The Sand Dunes

Easter weekend, Kimball and the boys went to the sand dunes for a guys weekend. Kimball's uncle Johnny and Jaxon's best friends family the Freeman's own a bunch of quads and sand rails. They had such a blast, just look at these crazy pictures. I don't think they'll be going again now that I've seen the craziness first hand!! Kade got sick of the sand, and missed me so he broke down crying toward the end. He said, "it seems like we're never going to go home!" Poor guy, it was scary for him riding on these things and he tried to be tough but could only keep it in for so long. I think he needs to wait a few years before he goes again. He did however enjoy being the entertainment. From what I hear, he had them all rolling on the floor laughing their guts out. He was singing, dancing and carrying on...he's a crack up!

Mom School

Devotional: Prayer, pledge, Scripture Stories (Jesus Visits The Nephites)

Read Aloud: A Little House On The Prairie ch. 16

PE: Soccer Day

U.S. History: Ronald Reagan An American Legend - DVD, again I was completely in tears!! Loved that man, the world needs more like him.

Family History: Started a family tree lapbook, and Jaxon is reading our family history binders.

I'll post a picture of the lapbook tomorrow, along w/ a link for some templates.

Jaxon

Math: Saxon 5/4 Lesson 88

Assigned Read: The Work & The Glory vol. 2

Lots of play time with Kade and friends.

Kade

Math: Saxon 1, 2 pages

Spelling: Lesson 14 Book

Assigned Read: Book #1 The Magic Tree House.

Jessica

Read: Bible Luke 4, Doctrine & Covenants section 8, The Chosen,

Audio: Listened to a talk from a TJED conference (It was good, it helped remind me to look at the big picture. What do I want to accomplish? What's my life mission? It also encouraged me to put in the work necessary to accomplish these things.)

Today's Sparks: Kade got an invite to be in a book club with some of his friends today. They will be reading The Magic Tree House books. He was so excited when he heard, he got right on the phone & called Kimball to tell him the good news. Jaxon wants to learn more about the rain forest, I'm not sure why, but we'll go with it.

It was a very busy but fun day. The second DVD on Ronald Reagan was good too, not as good as the day before but still, great. We had a good time discussing family history and look forward going further with it.

I got feeling like we didn't get much accomplished as I had planned, but looking back we did quite a bit and the kids had a LOT of friend/play time. Everyday Jaxon likes to have a "to do" list. This morning he wrote that he wanted to score 2 goals at soccer. I'm happy to say he did! There's now several older, bigger kids who go. I guess his days of being the oldest and the best player on the "team" are gone. I thought he'd be bummed, but he wasn't. Instead, he told me how great one of the big kids was and seemed happy to have the new challenge...another advantage to home school groups.