It's August and I'm finally taking the time to bang out a few posts from May on the ol' keyboard.
Ah, life.
At the beginning of May, we grabbed books from the library about flowers and did a little study. It was interesting learning about the different parts of a flower and the different types and how they grow.
Then the girls each drew 6. The older ones drew extras for the little ones.
We colored and cut out the flowers and glued them onto a picture of Mary for a little "May crowning".
So cute, right?
Silly faces!
While the oldest 3 were at their homeschool charter school one Friday, I had some time to do a little Letter C project with Sophie and Kolbe. C is for cupcake. They loved the pasting, coloring, and sticking on stickers for "sprinkles".
Elise's drama class at homeschool charter school wrote and put on puppet shows. Here is hers. She was the fairy godmother.
Our sweet realtor sent us a little 2nd-Anniversary-of-buying-our-house gift--a stack of bundt cakes and a balloon for each of the kids. so sweet! And I got majorly nostalgic. I'm sure part of it had to do with the total surprise of it all, but just the fact that we've been here for 2 years! You guys, that is THE longest we have ever lived anywhere and definitely the longest we've ever owned a home of our own. I was crying all the grateful, happy tears. Thank you, Lord, for the struggles to get here, but thank you, too, for this wonderful new milestone for us.
Elise received a croquet set for her birthday in March, and we finally set it up to play.
Some neighbors joined in the fun too!
All the snuggles.
Can I just say that I'm getting A LOT better at letting some of the things go so that I can just BE with my kids and enjoy them? And let me tell you, it is GLORIOUS! I wish someone had come along and made me do this about 10 years ago when I thought I had to do ALL THE THINGS and proceeded to drown and then drown even deeper for years and years because I just couldn't truly juggle it all well.
These moments are precious and don't last forever. I'm holding them close.
Our neighbors car caught fire (yikes!)! Everything was fine (Praise the Lord!) and Kolbe was pretty thrilled for the fire truck show right out his front window.
The homeschool charter school hosted a fun field day.
I had to take a picture of this boy with his hands in his pockets because that has been his thing recently and it is killing me. It is just the cutest thing. Soaking up these sweet memories of the little things they do that just make us smile.
We were blessed to be able to venerate the incorrupt heart of St. John Vianney (Chris' Confirmation Saint) at the Augustine Institute one Monday morning.
It was beautiful and they also had relics of Sts. Augustine and Monica there.
What a blessing we have in the Saints whose lives can teach us so much.
We purchased the party pack from BeAHeartDesign for the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima and had a lovely celebration.
These are basically Portuguese donuts of a sort. The kids loved them and loved helping with them.
Beautiful flowers at our close parish greeted us every time we visited Our Lord.
I had no idea there were yellow irises.
We tried out a fun new park!
with just these two and they were so cute. She is such a sweet big sis when it's just the two of them
Quirkle fun with Little Pink Riding Hood. ;)
Ava lost her first tooth!!!!!!!!!!
SNOW.
In late May. Not even cool, God.
and yet....
The hummingbird coming to the feeder during the cold was, so I guess it's ok.
Mowing the lawn with Daddy. He even picked out his green shirt that day to be like Daddy.
Ava helped me bake a blueberry pie.
Hiking Deer Creek Canyon--one of our family favorites.
Kolbe hiked the whole thing on his own!
It's roughly three miles and all different sorts of terrain.
Play-dough fun!
Decorating cupcakes and cookies.
The cookies were for our Marian consecration celebration.
They are shaped like lady bugs. In our consecration book we learned that lady bugs are named for Our Lady, so we thought we'd incorporate them into the fun.
