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Backyard Update
There’s been such a flurry of activity around here between kids going to camps and working on our backyard. Yes, we still have a lot to accomplish in the backyard. Much of it are things that are more “behind the scenes” like electrical wiring. The deadline is August 13 when my daughter, Serenity, has her high school graduation party. My fourth child to graduate. I can hardly believe I will have more than half of my children finished with their homeschooling journey! In the last post, which was over a week ago, I shared pictures of the sod being laid and how the yard was transformed in one day from…
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From Dirt to Grass in One Day (Almost)
Work has not stopped in the backyard. Something is always going on back there. After all, we have a deadline of August 13 which is when we’ll be having my daughter’s homeschool highschool graduation party. Trenches had to be dug for the sprinkler system. 350 tons of soil was brought in because where we live there are rocks, rocks, rocks! The soil had to be leveled out. So many tasks needed to be accomplished before the sod could be laid. My hubby pulled a few all-nighters to get everything ready… but it still wasn’t when the sod arrived. But after feverishly working and running around trying…
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Finishing A Chapter and Starting a New One
Justus’s 8th grade graduation night couldn’t have been more special. Along with 50 other students, he received a certificate of completion for his junior high studies when he participated in our state’s homeschool graduation ceremony which is sponsored by Arizona Families for Home Education. There was some amazing musical talent that night on the piano as well as vocalists. Hal & Melanie Young gave the commencement address and talked to the graduates about “Stepping Up to the Plate” and how they are moving out of childhood and becoming young men and women and what this should look like. Justus receiving his certificate of completion. We all stood and…
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A Time to Celebrate
Tonight’s the night. Justus will be graduating from 8th grade and his high school journey will be beginning. (taken 2014) We’ve had small celebrations for each child when they complete the 8th grade and I’ve had 4 to plan for. Tonight will be the 5th. First there was Seth, then a few years later, Zachary, then Wesley, Serenity and now Justus. He’s worked hard and I couldn’t be more proud of him. Congratulations, Justus – my little man!
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Camp Time! and a Westward Trek Back Home
And Part II of our eastward trek with a van load of kids. Part I is here. Camp was filled with a variety of activities. Things like hair clinics where girls will fix your hair all pretty. Art classes Choir practice for those so inclined… Lego fun with a contest at the end…. Which can be very difficult for the judges… Chess… (Justus’s dorm had a chess tournament. The final championship round was between him and another boy in which the other boy won.) Sports… Someone captured this “Bump, Set, Spike” video in which Wesley is the spiker. And then there were crafts, bread baking classes, softball classes, advanced…
