Seven Arrows Homeschool

Our Jessica is TWO

2010-07-28T08:47:00.000-07:00

July 19th Jessi turned 2! She got a ton of gifts from her brothers and sister. Bubbles were a big hit as was her blueberry cake with cream cheese frosting!

Big DeArmas News

2010-07-23T10:11:00.000-07:00

Danny got a new job and we are moving back East! He starts August 23rd so things will be moving very quickly! Why did I just give away my moving boxes????

WDW

2010-07-15T08:28:00.000-07:00

Why can't I get my photos up?

2010-07-15T08:26:00.000-07:00

Blogger is frustrating me. I've been trying to post photos for a couple of weeks now and every time I try it fails. Ugggh. Perhaps it's the photos I'm choosing. Hmmmm. I'll try others.

More Much Ado

2010-05-16T12:15:00.000-07:00

We are so proud of Patricia! She was wonderful!!

Much Ado about Patricia (the Sexton)!

2010-05-14T17:41:00.000-07:00

We just got back from opening day of "Much Ado About Nothing". It was terrific! Patricia as the judge- The Sexton- was hilarious!! I can't wait to go watch again tomorrow! The boys and Jessi sported "Team Sexton" t-shirts. They gave her the last book in the Fablehaven series for her opening.

Jessi's Terp Face

2010-05-07T21:42:00.000-07:00

A Terp...

Jessi's Terp Face

She saw a picture on our Terp pillow of a Terp- and copied the face of the turtle herself! There is Jessi's Terp Face

Jessica's Belly Button Dance

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This is really cute...

Jessi loves these babies

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More...

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More Easter

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Easter

2010-04-05T09:14:00.000-07:00

Here are pictures of when we decorated for Easter, dyed eggs, and found eggs and baskets!

100 Nights Dancing

2010-03-13T09:18:00.000-08:00

The other day was the day that there were 100 nights until we go to Disney World! So we decided to celebrate by buying ice cream, going to the park, dancing to Disney music, and making 'chocolate meatballs'- melted chocolate chips, sugar, butter, milk and oats mixed together, shaped into balls, and chilled. Trisha says they taste like homemade fudge after it's been in the fridge for a few days, but that's a good thing!

100 Nights

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Gino builds a erector set car

2010-02-05T09:23:00.000-08:00

He worked hard on this car and it came out terrific! Trisha helped just a bit, but her really enjoyed building it. He has been building a lot lately. He LOVES building with ankerstones (sort of like legos but made of pressed sand.)

Snow again

2010-01-27T09:29:00.001-08:00

Gabriel really shined up his apple! He was quite proud! Jessi loves the snow with "RaRa"!

Happy Birthday to Mommy

2010-01-24T09:53:00.000-08:00

I take photos of myself once a year. I had Gabriel help me take the photos. Some are blurry but ok. He had fun. I really get amazed how green my eyes are getting. As my grandma said, I cried the color out! I feel proud to be 42. I can tell I'm looking older but I don't feel it. I feel healthy and strong. I still have a ways to go but I am also becoming more enlightened everyday, mostly thanks to my children and husband and knowledge coming in from lots of good books. I had a fun birthday and made a traditional cherry tart with cream cheese honey frosting. It was tasty. Had some leftover for breakfast that was even better! I am thankful for everything in my life and look forward to an amazing year being 42!

Dude, where's my car????

2010-01-22T12:13:00.000-08:00

Jessi's Half Birthday! - 18 months old!

2010-01-21T12:09:00.001-08:00

Jessi had a great time decorating her cake with blueberries! (sugar free, traditional cake made with oat flour but still yummy to her!) I think Gino loved it more!

The Big January Snow

2010-01-21T11:02:00.000-08:00

Papa's Visit

2010-01-19T12:13:00.000-08:00

Papa's visit was terrific! Always goes by too fast but always such fun! We went to FAO Schwarz (which is closing on 1/23 in Las Vegas). He was wowed by the Forum Shops. The boys and Papa had a huge nerf dart battle and didn't want him to leave. Papa watched Gino earn his red stripe in TKD even earning 2 6.5's (thanks to big sister for the reverse attacks) Of course he loved to tease Patricia! Papa did dishes and cleaned the kitchen for me for a good hour and a half! He can move right in! We love you Papa!

