We are a family of geeks!

My little computer geek :)  You would think that after a week of schooling mostly online, she'd be tired of the computer...but no!  It looks like I'm never going to get my laptop back.  I was smart enough to set limits on her "side" so I should hear a groan any minute telling me there is something wrong!

School went really well this week.  We have been able to do all the introductory stuff as well as break into a few lessons.  Wow, I feel like we are so behind.  They weren't kidding when they said Nevada was a year to a year and a half behind.  I have no idea how she is going to keep up but they guarantee me that our kids in Nevada are taking on the task and doing well.  I'm thankful to know I'm not alone!

OK, let's get started!

So we come back from vacation to a sleepover with Sarah's friends to celebrate her best friends birthday. They were planning a "fashion show" so she tried on a few clothing options for me....why does she have to look so darned grown up! 

Anyway, it sounds like they had a great time.  They stayed up all night, ate tons of junk, and suppposedly the host mom "ruined" it by not judging them.  She just gave them all a price for participating....sounds like the school system...make them all "feel" good.

This is the bench Sarah chose for her homeschool books.  I think we are ready to start our modified approach to school this week!  We are going to try to do 3 classes a day just to get used to the classes and the routine.  Here's praying it all goes well!

Sarah's birthday week was awesome, followed by a great gathering of good friends and family. I can't believe our friends and family actually drove to see us for such a short time! We are so lucky to have such amazing people in our lives.

I can't believe Sarah is 13 now....how did that happen? Wasn't she just a toddler just a minute ago!

Sarah knee boarding

Another awesome boat ride

...and finally we had to come home! It was a great trip. I'm so glad we were able to do it. Now we can look forward to opening all those boxes that have our new K12 materials in them! Let the adventure begin :)

Sarah on the drive home

And my love......

Vacation!!!!

Wow, it's been so long since we've had a real vacation I'm not sure how to describe how nice it is to just get away!  We have been blessed with Tracy's parents allowing us to come visit them for 9 days in wonderful, beautiful, cool Lake Arrowhead :)  Believe me when I say it's a lovely respit from our summer heat.

Sarah helping grandpa on the boat

Sarah's favorite spot on the boat

 

Tracy with his dad



Our Lake Vacation

We are having such a great time at Lake Arrowhead this trip. It's been a few years since we have been able to have a vacation and it's a blessing to have been able to make it here.  Sarah is gaining a lot of confidence in knee boarding and driving the boat!  More later, but I just wanted to come in and share what an awesome time it has been so far....more tomorrow at the water park :)

Independence Day Is Almost Here!

Sarah is celebrating with her new set of glasses.  As of today she's a little over 5'4", 84 lbs, and looking more grown up everyday.  I keep telling her to slow down growing because I'm not ready to have her get taller than me but I'm afraid that's not going to work out for me!  We are happy to see her natural dark blonde coming back.  I can't believe it took 9 months for the "temporary" color to wash out!  Happily she has said that she will never again die her hair...somehow I'm fairly certain this will not be the case but it's good that she might like to wait for awhile :)

Tracy has been working some crazy hours lately.  I know that he is trying his best to keep me home with Sarah and allowing us to homeschool this next year.  Could I love this guy any more than I do today.....I'm a blessed woman!

Freebies, Great Deals & Swag Bucks

I've been having fun with my savings blog!  I can't believe that I'm not working so that I can assign myself work to do :)  I've been trying to only work until 9:30 in order to have the rest of the day with Sarah.

I really wanted to get at least 100 followers on the blog but it's not really working out well that way.  Facebook is good though.  We are climbing up to 900 followers so I guess that's better than nothing...got to figure out how to make the blog side work!

It has been working out pretty well for the most part.  I wish I could say that I'm enthusiastic every day to fill it in but mostly that's true.  It gets to be work every once in awhile but as long as it's more fun than work we're good!