Around the House

Standard Sight. Also known as FIGHTING TIME!

Those are Coraline's feet. 

This was a little while back but we were all sanding away on the garage turning girl room. 

Harry Potter Life. 

Cabella in Levi's uniform. 

Clairana and Coraline made this all by themselves. 

 

We had one of our homeschooling families over for dinner. 10 kids under 10. It was lots of crazy and lots of fun. Lauren and Nathan both teach every week in our coop. Nathan is also a mental health therapist. 

Back to CC

Our first week back! My classroom was a little crazy because I had Nephi's class too and our new battery left us late but we managed just no pictures. 

Cecily and Lyla in Nursery!

I LOVE this lady. She is so kind and such a blessing to our homeschooling life. She volunteers every other week to be in nursery and has for years. I also love how small our nursery is. 

Clairana brought her clarinet for presentation and ended up showing the girls how to play Baby Shark. 

 

Wilbur

 Well, its official. We have now become real pig farmers. 

Levi LOVES his pigs. We do not have a boar here on our farm we just borrow one for a month in the winter. 

For Christmas, I made arrangements to add a boar to our farm. 

His name is Wilbur and we will pick him up in a couple of weeks. 

He is a Kune Kune although he albino or pink which will be fun to mix up the colors. 

Clarinet - Clairana

Working on the first official song! 

End of 2020

 Last post before I order my favorite book of the year! 

Although it is the most expensive and time consuming book as well! 

We have been on a roller coaster ride of emotions this past week. 

We have been looking at motorhomes for weeks. We found one we really liked. Levi brought it home and were ready to head south. I was making all our arrangements and then......

Levi noticed the transmission was leaking - nothing that they couldn't repair but we decided to slow down and pray a little more about such a big expense. 

I will always say once you are debt free it is REALLY hard to have a payment on anything again. 

Thankfully so. 

We decided to revisit in the Spring. In the meantime, I thought maybe we would fly or drive down to Florida to get away......then I chickened out. 

Coraline puked all over our suburban yesterday. Probably because she was hungry and her blood sugar was low because once she ate she was fine and now her carseat is super clean. Yuck. 

Here is the thing. To fly Cecily has to wear a mask for the flight. Period. I wasn't too worked up about it until we now know a family that got kicked off their flight two weeks ago because of their two year old not wearing hers.They didn't get refunded for their tickets either. 

I can't imagine the pressure of possibly losing that money. Another Covid mess is if anyone did get a fever (KIDS GET FEVERS) we may end up stuck somewhere or lose our flights anyways.  

See the mess. 

Nevermind. Let's stay home and travel next year. 

We started a house project today instead. 

Levi showed up in the driveway last week and loaded us all up for an adventure!

Seatbelts at the dining room table were awesome.

Zona came too. 

After the disappointment (realistically just Levi and I) of not doing anything big I sat down and just asked the kids what they would like to do. I am working on making all their small dreams come true. 

First up was going to the local climbing park so we masked up and went at 8:00 in the morning - it was empty and awesome. I finished my book and all the kids are old enough now to climb alone. 

I see little bits of freedom ever so often now and it feels strange and lovely. 

New Years Eve - I showed them what Time Square looks like on the computer and how normally it is packed with people. We didn't stay up but they all slept in our room and we had ice cream and brownies to celebrate. 

2020 Picture Wrap Up!

Christmas Photos!

Bella got a new brush that all the other girls in the house have and love. She was super excited. 

Matching Sweat Suit Magic. 

Clairana's special gift! She got a CLARINET! 

Although we are only renting it from a music shop for three months to see if she loves it. 

Levi's parents have one that is in storage so we are hoping they will let us repair it and let her use it. 

We will see. 

If not it may end up being a birthday present next summer. 

So far she has played for hours everyday and learned several songs.

I have loved being able to show her how to play it. 

It has been special time for us already and its only been a few days!

We met an instructor that also teaching at the local Christian school. 

She is practicing extra hard to learn how to play Happy Birthday. 

 Cecily got this tiger/cat loud toy from Clairana. 

 Harry Potter Legos.

The little girls big gifts were DOLLS and accessories! They match them - eye and hair color. 

Clairana and Nephi got Harry Potter glasses in their stockings which they LOVE. 

I may regret this gift seems they insist on wearing them to town.

Bella also got lots of lens less glasses in her stocking. 

She wear glasses so much and it makes me giggle.

 Coraline got lots of sticker by numbers and letters. She headed for her room to get started. 

Kelly and Reni dropped by after Christmas to drop off gifts for the kids. 

Clairana showed them her new instrument which struck up the excitement to show off all the instruments we have and have been gifted this year! 

We even got Pappy to play a song for us. We haven't heard him play for at least a year so the kids loved it. Actually we all loved it. 

Cecily let Bubbe hold her for a minute and Levi must have snapped this one. 

Mamaw gave us a craft for our candy canes so these are pictures from all those creations. 

Clairana used the scraps to create. 

I am not sure what they ended up making but it had LOTS of glitter glue. 

She stayed at the table and worked for at least an hour after everyone else went on to playing. She was determined not to let me throw away the scrapes. 

 

Christmas Photo Outtakes