13 yrs ago....

I said I do! The past 13 yrs have gone by fast. We had our date night on saturday. Brian got a new sweatshirt and I got well needed snow boots. We went to pizza hut to eat. We are glad we went out on saturday and not waited till sunday. Sunday's weather was yucky. Most of the roads had been closed due to drifting from the blizzard we had.
I am glad I married Brian. He has been there for me many times and I have been there for him just as many. We have been through the good times and the bad. I look forward to what God has in store for our future together. We will watch our children grow. I look back at the vows I had written for our vow renewal in the summer of 2012 and as I read over it again this morning. I still choose him and and still desire him above all others. I also know that he still desires me above all others. It was saddening to not have him next to me this morning when I woke. Brian had to be up early to plow snow. I am making him one of his new favorite meals..... Prime Rib.

I will love you, Brian, till the end of time!

Learning to read

Sometimes I think I am not cut out to teach a child to read.....
Alexandra (7yrs old) seems to think that learning to read is a lil hard and she has given up on even trying. She will read Dick and Jane all day long and can read it just fine. When given her sight words, she just looks at them and does not do anything.
Tanner (5 yrs old) is doing much better than Alexandra. He can figure out the words just by hearing me sound them out. Now keep in mind that he is working on 2 letter words. I have not started him on books just yet. He just gets to see the words as sight words, for now.
Updates to come on their progress.

Trampoline death

Our trampoline had a very snowy, yellow, steal death.  My husband hit it with the snowplow thinking he had more space and turned out he did not. While the children are disappointed, we will replace it once the snow melts and we find a suitable, cost-effective replacement. God gave us choices and skills and we get to make the choices and maybe use the skills to replace this fun outdoor play equipment.

semi sick/rest day

With the way we all sound I think to day might be a sick day. We will do just math and reading and be done for the day. One child got up with a fever the rest of us got up with quite the cough and sniffles and sneezes.
Also the weather is kind of suckish (from the way it looks and sounds like)... it snowed this morning and now the new snow is drifting bad some drifts are almost all the way across the driveway so it is a good day to have a rest day.
I will work on getting things ready for our trip (hopefully) to the water park tomorrow. I know these children need to be free to run. They are getting cabin fever from the lack of days to get outside due to the wind and cold of the midwest. Thought I was going to be able to send them outside today then the wind kicked up and now the wind chills make it too cold to be out for very long.

First post of 2014

So in this first post of 2014 not much has changed for us. I am still homeschooling the children. I am contributing to a blog which I think I will be doing more posting and actually schedule posts so I keep on top of things. Might even start a blog planner in a notebook so that I know what and when I to post.
I have started a menu planner and it helps knowing what is for supper and knowing what I need for groceries.