EaStEr 2011

*** Saturday night we attended "A Picture of Calvary" dinner theater that was put on by Grandview Community Church.

The Townsley sisters helped with the event.

Julia, Bethany and Sarah

Another wonderful helper at the dinner theater, was non other than my sister-in-law, Nicole. Look at her go!

Brayden was really proud of grandpa for doing a great job in the play.

Easter Egg Hunt 2011

Every year we go to mom and dad's house for Easter.

Every year they have an Easter Egg hunt for our kids and another one for the big kids.

Every year we start the Easter egg hunt with Bryan shooting his gun.

Every year Bryan gives instructions for the "big kids" egg hunt.
(My husband found the jackpot egg this year. Bryce found the second one.)
*This was Piper's first egg hunt.
Unfortunately, one of the farm cats scratched her eye and it was a lot less enjoyable for her.

Fortunately her eye is going to be okay!
Here she is cuddling at Kate's feet.


Brayden stepping in his father's footsteps.

*Carley helped Kylie with the egghunt

Kate helped Colton

Dakota helped Brayden

...and Brayden squeezed the life out of Piper :-)

My 3 musketeers!

* Carley liked Piper...

... and Piper liked Dakota's hair...it was quite chewable.

Piper Hoben

We have a puppy!!!!

Her name is Piper (named after the Piper aircrafts, of course) ;-) She is a Goldendoodle- mix between a Golden Retriever and Poodle. She looks more like a Golden Retriever, but she does NOT shed (i should say she sheds very little, which is more characteristic to Poodles) She is 6 weeks old She is very good with kids, as you can see She will grow to be around 45 lbs

Welcome to the family, Piper!!!

We are concluding the "Continents and Oceans" thematic unit with each family doing a presentation on a continent. Our family (Kylie and Brayden mainly) presented

South America!

Kylie and I made a yummy Colombian dessert that was very much enjoyed by everyone in our homeschooling group. (we doubled the recipe and baked it in a 9X13 dish)

Kylie did a fAnTaStIC job reading the facts we researched about South America.

(I will be posting a video of her reading in the next post...stay tuned)

Brayden helped by holding up a map and then a poster with images from South America as a visual for the facts Kylie was reading about.

Kylie is demonstrating how people mix hot chocolate in Colombia.

*Our friend Ale, who is originally from Colombia, was kind enough to let us borrow so many artifacts that are specific to South America... a big THANKS to Ale!

Showing a miniature model of a Colombian traditional home. A presentation about South America would not have been complete without dancing. Kylie and Brayden taught everyone a few dance moves. For crafts, we made maracas- using fancy, colorful eggs that we filled with dry, white beans. Brayden wore his soccer gear for this presentation(cleats and all...), since Soccer or Fotbal is the most popular sport in South America. Kylie wore a white embroidered dress accessorised with a handmade necklace we borrowed from Ale.

I am so proud of my kids for working so hard, for doing a fabulous job presenting, and for having some serious moves on the dancing floor. ;-)