Tracy and Damien visit

2010-01-19T11:05:00.000-08:00

We really had a great time with Tracy and Damien. Damien found himself being called Nearly Uncle Damien or Almost Uncle Damien or just "D" to Gabriel who just couldn't remember his name but loved sitting on his lap or messing with him!! Jessi of course loved Aunt Tracy! I look forward to them returning!!!

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Mom at 30 years old with 5 kids 1972 Christmas

Happy 14 1/2 Birthday Patricia!!

A visit with St. Nick at the Lodge- the REAL Santa and Mrs. Santa!!

Taekwon- SNOW!! by Patricia

Happy New Year!

2010-01-01T16:48:00.000-08:00

Christmas Eve

2010-01-01T16:23:00.000-08:00

Gino found the pickle!

Green belts and greenery

2009-12-31T12:14:00.000-08:00

Winter Solstice

2009-12-30T08:51:00.000-08:00

On the first day of Winter (the last day of my mom's life 15 years ago) we have been celebrating the shortest day of the year with a "winter spiral". We create a spiral (used to be outside- too cold up here!) and lay our presents to each other around the spiral. Each person is to choose a song to sing while carrying a candle to the spiral center. On the return from the center, the person singing is to choose a gift to open, replace it with the candle (in a mug for safety) and exit the circle. He or she then picks out the next singer from the names in a stocking. We have really enjoyed this tradition of ours. This year, Roman and Daddy made us all laugh by skipping a Christmas song and dancing to the youtube fame song of the wedding party dancing down the aisle- that was on The Office. Sillyness prevailed this winter solstice even though it was interupped and restarted because of a friend's car trouble. Everyone laughed, sang and had a ball. Not exactly the solemn traditional winter spiral a la Steiner but we spin by our own current!

Merry Christmas

2009-12-24T20:15:00.000-08:00

Christmas Time

2009-12-23T10:26:00.000-08:00

Mini Gingerbread house by Trish

Jessi loves helping with dinner- snapping beans!

Gabriel had a great time making gingerbread cookies.

Old Pros!

Push ups with an extra 22 lbs!

Gino won Perfect Attendance award at the Christmas demo!

Decorating the tree

Decorating and re-decorating the tree

Snow is fun!

Patricia won the US Heritage Award at her Pillar of Light Parents Night. She was dressed as a nurse midwife when the whole group recited the Declaration of Independence from Memory. She also won the Liberty Bell award.

She read 17 Shakespeare plays and earned "Queen of Shakespeare".

Thanksgiving, Pie Friday, Snow

2009-11-29T15:36:00.001-08:00

Gino's melty sculpture

Pie judging criteria- hard to decide!

Trisha's Pie- Caramel, Vanilla Pudding Pie with an almond-chocolate crust

Gino's mixed berry tart

Gabriel and Jessi's Banana Cream Pie

Roman's Cherry Cream cheese Tart

Gabriel's Pear Cranberry pie

Gabriel is a Gold stripe!!

2009-11-28T10:36:00.000-08:00

Way to go, Gabriel! He passed his first test!!

Roman's a Green Stripe

2009-11-20T17:48:00.000-08:00

Terrific Job Roman!!!

First snow of the season

2009-11-13T16:27:00.000-08:00

to the sled run!

clearing the drive

playing with a tray of snow (no boots or snow suit yet!)

boys were up at 6am ready to play

the first flakes the night before

Happenings

2009-11-09T10:30:00.001-08:00

Trisha taught her FIRST solo Taekwon-do class on Friday. It was really great!

Firemen came to our property for forest fire prevention. The boys (still in PJs) quickly made friends and got to go on board. They also got to dress up and squirt the fire hose.

Sad

2009-11-08T00:49:00.001-08:00

My dear friend, Marika, suddenly lost her child, Cira. She was just 2 years old. We were in a homeschool group with her brother and sister back East. Trisha wrote many wonderful books about the "Adventures of" her brother and sister, Emilio and Camila. A book she never finished, titled Special Edition: Emilio and Camila and Cira the Magic Baby, sits here on my lap. Trisha is heartbroken that she never finished it. Just like this young life, the book just stops after a few pages.

