Showing posts with label Home School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home School. Show all posts

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Friends and Sweet Neighbors

So we have the nicest neighbors in the the whole world!  Stacy, a neighbor of ours, found this awesome telescope and gave it to Damian just because she is totally sweet.  The telescope is an antique, it must be 50 plus years old and it beautifully placed on it's original stand.  We look out all the time on the reservation not too far from us and will be doing star gazing soon.
 

Essie had a group of her cute little friends over to sell Cookies and Lemonade!
After the girls eating half of what they all brought and only being outside for one hour
the still made $22.00.  They all split it up and can't wait to do it again.

 

This is one of my dearest friends Austin, she is an amazing mother of four, the two 
youngest are twin boys, and she is going to be homeschooling this fall!
She and I went to an awesome training together for two days and learned so much!

 

 

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Pecks! Fabulous parenting seminar





Okay, so I don't know if any of you have ever of Nickoleen Peck but she has been teaching parenting seminars all over the country for the past ten years. HIP, my homeschool group, hosted them to come and speak to Arizona and I learned so much! What she teaches is self government principles and helps you not only learn how to get your kids to do what you need but how to have a vision for your family. The self Government concept are loaded with everything from tantrums of a three year old to husband, wife, and children relationships. I learned so much and what made it even better is McKay, my wonderful husband came too. So much better than having to explain everything!

Okay it gets even better Nicholeen's husband Spencer, who also was a total high light of the seminar, came along and they both STAYED at our home for two days! We got to host them and what a treat that was! We stayed up till 1:00 am and just talked and talked and they were able to give us some personal pointers, as Rulon is squeezing his corn muffin in disgust, they got to see the real Earls in our full glory! I loved every moment!!!

Julie, my darling sister in law, came to watch the kids all day from 7:30 am to 7:00 pm so that we could do this! She brought her husband Dan and their two cute little boys Stephen and Lincoln! Than our neighbor needed some help with her dogs while she had a baby shower at her home that afternoon, so we had the dogs over and than a friend of ours was extremely sick and needed help with her son that day and so Julie ended up with that too! She saved us, our neighbor, and our friend that day! Thank you Julie...you are next! I owe her three days worth.











Here is a link to the Peck's experience of one of the biggest TV shows in the UK called "The World's Strictest Parents" They had two OUT of CONTROL kids come and stay with them for eight days while being filmed the whole time you can watch and see a lot of experiences.  These principles have changed our lives forever!