLoohD2jFwtn_l12gijPanfMo486rPYoSLffRKdca6_mWzfbz4K2RTrv3FatbF4YE0PB1JmCRS9sw/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+227.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcabDK7gftow3PS_404JbsKLHGgh1s6k2JTnUFsy-5S7HiVdZQbNeKa1HMeRLoohD2jFwtn_l12gijPanfMo486rPYoSLffRKdca6_mWzfbz4K2RTrv3FatbF4YE0PB1JmCRS9sw/s400/Oc+t+20+227.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395100051174933666" border="0" /></a>The one below is the one Travis made. If you turn your head down to the right you might be able to see he made a person with his candy glass tiles.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgITSKea9p-xbMk1CV34JLzp7hLg4XyYkIMbjq8pF6sp9xdRYn8GS6xkv97nFUdPM-qcbdV36-pbv3IjXM90973egACgl-oY2XoBYXiEEPFbwNocET7QPljEY78PoIx9DW4OdsZgw/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+229.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgITSKea9p-xbMk1CV34JLzp7hLg4XyYkIMbjq8pF6sp9xdRYn8GS6xkv97nFUdPM-qcbdV36-pbv3IjXM90973egACgl-oY2XoBYXiEEPFbwNocET7QPljEY78PoIx9DW4OdsZgw/s400/Oc+t+20+229.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395100057010116162" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is the look I get when I take the candy away! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">LOL</span>!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEqukHROWpPktEgjvDezq6qviQ0kXmoE3ZtkDDMsyc789hKNV1Enw-oRi3-jybY_2-coTKgt3v123UtUFWz1_2VyOazp-aPeeceu7eTshlcsH5fFf7YxgATTOZXUnS_FfBKyL13g/s1600-h/Oc+t+20+178.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEqukHROWpPktEgjvDezq6qviQ0kXmoE3ZtkDDMsyc789hKNV1Enw-oRi3-jybY_2-coTKgt3v123UtUFWz1_2VyOazp-aPeeceu7eTshlcsH5fFf7YxgATTOZXUnS_FfBKyL13g/s400/Oc+t+20+178.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395088032773249890" border="0" /></a>NOTE! The candy was a bit sharp on the edges. I made sure my smallest child didn't get any with sharp edges. I was worried she might cut her mouth with the sharp ones. I just want you to know that before you make this with little children. I think if I would have spread out the pieces on parchment paper on a cookie sheet and put them in a hot oven for a minute they would have melted a bit and not been so sharp on the edges. If we ever do this again I will give that a try and let you know if it works. I made a large batch of candy so I found more than enough pieces without sharp pieces for her to eat and create with.Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-59511719788688852732009-10-19T23:03:00.003-04:002009-10-20T00:04:16.890-04:00Falling behind again.I need to remember to keep up with this blog. I have to admit I have been very lazy lately. My s key is broke on my computer so it a pain in the *** to type (I have to copy and paste the letter when I need to use it). I might bring down a wireless keyboard we have upstairs and use that until we decide what to do or I can use Rob's computer but all pictures are kept in my computer so maybe a keyboard would be a quick free fix for right now. MumMum and Poppy if you are reading this I want to let you know we are talking about getting a new computer (one we will not let the little children type on and break the keys). If we do that the new computer will have a web cam (reason I didn't buy the kids one yet). If we decide against the computer I will buy one to put on this computer (or to put on one of the kids computers so they can visit with you).