I'm really bad at this

blogging thing!

So, where have we been and what have we been doing?

I will start with the much needed vacation Jose and I took ALONE to NYC!!! We are SUPER THANKFUL for WONDERFUL moms (and a sis-in-law) who babysat while we were away! What a FUN time we had with each other sharing our dreams, hopes, and vision for our future and the future of our children!

On that note....VISION...

We were recently talking about a vision for our family and what would = success when it comes to our children and here is what we came up with:

We will be successful if our children

-KNOW HIM INTIMATELY

-FOLLOW HIM PASSIONATELY

-SERVE OTHERS INTENTIONALLY

Yep! That's what everything boiled down to!

School update:

Week 5 & 6 in review.

We traveled to MEXICO! I checked the kids passports and let them cross the border since the didn't look suspicious;-) They added the Mexico flag sticker to their passport book.

BIBLE-We talked about Cuba and Haiti, using Window on the World, and learned about the prayer needs of each country. Our memory verses were Matt 4:4 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" and Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. For our verses from now on, I have decided not to use the ones in MFW (for now) and focus on ones that relate to character training which I've been learning and using from our Growing Kids God's Way class. Which, by the way, is the best parenting curriculum, based completely on God's word, ever created in my not so humble opinion;-)

SCIENCE-We learned about desserts from Properties of Ecosystems and about dessert animals from Living World. We learned the difference between cold blooded and warm blooded and did a couple of different experiments to help illustrate. We also learned oases and rain in the dessert. We encounte.red a giant grass hopper and a giant moth? or something in our home "habitat".

GEOGRAPHY-Facinating Mexico facts. Nature, farming, and Industry in Mexico. How to cook tortillas. Geography game where we are learning all of the countries in Latin America.

ART- We made yarn art and tomorrow we are making tissue paper flowers tomorrow in preparation for our Friday FIESTA!

When Elijah is not doing school, he is building a new Lego creation, watching the weather channel or researching past hurricanes and weather patterns!!! This child is OBSESSED with WEATHER! He cracks me up dancing to the jazz music while announcing the different city's weather!

When Abi is not doing school, she loves to play Pet Shops and actually loves to build Legos with Elijah! I'm so thankful how close we had them together! I guess that's why we had two more so close huh?!

Joseph is still getting into everything! He's so curious and so precious! He LOVES Abi and Elijah! (I'm sure he loves Moses too when Moses' isn't trying to eat him!) Yes we have a biter! Yes we are working on him;-) Every night and for naps he asks for each one to come and pray with him then give them a hug! Joseph has such a sweet spirit!

Moses is definitely the clown of the family! SO FUNNY ALL THE TIME! Oh, except when he is biting! He ALWAYS has a SMILE and is always making us laugh!

Here is a random pic of our grocery store trip!

There's the update!