Early Fall Pics

D-Day Approaching!

Found this pregnancy tracker on another blog... you can get your own and plug in your due date. I only have a few days left. I will be induced on October 28 if nothing happens by then.

Vincent's Birthday

Here are some details from Vincent's 6th Birthday. We had a party planned for him on his birthday but he got sick and we had to cancel. Here he is the morning of his bday, before we knew he was sick. He got to eat a "junky" cereal for a birthay treat. I think with the coincidental illness, he may be turned off "junky" cereal!

Below is him opening his gifts from us.

A bicycle basket, custom designed to look boyish and with a V.

A space rocket from dad for the "space" party theme. Dad also got him another rocket that is launched with real fire! We are waiting for the grass to get a bit greener before we try it out.

So now we continue with the story. Vincent is such a good trooper! He was a really nice boy when it came to cancelling the party. He still got a visit from Gramma Cathy that day and some more fun gifts...

We decided to have an impromptu party for him at our next Pray and Play gathering. As the original party was going to be a swim party, so was Pray and Play, but the birthday boy wasn't allowed to swim due to an ear infection. He was still such a nice boy when all his friends could swim and he couldn't. awwww!!! Here are some photos from the festivities:

Moon Cakes

Moving Day

Here are photos of our family and friends working very hard for us. Thank you so much for all your help!

Adventures at our new house

Here are some pics of things we did shortly after moving in.

We had these cute froggies in our back yard in the spring.

Jason installed this nice lattice in the garden area. This is the beginning of the garden and boy did the plants flourish but the harvest was minimal. We got a late start.

One thing we had plentiful, zucchini, till the aphids attacked.

Sunset views from our front yard.

Before pics of new house

I haven't been on here in so long! My computer has been set up and I can transfer photos from my camera to the computer! Thanks Jason ! Just in time to have room on the camera card for new baby pics!

Here are some before pics of our new house, doesn't look to good huh? Right after we got the keys to the house, my dad and a friend came and scraped the popcorn off the ceilings, repainted them, stained the white beams in the kitchen and painted most of the walls of the house. What a difference it made!

Thanks Dad!

Update

Wow, I haven't been on here for almost two months! We moved, still fixing old house, unpacking new house, school, work, goats, swimming, etc!

We found out the baby is a girl! 5 more months to go!

See ya later! Too busy to write now.

We are closed!

We closed on the Harney House today! We'll get the keys in a couple days.

Fr George Rutger on homeschooling

I found this at Heaven Not Harvard.

"I’d encourage your youngest one to abandon kindergarten altogether. Almost everything I learned was learned outside the classroom, and school itself interrupted my education. Moreover, school locks you in with your peers. That is a mistake. One’s social circle should never include one’s equals. From my earliest years I found children uninteresting and always preferred the company of adults. This was an advantage, because I got to know lots of folks who are dead now whom I never would have known if I had waited until I was an adult. - So I have a collective memory - and oral tradition - that goes back to the eighteenth century, having spoken with people who knew people who knew people who knew people who lived then. - The only real university is the universe and a city its microcosm. That is why an expression like “New York University” is foolish. New York City is the university….Instead of school, children should spend some hours each day in hotel lobbies talking to the guests. They should spend time in restaurant kitchens and shops and garages of all kinds, learning from people who actually make the world work….One day spent roaming through a real classical church building would be the equivalent of one academic term in any of our schools, and a little time spent inconspicuously in a police station would be more informative than all the hours wasted on bogus social sciences. Formal lessons would only be required for accuracy in spelling and proficiency in public speaking, for which the public speakers in our culture are not models, and in exchange for performing some menial services a child could learn the violin, harp, and piano from musicians in one of the better cocktail lounges, or from performers in the public subways….So I urge you to keep your child out of kindergarten, because kindergarten will only lead to first grade and then the grim sequence of grade after grade begins and takes its inexorable toll on the mind born fertile but gradually numbed by the pedants who impose on the captive child the flotsam of their own infecundity."

-Fr. George Rutger