Summer is Over

   It's been an incredibly busy summer.  We have enjoyed visits from family, and frequent trips to the Michigan beaches.  There have been a number of DIY projects, and some home schooling summer studies.  Now we are back into our daily home schooling routine and extra curricular activities.  I've been working hard on reviving my health and energy, and am seeing some improvement.  It is a constant battle but one I have grown accustomed to fighting.

   The girls have learned a Christmas song on the guitar and piano.  The boys are progressing wonderfully in their reading.  Everyone is enjoying school this year and are learning how to balance family life and education.  Which is imperative in our home.  We miss dad a lot. He has been very busy with the start of his second year of residency.  But he always finds time for us.  The kids look forward to his day off, next one is Wednesday.  I'm sure he will have some new adventure up his sleeve.  He loves to surprise us.

Grandma Cyndi!!!  We had so much fun.

Amish Acres.  Beautiful!

Summer School.

Clay designing.  Aubrey's mermaid in a clam.

Making birthday cards for friends. 

The bathtub water represents how much water on our earth is found in oceans.  The other containers represent the other places water is found on our earth.

Schools out party at a friends house.

Zoology class at the Library.

Chicken Pox. :(

Fun at Silver Beach.

Mom and Dad Matosich came to visit.

We had so much fun.

Military Honor Park.  

School time.  Designing with cubes.

Learning about the states starting with Alabama.

Part of our School Room.

Cube Men.

Silver Beach again.   For a residency retreat.

The Beauty of living next to a kind neighbor.

Canning our cucumbers.

A Homeschool Not-back-to-school pool party.

A new painting on a newly painted wall.

Freshly painted.

Where my kids love to play chess.

Working together.

Break time.

Christian designing.

Preparing something for one of the kids. 

Learning about Richard the Lionhearted.

Dallen's design roller coaster design.

Christian's house design for his new lego toy which he received after getting very sick. He is doing much better now.