Engagement photo

I took down all my pictures in my room to paint and I thought that it would be a good time to scan this one in and save it. I have a good plan to scan all the portraits we have taken that we don't have digital copies of but no one seems to be doing it so at least this is a start.

Theo asked me to marry him on my 22nd birthday in April 2002. We got portraits taken after wards. If I had taken off the giant pooh watch, you might have been able to notice the ring. I always thought Theo looked really sweet in this picture so we have it in our room.

Bye Bye Ponytails!

Today Katie and her best friend went to Sweet and Sassy to get their hair cut. They both got 10 inches cut so they could donate to locks of love. Katie had to go pretty short to get that much, but she will be nice and cool for the summer anyways. They both look adorable in their new haircuts. And so grown up :'(

Pretty Girls ready for church

Sundae School

Friday we went to Henry's Homemade Ice Cream to attend Sundae School. Henry himself showed everyone how to make ice cream and then we got to enjoy a cup.

Lizzy paying rapt attention. This is the school for her!

 

Yep, it's cold enough

Lizzy chose the blue one. I'm sure it was all natural with no artificial colors. Katie just got vanilla but spiced it up with gummy bears.

Jump on the silly band wagon

We've been a little out of the loop since all our programs let out in May and we haven't really been around too many other kids for the past month. It would seem we nearly missed a major fad that popped up. But we caught up at VBS this week where everyone was wearing silly bands. We had to make a desperate run to target to pick some up so she could give some back to her friends. For those who don't have elementary kids, these are little rubber bands that are shaped like different things. Ours are Shrek. They aren't allowed to watch Shrek, but that was all that was left at Target. They're kind of silly, but what a fun way share with friends. Even shy little Katie could be found whispering trades with the girls at church.

Nothing

You may think this is an abandoned blog, but you would be wrong. We just own an abandoned camera. We had a week after we took off school and did nothing. Partly because the girls got sick, but also just to relax. This week we are doing VBS at another church in town. I've been having a lot of fun helping teach fourth grade with my sweet friends. The girls are enjoying it alot too. Next week the girls have another VBS, but I get to stay home by myself. Hopefully, there'll be some painting going on!

End of the year (caution bragging post)

We are nearing the end of the year in school. I love finishing the school year, but we are always excited to start again in the fall.

In math this year, Katie memorized all of her addition and subtraction facts up to the 13 family. She learned to add with carrying, learned a little about fractions, counting money, and telling time.

In Phonics, she learned about pre-fixes and suffixes and all the rules that go along with them. She also had 28 spelling lists and got A's on all of her spelling tests. She learned how to alphabetize lists, abbreviations, contractions, and ownership. She also learned all but 6 states and can fill them in on a blank US map.

Lizzy learned to count to 29 (she's pretty sure you get to 100 after that). She can now recognize all her numbers, 1-10, except we still have problems with 9 sometimes. She learned all of her letters and what they say. She is beginning to read and can sound out all three letter, short vowel words.

Together, we've read history, science and fun books. We have had an awesome year. I am very proud of them and their accomplishments this year!

Each morning they also say a bible memory verse and a poem. Here are all the verses they learned this year and each of them got to choose a favorite poem to recite.

Austin

We had a great weekend in Austin with our friends. So much fun we forgot to take very many pictures. But it's just as well. It would seem getting four kids to all look at the camera and smile at the same time is impossible.