AHG Award Dance

Tonight was the American Heritage Girls Award Ceremony with desert and dance afterward.  This is Amber's first year in AHG and she's really enjoying the activities. Amber earned the following badges:

• Home Care and Repair
• Archery
• Horsemanship
• Daughter of the King
• Aviation
• Sign Language
• Insect-a Inspect-a 
• Social Skills and Etiquette
• Our Feathered Friends 

Being home-schooled helps (as many of the girls are) in getting lots of badges, since I can easily cater her curricula to meet the requirements. It also gives a focus to our extra-curricular activities, which is a win-win.

After the award ceremony, it was really special to see Lance and Amber dancing together, so sorry I forgot to take a picture, I was just enjoying the moment.  As a bonus, I too danced the waltz with my oldest son that night and Amber too danced with her handsome father.

Strange Weather

There is nothing stranger than North Carolina weather.  Last week we were in shorts laying the sod, then this week the kids were sledding in the snow Thursday and by Sunday, the snow was all gone and we were helping Miss Kathy move and doing a Scavenger hunt at the Arboretum in beautiful sunny weather.  I guess that just about sums up the week.  The only thing to add is that the Amazing Otto Family won the scavenger hunt, having an amazing time and earning us free tickets to the big plant sale later this year.

Country LIfe

Birdzilla laid another mega egg this week, her eggs don't even fit in our egg containers and our other eggs aren't small.

On Tuesday, we went to a really neat show called "Hillbilly Science Spectacular".  This had to be one of the most entertaining science shows we've ever seen.  What made it even more special was that Titus was picked to be his assistant.  You can watch the video at this link: Show

Each year in writing class during Valentines week, Miss Penny takes these silly pictures of the boys:

She also texted me the following after Chris picked up the boys at class today, "Funny story - When your younger kids were calling out to Lance and Jared after class from the car, Lance looked at me and said, "We're just fostering them.  We're not going to keep them." LOL

Saturday was the big day of reclaiming our backyard.  The yard had been a mud pit with not even many weeds growing through the wet fall and winter.  Now with the help of our friends in the S Family we have a beautifully sodded backyard.  It's such a joy to look out the window and see the lush green grass and ironically with many hands, it really took very little time to put down.

Happy Birthday Titus!

 

To celebrate Titus birthday we had the S Family over for a birthday bash, the Saturday before.  All the kids had a great time playing together.  Then today, his actual birthday, we celebrated at Goldfish with a different group of friends.  As luck would have it, he and his friends were the only ones in the pool during free swim and Lance was able to join-in and add to the fun.

Then this evening we had a third celebration at the home with our family.  Titus is such a great kid even three celebrations doesn't seem like enough.  LOVE YOU TITUS!