Yard Bunny

I saw so many bunnies this year it wasn't even funny. Perhaps this is the one who ate all the peas from the garden. It obviously enjoyed...

Jim's 60th Birthday

We held Jim's big b-day at Lone Lake Park for ease of set-up and clean up. It was a lovely day with no bugs and a great turn out - so mu...

Katie Graduation Party Photo Shoot

I was going to hire a photographer to do Katie's photos for her graduation announcement but that didn't end up working out. We did...

Compassion Mobile Experience

For our last official day of school for the year, we went on a field trip to the Compassion Mobile Experience in Woodbury, This was a chance...

The Unofficial Beginning of Summer

Today looked like the first "real" day of summer since we can mentally depend on the idea that an 80-degree is more the norm than ...

Caterpillars

Natalie found about a dozen caterpillars out by the zip line platform, including one who was busy actively walking/munching the edge of a le...

Chicken Growth

The chickens outgrew their plastic storage box pretty quickly. We could see it coming so I ordered a great big bunch of household stuff w...

Roxy and Bunny

Roxy mostly ignores the little animals in the house but this was too much for her to take - the play yard for Bunny got set up in our bedroo...

Bike Ride with Lauren

Lauren has really been into bike riding (probably because of her BF Adam's love for it, but that's fine) so she and I went for a lit...

Wirth Park

Since the weather was perfect today, we headed out with the portable grill and picnic basket to Wirth Park for lunch and some trail walkin...

Glow Sticks

This is a terrible photo but there was a lot of excitement tonight because I let the kids have the glow sticks I had been saving for no part...

Great River Pool

We had this activity planned for Spring Break but it didn't work out so we did it this weekend instead. This is a fun pool in St. Paul. ...

Redneck Chicken Run

It is getting to be time to let the chicks go outside so they get used to the idea that there is more to the world than their box so I "...

Purgatory Canoe Trip

Dan McCarthy called for a kind of last-minute to do a trip down Purgatory Creek with Gloria, Natalie and Lauren (plus Nathan/Gingie) from ch...

Misc Homeschool Projects

These are some of the things the girls have been working on in school this month. left - Lauren sewed this messenger bag from a pattern ...

Nature Drama at Thorpe

Today when I dropped off Jamie at Thorpe Park for her end-of-the-year party with Good News Club, we witnessed some unexpected nature drama u...

Mission Trip Fundraiser

We made and sold these little gift jars for a fundraiser for the summer Mission Trip at Mills Church. It was pretty successful and added to ...

Rainy Day

caught by Gloria with an umbrella

Purgatory Bike Ride

Gloria, Jamie and I went on a bike ride to Purgatory Park after school. We of course had to stop at the landing where the steps go down to t...

Birthday and Mother's Day Weekend

I had a great series of celebrations this weekend. On Friday (my birthday), I went out to lunch with my mom at People's Organic at the ...

Imagination Fair

Today was the culmination of about a month long project focus in our homeschool – the Imagination Fair. This was a chance to display project...