DeVeLoPiNg OuR TaLeNtS...

School Is ON!

Before listening to the video, pause the music at the bottom of blog!

As part of Matthew's new school curriculum, because he is in gifted class, he gets to choose TWO electives. He is in 6th grade this year. So we chose to do foreign language and art. Those wont begin until October-ish. We have to settle in on his courses to begin with. We are really excited he gets to do TWO electives. His schedule this year will be rather intense. I just hope *I* have it in me to do him justice. Here is how is schedule looks: (He chooses the order pretty much, unless it is scheduled with outside help)

Language Arts

Literature

US History

Earth Science

Earth Science Lab

Math

Social Skills :

(he goes with an attendant care worker into the community to work on social skills, not part of a school regimen, but one I wanted to add)

Piano:

(We have a Sr. Missionary couple in our Branch. Sister Thacker is working with Matthew and I on piano lessons. The video above is of Matthew, today, on his second piano lesson practice).

Art

Foreign Language (He is hoping for Spanish).

I know this will be good for him (and for me). I know this will strengthen OUR relationship with one another, and help us learn how to communicate effectively with one another, which is something we struggle with daily.

ExHaUsTeD...

This heat is enough, alone, to make anyone want to just go to sleep the day away. I have had just a few hours of sleep the last few nights. My gall bladder is dying and it is MISERABLE. It is like 104 degrees today, and sooooo very dry. My poor garden is not going to survive. I water and water, but the heat is too overwhelming for it.

Matthew started his classes today. It was a bit stressful doing it with the girlies here. I knew it would be. So they went to grandmas for a while while he finished going through it. We will see about how tomorrow goes....Bethanie starts school on Monday, and Madison GETS TO GO TO PRESCHOOL!!! She starts on Tuesday. YAYAY!!!!!!! I say that not to have them gone, because I really truly miss them when they are away, but it is because they really love having something to do.

AsPeRgEr bLoG...

Just wanted to let you know that our Asperger blog has gone private. I have sent out invitations to those who read it regularly, and if you didnt get an invite, and would like one, please email me.

Lemonade & Cookies!

Today we helped the girlies put together a lemonade and cookie stand. They had SO MUCH FUN doing this! We put out three signs around town. Sadly, people thought they needed to steal them, and it had to be because there was NO wind at all. Despite this, and the fact that we live on the very edge of town, and have very little traffic (with the help of advertising on Face Book), they really did quite well! They will get to go to White Grandma's on Thursday next week, when Matthew has his first day of school, and they live on a fairly busy road, and HOPEFULLY they will help them do one over there. I still have plenty of supplies, so it would be more fun for them if they had more customers, plus they need help figuring money. :) But what a crazy, hectic day! Doing all these cookies and helping the girls, it felt more like doing a yard sale than a lemonade stand! I am glad they had a good time. They are looking forward to spending their money. I know there are some really SOFT and very FUZZY blankets they would like at Walmart, so it is a goal for them.

After the lemonade stand, Bethanie had a birthday party to go to. It pretty much was a hop along all day long sort of day, but it was a fun one.

19 YeArS! HaPpY AnNiVeRsArY!!!

Yesterday we had a great time. Jeff and I left town with out children to celebrate our 19th Wedding Anniversary. I cant believe that amount of time has actually passed. Sometimes I wonder where the time actually went. Other times it seems to crawl by. But looking back, it has been an awesome 19 years. I have been blessed with such a good man. He is a good father, good worker, good husband, good Priesthood holder. I am so blessed to have him as my husband! We went to Manhattan Kansas, which is like 1 1/2 hours from our home. We ate at a restaurant called HuHots. It is a Mongolian restaurant. We had never been to a place like that before, and were slightly apprehensive about it. The older Jeff {we} get(s), the more Asperger-ish we become (set in our ways). But we ate there and L-O-V-E-D it! It was DE-LISH! Then after that, we went and did a bit of school shopping and browsing around. It was SUPER hot outside, 106, exactly as it was on our wedding day! Anyway, we had a good time, and it was really nice to spend time with one another for a whole day. What a nice anniversary gift Jeff's parents gave to us, buy watching all the kids, so we could go out for the say!!!

2010 Cloud County Fair Fun...

(Click on the picture to view the collages close up)

We had a great time on the rides at the fair last night. The kids really enjoyed the thrill of the rides that were there. Madison and Bethanie went on almost all of them with me. The girls are thrill seekers like me. It is fun to finally have someone to go on the rides with. They laughed and laughed so hard! The weather was nice. At first we thought it would rain, but it rained south of us, and it cooled off nicely. We saw a pretty rainbow off to the East.