<br /><br />We are in the middle of soccer season. Travis loves playing goalie. He is an awesome goalie. I get nervous that someone might score on him. The shots fly at him and he finds a way to stop them every time. OK, not every time. One child scored on him. The child is friends with Travis and a boy who has an incredible kick. Poor Travis didn't have a chance to stop that ball. Travis has played 5 or more games so far this year. He has had more shots kicked in front of him at the goal than I can count and he stopped them all but that one. I think that is very impressive for a 9 year old! I feel bad that I don't have many pictures of him playing soccer this year. I hold my breath when the ball heads toward the goal and I forget to take a picture. All I have is a few pix of him standing at the goal (they don't show how incredible he is). Maybe taking pictures at practice would be better than pix at the games (I will try to remember to take the camera tomorrow).<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQM0uRhM1L3deMVxzXp7cCgROy5tgbSw7w6u79GFIEpYtJM7WLzYOzmC3k5CdDpMnIn97KYJlIAx9W6JbQJG56A4cbMQFZFzxQl37VYgFEBQPp1m0-o8S5cNYg8lblS6hrjeHfeg/s1600-h/SEPT+27+028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQM0uRhM1L3deMVxzXp7cCgROy5tgbSw7w6u79GFIEpYtJM7WLzYOzmC3k5CdDpMnIn97KYJlIAx9W6JbQJG56A4cbMQFZFzxQl37VYgFEBQPp1m0-o8S5cNYg8lblS6hrjeHfeg/s400/SEPT+27+028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394512868878325586" border="0" /></a> Here is Demi with Uncle Mike. Mike is a wonderful Uncle. My children all love him. He left this week and will not be back until the holidays.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLPymKUzsp4jtkqDtJFtwBGax9OjRDT4ik16JorU4kFqIkVTWaMaZMOnce7gmjutRB8l3HhidPgxjxGGdDjLNFHVyJcZt5Y6C2bJZvdK06bp4sLnZ468a3IWGyzg8WfBCCrIPr1Q/s1600-h/SEPT+27+023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLPymKUzsp4jtkqDtJFtwBGax9OjRDT4ik16JorU4kFqIkVTWaMaZMOnce7gmjutRB8l3HhidPgxjxGGdDjLNFHVyJcZt5Y6C2bJZvdK06bp4sLnZ468a3IWGyzg8WfBCCrIPr1Q/s400/SEPT+27+023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394512866294522658" border="0" /></a>I notice more and more how cute and peanut size Demi is. Zee is only one size smaller than her in clothes and shoes. All of Demi's friends tower over her. Below is a picture of one of her friends. They are the same age but her friend is a LOT taller (face is blocked because I didn't ask her mom). I think Demi might always be short like me and my family.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsP4kIYo1x6Z6L0Qwlh7md1fYunsXevYKauF7H4WfaKJtapWJFIKjgwVssXDTwljKFPZ0qaH46bpYTuNKswIzyWAxicO9eNLFu0sg2i5873b4Rs6GH03mBj2fYVtWCk7NCut0PKg/s1600-h/SEPT+27+020E.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsP4kIYo1x6Z6L0Qwlh7md1fYunsXevYKauF7H4WfaKJtapWJFIKjgwVssXDTwljKFPZ0qaH46bpYTuNKswIzyWAxicO9eNLFu0sg2i5873b4Rs6GH03mBj2fYVtWCk7NCut0PKg/s400/SEPT+27+020E.