the 4th...

I have not been one to get lots of fireworks for the 4th.  That is why I loved my beautiful house in Spokane because I got to see lots of wonderful fireworks.  I would print the schedule for the ball field and have my camera on a tripod and take some amazing photos.  I just loved it.  Missed very few displays because I would schedule camping trips around them.

Since moving here we get a few parachute men things that the boys like and some poppers that you toss on the ground and they go pop and everyone has been happy.  This year boys managed to get Shane to buy over $100 worth of fireworks.  We had a few of the normal ones...

But some were quite amazing.  After living in Spokane for so long with everything being illegal I didn't know you could even get ones like this.  If I had known we could get these over here we would have been doing more for sure.  I can't imagine what illegal ones are sold on the reservations do.  I was impressed.  We had some even better but I didn't get to video them.

Like every place though they are talking about making fireworks illegal here too.  We have had such a dry couple of months, even here things are starting to not be as green as usual.

How to get a Peacock?

Brady and I were at the local nursery and we were amazed at the beautiful Peacock there.  We both want to get a set of Peafowl to have here on the farm. 

They had a female also but she was shy and wouldn't come out from behind a fence so I could get a good picture.  Isn't he just beautiful.

such a different life...

Everything is so different now.  Life was totally different when we lived in Spokane.  Yesterday, I get home after having to make a run to town for a couple things before the stores all closed and I drive up to see this...

My chicken girls supervising Shane working on his tractor.  It was strange to me, I couldn't help but think..."Greenacres is the place to be"

For all his complaining about trying to keep this tractor running, I think Shane is actually really enjoying it, farm living is the life for him.

Making music

Sky worked so hard in band this year.  The final concert was 2 1/2 hours long.

I am going to miss seeing him all dressed up.

His latest endeavor is to learn the Trombone.  The music store in town closed down and Shane took the boys down and got them a used one, not a great one but he can see if he likes it and we can always get a better one later.

Starting to sound like music and not an elephant stuck in the wetland.

Kicking butt and taking names...

 Brady did amazing at the last swim meet!

Here is the final score card...3rd place (white) in 200 yd Relay Medley (swam freestyle 13-21 age bracket), 4th place (yellow) in 50 yd back stroke, 6th place (burgundy) 50 yd breast stroke, 2nd place (red) 50 yard freestyle, 2nd place (red) 100 yard freestyle and 1st place (blue) 200 yd Freestyle relay (swam 3rd position 11-12 age bracket).

He swam 6 events ribboning in all!  He dropped 7.58 seconds in all!!!!

Local baseball

I just found out the Grays Harbor Gulls first home game is May 25th.  I am so excited that we have a new local team!  These guys get paid $100 a week and a post game dinner.  When on the road they also get breakfast.  These are guys who play because they love to play!

This image was on the kxro.com site (designed by David Genest).  new team colors are navy and orange.  I am so excited to take the boys to a game!!!

Homeschool it is....

Things have been so crazy around here!  I am excited to get started on our homeschool plan!  We are doing some easy classes this summer and will hit a full load come fall.  The plan is to school year around and then we can take time off when ever the mood moves us to hit the road!

I have spent so many hours researching curriculum!  Decided on Math, Grammer and Science.  Still looking at Literature, History and health...not sure what I might be missing.

We are doing a unit study this summer on the Sound of Music.  We can talk about the music and the parts of the story of course but we can also look into the geography...Sky had no idea the location of Austria...the history of the time...early WWII...and we are going to research food of the area and create a menu.  Then we can also look at what happened to the family after the film.  just a way to get my feet wet on creating a unit study, which I am not planning on doing all our learning around that style.

Keeping fingers crossed that things work out.