Optometrist

So Monday was a really long day! All of my chillens had appointments with the optometrist. The boys had a 10:30 appointment and the girls had a 3:15 appointment. So we decided to stay in town and run errands... It was a REALLY long day! But I am excited to announce that my little girl will be getting a pair of glasses so she can SEE!!! Yay! Her birthday is on Saturday and we are crossing our fingers and hoping that she will have them in time for her birthday. But one way or another, she is excited! So I have some pictures to share...
Steven was first and this sweet lady was SO surprised that he did not need the pictures card. He was reading the letters card. He did pretty good...

Then came Jeremiah, and he was not as coopertive as his big brother... but really cute just the same.

Then we went to Wal Mart and got water bottles to prepare for the heat and went to visit daddy at work (Steven stayed and helped for the rest of the day) and we got the car washed too....
Then was miss Heathers turn.... She is SO dissappointed that she will not be getting glasses...

And princess Rebekah was last.... the doctor had to work with her ALOT to get the prescription right.

And here was trying to decide on the right frames for her... these were not the ones we chose, I do not know why I didn't get a picture of the ones we decided on, but there will pictures before too long...

And when we FINALLY got home, Heather and I got to go to the first day of swim team....
and listening to the swim coach....
well, that is my update for this week.... I hope to talk to ya all soon....

Just because it has been a while.....

Well, It seems (once again) that I have neglected my blog for some time now.... I usually have the time to catch up on reading blogs, OR on posting them... NEVER both. So today I shall post.
Now that that is done, how are you all? It has been a while. We are doing well here. My best friend just moved away (from next door to 12 hours away) and that has been hard, but other than that life is good.
We attended the licensing orientation through the county and are doing the paperwork for them. They do it a bit different than Koinonia did. We have ALL the paperwork that needs to be done and ALL the checklists now. (got them at orientation) and when we are ready to have them check us, we turn it all in together.... I think I like it this way better... I am in control of when I am done instead of waiting for someone else to give me more things to do.
Homeshcooling is going well... I think.... At least for now we have kindof developed an approach of unschooling or something like it..... we do unit studies, and the kids love to do workbooks, and we talk ALOT... and read ALOT.... and they are learning ALOT, but we do not have any sort of schedule or agenda or structure. That "tactic" will no doubt change as the kids get bigger and need to know more, but it seems to be working for now.
We are enjoying the outdoors alot more now that the weather has gotten nice. We even made a garden bed. teh dogs would tear it up if it were in the backyard, but we made a pretty one in the front. This way when we are not growing veggies, we can still plant pretty flowers and it will be nice...
First, the kids lined up the bricks....

Then I got to put them where they belong and straight-ish

and snap your fingers and do a little dance and here is the end result

I have teh seeds started now and we will plant them soon I think. The cucumber and Zuccini are outgrowing the little starter pods... not sure how the onions and carrots are going to do... we shall see. This is our first attempt at a garden. It is all new to us.
Well, that is it for now... oh, my hunny and I are going to the Steven Curtis Chapman and Michael W Smith concert tomorrow night.... I am really excited. It is our early anniversary celebration.... We have not been to a concert before. It sould be good.....
I hope to hear from you soon.