Our Home

My dear friend, Tamra, asked me months ago to post pics of our new home. Mostly so she can show her children that we live in a new place etc. So, finally ... the boxes are unpacked and things are mostly in it's place. (I started this blog post in October!)




Our dining / school room!


Grant and Jack's room!

Our living room!

Another view of the living room!

Shelby and Michael's room!

MY room! HA! OUR room!

The kitchen - above and below!

Now I should add pictures with Christmas decorations! Hope this gives you a good idea of where we live!

Dentist and Field Trip

We have been trying to finish up our study of ancient history, so we made a stop in Ancient Greece. We have been reading about Homer, the people of ancient Athens and Sparta, Greek gods, and the first Olympics! When our reading took us to the architecture of the "Par-fa- non" - as Jack calls it - I new it was time to head downtown for a visit! We have driven through the park where it is located several times, but we have never stopped! So, after our dentist appointments (Shelby, Grant, & Jack) we headed to lunch with Daddy and off on a field trip.



How cool is this! An exact replica!




This place is HUGE!



Well, I thought I was getting a picture of the whole crew in front of the statue of Athena, but someone was a little hesitant of the situation and wasn't visible once I looked at the picture!



This statue was MASSIVE! I am always amazed how they were able to construct things so long ago!




Run Jack!



A smile at last! :)

Cool train!

Wow, even a picture of all of us! Daddy ate lunch with us, but had to head back to the office just a few blocks down!

Can you tell we were loving this outing?

Grant was ready to head home! Can you tell?

Plenty of ducks to feed here! They followed us all around! All we had to give them were cheerios!

See some of what we saw here at the official Parthenon website!

Our weekend!

Michael waiting patiently to get a move on!

Jack is just happy to be outside where he can push "Max" wherever he wants!

Grant is a little bummed that he can't do what Shelby is doing!

Shelby getting ready to go on the zip line - see the previous post for a video!

There she is!

Grant's first canoe ride! See him paddle!

Jack's first canoe ride!



Michael just wanted to get down and play! But it is cold!

A wonderful view of the amphitheater across the lake! That is where our opening and closing services were held! We didn't make it for opening! It was going to be a long day for us! :)