Trip to Museum

On Saturday we went to Lawrence, Kansas. We visited the Natural History Museum on the campus of KU.Rock Chalk JayHawk! :)

Here is the Natural History Musuem:

This is a house cat!

This was an incredibly large fossilized bone!

Right across the street from the museum there was a stick sculpture being made. The artist and volunteers are working for about 3 weeks to make it. Very Cool! You can check out his web site at www.stickwork.net. He has some incredible works.

Kathy

Another Reason...

... Why I love homeschooling. This is how Becca did some of her subjects this week.The above is a gift from some folks that we know. I put them in a personalized crock that was a house warming gift.

-Kathy-

Today :)

I told several people that we would show photos of the house and we haven't shown much of it. Since I was taking a photo of the writing on the mirror in the master bath I thought I would take photos of the whole room:

This made me smile today. When I went up after breakfast I found this sweet note from my hubby. And yes, I did check to see if he used one of my "good" lipsticks to write it with! :)

Just hanging around.

Kathy

Awana Awards night

Last night was the end of the year for Awana. Sarah and Zach were both recognized for finishing their books.Here is Becca's group:
Becca finished the year strong! She finished her book, did all of the silver and gold extra credits and reviewed the whole book. To review the book you have to say from memory all of these things (in one sitting): 4 questions, 32 answers and 32 bible verses! It is quite an accomplishment. She is the only one in her group that did all of the above!
Josh, Kevin and I all work so we were awarded our service pins. Josh received his 6 year pin, Kevin got his 12 year pin and I got my 11th year! Now for our summer off before it starts all over again. :)
Kathy

New apron

Recently I made a new apron. I saw the idea at a garage sale, didn't want to pay $12.00 for it, so I made one for free! Notice the cute model !!!!! ;)Kathy

New Do for B

Well, she has been talking about this for a while and finally did it today:

Before:After:

Peony Tree

Zach has been working a lot lately for a family from church that live around the corner. He has mowed their yard 2X in the last 8 days and has been digging a new garden plot for them. I think the garden spot is about 25 ft X 12 ft. Lots of hours for him! Good clean work never hurt a 14 year old. :) Plus he is still raising $ for our trip to TeenPact National Convention at the end of the month. Yesterday that lady brought me a jar of Tree Peonys! They smell FANTABULOUS! (doesn't seem right that he does the work and I get a gift! Tee Hee) Here is a quick pic of them.

Kathy

Recovered

I have been wanting to get some color into the kitchen and finally did something about it a couple weeks ago. I recovered the 4 seat cushions at the breakfast table, recovered the 2 bar stools and recovered the cushion for the computer chair. Zach is painting the computer chair for me right now. Hopefully that will be done by the weekend. And I used some of the left over fabric for a curtain above the kitchen window!The above chair is being painted black right now.Kathy

Our springtime yard

It is so much fun to learn all about our new yard. Since this is our first spring here in this house we are discovering what is here as it pops up!
Enjoy:






Kathy

Something new

I dislike it when people don't post new stuff on their blogs so here I go:Isn't she cute????

Need I say anything???

This is a farm that we passed a couple weeks ago when we drove to KC for a home school conference. I love to drive by this place, but this time with the clover in bloom it was fantastic! And the building in the back ground is NOT the house, it is the BARN! You can see a bit of the house on the right of the photo.
Kathy

Ludicrous

In this time of crisis after supposed crisis why is Congress debating the BCS College Football structure?