Prayers for Dana

Dana over at Roscommomn Acres
Her and her family lost their 22 month old son this weekend. My heart is breaking for her and her family as I learn of their loss.
I am wordless, it makes me stop in my tracks and go spend time with my children.
Please keep them in your prayers

Christmas house making

On Sunday we went over to Aunt Lee’s for a really nice Christmas lunch. And for the all 8 children to make their very own ginger bread houses, then they made a mini town out them to take home.

Since it was Uncle Bob’s birthday in a week we had the best chocolate cake after he blew his one candle out. Yes we made him one didn’t want to make him work to hard for his cake.

 

cousin Madison , my poppy and me

Cousin Adam, Aunt Lee, Uncle John and my husband with papa in background

my piglet working away on his house

Aunt Lee’s foyer, isn’t it just beautiful

Our mini town

Christmas Party

Last night I went out to my very first homeschool mom's event, a Christmas party. I had such a good time meeting other homeschool mom's. They are a great bunch of ladies and so welcoming.

 I was kind of unsure with fitting in and being apart of it. They welcomed me like I had always been a part of the group. Looking forward to joining in on the other activites with this ladies and their children.

Last night concert...

Marissa and her best friend Emma

Jonathan and Marissa before leaving

Collin and his friend Victoria

Nathan during his orchestra performance

Collin and Jonathan are on stage here but I could not get either of them in the video

Final performance of the night with our artistic directors husband singing.

Night was a hit!!! The picture's and video are not the greatest. My camera broke just as the concert began so I was totally on my phone. I will be camera shopping this Christmas.

The last video was the surprise for the audience, "Can't get it out of my head"

To end that night even better, we had a great time going out with friend's for pizza.

This is our 6th yr with the Flagler Youth Orchestra. Hope to see it continue on over many more years.

We have 2 more concerts before the school year ends. Can't wait to see how much they learn by the end.
Today we are relaxing and decompressing.

Tonight is the night

My four are having their orchestra concert!

Museum of Arts and Science

Our cable company sponsored a day at our local museum yesterday.

So we loaded up my four, Mimi and two cousins for a day of learning.

I must have really been disappointed the last time I ever went to this museum. I had a great time and we ended up not leaving until 5:00.

We had a great planetarium experience and then a laser light holiday show.  The festival of trees was there and Santa. The children loved the car museum and the coke a cola. The nature trails and the train depot with two train cars.

              

They also saw a wine pitcher from 250 BCE, learned about a lithograph picture that turns out their Mimi has one in her house from the same artist. Early American furniture and paintings, Chinese history and then Cuban History and we learned about native plant names to our area.

Then they found the children’s science center that was hands on, talk about occupied even at 5 they still wanted to stay longer they asked to do the nature trail again.

We will be going again…….