Cira's Obit states... "Cira was a highly evolved soul who touched so many lives in her short 2 years with her strong outgoing yet gentle spirit and joy for life. She took on her family’s activism from the moment she was conceived, involved in improving lives around her through her family’s tireless work on the Fenty campaign, neighborhood activism, environmental awareness, and working with the at-risk population."

I've got to get home. At least to hug the ones I love.

More Halloween

2009-11-03T10:55:00.000-08:00

The candy- to be used for Trisha's candy house again this year.

Gabriel's Pumpkin- snake eating a gourd

LVTKD pumpin

We made caramel apples this year and decorated them. The kids had a ball and the caramel was so perfect- we actually made our own homemade caramel- yay!

Roman's pumpkin

Trisha's heirloom pumpkin

Medusa

The fantastic four

and the fifth little cow (this costume lasted about 5 minutes)

Halloween and ....

2009-11-02T21:57:00.000-08:00

Ghost pancakes

15 months old already

Jessi is drawing a picture of a dog here- she said so!

Airplanes from our friends in Sweden!

What's been happening in October....

2009-10-30T10:48:00.000-07:00

Lied's Children's Museum

Flipping with Daddy

Gabriel turned 6 years old!! Wow!

2009-10-09T23:19:00.000-07:00

Happy 6th birthday, Gabriel!! I forgot to post his pictures on his birthday Oct. 4th. (shares the same birthday with Aunt Dawn!)

Happy 8th Birthday Gino

2009-10-03T15:21:00.000-07:00

Gabriel starts Taekwon do

2009-10-02T09:03:00.000-07:00

Gabriel spent some of his Abu and Aby money on a cool light saber. Jessi wanted to play with him so she picked up one and knew just what to do!

Gabriel is the little fello all the way in the back. Two "big guys" started, too, and Gabriel couldn't have been more proud to be in their company!

Stretching

She's a tree hugger!! How adorable is that!!??

Happy Birthday Roman!!

2009-09-28T13:33:00.000-07:00

cake by Patricia

One happy Yellow belt

2009-09-18T09:24:00.000-07:00

Jessi and Gabriel

2009-09-09T20:40:00.001-07:00

I felt Jessi was ready to get her first bath without me. The tubs here are HUGE so I can't reach her so well. Gabriel offered to get in with her and they both had a ball. Jessica cried when it was time to get out. She also drank the water and had diarrhea the next morning because of all the chlorine in the city water here. She was fine by the afternoon.

Gino is a BLUE BELT

2009-09-09T18:47:00.001-07:00

congratulations!

Daddy earned his yellow belt! He was given the RARE 7.0 on 3 of his patterns!!! Holy cow it was a thing of beauty- flawless!!

The whole class with an amazing setting in the mountains.

Proud Gino, proud Daddy and proud brother

More Raspberry Junction Hike Pictures

2009-09-08T15:04:00.000-07:00

Picked Raspberries

The Little Falls Waterfall (we finally found it!!!)

Jessi in the backpack

Berries on the bush

Raspberry Junction Hike

2009-09-08T14:33:00.000-07:00

Elderberries

Gino with a hole in the rocks.

'Raspberry Junction'- an area in the woods where black raspberries grow.

High section side kick in our 'outdoor do-jang.'

There is a pathway that leads to a place where black raspberries grow- we now call it Raspberry Junction! Here are pictures from our hike

Jessica and Gabriel play Lacrosse

2009-08-21T09:52:00.000-07:00

She's a natural!

Happiness on Yes day

2009-08-14T14:58:00.000-07:00

Enjoying the spanish station

Jessica must ride a bike, too!

2009-08-14T08:54:00.000-07:00

Jessi couldn't wait to ride a bike too. She grunted and whined and pointed to the little trike under the steps until we got it for her. She loves it!

Yes Day

2009-08-13T21:17:00.001-07:00

Balloons for baby

About 5 years ago I invented a holiday. It's called "Yes Day". All year I feel I spend too much time saying "No" and so along came "Yes Day". We chose to have the day on the day Danny and I met. We made one rule: You can do anything and have anything you ask for unless it harms yourself or others. ($15 limit on things that cost money.) So what a Yes Day this year! Daddy took off work and came along! He had some terrific ideas and we had an amazing day!!! Bellagio

Salt water taffy from Whole Foods

Ben and Jerry's "smores"

Bellagio atrium

Bellagio Fountains

Gabriel learns to ride a bike in 30 minutes or less!!!

