Let the fun begin!

We've been wanting to name our homeschool for a few years now. Well, here it is.......our school is officially name Greenhouse Academy. Yeah!!!

Greenhouse Academy educates year round. We like taking a lot of breaks throughout the year, instead of one big summer break.

This works well for our family. :o)

Throughout the traditional school year we enjoy a lot of activities(band, field trips, fun classes, etc). Then the summer hits with a welcome break after 9 months of a lot of activity. Well, the summer is over and it is time to get back into the swing of things. Last week we had the first P.E. class of the year. We also enjoyed the first meeting of our homeschool group. What a blessing to have a group of parents come together praying, laughing, and learning. It really is a special thing!

Here are some recent pictures

P.E. Class

The next series of pictures is of our 5 year-old son who is trying to hard to not get his flag taken

He is running so fast. As he tries to avoid the boy trying to take his flag, he falls...

he rolls over to the side, still trying to get away....

keeps rolling...

then attempts to quickly crawl away...

still crawling....

still crawling...

and then he falls again...

he can't crawl or run, so he tries rolling away...

finally....he loses the battle

Puddle fun!

From Us in August

The summer is coming to an end.

We are looking forward another great year of homeschooling, and are so looking forward to the end of our home renovation.

Here are some pictures from the last month.

Love this picture

Picture of our 5 at a park

Walking at the park

Playing in the front yard

He's so cuddly!

Our lil' neighbors who stopped by for a visit

Sibling love

This is how our lil' princess likes to play. When she is with her brothers, she plays hard.

Our lil' pirate

Thank you Aunt Sherley

Running man

A Wedding and some Summer Fun

Can I tell you how excited we were to have phase 1 of our renovation done. :o) For the past 2 months, we have had no dining room table. With 5 kids, that can get messy. The kids have gotten used to too much freedom. So, I was so excited when we moved the dining room table back into the house. This evening we had our first dinner back in our dining room. We excitedly set the table and waited for Dad to come home.

While I was waiting, Michael spotted some corn bread up on the table and proceeded to climb up and get one. I came in the room to see this....

I yelled for my daughter to get the camera(while at the same time making sure he was safe), so I could get a shot. Our little monkey keeps me on my toes!

After dinner, we enjoyed some time outside

Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of joining close family friends at a wedding celebration!

What a great day it was! We got to enjoy great fellowship, and take part in celebrating such a special occasion.

This is one of the few shots I got of the beautiful Bride and handsome Groom.

My FAVORITE picture of the night!!! This is getting framed for sure!!

Our little guy was tired!

Enjoying the summer and a new lil' neice

Home renovations are still going well. Hope to post the "after" pictures soon.

Here is the newest addition to our family!

So sweet and so cuddly....my lil' neice :o)

The summer has been busy, but so much fun! We've spent time enjoying the great outdoors.

Our slip-n-slide was so much fun!