A New Blog!

Hello everyone! I am just posting tonight to let you all know I have set up a new blog for our new year. I am quickly running out of space here so I thought this would be a good time to start new! Come on over to see what we are up to and be sure to let us know you stopped by! Thanks for hanging out here with us the past couple years and I hope to see you on the new blog as well! http://eaglestaracademy0910.blogspot.com/

FROGS!!!

We have adopted even more frogs!! These ones will get big though! They are African Clawed Frogs. We have 4 babies. So far, we only have names for 3. They are Splash, Superman and Penelope!! We are waiting for Aaron to name the 4th one. Here they are!

Here is the dwarf frog tank beside the big frog tank!!

This is Bertha, the mama frog of our babies!! She is about 3 years old!

A Splashin' 4th of July!!

Well, this post has a lot of pics....but this is how we spent the 4th. We had a great day with great friends, great food and great fun!! I'll just let the pics do the talking!!

The big kids played some volleyball!

Night swimming!

One of the favorite things to do in the pool is jumping off Mr. Evans's and Randy's shoulders! Check out all these high flyers!!

A Get Away!

Randy and I decided to get away for a few days alone last week. We just went to Savannah but it felt almost like a paradise just to have a break together!! We booked a room at the Westin Resort and just had a wonderful time. We didn't take very many pics but here are some, mostly all are taken from our balcony on the 15th floor overlooking the Savannah River.

Tug Boats!

Looking down at the courtyard from our room.

the pool from our room....

This is what we did a lot of.....just hanging out and relaxing!!

The nighttime view!

We spent one day at Tybee Beach.

Going up and across the big bridge! Alison, this is for you!

The view from on the bridge!

Back up on the balcony.... this ship was a smaller one.

This is one of the bigger ones!!!!

A ship coming through at night! Kinda spooky!

We ate lunch at The Pirate's House one day, we brought this pirate hat home for Ian!!

It was a much needed and very appreciated mini vacation!

Leap and Flip Flop, and a Sunset

We adopted two new family members. I would like to introduce you to Leap and Flip Flop, our dwarf African frogs. They also have a little snail friend in their little ecosystem home!

A pretty sunset we had one evening.

Aaron and I before church one Sunday. I guess I have to admit he is much taller than I am now!!

Just Lots and Lots of Cuteness!!

These are just "a few" of the many pictures of Jacey and with Jacey on the different days that I have had her!! I could just eat her up!

Kisses!

Nap time.....both of them sleep with their eyes half open!!

Momo and Ian's New Room

When we added the new school/computer room ( I just realized I haven't taken pics of the finished room) we turned the old school room into a room for Momo and Ian. You may remember, this room used to be a dark cranberry red!! Now it is tangerine, safari themed!! Here is Ian in his new bed for the first time!! We found these nice yellow ( they are a brighter yellow than they look here) at a local funiture store.

Momo in her new bed for the first time!!


Looking across the room from the closet, this is Ian's bed. The tree in the framed picture was drawn by Stephanie, and then I painted the canvass.

After Randy painted the walls, Stephanie came over and drew some pictures on the wall to match the quilts. Stephanie, Kristen and I painted them. The big tree is painted on the wall.

Looking across the room towards the door. The cheetah and leaf above are painted on the wall. Ian says this is a nice cheetah and he chases away all the bad dreams!!

The window and Momo's bed looking in from the door. The animals above the window are wall clings. There are also some of these randomly placed since I allowed Momo to stick them where she wanted them.

I finished the room with wooden letters above their beds, spelling out their names. I painted the letters and glued the small wooden animals on each one. The yellow flower under Momo's name is painted on the wall.

The leaves under Ian's name are also painted on the wall.

I am very happy with how the room turned out! I found the quilts online and fell in love with them.

More Randomness...

The garden is doing great and we are really enjoying all the fresh veggies!!

Cantaloupe

Eggplant

Lots of tomatoes!

Beans!!

Peas!!

This is a sunflower Momo started in our gardening class at coop in a little paper cup!!! She planted it in the garden and look how well it has grown!!

My Jacey Bell!!

They love her so much!

Ian doing a popsicle dance on the table!!

A Summer Thunderstorm

We had a thunderstorm one night recently and lost power for a few hours. The kids and I played games by candlelight.

Early in the storm, before it was dark outside, we spotted this rainbow..

If you look close in this next picture, you can see a flash of lightening ......

Lots of lightening!! It isn't easy getting a picture of a lightening flash!

Random........Life, garden and Jacey

Ian hanging out with Maggie one night...he was sharing his blanket with her.

One of my fancy hairdos by Momo!

Ian a few days after he hit his head on Kristen's headboard......see the huge bump and bruise? This actually looks really good compared to when he first did it!!

The garden grows more.....and more.....and more.....

One of the first tomatoes!

Cucumber!

Zucchini!

CORN!

More Jacey time!! We try to get her about once a week if we can. She is just too sweet not to take pictures of her!!

She is my heart!!

Some of our fresh garden veggies!!

Starting to smile!

Look at her hold her head up so high!!

This is how Ian fell asleep one night!!!