I have a few  pictures of the 8th grade celebration we had this past weekend.  A surprise, I know that I would post pictures. 🙂  Wesley went through the graduation ceremony for jr. high graduates our states homeschool committee puts together each year.  Since celebrating milestones in life is important to me we participated in it. I don’t have any pictures of Wesley at the actual ceremony.  They were too dark since we were at a distance from him.  But I did get this one of Zachary and a friend.  They look very guilty, don’t you think?  They were making plans for when Wesley’s name was announced – and I caught them!  It…

I have a few minutes before I need to get busy in the kitchen cooking up things for the graduation party we’re having tomorrow night, so I thought I’d post some pictures of the  swimming hole we went to yesterday.  I love the diversity of Arizona.  Hot burning desert, sand, cactus and rocks usually come to mind when you think of Arizona but it really isn’t all that.  I think I’ve heard it’s the 3rd state in the nation for its diversity – California & Florida being #1 and #2.  To find complete privacy we hiked about 1/2 mile.    With it being over 100°F  we were good and hot…

Oh, the lazy days of summer, no, it’s the busy, hot days of summer around here.  Today we’re off to a swimming hole and packing along a picnic lunch where we’ll get to cool off a little from this heat. I won’t be around much this week.  Heading to our homeschool convention on Friday and so looking forward to it.  But we’re also having a celebration while we’re there.  Wesley will be graduating from the 8th grade and going through the ceremony they have at our convention.  After the graduation we’re having a get together in our hotel suite where I’ll have some good things to eat.  My 3rd child to…

Tomorrow we head out to a church youth camp taking others, as well as our family to Ohio. One thing will be different this time. Seth will be following us in his (new to him) truck and  then staying on until the end of August or till sometime in September. He was offered a job there for the summer putting on metal roofs.  He’s really looking forward to his time there, his bags are packed and just this weekend he bought his first ever vehicle.  He’s now the proud owner of a little Mazda 4×4, for all of $2,200, purchased with 4-H money.    At church this weekend, all the men gathered round…