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394512855506030338" border="0" /></a>Here is Zee. Cute as ever. she is the tough one in the family. she beats up her big brother and big sister. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBwSmX4iDlBkszrGWw8-6JJEVQb5HFFt-0vDcM1sowJrsJ5A7A7jJwxfamRNQ2B9tWJe1r_Y2g_smhfvIAoYiiqqUBmwxuJTdpHY49-zdgVmgl5f7xt1v6Er83gAcogcL97RUqjA/s1600-h/SEPT+27+002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBwSmX4iDlBkszrGWw8-6JJEVQb5HFFt-0vDcM1sowJrsJ5A7A7jJwxfamRNQ2B9tWJe1r_Y2g_smhfvIAoYiiqqUBmwxuJTdpHY49-zdgVmgl5f7xt1v6Er83gAcogcL97RUqjA/s400/SEPT+27+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394524529171655394" border="0" /></a><br />Please forgive my poor writing. Typing without a popular key makes typing hard. I couldn't find a capitol s key to copy and paste so a few of my sentences have a lower case letter at the beginning. I will get the bad key problem worked out in the next few days I hope.Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30494003.post-481695300377716782009-10-07T15:15:00.008-04:002009-10-07T15:51:33.020-04:00fun at the fairLast week we went to the Bloomsburg Fair (largest fair in PA). It was a wonderful time. <br /><br />Demi loved the pony ride.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Bzto3xpE3IlLSexkHXfRy6Hg1Sc6LZScpCXgMIZ4HsRKoos3RI4Cq7ulLJnbJS0X2M7jkLBK4XBOjVPNxndKF8zC0xrBPEx1zYDT-mdRBOEsnXRSxHMefKmQVJVR7Rx2WoKgaA/s1600-h/Oct+1+026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Bzto3xpE3IlLSexkHXfRy6Hg1Sc6LZScpCXgMIZ4HsRKoos3RI4Cq7ulLJnbJS0X2M7jkLBK4XBOjVPNxndKF8zC0xrBPEx1zYDT-mdRBOEsnXRSxHMefKmQVJVR7Rx2WoKgaA/s400/Oct+1+026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389939768123232466" border="0" /></a><br />She also loved pretending to be a princess.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4F339igd67SwuRQJVMRNYQE0JAq0yVrtjgUk9FxwC0AXhsQFN5XlfygshiGdiSPLmoz3JoaNg9dy5H2_618JrzzCjdOKEfMp0ztrOBp5nhOwhDZ2K4Em_VV9tu17mcee0mf6Apg/s1600-h/Oct+1+029.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4F339igd67SwuRQJVMRNYQE0JAq0yVrtjgUk9FxwC0AXhsQFN5XlfygshiGdiSPLmoz3JoaNg9dy5H2_618JrzzCjdOKEfMp0ztrOBp5nhOwhDZ2K4Em_VV9tu17mcee0mf6Apg/s400/Oct+1+029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389939774562486722" border="0" /></a><br />We looked at and talked to lots of animals (Zee LOVED the animals).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrJLY2L3sb5LqfBfFaVqjxmZjmnlGJgIHdGsxoB4NjBRdEMRM9PTQqPqm-OsWfIhFR2uef7pRRc2LtOdvRmttptSZd97egc76Fo9451TVI4a5PjPsj1kiyE7CAZhsWmcrLw_5Ug/s1600-h/Oct+1+060.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrJLY2L3sb5LqfBfFaVqjxmZjmnlGJgIHdGsxoB4NjBRdEMRM9PTQqPqm-OsWfIhFR2uef7pRRc2LtOdvRmttptSZd97egc76Fo9451TVI4a5PjPsj1kiyE7CAZhsWmcrLw_5Ug/s400/Oct+1+060.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389939777283407922" border="0" /></a>I think Daddy O must have had a sore back from holding the girls up to see everything.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWbP0jn5LWsok3Y-fwsBPf7uVhdHpkJlnlw9CowDYoeFCS7PvR65DRBWjvbES0p-IL70m6MYopEbePp40QUSmMACnL81g7-o_NhIlBI5nqZSTAfuIgGoOnCJN4NABhEtgXJUW3Iw/s1600-h/Oct+1+077.