Speckled Hens

These hens are one of my favorites.  They blended and created textures and outlined and really made their hens come to life!  Just wait you'll see...

My lil artists at work.

Painting the fence.

Different shades of brown
make it look really cool.

Painting the grass.  

Adding her eye.

Outlining her in black.

Two lil feet.

Working on making it look feathery.

Lil cutie!

Almost done!

So focused, I love it.  

An orange beak.

Chayce's white hen is perfect!

Ash did amazing!

Vann's fluffy hen, I love her!

Hay ride

The boys and I went to a Fall Festival this past Saturday.  It was the most gorgeous fall day ever!  Clear skies, bright sun, temps in the 60's, trees starting to change colors, it was amazing.  So this festival had a hay ride and we couldn't miss that.  Would you believe the ride lasted a good 10 minutes?!

Buddies

This was the only time Ash turned around lol.  

After that he was looking straight ahead making sure he didn't miss a thing!

These three chatted about the things they saw.

See that sun?  Perfect.

He held on like this with
both hands pretty much
the whole ride.

The grounds at this park
are so pretty!

Played a game of Labyrinth with the boys.  It's a fun maze game.  

Vann's making a move.

To get me!  He and
Chayce were teaming
up against me lol

I supervised the SAT's at a local college here a few weekends ago.  As I watched the students think and solve problems I looked at a few questions in an unused test book.  Then that next week Vann learned the equation to solve one of the questions!  Couldn't believe it.  We love Life of Fred, our math curriculum, and this is one small reason why.  We love it mostly because it makes math fun.  The boys look forward to it everyday.  It's never a chore for them.  And now I'm feeling pretty good that Vann will get at least one problem on his SATs correct!  

Another way to make school work fun...nerf gun bullets!  

We're headed to Texas tomorrow morning to visit my family down there.  Exciting!  Remember last year when we almost missed our plane...2 minutes to spare.  Phew it was so close.  Well that's not happening this year!  And I'm bringing a new book to read.  I haven't made time to read in months and I miss it.  So hopefully I'll be able to get a few pages in while we wait at the airport.  Today we'll all be busy packing and cleaning.  I love coming home from vacation to a mostly clean house.  Makes getting back into your regular routine a lil easier.  Okay I'm off to get busy for the day.  Have a beautiful Wednesday!

Sunny Sunflowers

I have so many fun art projects to share with you!  All of them are from my most fav art website, Deep Space Sparkle.  I'm a part of the Members Club and it's amazing!  So many wonderful projects at my fingertips for all my kiddos...worth every penny.  This Sunny Sunflower was completed over a few days...painting, cutting, gluing, all kinds of fun stuff!

First they made orange and yellow painted paper using sponges and plastic knives to make cool patterns in the paint. 

Then they made blue and purple painted paper. 

Time to cut out their petals, stems and leaves!
I love Ash's focused face...he gets so into it.

And glue them on to make a beautiful Sunny Sunflower!
Ash doesn't like to get messy during art time.  He's checking for glue on his finger lol.

Love them!!  Bridget's is on the left.  Ash's is on the right.  

Logic games

We did a lot of logic games for Letter L.  The kids love them and they're so good for their noggins.  Makes 'em think and I like that a lot!  We've collected quite a few over the years and oddly enough many of them start with the letter L.  We also played limbo outside which they just loved...lots of giggles!  The older two did lines of symmetry and similar exercises on Khan Academy while the little kids worked with lacing cards.  

Laser Maze...they love this one!

Castle Logix...another
fav :)

Lokulus...this one's a
toughie, but we like it!

I tried to sneak a pic of Vann doing his math...he caught me!

Magformers...not an L, but
Ash wanted to play
with them.

I challenged
him to build a
house.

So he did!

He likes these a lot.

Shape-o-metry...again not an L, but it makes you think.  

How cute are these two?!  They did a bunch of pages of Word Ladders together.  It was adorable to hear them try to figure the answers out as a team.  

He's just as cute as can be!
That afternoon Chris golfed with a buddy.  I squeezed in an amazing hour of yoga at Bloom.  And the boys closed the pool down!  I'm so happy we all got to do a little of what we love.  Made for a great day!  

And this...I love it.

This was the next morning...he was being silly :)

The boys worked hard cleaning the car out.  We're driving to Kansas tonight and I always like to start with a clean slate.  Even though it'll be a mess again once we get on the road ha!