FIRST day of school!

The kids were downstairs and ready to eat breakfast on time, and we were off to a fabulous start! The biggest shocker of the day--LOOK who's actually sitting first! If the rest of our year could go like this, well, WOW!!!!!!!

That's jelly on the toast, it's not burned.

We usually start out our year slowly, over the course of a few weeks, gradually adding in subjects until we get into a full schedule. We're not taking as long this year, but we'll settle in over the next week and a half.

Trevor is using most of the same curriculum that he did last year. We're either picking up where we left off, or beginning a new book. But every single subject for Holly this year is a new program for her; I'll post on what we're using later this week.

Trevor reviews his memorization.

Holly mentioned that we'd celebrated last year by going to Dairy Queen and asked if we could go again. They were surprised that I agreed, and we headed to DQ when everything was done. Oh-so conveniently, we found out they have a 1/2 off Happy Hour from 2-4 pm each day. One medium chocolate shake, one large Moo-Latte, and one medium Moo-Latte, for a total of $6.11. We'll definitely be doing this again soon.

Why do 11 year old boys smile so hard?

Trevor took Holly's challenge to ride the pig.


Robert made his famous chile rellanos for dinner.

The end result, since I forgot to take a picture before we ate.

Holly and I went for a walk.


Trevor and I watched for bats, although we were unsuccessful tonight.



It was a great start to our school year. If we can only have 179 more days just like it, we'll be all set!