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWbP0jn5LWsok3Y-fwsBPf7uVhdHpkJlnlw9CowDYoeFCS7PvR65DRBWjvbES0p-IL70m6MYopEbePp40QUSmMACnL81g7-o_NhIlBI5nqZSTAfuIgGoOnCJN4NABhEtgXJUW3Iw/s400/Oct+1+077.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389939786772804162" border="0" /></a>We all enjoyed the food.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzLA_nNSEAdlL1G-Y9SADP7dWlJVZL8De0hbmVMv2fdcZliWzajDfN1ML__3XKj1q5lAMjVx_xHdNTJQjkT59cb68ndlujK20qcOKeJfHqdd5FSuwpvlpk0S2Nme9plan3Oxhfg/s1600-h/Oct+1+095.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzLA_nNSEAdlL1G-Y9SADP7dWlJVZL8De0hbmVMv2fdcZliWzajDfN1ML__3XKj1q5lAMjVx_xHdNTJQjkT59cb68ndlujK20qcOKeJfHqdd5FSuwpvlpk0S2Nme9plan3Oxhfg/s400/Oct+1+095.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389939791270697170" border="0" /></a>I tried to get a nice picture for my mom but it didn't work out.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTG4jNM00T-se2p4nWTSvNQypkeI7Ag4GgynvyRCfw6oDT-r9iNepFhOYdyfIFw1j-4JP2VIl7mB3p9Mg7lnhlRcHLh-tiTi-mBl-18rTr0wm6-6Ufs5CrS1iUSEzapoaaa4PWEA/s1600-h/Oct+1+100.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTG4jNM00T-se2p4nWTSvNQypkeI7Ag4GgynvyRCfw6oDT-r9iNepFhOYdyfIFw1j-4JP2VIl7mB3p9Mg7lnhlRcHLh-tiTi-mBl-18rTr0wm6-6Ufs5CrS1iUSEzapoaaa4PWEA/s400/Oct+1+100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389940498835255458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Yummy food!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UdzhkBjyT1r-7-HFstks5gowArYGWF2oyP3z0Qe9THdKbkNxQWtwGYJoJNHVhJelqQcxB8a6CmyLJflx6y8IFC8SaNhdg8tl8F3EqyusPORrWmWppsGv2sZxZXJRG2SOBxKFtw/s1600-h/Oct+1+102.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UdzhkBjyT1r-7-HFstks5gowArYGWF2oyP3z0Qe9THdKbkNxQWtwGYJoJNHVhJelqQcxB8a6CmyLJflx6y8IFC8SaNhdg8tl8F3EqyusPORrWmWppsGv2sZxZXJRG2SOBxKFtw/s400/Oct+1+102.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389940511067873154" border="0" /></a>We played games.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqKoRSrZbBhZmlf6GQKd0KOL5q5My_oNYaBXJ2xAxk-uX1hKOqNKJ9ZA-IADIIB1y0K5Q46OGYu-7jaYjj3xb2k8RQm8uxfHdCvMpWmIgER5BvyDYAPSabV3dbsNYaj9qqdrcWsA/s1600-h/Oct+1+104.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqKoRSrZbBhZmlf6GQKd0KOL5q5My_oNYaBXJ2xAxk-uX1hKOqNKJ9ZA-IADIIB1y0K5Q46OGYu-7jaYjj3xb2k8RQm8uxfHdCvMpWmIgER5BvyDYAPSabV3dbsNYaj9qqdrcWsA/s400/Oct+1+104.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389940526908957154" border="0" /></a>and won some prizes.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZroPnZG6zcxsGVBWjr1Qf5lMqHLdXVocRVEtdWrm0UpcoR2MdGVL8b0rjY4OWlKgXkMZ3d-30BqbkTP6afa5DEdS8ZY_7BlF9-2JKgU6hpCH1FwRGvVWyos1LuCQtp7XDAU3Etg/s1600-h/Oct+1+106.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZroPnZG6zcxsGVBWjr1Qf5lMqHLdXVocRVEtdWrm0UpcoR2MdGVL8b0rjY4OWlKgXkMZ3d-30BqbkTP6afa5DEdS8ZY_7BlF9-2JKgU6hpCH1FwRGvVWyos1LuCQtp7XDAU3Etg/s400/Oct+1+106.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389940544433311378" border="0" /></a>We all ate some more yummy food.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX2LVWGtLmVQNrkBxh6dRDpTpgHz700vTyaOgeonjmaxTJwtB7dd2JISQeHkqQKx9QtRcoqqlWis5GMUEMp-DP2nteVtDERWhV4JDxsdIiqG4DNTr3aa4Gh-plBZ38j23Chvh4GQ/s1600-h/Oct+1+108.