2009-08-13T19:51:00.001-07:00

Jessica's first time playing in the dirt. (soon to be sand box)

Schwinn Stingray chopper bike Gabriel bought from craigslist for $15

so proud

amazing boy

Sweet ride!

Holy cow- the influence of older siblings!

Roman and Gino can ride bikes now!

2009-08-10T15:55:00.001-07:00

Lovin' the Summertime

2009-08-10T14:23:00.000-07:00

She likes black beans!

Lots of friends

Found a scorpion

silly sleeping in the back pack

Our Garden project

2009-08-02T15:05:00.001-07:00

Here is our plot....

Deer found the sunflowers....

topsy-turvy not so great

our front plot surrounded with wildflowers

Roman's spinach

Basil

Sugar snap peas did amazingly well in the rocks

Roman planted these sunflowers that are supposed to get 12 feet tall!

Pumpkin? Watermelon?

Parsley doing great

Trisha's strawberries are still producing!

cantelope?

Giant pumpkin

Sunflower that grew out of the garden- I think Gabriel dropped some seeds. We grew 6 that way!

Jessica's birthday

2009-07-30T18:22:00.000-07:00

cozy!

very cozy!

Gabriel loved playing with the tissue paper with Jessi!

So sweet

Ooopps- finger in nostril!!

We had a kangaroo mouse- IN OUR VAN

2009-07-30T17:48:00.000-07:00

Cute little fellow, huh? Well, today after opening the trunk to our car after being at the dentist for Gino for 3 hours, this thing was in our van!! Last time I give the baby the keys to play with after dark. (door button pressed, left open all night- glad it wasn't a mountain lion!!!)

Roman passes!! He's a yellow stripe!

2009-07-16T22:52:00.000-07:00

Art by Patricia

Instructor, Master Bosse on the right, Danny in the middle and Reznor (another student testing with Roman) on the left.

One happy Roman with Gino to his left.

Patricia on the left, Logan (another student) in the middle and Gino on the right.

Jumping for joy!!!

Board breaking!!

Jessi does a shaky butt dance

2009-07-15T22:32:00.000-07:00

She's 14

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icecream sandwich fudge cake

Jessi wanted these pants because they were like Gabriel's

wishes with homemade candles

cheesecake

beautiful

Happy 14th Birthday Patricia Ann!

2009-07-02T11:22:00.000-07:00

She's in there somewhere getting a group mug, I mean hug!

Sign by Gabriel and Roman

Pancake breakfast by request

Lots of books, new pillows, an Inkheart game, homemade cards and a mug.

14 years ago I became a mom. I never realized such joy in this life could come from holding pure joy. I treasure you, Patricia Ann. You continue to give me joy every day of my life. Thanks for being my little girl! I love you!!! Always, Mommy

Danny took the gang to the Bass Pro Shop. We are planning Trisha's favorite- lasagna for dinner with a strawberry whipped cream topped cheesecake to sing over. yummmy

What's up

2009-07-02T10:22:00.000-07:00

Dominoes....

Huge moths....

Gabriel lost his first tooth- a molar!

Abu came to visit- lots of sky watching!

Trisha harvested from her strawberry patch!

Aunt Tracy's visit

2009-06-05T15:38:00.000-07:00

Climbing

For a tire swing

Gino

House in the woods

What a huge surprise! Danny told us that his friend Doug was coming to town. Turns out it was Tracy!! What a great visit!!

After a rainstorm- puddle jumping!

2009-06-05T10:21:00.000-07:00

Muddy memorial day

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Wedding

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After the show

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More Shrew pictures

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Party after show

Friends!

Katherina and Pertrucio

After show feast!

Silly picture

Shrew

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Shrew fans!

Kate

Katherina and Master Bosse

Bows

Gabriel's Kiss me Kate T-shirt

More Taming of the Shrew Pictures

2009-05-08T18:17:00.000-07:00

Before the play

After the play

All cast on stage

Boys ready for the play- and ready for the free ice cream they get when they redeem their tickets!

What an amazing job she did! Absolutely the star- she signed autographs for "star struck" fans after the play!!! We are so proud!

