Wayne's Visit- Old Mormon Fort

The Old Mormon Fort is a state park. It has one of the state's oldest buildings.

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Birthday

Sabrina enjoyed her one small gift from us. We teased her that she was only getting one small gift from us.

She also really like her gift from her brother. He treated her to Starbucks.

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Nursery

Doing nursery isn't always fun.

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Wetlands Park

We walked the trails at Wetlands Park. It's good exercise and gets us out in nature. This time both Alex and Sabrina took pictures. If they get a particularly good one we will enter it in the county fair.

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Harvest Festival

We went to a Harvest Festival at a friend's church. They have a ton of things to do there. We rode the train ride, Sabrina did the rock wall and Escape Room. Alex spent most of his time playing laser tag. We also watched this artist do a demonstration and give a testimony of Jesus.

There was also all kinds of yummy foods from funnel cakes to cotton candy.

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Nursery

Sabrina and I have a lot of fun playing with babies and toddlers in nursery.

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Costumes

The kids had fun dressing up for the Harvest Festival we went to. Alex was a no-name character he made up and Sabrina was Little Red Riding Hood.

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Homeschool Group- Co-op

The kids got to dress up for Halloween. Without planning it, Sabrina was Little Red and her friend was a wolf.

Sabrina is taking a Variety Class. For the past few classes they were learning to sew with a sewing machine. Sabrina made a drawstring bag, a table runner, and a bookmark.

Alex has Chemistry with Lab. He always asks if they can blow something up, just like my high school class did.

I do puppet shows for the pre-k class. Then they have play time.

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Homeschool Group- Game Club

Our monthly Game Club continues to be a whole lot of fun. They played Minecraft Card Game and PacMan Board Game.

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Sabrina's Props

Sabrina was fascinated by the student made props at the community college. The lady manning the booth told us there are tutorials online, so we made that Sabrina's art class.

One of the first props we made were suckers out of materials we already had. I came up with this one and the cake pops on my own when I was searching through our craft supplies for something else.

Cake pops were the second props that Sabrina made. We used coupons for the Mod Podge and got tiny beads on sale for 50% off.

Snow cones were fun and easy to make.  We used Styrofoam balls cut in half, craft paint, Mod Podge, party cups, and glue. We painted the half balls to look like snow cones. Then after they dried we glued them into the cups.  

Which caramel apple is real? 

http://onesimplecountrygirl.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-tuesday-faux-caramel-apples.html Sabrina followed the directions except she used bird seed (Safflower seed) instead of cracked corn. 

Sabrina gave some of her props to Seedling Theatre to use in Charlotte's Web, (and any future plays that may need them.)

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Community College's Career Day

A friend of mine invite us to join them at the local community college's career day. They had a whole lot of booths set up for all kinds of jobs that you can get with a degree from the community college. Some booths had hands-on activities like the marshmallow shooter Alex is holding. Alex spent a long time playing with it with other boys his age.

Sabrina was so fascinated by the Drama Department's table; esp. the food props made by students. The lady manning the booth told us there are tutorials online, and that you can make money selling them. I decided to make that her art class.

We spent a very long time with the reptiles. We held every lizard or snake that they allowed us to.

There was so much to see and do that we quickly got separated from our friends.

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Homeschool Group- Teen Event- Ultimate Frisbee

Frank took Alex to play Ultimate Frisbee with the teens in our homeschool group. He had a blast.

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Date Moment

Frank and I recently started a new thing- a date moment. About once a week we go play a board game and talk in the back yard. We have a kid snap a few pictures during the middle of the game, but other than that they aren't allowed to interrupt. It's a nice way to spend some time together without having to go somewhere or spend money. 

I also started going with him sometimes when he drops Sabrina off at Seedling Theatre. Alex stays home to get some alone time. 

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Preparing for a 5K

Our next 5K is next month. We have been going to the park for me to walk and everyone else to run several times a week. Sabrina has decided to run this one.

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