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX2LVWGtLmVQNrkBxh6dRDpTpgHz700vTyaOgeonjmaxTJwtB7dd2JISQeHkqQKx9QtRcoqqlWis5GMUEMp-DP2nteVtDERWhV4JDxsdIiqG4DNTr3aa4Gh-plBZ38j23Chvh4GQ/s400/Oct+1+108.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389940567057900594" border="0" /></a>Did I mention we really liked the food?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ippDund7A87PzdoFK9npigK5SnezWe88BJ9PB4a6U8DWlz8-iHObPpITM_WnhxM4ONIh50ANnTTEBjPc3rsg2qcMJo747T41EVMRqZi6suqDrnAUhr7W1s6mSVkV6tazjIdvEA/s1600-h/Oct+1+109.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ippDund7A87PzdoFK9npigK5SnezWe88BJ9PB4a6U8DWlz8-iHObPpITM_WnhxM4ONIh50ANnTTEBjPc3rsg2qcMJo747T41EVMRqZi6suqDrnAUhr7W1s6mSVkV6tazjIdvEA/s400/Oct+1+109.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389941283794842514" border="0" /></a>Rob did some teaching (he really gets into his lessons).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJ89HXPgMG1WG7kb8jbO9e_AW4ORGCIZq5-BeJGyI-kNxYZKSkNOk5b7H2DviqmZrkHGHEMs0tpr0NF1NAVtCMT_ueix0xmKcrMjF7ptOQY2vHzu3W53DTh9zmEWEhkcaJAA9cA/s1600-h/Oct+1+123.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJ89HXPgMG1WG7kb8jbO9e_AW4ORGCIZq5-BeJGyI-kNxYZKSkNOk5b7H2DviqmZrkHGHEMs0tpr0NF1NAVtCMT_ueix0xmKcrMjF7ptOQY2vHzu3W53DTh9zmEWEhkcaJAA9cA/s400/Oct+1+123.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389941295422544274" border="0" /></a>A bit more yummy food.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WMb-WtQENsW-VyRlYqWRvNZEO_WnsXB6uHRZ_MQHodsM-zD-4skceUda_O9nVmbDz4PM6YbK8_49DAVB-b204JVFqXadvh0ChYMtiJFw3HQxaOTlZhceh_aTfm2krdeMncYGFw/s1600-h/Oct+1+112.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WMb-WtQENsW-VyRlYqWRvNZEO_WnsXB6uHRZ_MQHodsM-zD-4skceUda_O9nVmbDz4PM6YbK8_49DAVB-b204JVFqXadvh0ChYMtiJFw3HQxaOTlZhceh_aTfm2krdeMncYGFw/s400/Oct+1+112.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389941291233375170" border="0" /></a><br />Happy children!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnWgrU65diRleOcKHT44rbXC3BEnNScLMlwjpJBlGrCueVNWHCsRg59MCIUat40QoJMNE6QYvC7KKbejb-6tKLQricp3bM4ETX0Oh70tXttiEGf2v9OS0PSDdgTSnS7wpStgIFg/s1600-h/Oct+1+143.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnWgrU65diRleOcKHT44rbXC3BEnNScLMlwjpJBlGrCueVNWHCsRg59MCIUat40QoJMNE6QYvC7KKbejb-6tKLQricp3bM4ETX0Oh70tXttiEGf2v9OS0PSDdgTSnS7wpStgIFg/s400/Oct+1+143.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389941301696346658" border="0" /></a><br />We learned about lots of things.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwTOKBm2r1uiVMqf2ZDLf1EJbH3_AKPbDVDTDVkWMm7h0L8Lx3hAbkdUVpUIXTg60w1Yn7kD5oKMCiGt414e_do114OLdkZYY3oDfeT-259M8BwhxAj040JvPtD9xY8vwNK9sBpA/s1600-h/Oct+1+117.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwTOKBm2r1uiVMqf2ZDLf1EJbH3_AKPbDVDTDVkWMm7h0L8Lx3hAbkdUVpUIXTg60w1Yn7kD5oKMCiGt414e_do114OLdkZYY3oDfeT-259M8BwhxAj040JvPtD9xY8vwNK9sBpA/s400/Oct+1+117.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389941308361072786" border="0" /></a><br />We smiled a lot.