Kindergarten Round 2!

This week, Molly has been especially busy and high energy. Since I had most of the house work under control, I offered to start up her Bible time daily. She was excited, so we did day one. Molly begged for more to do, so I went ahead and started her main work too, minus Math for now. So we've done 3 days worth of Kindergarten work, and Molly is eager to learn, and I'm glad I made the swap to Bob Jone's for home school curriculum. Many updates I'm sure will follow, but I'm thrilled that just 1hour of school work can calm Molly down so much! And she was so focused, and excited. :o)

We love camping!

Molly w/ the Seahorses

Chloe in a Bubble!

Molly Running on the beach, Chloe looking for shells.

Stephan and Tristen

looking for shells

MOLLY!

Tent Set up

A peak inside!

Another view inside.

So much that during Stephan's 2 week vacation, we didn't have plans to go away for 1 or the 2 weeks. In fact we had now plans until the week before he was to be off. I came up w/ the idea to visit the aquarium in Va Beach, and Stephan mentioned staying over a day or 2. So we opted to camp at First Landing State Park, it located on the Chesapeake Bay. The park was nice, our site was near clean bathroom facilities, and was a quick walk from the beach. We went to the aquarium, and other than that, spent time at our camp site or on the beach. So for half the price of 1 night in a hotel we spent 2 nights in VABeach (and that figure included our food that was purchased) This was our 2nd camping trip, the girls love it and ask when we'll be going camping again. Each time we are learning new things, and gathering good ideas from near by campers. Just the other day while working out, I received some good ideas from some seasoned campers. One lady was in her 60's and stated that her family always tent camped until about 3 years ago when they got a pop up. Pretty cool stuff. I don't think we'll be tent camping till I'm in my 50s. I hope to save some cash and in the next 2-3 years have a pop up camper so we can enjoy more seasons and places while camping, and a camper will make bigger distances easier! Unless someone wants to buy us one for Christmas!! :o) Enjoy the pics from our latest camping adventure to VaBeach. Stay tuned for more Rouze camping adventures!!

4th of July

Tristen and My Mom (Grandma)

The girls w/ My Dad (grandpa) and Snowden too!

For the 4th I went with the kids to my Mom's for a nice day visiting w/ family. The kids played w/their cousins in a pool my Mom put up. At good food, and had a nice time. Then later in the day I came home to get Stephan he had worked a double shift to then attend a cook out at his aunts house, and then go see fireworks. So more good fun with family.

2009-2010 School Books

Last week, we received the girls school books for next school year. We made the decision to switch from the Abeka program to Bob Jones. Chloe will move into 1st grade with the following subjects, Bible, Phonics/English, Reading, Handwriting, Spelling, Math, Science, and Social Studies. Molly will start Kindergarten with Bible, Phonics, Handwriting, Reading, and Math. This evening I went through the 3 boxes that arrived last week and we have received all the books we ordered. So I'll spend a few weeks decluttering my laundry room so I may use the shelves in there to store all my Teacher's Editions, and the girls books. I'll be working on a schedule for next year as well that will need to be stuck to as much as possible. I have a feeling this summer may just fly past, so it will require some work and discipline to get ready for next school year to flow a little more smoothly than this past year. But hey Kindergarten for Chloe is over, and she is doing great with her summer review work!! We'll be working on reading each day too.