Showing posts with label Connor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Connor. Show all posts

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Basketball 2021 (Aidan and Connor)

 

~Go Lions!~

We are so proud of how hard Aidan and Connor have worked on basketball this year! Aidan played on the Varsity and Junior Varsity teams, and Connor played on the Middle School team. Here are some pictures from their season...













Sunday, January 31, 2021

Falconry at Burritt (Connor)



         ~Falconry Display at Burritt on the Mountain~

        A couple days ago we went to a display where two paragrine falcon owners talked about their birds. 

It was held at a place we go to pretty often called burrit on the mountain. Mr. Burrit decided to give his 

165 acres and mansion to be made into a mueseum when he died. The falcon owners talked 

mostly about their birds hunting and how they do it. They let their birds just fly to their perches, but did 

not let them free fly because their were lots of people their. It was very intresting and I learned some new 

things.After that we went on a walk with some bird watchers. They taught how to use binoculars correctly, and what to get depending on what you want to do. We walked on Mr. Burrit's property which has lots of 

trees and is at the top of a mountain like hill. We did not see to many birds because, they were not very 

active. Then after that we went to a show where a man who owned 11 exotic birds talked about them. It 

was a very cool one hour display! He had one of the biggest, and smallest owls on earth! He also had a 

falcon, and some birds related to crows, and much more!! We had a very fun day at Burrit on the 

Mountain!!

Friday, March 13, 2020

Comedy of Errors Play by Connor

Last weekend we went to watch Calhoun College perform a Shakespearian play called “A Comedy of Errors”.  Calhoun has a couple of different campuses, and we went to the one in Decatur. It was well  
done and very creative, and the actors were really good.  Although,  some parts of it I did not like very much. This performance  was something we signed up for through our co-op. I am going to tell you about the story line because not everyone is familiar with this play.  There was a couple, who were named Egeon and Emilia. Egeon was a merchant of Syracuse and was quite wealthy. The couple had identical twin sons, and that same day identical twin sons were born to a much poorer family.  Therefore, Egeon and Emilia bought the other set of twins to be servants to their sons.  Egeon and Emilia set sail for home but their ship was wrecked.  Egeon, trying to save whomever he could, grabbed one of his sons and a twin servant and secured them to a mast, hoping they would survive. The mother did the exact thing to the other twin and servant, and Egeon and Emilia went separate ways.  Emilia, who ended up in Ephesus, thought she had Antipholus and Dromio, so she called them that.  After years, Antipholus grew restless wanting to find his long lost brother, so resolvedly he told Egeon his father he was going to find him.  He went searching, leaving their father alone. Antipholus and Dromio searched for a long time until they came to Ephesus. Their Father, thinking his life was just too dull, left to find his son, who was looking for his brother. Finally Egeon came to Ephesus where his son was, but soon after his arrival was arrested for being from Syracuse and coming Ephesus. He owed 1000 pounds or he would be executed!!! Explaining what happened next would be confusing and you probably would not to read it all, so I am going to finish here and invite you to read the play for yourself. All I will tell you is there were many errors that left an angry wife, a man in debt, an angry goldsmith, two confused Antipholuses, two outraged servants, and finally a family that lived happily ever after.        

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Back to School 2019 (Siobhan)

~Back to School~

As I'm sure you've noticed, I have gotten incredibly behind on uploading pictures! This fall has been absolutely packed for our family, and my camera roll is bursting with pictures I haven't uploaded to our blog yet. I finally managed to find a weekend where I am not working or scrambling to study for a major exam to catch up on uploading! I can't quite believe in looking back how much we have fit in with school, Owen's arrival, sports, Co-Op, and church events! It is sometimes crazy trying to juggle so many different stages of life, and there is never a dull moment around here...
Mom, Connor, Shaila, Brandan, Baxter, and Cade have been going to Lindsey Lane Co-Op this year. The kids have loved their classes, and the twins have had so much fun participating in their preschool activities. Aidan has taken advantage of the times on Tuesday while they are at Co-Op to catch up on school. His basketball schedule keeps him very busy with practices and games a few times a week. He is also on our church's Bible Quizzing Team and has been working on memorizing the entire book of Hebrews with his team!
This year the twins are in Preschool, Brandan is in 1st grade, Shaila is in 4th grade, Connor is in 6th grade, Aidan is in 9th grade, Ethan is a freshman at UAH, and I am a junior at UAH.

 



This fall I started nursing school at UAH! It made me very sad to leave Covenant, but it has been so wonderful to be able to finally get started on nursing classes. I took three online classes this past summer to finish my prerequisites, so now I just have nursing classes left! This semester I am taking patho, health assessment, informatics, clinical calculations, and concepts.

Finding a supportive group of study partners has been invaluable for me! I couldn't make it through nursing school without my friends and lab partners!
Whether it is collecting bugs, doing chemistry experiments, baking bread, or playing with Ooblek, there is always something happening in our kitchen!





 We have had a great start to our school year and hope you have too!