Easter Outfits!!

Homemade Outfits by Mommy!! 

I think they turned out great, just don't look to closely. 

Easter dress that husband thinks looks like an Alice in Wonderland dress. 

Dress I modeled after!                                                 Dress I created!

Bow Ties I made for the boys using the tutorial from HERE!

It was super easy.. 

Skirt I made for myself so that the whole family matched, minus hubby since i didn't think he would wear a tie. 

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter Weekend!

Cheap School Supplies..

We were shopping in a discount store one day and happened upon a bunch of school supplies that were at least 50% off or more.

                                                    Retail         Paid

 Mead Sight Word Flash Cards   $3.79        $.99

  Beginner Ticonderoga Pencils   $2.95        $.99

      Ticonderoga Pencils              $2.81      $.49

     Ticonderoga Pencils              $2.81      $.49

   Elmers Glue Stick (6 PK)        $4.99      $.99

  Elmers Glue Stick (6 PK)        $4.99      $.99

     Elmers Poster Tack              $2.79      $.49

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                     Total cost           $25.31      $5.43

Rosetta Stone Italian

As the children's language program we chose Rosetta Stone Italian. Everyone in the family is learning.. except V (2). 

Some of this weeks school pics!

Some of this weeks photo's...

V Helping make crab cakes for our Friday Lenten Meal!

The second week of school has been a little more hectic but more like it was last year!

Talent Show

Spring Magic - By Tatiana Kauffman

Tatiana wants to help raise money to buy herself a kindle fire so she can use it for school.  She will be making several drawing for us to sell. She is so excited that people want her art work!! We will have this printed on glossy photo paper. and will be 8 x 10  SPRING MAGIC BY: TATIANA $10 without the frame       $15 with the frame Pickup/Delivery is free Locally!

with frame $15.00 USD without Frame $10.00 USD

We are auctioning off her original art work off on Facebook right now, if you would like to bid on it but do not have facebook let me know and I will enter the bid for you.

If you just want to donate to her fund, please use this button.

Outside fun..

Daddy gave our first test and taught religion! 

 We practiced our cutting and pasting before we went to preschool today. Where I had a wonderful teacher conference on P.  He is passing with flying colors and will do wonderful next year in the 4's room.

Then we went outside and had a little fun!

 

 Mommy and V having fun outside.. he's the only one that i could get to sit still 

enough to take pics with.

Stations Of the Cross

Today we started coloring our Stations of the Cross book. Each child will color a page for each station and at the end we will make a book out of our coloring pages. I've have the images for a year or two so i don't know where I got them from but if you just google "Stations of the Cross coloring" you should find something suitable.

After the kids colored the 1st station (well mommy colored one for V since he was napping)

I had the kids cut out their pages and glue them onto construction paper. 

** One is missing because D was being hard headed and didn't want to do it. 

Does anyone else have this problem with their lefty's? Our 4 yr old writes in mirror image. The first image is his name written on the back of his stations page, the second is after I flipped it in photoshop, now you can read it.. lol

Welcome Spring..

 

and day two was a little more of a challenge then yesterday.  But we got threw it!

P (4 yr old) got his Pre-K book today! He was thrilled and as soon as he got home from pre-school he HAD to do his worksheets. 

Had D (6 yr old) that didn't want to do ANYTHING, so we had a tough day today!

 And  T (9 yr old) is just my hard worker!  

 Writing her mini book report on "The Magician's Nephew" the first chapter. 

First Day of school - St. Joseph's Day

Today was our first official day homeschooling again. Yes it is March 19, 2012...

Our oldest children 6 & 9 spent the first 100 or so days in public school which was nothing but learning bad habits, learning how not to be a family, and tons of other things that we just were not fond of. So we made the decision to pull the kids out, and start re-schooling them.

To my surprise they were super excited as well as a little let down that they were not going to see their friends.

While the older kids did their work books the younger ones played on their white boards. 

We also learned about St. Joseph, and made an altar to surprise daddy with and to celebrate his feast day. 

Happy Feast Day!