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Bmx_N6HFxyVFstL82XsK1LDpzQzfHIf-aG_JLJUrle5xkYGlEPZw-VCl17kUm47-WpwaJxJipfSOuwYVQghjKMD1jGCrKtPuIPz2QKMsNQTu_t2Nwnm1xw_LPxLgfSKLfzSx7g/s1600-h/Oct+1+152.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Bmx_N6HFxyVFstL82XsK1LDpzQzfHIf-aG_JLJUrle5xkYGlEPZw-VCl17kUm47-WpwaJxJipfSOuwYVQghjKMD1jGCrKtPuIPz2QKMsNQTu_t2Nwnm1xw_LPxLgfSKLfzSx7g/s400/Oct+1+152.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389941757461178850" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd_41C6g8dhS7vhYxJaYn2oiN2V6j2W8O9mWWryRRdqqapOR82IAN0ic8rborv2wnaHf5c0erUgB7ntjtmdtIVsctT4iqG1ZFxEFyW8WZ0reoBocBMHVHyd8P6JkvpN2cqO97gvA/s1600-h/Oct+1+154.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd_41C6g8dhS7vhYxJaYn2oiN2V6j2W8O9mWWryRRdqqapOR82IAN0ic8rborv2wnaHf5c0erUgB7ntjtmdtIVsctT4iqG1ZFxEFyW8WZ0reoBocBMHVHyd8P6JkvpN2cqO97gvA/s400/Oct+1+154.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389941760553198306" border="0" /></a>We learned a lot (Rob did most of the teaching).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vE-rSoSrMiW-6hUbCBzjxooLR6A0EeXThUYBl4M7Il7gapUT-iaVD1ilHkIxwVMbL07th156X5v4bHeKAb6uzi57T-VYzJZiZ9H2RptrXOS3Mfby8eQlcuAb1i7IRattOKbAdQ/s1600-h/Oct+1+158.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vE-rSoSrMiW-6hUbCBzjxooLR6A0EeXThUYBl4M7Il7gapUT-iaVD1ilHkIxwVMbL07th156X5v4bHeKAb6uzi57T-VYzJZiZ9H2RptrXOS3Mfby8eQlcuAb1i7IRattOKbAdQ/s400/Oct+1+158.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389941771522209746" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwIxsWP3AfYnebdAzaw0xq7rVFUsmyN0ZtwNcBpXswk8SKxUbsgas3jFHzS77YSmpf6gP1wyYHaf-FjbFPTRANFyJBmEq4nWaGCiz1z_KyW6GZNrWpPSWpoYi0913EGG2VBLfWA/s1600-h/Oct+1+161.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwIxsWP3AfYnebdAzaw0xq7rVFUsmyN0ZtwNcBpXswk8SKxUbsgas3jFHzS77YSmpf6gP1wyYHaf-FjbFPTRANFyJBmEq4nWaGCiz1z_KyW6GZNrWpPSWpoYi0913EGG2VBLfWA/s400/Oct+1+161.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389941774699766066" border="0" /></a>We enjoyed snacks. Honey sticks anyone?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Ltv5hFuaXlgcqlHVzzW-eyATy2WkHEa08uYA6J7Uwx1uad-JUALhldUVqexE7PP7ZutcOYpUKiywqxpYILVqICv1q5PUV69IjamT8VUgXRA-APC-gJES96WEqxp6wVxDLp4PfQ/s1600-h/Oct+1+165.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Ltv5hFuaXlgcqlHVzzW-eyATy2WkHEa08uYA6J7Uwx1uad-JUALhldUVqexE7PP7ZutcOYpUKiywqxpYILVqICv1q5PUV69IjamT8VUgXRA-APC-gJES96WEqxp6wVxDLp4PfQ/s400/Oct+1+165.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389942378396680450" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkVboPYhRF-WRw2cOinrvMb5N2Rc-w7O3zxuxvfr7v07rm3nltZAgcNt0kFDxJ_UiG79gewO5hACspvwASRzPTEGglXJfbiuFn5Opo86cjVqSswZdD_HZAAi5xuzd8zx_TmtVfTw/s1600-h/Oct+1+186.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkVboPYhRF-WRw2cOinrvMb5N2Rc-w7O3zxuxvfr7v07rm3nltZAgcNt0kFDxJ_UiG79gewO5hACspvwASRzPTEGglXJfbiuFn5Opo86cjVqSswZdD_HZAAi5xuzd8zx_TmtVfTw/s400/Oct+1+186.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389942391734434578" border="0" /></a>The children got toys,<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMz04bA7YqV08U3IH5cR0_IwbrCjnY3I86Ikv8cEUECKyNeYxSxaG-iOh_MYVq7WViM5VTJjBE5lDgatmZHnQ4Ryy3PKMHplTLexrUwSh9tL2uT65wdJ6lYV3UHnAagXKvX0EJFA/s1600-h/Oct+1+253.