Spring Time and Easter

I am so happy with our decision to home school my kids this year.  As we about ready to wrap up for summer,  I can say that home school has been a success!  I have enjoyed being apart of my kids education; to work with their strengths and weaknesses.  Jordan and Makenzie are complete opposites in their learning styles and interests.   I've seen my kids really become more united this past year, and their love for playing with each other has just grown more.  

The girls are doing art....

Ellionna is a "mini-Makenzie" and is really taking interest in the arts early on, just like her sister.

  

 Give the boys a bag of lima beans and their imaginations go wild!

Our outdoor adventures are becoming an everyday occurance.  Ellionna is the "independent" stage.  She voluntarily takes her hair bows and elastics out.  She undresses herself and picks out other clothes and shoes to wear.  I really should have taken a before picture.  But by the end of the day.... this is what we get!  My little orphan child. 

One of the first warm days and Gavin insists that it's warm enough for the sprinkler, slip n' slide, and a swimsuit.  I convinced him to use just the hose and he compromised by just taking off his shirt.

   

My flower girls... or flower pickers.

 

I got this kid lease when Jordan was two.  We really haven't used it for it's real purpose since then.  But the kids sure do love playing with it and act like animals on a lease.  It's so fun to watch Ellionna be included in their imaginative play.

We had some of our very favorite med school friends visit us during their Spring Break.  The Miller's are living in North Carolina right now.  Makenzie and Aida's friendship started when they were babies.  Luckily, all of our other kids get along just as great. (Gavin was at preschool in these pictures.)

I wouldn't be surprised if these two got married!  They had so much fun with each other.  Jordan asked me when he could start dating Ariah. I told him when he turns 16.  He said that no matter where we were living, he would take her out. I asked him what they would do for their first date, and he said they would go bowling.

 Best of friends! 

We ended our weekend with all of the Easter festivities.  We went to a community Easter egg hunt.  I got one picture with the one child I could keep up with.

Easter morning before church!  

My beauties!!