Library weathers storm...

Nebraska had some bad storms this spring. Lots of wind and rain made the electricity a little less than reliable.
Power was out at the library. Emergency power was enough light to read.
Even in storms a library is a great place to be.

Pool time

My brothers and Jonas in the pool.

The boys saw me taking pictures and immediatley struck cheesy poses.
I had every intention of getting some sweet action shots,
but I was threatened with mooning...

So I quickly left the boys to their fun!

Dad has very kindly allowed his children to set up the pool this summer.
Everyone gets in on the fun. Ben and Katherine spend the most time out in the water.

They have almost perfected tricks involving all kinds of inflatable pool toys.

Sometimes they just have to show off for the camera to prove just how amazing they are.

As far as I know, all these much loved floaties are popped now. Too much loving is too much.

MLE

Emily came to visit me.

It was supposed to be a vacation for her.

Somehow she got stuck with the job of ice-cream distribution.


The sombrero was just an added bonus.

Thank you, Emily for your wonderful help;

not just with the Summer Reading Program,

but with cleaning and the library and housework...

Praise the Lord

Teresa' s dad is in the hospital because of a massive heart attack.

My friend took a break from the hospital to help lead worship at her church.

Teresa

What an amazing testimony.

Hannah

God deserves our praise even in the hard times.

HomeSchool2

Learning at home is not limited to a designated "school year." Haphazard experiments are happening all the time. Here is a three part experiment. The first part was us trying to hatch out four chicken eggs. Hypothesis: eggs will not hatch because of extreme heat(110 degrees) and extreme cool(37 degrees.)

we conducted the cracking ceremony in the pit, far away from the house

The second part was the eggs had rotted while being kept under the heat lamp. Hypothesis: eggs will stink when cracked open due to exposure to prolonged warmth.
The third part was to determine if we had at least partially succeeded to hatch out chicks. Hypothesis: embryos were killed midway through incubation.

sorry about this. i am not as smart as i think i am.

Our experiment was a complete failure,but we were kind of glad we hadn't killed any unborn baby chickens.

This would have been a lot more interesting for you if I could have figured out how to upload the video of breaking open the eggs.

HomeSchool

One of the perks of learning at home is that pets are allowed to attend.

Unless the pets are used to torture the tutor. Hannah's pet ended the day in the toybox.

Her tutor couldn't take the stress.

Hannah was entirely too creative at thinking of ways to startle/sneak up on me.