Hello

OK, so Susan is trying desperately to bring me into the 21st century...not and easy task. It has only taken me an hour to figure out how to put this post on here. If I knew how to do pics that would be great. Maybe I'll get on that...only a few extra hours in my day.

I guess I'm supposed to update people on our life, so here it goes...
The highlight of our summer has been getting our camper. We have pledged that we are going to make time to use it. We took it out once with some friends and we all had a great time.

We are fixin' to really start school back up in the next month or so, probably after Labor Day. We have been working on and off throughout the summer. It just sort of becomes a way of life after awhile...you start to see there is so much to learn no matter what you are doing.

Aub has been out of music lessons for a whole month and it is driving her crazy. She has gone ahead and learned 3 of the songs in her book that her teacher hasn't started her on yet. She got to jam with Grandpa on the fourth of July with her fiddle and that was quite a treat for her.

Cam is still obsessed as ever with someday walking on the moon. He is currently fascinated with Leonardo Da Vinci and his first attempt at flight. He built some sort of flying machine today after I talked him out of building the one that would require getting on top of the roof to try it out. He is always keeping me on my toes.

Caleb is finally getting the whole reading thing. It's neat to see as I teach my children that everything eventually "clicks" you just have to have patience. He is also letting Aub teach him some violin and piano...It is all so very cute.

Holly Grace is wanting to start school this year with her older sister. Aub is pretty excited about the prospect of being the one to teach her. We'll see how long that lasts. She is full of life and personality, always making those around her smile...especially me. We went on a hike the other day around a beautiful mountain lake and she says to me "Mom, why do we always like to walk outside in all of this dirt?" I told her, "To enjoy all of the beauty God made for us." She said,
"Can we enjoy all the stuff he made inside instead?"

This is becoming very time consuming and I still need to get in the shower (it is 1:44 in the afternoon.) The continual plight of a homeschool mom.