The Taming of the Shrew- Friday Show

2009-05-08T17:56:00.000-07:00

Kate after the play with her dozen strawberry-rose-bouquet- hand dipped chocolate strawberries made in to a bouquet by Mommy- yummmmy

Left to right: Katherina, the shrew, Grumio, servant to Petrucio, Petrucio, Kate's husband

Left to right: Biondella, servant to Baptista, Baptista, mother of Katherina and Bianca, Bianca, Katherina's sister, Katherina, the shrew.

Trisha is Katherina "Kate" the Shrew in her Friday, May 8th Show, which was sold out!

He's a blue stripe!

2009-05-08T17:30:00.000-07:00

so happy he passed!

Won-Hyo

Free sparring

Gino passes his blue stripe test!

She's a Black Belt!!

2009-05-08T16:16:00.000-07:00

New black belt.

About to break a board with a double jumping-front-kick

Downward knife hand strike right before the board breaks.

Ho-Sin-Sul

Patterns

update

2009-05-02T23:22:00.000-07:00

homemade car

Easter time

2009-04-14T16:19:00.000-07:00

5 inches of snow Good Friday into Saturday

Rescued Lily's

Gabriel's new friend Mason at the LL egg hunt

Get ready, get set

LL at the egg hunt

Legoland trip

2009-04-01T23:07:00.001-07:00

Gino had one of those calcium deposits on his eyelid and it was driving Danny nuts. He wanted to remove it for him with a sterile pin, as he has done in the past with me and Trisha. It was haunting!!!! Finally he promised "I'll take you to Legoland". A few days later it worked out that Gino was "brave" enough for Danny to remove it. I volunteered to stay home with the dogs after the big downer of "uhhhh, we can't go because of the dogs....". Anyway, the plan was set. I had a really hard time being without everyone. But they had a great time at the park. And they were able to go to the beach and the aquarium, too.

UFO?

2009-03-20T12:19:00.000-07:00

Is this a UFO? We filmed it at Mt. Charleston from our porch.

Jessica is 8 months old

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Signs of Spring

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More...

2009-03-20T10:01:00.001-07:00

Stuntman Johnson (self dubbed name by Gino during his "climb" to Mt. Everest.)

Hard to tell but she is standing in this photo.

He just has it

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Cake by Trish

Invading someone else's kite flying experience

What we've been up to....

2009-03-20T09:43:00.001-07:00

Community Connection Festival

5 kids in the kitchen- this photo "cracks" me up!

Patricia becomes the Shrew!!

2009-03-10T09:47:00.001-07:00

Trish won the part of Kate (the lead) in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" to be performed by her homeschool Scholar's Class in May. Which sort of Shrew will she be? Hmm, watch out Liz Taylor! We are so proud of her. She really is amazing! Her mentor and director had this to say....
"I wanted to first tell you that Trisha did so well in auditioning for Katharina, although I'm sure you already knew that! I'm so grateful for her dedication and preparation. It inspires the other scholars and sets a standard of excellence in our commonwealth--even more than I can as the mentor. She is a true scholar and I'm so excited to work with her on the performance." Pam Love

Here's a few words about the play...

The Summary of Taming of the Shrew

This drama is one of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare. The play starts with the Induction where a trick is played by a nobleman on the drunkard Christopher Sly who arranges for an acting troupe to perform a play called The Taming of the Shrew...The beautiful and gentle Bianca has no shortage of admirers (Lucentio, Gremio and Hortensio) but her father insists that she will not marry until her shrewish sister, Katharina, is betrothed. Bianca's suitors persuade fortune-seeker Petruchio to court her. The suitors pay for any costs involved and there is also the goal of Katharina's dowry. Petruchio marries Katharina and he carries Katharina off to his country house with his servant Grumio. Petruchio intends to browbeat Katharina into submission and he denies her food, sleep and her new clothes, whilst continuously singing her praises. Katharina is tamed. They return to Padua where Lucentio has won Bianca. At a banquet they wager on who has the most obedient wife. Each wife is issued with commands but only Katharina obeys and promptly lectures everyone on the importance of wifely submission.

Here's about Katharina (Trisha's role)...

