Busy- By: Stella Age: 10

Hi all! We are really excited as we are kept very busy. There is so much to be done. We have all our stuff ready for Baby. All of you were hoping I would type the name in after that weren't you? LOL! We are all very excited to tell you the name... We can't yet though-....
We are also kept busy with going to soccer. Soccer has been very fun and we are probably going to put pictures up soon.
We are also doing school. I love school, and I know that Rus does and Leo does too! We love Veritas Press and school is zooming by with all of our awesome books.
We have a very busy schedule, but we are very happy with it. It's better than sitting around and twiddling our thumbs I guess! What do you think?

By: Stella
Age: 10

My Canoby adventure By: Leo Age: 9

Back in August I went with my family to Canobie Lake. It was amazing there were rides everywhere big rides, little rides, high rides, low rides, fast rides,
slow rides! Now maybe you were wondering how I got to this amazing place. Well my
dad works at BAE Systems, and this gave us a huge discount allowing us a chance to go to this amazing place. Now I will start out with making a long story short:
We started with food. YUM! I will try to give you a small picture of the foods
people were eating, serving, delivering,and unnameable other things.
Next we had ice cream. Then we moved on to some slower rides. Taurus rode on the race cars. So Stella and I went onto the bumper cars. That was fun. When we got off
and couldn't find mom and dad we occupied ourselves with some rides. We finally
found them. Taurus was occupied with rides to. Stella and I went to the sky lift.
After Rus was just off his ride so we invited him. We stood and waited for a
little open booth on the front they (the directors of the ride) clamped a bar around us and up we went. Then we stopped high in the air just hanging there we started l
again. Then two more times we stopped. The second was a problem. They repaired it and we came back and jumped out. Though it was fun hanging up there it was good
to be back. We approached the carousal, and I couldn't decide to go on a horse or a carriage. I chose the horse. then I buckled in and started. Next and last
Stella and I went on a water roller coaster. We waited for about an hour and thirteen
minutes and counting! Water splashed and swirled around us as we made the decision of the wetter slide to the wet. As we dried off we remembered this fun day at Canobie Lake park!

18 days left

...but who is counting?! :)

Tod the Toad By: Stella Age: 10

Here's a toad we caught!! :)

Playing- By: Stella Age: 10

Here are some pics. of some fun in the last of the sun...


Ummmmm-moments.....


And- it's a slam dunk folks!!!



This isn't ballet- it's BASKETBALL-ok Leo?-sorry folks!



Vroom-vroom!



Hello Cora!



Hi Leo!



WOW-That was so tiring-eh?

Wow? That was a lot of fun in the sun!

By: Stella

Age: 10

Leo's 9th Birthday By: Stella Age: 10

Hello All! Stella here ready to tell the tale of a birthday!!!!!!! Ready? Let's go---

Leo just had his 9th birthday! It was fun! Here are some pics....


Presents? Hmmm-I wonder what's inside? Shaky Shaky!



Taurus was very excited about his confetti!



Best Buds hang out!



Starting the long process of opening presents----Oh BOY! I ALWAYS wanted one of these!



Oh BOY! A FOOTBALL!



Cool- 1-2-3 DRAW!!!!!


Cool-GOGGLES AND A SNORKEL!!!!!!!



Hmmm... wonder what this is?



Oh-that looks so good-my stomach already hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



MMMMMM!!!! Really good- now it does!

WHAT A GREAT BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Stella

Age: 10

Pictures were the courtesy of-STELLA!

Leo!

Happy Birthday Leo! We are very thankful for you!



(More pictures soon!)
Stella

My funny little Tert...

I kept telling baby Tert to stop pulling down the curtains (or else...). When he tugged them again and realized that punishment was imminent, he clasped his hands together (curtains in between them) and exclaimed, "I just praying..." Then, closing his eyes, he proceeded with the most heartfelt prayer he could muster. What am I going to do with this kid?!

Another time Tert was making us laugh with his breakfast antics. I said, "Where did you come from?" His answer after a thoughtful pause, "I don't know his name." ;)

During out study of the solar system, Tert proudly announced that he had drawn a picture of the planets. We praised his efforts; then he took a closer look and said, "I no draw the planets. I draw (Uncle) ADAM!"

