Projects

A few pictures of things the kids made/worked on that they wanted to keep a photo of before breaking it down - Nature sculpture in a jar ...

Sunrise

I never get tired of the beauty of a sunrise. An overwhelming majority that I have seen have been viewed out our back patio window but rathe...

Pi Day

Gloria *loves* to cook desserts so she spear-headed pie-making for Pi Day (the best one of the century!) She chose to make chocolate pudding...

Sheep Shearing at Gale Woods Farm

Today, Jim and I took Lauren, Gloria, Natalie and Jamie out to Gale Woods Farm for sheep shearing day. This special event included a number ...

Can I Play Too?

After we came home from our mini field trip to the lake, we played a game of Apples to Apples. Poor Roxy seemed like she wanted to join the ...

St Alban’s Bay

Instead of going swimming at Williston tonight with Natalie and Jamie, we went over to McDonald’s in Excelsior for ice cream and then walked...

Spring Walk at Round Lake Park

The weather was unseasonably warm this week so we took advantage of that and went to play and walk at Round Lake Park. Even though there was...

Muddy Fun

Every spring as the snow melts, the dirt patches in the back yard are exposed and we have a few weeks of mud. For me, this is a frustration....

Sisters Photo Shoot

Lauren wanted to take the Canon Rebel along on our field trip to Round Lake so we could stage a few fun sister photos (mostly so she could s...

Nature Trail Photo Shoot

Lauren and Gloria have been extra interested in photography lately. They took the Canon out on the nature trail behind the high school and s...

Another Sunday Art Project

Keeping up with last week’s idea to do arts/crafts on Sunday afternoons, today we made new wall art for the living room by masking off lines...

Mega Icicle

How irresistible are large icicles? They simply cannot be left alone – they CALL OUT to be harvested! This one came off the overhang in fron...

Succulent Garden

I think I saw this idea on Pinterest awhile ago - We took some of the small pottery items the girls made in school and made a cute little su...

Date Night

  Jim and I had a lovely date night starting with dinner at Maynard’s in Excelsior and ending with a show at Music Box Theatre in Minneapo...

Family Service Day

Today, we did a food packing session at Feed My Starving Children. Our table worked really fast and packed over 35 boxes in our 2 hour sessi...

Flying Foot Forum and Minneapolis Field Trip

Today we went downtown for a dance performance at The Cowles Theater plus some bonus stops. The dance performance was a student matinee (onl...

Cardboard Ice Cream Truck

Today's boxes from Amazon were going to become a rocket ship but ended up an ice cream truck instead. These were unusually large boxes a...

Katie BDay Dinner

We celebrated Katie’s 17th birthday with dinner out at Axel’s with me, Jim, Juliana, Alex and Josh. It was a great meal topped off with a hu...

Sunday Art–God’s Eyes

I have missed doing little crafty projects with the girls; they haven't seemed to find a home on our homeschool schedule but with a litt...

Another Sunset

Just another sunset that Katie shot with my phone as we were out and about doing something trivial, probably coming home from Target.

Winter

The dog continues to try hiding from winter. I think the photo says it best for all of us.

MN Center for Book Arts Class

We were very fortunate to be able to take a class about paper making and book making at the MN Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis this week...