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tie breaker baby

The tie breaker baby (we’ve got 2 boys and 2 girls) has revealed that the GIRLS are going to dominate the household!!! The PINK announcement to the kids was a celebration complete with balloons and silly string. Now for a name… we had narrowed it down to two that we loved but now after finding…

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We are MOVING!

We are MOVING!! from Texas… to Portland, Oregon.   Why Portland, Oregon? To answer that question we need to take reflect on the last two years. Knowing the Lord was preparing our family to spread His Gospel further, we began praying where and what that looked like. Through months of praying, God cultivated in our…

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second week of school

Finished our Creation Unit! Each child made their own Creation Books filled with their artwork for each day of God’s creation. Each school day was complete with a Creation Day snack. I’m so not creative… I had to really stretch to come up with these! Of the most precious gifts is when Daddy gets to…

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our first week {review}

This past week FLEW by. We had so much going on that we were sad to see the weekend come. As our first official year of homeschooling, I’ve been anxious to see how all my months of planning and preparation would come to fruition. And I can honestly say that I was so so happy…

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america’s favorite pastime

Thanks to our library’s Summer Reading Program the kids received free Ranger tickets. And boy, did we have a great time! They each were given a free Ranger jersey, ate lots and lots of cotton candy, and had the time of their lives. Noah couldn’t take his eyes off the Jumbo Tron… he was it…

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first day of (home)school

Today marked the start of a new school year… and our first official year of homeschooling. We will be using My Father’s World curriculum for both 1st grade and kindergarten (our preschooler will get to join in the kindergarten work). My kindergartener is 4 1/2 years old so we will be doing K twice with…

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