OLMS Fun Club 12/08

This is the Oregon Leadership Mom School Fun club!
I'm the leader this year. We have it once a month and the kids are 5-7 years old. They are at a great age and are very enthusiastic about everything that we do. I taught them about snowflakes and they made some of their own! We also had a Christmas Carol/Instrument Play along.

So sweet 12/08

Annie has her own cute style.

It begins. 11/08

Alexis, Julia and Annie

The day after Thanksgiving we get out all of the decorations and Little People Christmas toys and the Christmas season has begun! This is a hard month to get the kids to do anything unless it's related to the holiday. I think we may have to take off the whole month of school in December next year!

John

Brr.... 11/08

Annie

John and Annie-Jazz Hands

Amy and Jessica

John thought Shauna's hat was really "coo" (cool) and she took some silly shots of him in it.

Thanksgiving 2008

Ugh. I am still having trouble getting captions to stay where I put them so they don't exactly match up.

Hosting Thanksgiving for my Mom's side of the family is becoming a tradition for us. We had My Grandpa Harrington, GG, Aunt Shauna, and Uncle Michael (who IS younger than me) up from California. My Mom and sister Becca flew up from Idaho. We ate well and had a good time talking and hearing about Michael's Navy adventures. We also went to dinner at Ringside (Thanks Grandpa) to celebrate my Mom's 50th birthday!

Jessica with Apple Pie in her hair.

Sisters-Becca and Amy

Jessica

Julia and Aunt Shauna

Annie & Alexis at the kids table.

Grandpa Harrington, Becca Noack, Michael Harrington, Michelle Harrington and kids.

GG

Jessica and Jesse

Becca

Julia, Alexis, John and Annie

Roasting Marshmallows! 11/08

John and Annie were quiet, and here I found them. They had gotten into our mini marshmallows and chopsticks and were "making smores". That's creative!

Lee Farms 11/08

Annie coming out of the hay maze.

We went on our annual trip to Lee Farms to get pumpkins and our kids were so excited about the animals that pumpkins were an afterthought. I can't believe I didn't take even one picture of the patch!


Alexis holding a chick.


Julia, Alexis and John.


Jesse and John.


Julia.

Alexis, Julia and Annie.

Thinking Thanksgiving.

Me (Amy) and Jessica.

John had to throw a few rocks in the pond.

Liberty Girls 11/08

We've been reading about the depression, so for Liberty Girls I had the kids do various chores and paid them a nickel for each thing they did. They cleaned the guinea pig cage, did my dishes, and cleaned the fish tank! It was well worth the change. For lunch they got oatmeal and a luxury of a sliced peach on top. My kids wouldn't eat the peaches, but at least the twins liked it! John was in Turtle heaven and ignored us.

OLMS Colloquia 11/08

We belong to a homeschool group called the Oregon Leadership Mom School. We just meet once a week. We have book discussions and activities for the kids. There are 10 families and 50+ kids. We take turns being in charge. It was my day when we discussed The Wizard of Oz. We did rainbow art (as an homage to the movie, there are no rainbows I can recollect in the book). We made tornadoes, played games, made tissue poppies, Emerald City glasses, and Alexis taught children how to sew little stuffed mice. It's a lot of work, but the kids sure love it!

What is he doing? 11/08

John likes to climb around on the banister, but if you've heard John, he isn't always easy to understand. He has a jump rope tied around his waist and fastened at the bottom. He is "raw-tie-ing."

It took me a couple of minutes to figure out that he was rock climbing. :)

Halloween in Rexburg 10/08

Jessica was a little fairy. John was Peter of Narnia. Annie was a tap-dancing witch complete with dance moves. Julia was Lucy Pevensie from Narnia and Alexis was a pumpkin fairy. I spent $10 on John's costume and the girls raided the dress-up. We trick-or-treated with my Mom and Becca in her neighborhood, then met My Dad and Karen and did another round with them. I forgot my camera for that part, bummer!

Grandma Harrington and Jessica

Annie holding Jessica

Julia

Alexis

Annie, Becca and Jessica.

Annie

I can't figure out how to get my text to stay by these pictures or how to get the pictures to stay where I want. I'm just learning to blog....