Widely reputed throughout Padua to be a shrew, Katharina is foul-tempered and sharp-tongued at the start of the play. She constantly insults and degrades the men around her, and she is prone to wild displays of anger, during which she may physically attack whomever enrages her. Though most of the play’s characters simply believe Katharina to be inherently ill-tempered, it is certainly plausible to think that her unpleasant behavior stems from unhappiness. She may act like a shrew because she is miserable and desperate. There are many possible sources of Katharina’s unhappiness: she expresses jealousy about her father’s treatment of her sister, but her anxiety may also stem from feelings about her own undesirability, the fear that she may never win a husband, her loathing of the way men treat her, and so on. In short, Katharina feels out of place in her society. Due to her intelligence and independence, she is unwilling to play the role of the maiden daughter. She clearly abhors society’s expectations that she obey her father and show grace and courtesy toward her suitors. At the same time, however, Katharina must see that given the rigidity of her social situation, her only hope to find a secure and happy place in the world lies in finding a husband. These inherently conflicting impulses may lead to her misery and poor temper. A vicious circle ensues: the angrier she becomes, the less likely it seems she will be able to adapt to her prescribed social role; the more alienated she becomes socially, the more her anger grows.
Despite the humiliations and deprivations that Petruccio adds to her life, it is easy to understand why Katharina might succumb to marry a man like him. In their first conversation, Petruccio establishes that he is Katharina’s intellectual and verbal equal, making him, on some level, an exciting change from the easily dominated men who normally surround her. Petruccio’s forcible treatment of Katharina is in every way designed to show her that she has no real choice but to adapt to her social role as a wife. This adaptation must be attractive to Katharina on some level, since even if she dislikes the role of wife, playing it at least means she can command respect and consideration from others rather than suffer the universal revulsion she receives as a shrew. Having a social role, even if it is not ideal, must be less painful than continually rejecting any social role at all. Thus, Katharina’s eventual compliance with Petruccio’s self-serving “training” appears more rational than it might have seemed at first: by the end of the play, she has gained a position and even an authoritative voice that she previously had been denied.

Fun with water colors

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S'mores

2009-03-05T09:02:00.000-08:00

Trisha made baked S'mores. You put the marshmallow and chocolate on a grahm cracker and put it in the oven on the broiler setting for a little under a minute. Then put the other cracker on top and enjoy!

Parks, Parks, Parks!

2009-03-05T08:50:00.000-08:00

We visited several parks- it was slightly chilly out down in Vas Vegas but not nearly as cold as Mt. Charleston, where the boys enjoy sliding down the big piles of icy-snow. We even found a tennis ball full of pennies! Someone must have been using it at the lacrosse park we went to so it would be heavier.

Park day with Kimberly and family

2009-02-21T14:00:00.000-08:00

Playing spud

Roman

Anna and Patricia showing Jessica the big tree.

Roman and Dominic setting up the pitching machine at the park (they were dodging the balls)

A usual silly Gino

It's winter

2009-02-15T13:02:00.000-08:00

Sweet baby in a hat

Mr. November?

Pretty sunset
Gino caught in the act of nailing Trish with a snowball

Too much snow?

Snow is back

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We are supposed to get 2 feet this weekend! Lots of fun!!

Doing fine!

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golden spider- really neat- anyone know what kind???

Mommy's 41st Birthday

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A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Gabriel didn't make it!

Trisha's dip

pots and pans

waiting for midnight

first Christmas

A great day

more...

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Julianna and Gabriel at the Christmas Party

Gabriel

So big!!!

How big is Jessica??!! So Big!

Just like her brothers

Jessi Crawls! Dec. 08

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Catch up

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Christmas morning

What an amazing TKD student!

First big snow

So much news....

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Biggest news...Patricia wins Most Outstanding Student again this year for Tae Kwon Do! We are so proud of her! Gino tied with her for Perfect Attendance. (Well, actually the instructor docked Gino for one day because he sat out because he had a hard time breathing. But he was there and made the effort to go even though feeling ill. Patricia shared her perfect attendance trophy with him and added his name to it. What a wonderful child!)

Patricia also won Best Sparring (fighting) of the year!

What a great Christmas Demo! Photos to come soon!

Spiders

2008-11-18T19:55:00.001-08:00

Lots of spiders in our new home. We thought this one only had 6 legs but not up close. Neat folk but we've asked them to leave.

Mama and Jessi

2008-11-18T19:51:00.001-08:00

Bummer about the red tint. I had my hand over the flash. Still cute though!

Harvest

2008-11-18T19:47:00.000-08:00

Trisha's mandarin trees produced- quite tasty!