looking back over our week.

As I sit here tonight sipping some tea. I think how our week has gone. We have continued on with our schoolwork and have thrown in some AHG badge work into the mix.
     The girls needed to design a new product or make a better design for a product that they think needs improvement. This goes along with the Women's inventor badge, Thought this was awesome for the girls to realize not all items were invented by men. Then they had to go find 5 bugs each and categorize them. This didn't go as easy because one kept saying I am not touching bugs"eww gross". But with the help of her little sisters she only has 1 requirement to go to get her zoology badge.This one I say eww too as I don't want to go to the bee farm but I will lol and hide in my van.
      Choir has been going well for the girls. They really enjoy this.
    The younger girls are working on daughters of the King and made a box with decoupage that says I am a Treasure from God.
     Then as we round the week out we went to bowling practice last night then to Pizza Hut for a treat of their book it Pizza certificates. Awesome time and they were so good.
      Today was league bowling last one of the Fall season before Spring starts. Next weekend is awards and the party so much fun ahead.
       Marissa and Carissa received bags and a bag tag for bowling 100 over their average and 125 over their average.

 We also had some visitors at our house or should I say rooftop. They were homing pigeons which the girls made the mistake of feeding and they don't want to leave. They are not afraid of our dogs either which doesn't help that every time the dogs go out they just bark which don't thrill our neighbors.
                     Well all ciao for now.
                         Michelle

our week in review:)

March has started out pretty busy. As Spring rolls around and I look around the outside of the house I think of all I want to do. So I will be making a list this year and prioritizing the chores.
     As March started Marissa, Carissa and Larissa had Tournaments for 3 weekends in a row. Marissa placed first in her doubles tournament with her friend. Carissa place first in singles and marissa placed second in singles. Larissa bowled her first tournament in the team division with her sisters and a friend and they placed fourth.
     Then it was time for the wsusbc pepsi challenge and Marissa and Carissa made it to the regional finals. Marissa has moved on to State. But had lots of fun. They bowled awesome that day even though it is the first time in tournament that they had to bowl 6 straight games.

Next exciting news was our chickens finally started laying so now in the morning the kiddos race to find the egg or 2 lol. If only all chores were this simple.

We have tilled the garden, trim the fruit trees have the grape vines left to do. I have started to sort seeds and we will bring the tank in to germinate them in and then when it is a bit warmer out we will transfer to our little greenhouse. It is just a portable one but it works. Someday, I would love to turn our patio into a glass green house but I know that is down the line.

Well, it is another nice day out so I should get off here and go do some work outside:)

The Cardinal we adopted

Name:	Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne
Country:	Peru
Day of birth:	1943-12-28
Cardinal since:	2001-2-21
Function:	Archbishop of Lima, Perus

We have also adopted a cardinal to pray for. We will keep him in our prayers. If anyone else is interested in praying for a Cardinal this is the website to go to:  http://adoptacardinal.org/

Valentines day

Today I want to express my gratittude to my husband. Who works tirelessly for us. He takes care of us and loves us without expecting anything in return. I know some say that is his job. But I just want to say how thankful I am to have him in our lives. I know we dont see a whole lot as he works 2 jobs and maybe we dont get to spend an evening together for Valentines day. But I know he is thinking about uson this special day and always. He takes time on the weekends to build with the girls or go bowling on a league. When March rolls around and our church hosts a  Daddy /Daughter dance he is there with all 5 girls as much as he dont like to dance lol. Lisa our oldest who is 24 always says how funny it is to watch Dad dance with each of the girls because they dance better than he does but he still tries:). So hunny maybe we dont say it enough but Thank you and we love you.

Mother Daughter Tea

Tonight, we enjoyed a Mother Daughter Tea put on by the AHG Explorer group. They learned about different countries for their world heritage badge. Then prepared us food from those countries. They also performed a play for us in different languages. Wonderful time had by all.

Our Week in review

The girls are beginning to do their lenten folders. Also this week they did a fun valentine craft with bible verses for each day. Tarissa jean has completed her math k book and was so proud of that fact she couldn't wait to tell everyone and anyone who would listen. Larissa read her first book with only a little help for the first time which is a big deal for her now she wants to try and read everything. I wish this came easier for her but with the speech problems it doesn't. But we will take it one step at a time. Carissa still is progressing with spelling and has almost finished her handwriting book. I love when she writes in cursive she has very nice handwriting. Marissa is almost done with her english, She has taken up downloading books onto her kindle and reading them to the girls. They have all done well in the subjects this week.
   Bowling this week for adult /junior league ends on Sunday for them. They will have a party and get some patches and each have earned a scholarship towards college. You never can start to young. They also have been working on recipe reading and preparing harder recipes. They will be making a dish to pass at their bowling party and we have a Mother daughter tea that they will need to prepare a dish for on Monday. They had to pick a country and then research for recipes, pick one and shop and prepare it to share with everyone.
    I have left Soda behind and this one little step has done wonders for me in less than 2 weeks I have lost 3 lbs. dropped my blood pressure and just feel good. I have also lower my intake of sodium which is really hard considering almost everything you buy has it in there.

He is a rooster:(

2 days ago we heard a funny noise outside.Taco Our 8 yr old daughters hen was a rooster. Although in the area we live in we can have roosters.We are close to neighbors that can complain about the noise and will. We are sad to see Taco go and I really am hoping we can find a home for him that just wants a friendly rooster to walk around and act cocky. I know our daughter is so going to miss him.