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We have our first homeschool graduate! We started homeschooling Meg for pre-K (in case I messed up I had an extra year to figure it out) and now, 14 years later, I am done as her primary teacher. We had a simple dessert graduation party for her. Dessert party = brilliant idea. It was rather simple, we set up tables outdoors and strung lights up on the front patio and tree and then set out different desserts and coffee. The main focus became visiting, which was such a great bonus. I was so busy visiting and fetching chocolate mousse (Sky's homemade brilliance) that I forgot to get my camera out until it was too dark for good photos. We had a really, really nice party.
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It's Bible conference week, known at our church as The Summer Training. It's like a semester Bible class stuffed into one week. This year we have 4 people from Russian staying with us (Meg gets to practice her Russian) and a bonus Texan. There's always a Texan in the bunch.... :p Sooo, this week is really, really busy- lots of cooking of meals and whatnot.
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bonus photo of the wonder-labradoodle. She's all kinds of awesome.
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the kids and I attended an open house for a new parkour gym in our area. We went, because Demi-Sky in particular is very enamored by the whole parkour concept. Really, who wouldn't be? Don't we all, deep-down inside wish we had some stealth, secret ninja moves? Okay, if you don't know what parkour is, click over to this youtube video - I'm very familiar with this one, because my kids watch it over and over, it was my introduction to the concept of parkour
Assassin's Creed meets parkour on youtube
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So yeah, we went to the open house, it was pretty cool and my Amie got very excited about the whole thing, she wants to take classes there. It's called Firestorm Freerunning & Acrobatics. Soo, besides the trampolines, climbing rope, obstacles, they had a section of climbing bars. When I was in elementary school, I lived on the bars at recess time and my friends and I could do amazing and dangerous things on these bars. I happily climbed onto these bars and happily told my kids all about what I used to do and egged them on to try it. {no, I did not try any of it, after the cartwheel incident of 2006, I learned the hard way that just because I think I can still do something, doesn't mean my body agrees} I did try to do an underhand mount-thingy and couldn't get my legs past an horizontal with the floor position...sad. So, I egged my kids on to try different things, climbed around on the bars, swung my legs up onto them and did monkey-bar type swinging on them, in an attempt to engage my kids. And then, for the next 3 days I was downing advil like candy...it was so very sad how sore that little bit of exercise made me!
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Sky and I just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. We met 26 years ago at Corona del Mar beach. For this anniversary, we went back to the beach where we met, and then had dinner at a local pizza place we used to go to all the time while we were dating in highschool. We really had such a nice, simple evening remembering when...
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I played photographer for Meg's senior photos, which is really a lot of pressure when you are not a professional. I captured a few nice ones, I think. Here is one- involving her favorite horse, of course...
hope your week is a blessed one, friends!!