Prayer request !!!!!

If you could please keep this little guy in your prayers. His name is Brent and he is 5yrs old, he and his siblings all suffer from a Mitochondrial Disease. All his life he has many struggles with his health and this past week he has been very, very sick and in the hospital. His family is just amazing in their faith.
Here is a quote that his Mama put on her blog, he really could use all the prayers you can give and so does his family.

"HLH is a very serious disease-acute HLH can very quickly become fatal. Thank God that his UNC doctors already suspected HLH and knew what labs to check because if we had not known exactly what labs to run,if they had continued to assume it was infection he could have died from this acute attack. So thankful for our amazing team!"


Thank you for stopping by and saying a prayer for Brent. Maybe you could write some words of encouragement to them in my comments and I will forward them to Brent and his family.

Changes....

I'm slowly making more and more changes as the Lord has been working on my heart. I have come to realize that simplifying our life is one thing that the Lord has really put on my heart. In todays world we have so much and yet we are never satisfied with it, we always want more.
So I'm slowly changing things around and it's amazing with how much less we are still fine and happy.


Between both families our children always get a lot of clothes for their birthdays and Christmas. Yet I always went out and bought a few things as well, just because the outfits were so cute and I wanted those for them. Now I only buy what they really need, which is nothing at the time. There are so many families out there who are not as blessed and children that don't have enough clothes.

For the past couple of years we have also not bought many things for Christmas, I want my children to understand and realize why we celebrate this holiday.


Luke 2:9-14
An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."


And for their birthdays I would love to be able to make them something on top of the gift they will get. So I have been working on a birthday gift for my daughter and came up with a under the sea playset. It's all crocheted and so far I made a little mermaid and a turtle. I will make some more sea creatures and a nice bag to put the playset in. I can't wait to see her face when she opens her gift, but at the same time I can wait because it means that she'll be 2. Thankfully we still have time until December, I don't want my baby girl to grow up too fast.

Now I just have to find something that I can make for my oldest, he'll be turning 11 in October. So if anybody has some ideas, leave it in the comment section. I will make the boys crochet lightsabers for Christmas and I saw some really cute crochet pattern for a Starwars playset.

Way too long....

It has been way too long since I last posted. Things have just been very busy here I guess. We have made it through our first year of homeschooling and it was a success. J tested already and he did great :0). Since O in Kindergarten he doesn't have to test this year.
Back in March the kids and me went to spent time with my family in Germany and stayed for 2 months :0). It was great seeing everybody but daddy was dearly missed as he couldn't come with us.
We celebrated O's birthday in Germany and he was so excited, he is a big fan of Capt'n Sharky and you can typically only find it in Germany. So we went with that theme and he loved it all :0). I can't believe he is 6yrs old now, time sure has flown by fast. I remember the day when I handed him to his daddy at 1 week old. Daddy was deployed and not home for his birth and it was just the most precious moment ever to see him hold O for the first time. It still brings tears to my eyes today.
The little ladybug is growing up fast too, she is 18 months old now and super busy learning so many things every day :0). She speaks a lot of german now, since we stayed there for 2 months and it's so cute to hear it. She is also potty trained and doing so well. I never thought it was going to be so easy to potty train her, it took us 2 days and we were done :0).
We will continue with schoolwork during the summer just not on such a strict schedule as before :0). I had bought the sciene curriculum "Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology" from Apologia for the fall but the boys have been begging me to start already. And the beauty of homeschooling is you can do just that and they don't have to wait :0). So far they love it and really enjoy all the things we get to do.
So I leave this little update with a few new pictures :0).

Playing in my Godparents backyard :0)

Birthday boy

Silly boy

4 Generations, my mom, grandma, me and ladybug :0)

Science Journals

O's Cell Anatomy, with the help of mommy writing the words

J's Cell Anatomy

Sensory Play with rice and lentils :0)

Happy Fall

although honestly the temperatures don't let you know it as of right now. It has been so humid and muggy the past two days, ack.
Well we have been quite busy the past couple of weeks. Between school work, canning, baking, birthday parties, taking care of my precious babies, crafts and many more things I haven't really had the time to update the blog :0).

So here are some pictures of our pumpking patch visit from two weekends ago, the kids had a fun time.

Not always fun and games.....

but today it sure was :0). It absolutely brought joy to my heart seeing my boys playing the sight word game 4 in a row together. Yet another one of the benefits of homeschooling, they are able to bond in such a great way :0).

And here is a video of Owen from the other night, when he was practicing his reading :0). I just love the sparkle in his eyes when he manages to finally read the word map. He has never seen the word map before, so it was his first time sounding it out :0).

Can you guess....

which letter we are working on this week???????

Still going strong and we are almost finished with week 6, so much fun and pleasure to teach my boys. We finished up Treasure Island ( what a great book) and now we are reading Stowaway for our reader from Winter Promise. We have done a few more experiments, which of course I did not have the camera handy, ack.
Owen finished one of his math books already and is working through the second one fairly quickly too, I guess we know where his strength is.
We started adding some sight words and also sounding out simple words and reading. This isn't one of his favorites, lol. But he is coming along nicely with it.
So here is the clue to what letter the little guy is learning this week.