Ocean Pictures By: Stella

We saved one vacation day for our trip to the ocean! We go at least once a year. We always have so much fun! Here are some pictures so you can join in! :)



Playing in the sand with Daddy! :)





Rus!



Stella!



Stella, Leo, Rus, and Tert



Stella and Leo

We had an awesome ocean trip and look forward to next year!

By: Stella

Fishing with Dad By: Stella

We have a little spot about five minutes away from us that is a boat dock and has a nice sandy beach. The little boys can play in it and we went fishing with Dad while Mom got some things done! The beach goes off into the Merrimack River. We love fishing now and are thankful for our beach to fish.



Stella loves to fish.



Leo loves to fish too!



Nice seaweed-I mean catch Stella! ;)



The boys love the sand and playing in it!


We love fishing and will get a picture if we make any REAL catch!

By: Stella

Our Garden By: Stella

We have received so much produce from our garden that we can give a good supply to people who need it. We have many cherry tomatoes, tomatoes too, they were probably the best crop, we have cilantro, dill, rosemary, and other types of herbs, lettuce, zucchini (a lot of that) cucumbers, summer squash (not as much now, same with zuchinni and cucumbers) we got a lot earlier though, we have two pumpkins on the way, green beans galore now, and I might be forgetting some other stuff, oh and butternut squashes! Also we have peppers. Yum, YUM!





YUM! Pickles!

We were really thankful for our garden this year!

By: Stella

Our Pretty Cora By: Stella Age: 10

Hi Cora!



This picture made us laugh and laugh. She has such a big tongue that she totally like can't fit it into her mouth, unless she tries to! :)

We love you Cora!

By: Stella

Work Day with Dad By: Stella Age: 10

Busy at work!








By: Stella
Age: 10

COOL SHOES HUH!? By: Stella Age: 10

COOL SHOES HUH!

School Pics! By: Stella Age: 10

Here are the promised school pics... (mixed in with some other cute pics.... :)




Here are some pictures of our back to school presents that we received and handed out... :)


Cool! A plastic butterfly-thanks Leo!



SWEET! A horn for my bike! (He was very excited and had been asking for this for ages! He loves honking it!) Thanks Mom and Dad! Beep-beep! Make way for the Rus Express!!! :)


Awesome- silly puddy and a teddy bear-COOL!!!!!!!!



Awesome! Girls and their Dogs-woohoo!



Monopoly-we've wanted this for like-FOREVER! (So far we've played it like 1,000,000 times!)

Thanks everybody- that was awesome!

Rus has really surprised us with his awesome Kindergarten year. This is our fourth week, and we've had lots of fun seeing his little brain grow!
Here are some pictures-





Here he is, busy at work with his stuff. He loves doing Phonics Museum every day, and singing the 'Percival Song'!



Here is a little bird that he made with me, Stella in Literature Pockets! He is also saying his rhyme that goes with it:

Once I saw a little bird go hop, hop, hop, and I cried, "Little Bird will you stop, stop, stop?" I was going to the window to say 'how do y' do?-when he shook his little tail and away he flew.




A favorite project with all of us kids has been writing letters in pudding. Of course you get your finger messy when you write in the pudding with it, so of COURSE you HAVE to ah-clean it. :)





UH-OH, sleeping through class! :)



This is me with a tablet that we made out of clay from the Bible Passage in Luke where Zecharias writes on the tablet, "His name is John!"



Here is a puzzle that all of us kids put together!



This is a solar system mobile which Leo and I (Stella) made. :) (We are studying the solar system this year in science.)



Tert, busy at work!



This was a science experiment that we did. It showed that all the colors mixed together in the rainbow make black. We put a black line with a marker on a coffee filter, and sure enough all colors came out-NEAT!



Rus did apple prints by taking apples that were cut in half, dipping them in paint and then pressing them on the paper!! Cool huh?!

It's been an awesome school year so far! We hope yours is too!

By: Stella
Age: 10