Brownie Swim Party at YMCA

Love this photo.....JD's teacher took this last year and framed it for us....when Big Frank returned from the desert, he visited all of the kids classes....they loved it!

Father Daughter Dance....Dad was deployed again this year..... but she went with her friend's dad and had a wonderful evening. We are forever thankful to that family. Good News....Dad was home for Christmas!

Mohenjo Daro-The Lost Civilization...the citadel and all made from clay.

Museum Science Class

While waiting for the boys to finish their class, we found some penguins to entertain busy boy. Very proud to spell his name in heiroglyphics.....

Didnt want to get too close to the mummy......

Walk like an egyptian...the kids are studying ancient Egypt so this was a real treat!

Rosetta Stone.....

Theater Friends Backstage......

OPENING NIGHT!!

And its over......

A beautiful lake dancer....

King George and crew.....

King George.... love the old man beard... CHEERS to our resident actor!!!

TWEEN MURDER MYSTERY DINNER on a Real Prairie!

Murder on the Prairie...Murder Mystery Event on a Real Prairie...very cool! Homeschool TWEEN GROUP

White Crown of Egypt

These are pharoah crowns we made to remember Upper and Lower Egyptian head gear. Pharoahs wore white or red for Upper and Lower Egypt...notice the cool cobras on the front....wax paper is a wonderful thing, LOL.

MEMPHIS MINING FIELD TRIP

Ju making mom a nervous wreck..she is about 200 feet up on top of a rock pile!

Girls trying to climb to the top!

Still climbing...notice the cars below???

The halfway point....most of the parents were way behind....! LOL

FIELD TRIP: Memphis Stone and Gravel To Learn about Geology and the Mining Process

Girls getting ready to excavate! I coordinated this trip..first one for our homeschool group. Each mom or dad received a really cool speckled stone coffee mug. This was a 3 hour field trip packed with info for kids and adults too!

Dont look down....or fall over the edge, LOL....real mining facilities are awesome....

Kids climbing up enormous rock piles.....like a dream come true for them....I was scared out of my mind...but they loved it!

Top of a peak.....

COOKING PARTY

12 little chefs at Ju's Birthday Party.....cant believe she is nine! This is a picture of our appetizer, fruit salad on a stick!

Getting all the details in order....including fresh flowers....

Games and secret ingredient hunt in the outdoor party room...aka...garage!

Which Way Do We Go?????

More Mud Island Trip

Can you say Catfish?
Dad riding the duck!
Kids walking down the Mississippi River.....

MUD ISLAND FIELD TRIP

Funny Boy & His PRE-K SCIENCE

Well, here is pre-k polymers! "Real" hatching dinos......okay, this was so cool for a four year old...cool for a forty year old too, LOL.

Hey, where's the toilet paper???

Found some more mummie photos....and now we are definitely out of toilet paper!

Snow in Memphis?

Well, here it is...homemade snow....the vote is in...polymers are fun!

Polymers & Other Fun Stuff

This is hydrophobic sand...from our greek studies, the kids figured out quickly, it meant "afraid of water"....hence it is sand that stays dry, even when placed in water. It is sprayed with a hydrophobic coating and sold as "magic sand"...very cool!

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Dinosaur Fossils at Pink Palace
Wow, buttons galore!
Cute as can be.......
More fossils
Fossil rubbings....

Boys Gone Wild.....and other mummy stories

So we temporarily suspended our main house rule "keep your hands to yourself"...the boys sure had fun wrapping up their sister like an Egyptian mummy.....the boys look pretty scary too:)
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Our Attempt At A STONEHENGE CAKE!

Well, I had this great idea to make a Stonehenge Cake, I mean how hard could it be??? Well, alot harder than making the real stonehenge,! LOL...what a disaster, but very tasty!

STONEHENGE

We studied Stonehenge a few days ago....ours doesnt exactly look like the real thing ( below) but the boys sure had fun building it...