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMz04bA7YqV08U3IH5cR0_IwbrCjnY3I86Ikv8cEUECKyNeYxSxaG-iOh_MYVq7WViM5VTJjBE5lDgatmZHnQ4Ryy3PKMHplTLexrUwSh9tL2uT65wdJ6lYV3UHnAagXKvX0EJFA/s400/Oct+1+253.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389942845784919378" border="0" /></a> raced down the slide,<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgguWvgsACEuaE9MT-s2s5_D89KMLRJRfdoX6W1iLYb0_ygIhLeX-PpuGw4vY6WOXf28rid7ZRa-02Il1pyd-mMt2QFg8prh1y4EZ25jQS3H_Cqci7UHgW9vzD9QXFcT7fExeIQ/s1600-h/Oct+1+224.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgguWvgsACEuaE9MT-s2s5_D89KMLRJRfdoX6W1iLYb0_ygIhLeX-PpuGw4vY6WOXf28rid7ZRa-02Il1pyd-mMt2QFg8prh1y4EZ25jQS3H_Cqci7UHgW9vzD9QXFcT7fExeIQ/s400/Oct+1+224.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389942837892406914" border="0" /></a>And played games.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIuXCtUnPRozuJl_QH_qmwIb4maOZ8a2LP5kDogwoOoe_aY-GVk_95eE8N07wP9l71whpBwZE_FVfO0ICdmaJ3rj9kWcKeY3zizviXit1IRXNQZdFpXhAoyebwplmsvlk33PYlBw/s1600-h/Oct+1+208.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIuXCtUnPRozuJl_QH_qmwIb4maOZ8a2LP5kDogwoOoe_aY-GVk_95eE8N07wP9l71whpBwZE_FVfO0ICdmaJ3rj9kWcKeY3zizviXit1IRXNQZdFpXhAoyebwplmsvlk33PYlBw/s400/Oct+1+208.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389942833269400354" border="0" /></a>They really enjoyed the games.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpWLdIGPEl3Et-PksT0p_oupCvNHNkTMKd1DK9LwypaP0uKm6PgaHw-Z_2v_WxLydQ0EBjXfmdiOO0s2ksBqZ3Ch622E9EL1mBK7syHMHO7AUVZmNFLPZhoysjXha4M2vsBp7Vg/s1600-h/Oct+1+202.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpWLdIGPEl3Et-PksT0p_oupCvNHNkTMKd1DK9LwypaP0uKm6PgaHw-Z_2v_WxLydQ0EBjXfmdiOO0s2ksBqZ3Ch622E9EL1mBK7syHMHO7AUVZmNFLPZhoysjXha4M2vsBp7Vg/s400/Oct+1+202.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389942401541468818" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHla3fz4WTgoQb9B0XtDQ4BpQvmyNOKBQMtrRlBfaSANd4lXyBYM85laDbMMHg5G7AR_PVjPZjTm8WBcymRiCGMNo7RKwLNVHhwhU2bFstJLsIPfTlkHv4wmCLn3vHK9r6GvyhMQ/s1600-h/Oct+1+195.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHla3fz4WTgoQb9B0XtDQ4BpQvmyNOKBQMtrRlBfaSANd4lXyBYM85laDbMMHg5G7AR_PVjPZjTm8WBcymRiCGMNo7RKwLNVHhwhU2bFstJLsIPfTlkHv4wmCLn3vHK9r6GvyhMQ/s400/Oct+1+195.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389942395334551170" border="0" /></a><br />I think the best part was the tasty food! What's that? Did I already mention all the wonderful food?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVqmNNYiiWH3Zocb2OI8iK7F7TfIVUbe8eJfSKz7aXXmeVyI5qEoC_CQJX4wviPihjWfUloHbp2OWFNs-Wk0LWRVQxs6kDenNXLIVBIg6lM5TS4u26x9DrRFzjY2vfY0AEmkIxsA/s1600-h/Oct+1+181.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVqmNNYiiWH3Zocb2OI8iK7F7TfIVUbe8eJfSKz7aXXmeVyI5qEoC_CQJX4wviPihjWfUloHbp2OWFNs-Wk0LWRVQxs6kDenNXLIVBIg6lM5TS4u26x9DrRFzjY2vfY0AEmkIxsA/s400/Oct+1+181.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389942382329607586" border="0" /></a><br />It was a great day!Amber (Bouncing Buttons)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01367875269097169017noreply@blogger.com0