My sign language poem

This is my poem I recited at our tea party, read my poem and the girls to refresh your memories to our videos.
I wish I had somebody read the poem out loud so I could have been more smoother on recited my poem. I didn't have it memorized, so I had to look down and read it.
This is when I had longer hair of course, before 15" got chopped off.

Ashley two sign language poems

These are Ashley's two sign language poems she recited at our tea party. I didn't get it recorded live that day so I recorded on my camera to post it for you. Right in the middle of recording you can hear my phone ringing. Of course I didn't get it!! We recorded it several times since she forgot some lines and just stood there all upset so, I wasn't going to MAKE her retake it again because the phone range and she did much better this time around. You just get real life noise in the back ground.

Snowboarding at Hoodoo

Last Sunday we went finally up the snowy mountains to snowboard. It was a nice springy day, just wished they had more fresh snow. No powder snow just only groomed snow. We went to Berg's ski shop and rented Ashley her snowboard. She was SO excited to go. Last year I rented ski's and worked on her with skiing but this year we decided to teach her what both John and I are doing. Which worked out nice since we could take turns teaching her while the other went down on more advanced runs (like black runs). We also had some friends came along and went snowboarding too, their first time with snowboards. They are advanced skiers so it was kinda tough for them to start at the bunny hill again. Our day was great and Ashley was getting it down faster than we thought she'd do. She wants to go back this year, which we will, once they get more fresh snow. We had some friends watch Hannah during the whole day and she did great too. Hannah say's she wants to go next year. I guess we will see with that, she doesn't like to be out too long in the snow at home. Just thought to share our adventure up the snowy mountains.






















Our two friends who came along too

Fire Station Field Trip

Last Friday I organized a fire station field trip with my homeschooling group. We had 27 heads, including parents and little children. We went to Fire Station #2,(on Chambers's and 2nd street). Our tour guide fireman was AWESOME, they put in all lot of effort to please mostly younger elementary students and answered all our questions, including the kids very well. We got to take a more detail tour of their living spaces they live in for three day shifts or more. There are three groups of fire fighters that take different shifts of the week. I was amazed how well the children behaved. It so tells you that homeschooling children make a difference on listing compared to public school kids. When the tour was over I got in my car and was SHOCKED on what time it was. The tour was suppose to be only an half an hour and they had us for @ hour and half. WOW!! I think this is SO far my best field trip I've taken in my beginning years of homeschooling. I want thank who all came to the tour with me. I, as a mother wanted to do this for my children who I LOVE DEARLY. I fully recommend taking a tour to a fire station, well worth it.