Just thought I would share...

An old clip from 2008 but once again Pastor Voddie Baucham says it how it is. It is so sad to see how some try to twist the text of the bible to fit a more modern lifestyle. Oh, and I really like Sarah Palin, but pastor Baucham once again opens my eyes to the truth.

Wishing all of you a very happy...

4th of July

May the Lord Jesus Christ bless each and every one of you.

May the Lord forgive our country for all of its sins

We pray to the one and only true father in heaven that he hears our prayers today and always.

We hold in our hearts the men and women who fought and fight still today for our country.

We ask in the name of Jesus to please continue to bless America!

Today we will be spending time together working on projects, and learning about what makes our country so great.

Ways we can support our freedom and keep our freedom.

Why Daddy and Mommy buy American made products.

Why we have Men and Women fighting for our country.

It is going to be so hot today that we will most likley spend the day inside.

I hope all of you have a wonderful 4th!!!

Reading and Bingo!!

What a great summer we are having, a little hot but we're surviving it. Okay this year Reading and Bingo are what my kids have just been crazy about. Oh, and the library!! I love the excitement of watching them do things together more, and working hard at setting goals and sticking to it.

Last year not as much excitement about reading and bingo cards, maybe because we were doing so many other things outside of the home. This summer a whole different story!!

I thought I would share with all of you a list of Bingo ideas we have come up with. It has taken some time to come up with new ideas each week, but we're doing it! Please feel free to copy any you wish to copy down from us, trust me it will save you so much time.

Each square is a task when you finish the task you get a sticker on your square. 5 in a row and you earn a ticket, fill the card and earn an extra $3.00 plus our tickets!! We rotate the activities each week so everyone gets to do a little of everything before the end of the summer. This is a look at this week’s Bingo card. Here is a link to the original post on our Summer Plans.

Our 13yr old daughter-

Make dinner with dad (we grill out almost every night now, a great time for them to talk alone and bond).

Do dishes all week

Read for 1 hour outside

Jump rope 10 min each day

Do a state notebook page

Play soccer or kickball outside

Write a letter to Grandma T

Write a letter to Grandma G

Draw and color a picture

Help mom put new School books together and in the correct spots

Listen to an Audio Book

Write a report on any book you have read this summer

Brush the dogs

Play Wii fit for 1/2 hr

Pick 25 words out of the dictionary and write the definition for each word

Dust the house/ Dining room, living room and our bedroom

Finish 20-26 pages in math (we school year round, much more laid back in the summer but always learning).

Free Space

Wild Card Dad and Mom get to choose the activity

Play a board game with a younger sister

Study about a famous artist

Help Mom with the menu and grocery list for July

Clean out Pantry

Take 2 full quizzes in your VSP book

Pull weeds outside

Vacuum the stairs

Our 11 year old daughter-

Make lunch for everyone and bring it outside for a picnic

Don't fight with your sisters for 1 full day

Clean Pantry with Katelin (working together:))

Pick up backyard before bed

Read outside for 1 hour twice a week

Play Monopoly with Mom or Dad

Vacuum living room including downstairs

Fold and put away all the laundry for 1 day (we have 2-5 loads of laundry each day)

Color and draw a picture

Be Juliana's buddy for one day (these to seem to fight a little more than they should)

Do a state notebook page with Katelin

Sketch a plant from outside

Pull weeds outside (this really is something we all do as a family, we have a 1/2 acre and it takes work each week)

Free Space

Wild Card Dad and Mom choose the activity

Jump rope for 10 min each day

Write a letter to a Grandma

Finish 10-12 pages in math

Wash windows in the Living room and dining room

Play dress up with your little sister

Clean the whole downstairs bathroom

Play Wii Fit 1/2 hr

Clean out mom's van

Study about a famous artist

Clean under your bed

 Our 8 yr old daughter

Play basketball with dad

Play any game your little sister would like

Pull weeds with dad, or do what he needs that day in the yard

Do a GeoPuzzle World, or GeoPuzzle Europe

Play I Spy outside with your sisters

Send a friend a picture or letter

Keep the front Porch clean for the week

Play Wii Fit for 1/2 hr

Write a Poem to a grandma

Study a new artist

Finish 1or 2 spelling tests, and pass!

Make a rainbow with chalk outside

Make a birthday card for Grandpa

Put dishes away all week

Learn how to clean your ears

Water plants outside

Read outside for 1 hour

Clean up outside before bed

Do a state notebook

Learn how to clean and cut your nails

Brush the dogs

Jump rope outside for 15 min a day Mon- Sat

Help make breakfast

Sketch the Tiger lilies in the backyard

Our 6 year old daughter

Put diapers away

Do Hannah’s hair

Work on puzzles for 1/2 hour

Vacuum the living room

Play soccer

Watch 6 singing time DVD’s this week

2 pages in math or worksheets mom prints out

Learn how to clean the bathroom sink with a buddy

Go to bed on time each night

Sit nicely and look at books (an easy one for our home)

Set the table

Help mom clean a room

Write the ABC's

Draw a picture and send it to Grandma

Do 2 extra phonics pages

Play Goldfish with a sister

Work with water colors for 1/2 hour

Finish a chapter in our Little Pilgrims in God's World Kit (Love this set, and so do my girls)

Color a bible Picture

Read with Dad or Mom for 15 min each day

Put on a puppet show with sisters

Play on the Front Porch

Do reading Flashcards

Our 5 yr old daughter

Write your numbers 1-20

Play Kickball

Do someone’s hair

Listen to Dad and Mom for the whole day, no saying no!

Play Tag

Finish a chapter in our Little Pilgrims in God's World Kit

Write the ABC's

Feed the dogs

Really our 6 and 5 year old have almost the same bingo cards, just mixed up on different weeks

Our 3 yr old daughter

Help rinse dishes

Play outside for 1/2 hour

Let someone else watch a movie they want

Play kickball

Dress up with sisters

Watch 2 singing time DVD’s

Go to bed on time

Play a matching game

Water colors for 1/2 hour

Sit and look at books

Color in your ABC book

Help set the table

Vacuum the dining room with Mom

Say please for one day (were working on everyday:))

Play on the front porch with sisters

Play with play-do

Look at books

Be kind to others and share

**I have added to the 3 older girls Dictionary work and definition writing. Each week a new letter, write the word and whole definition for each word. They have to find 25 new words each week from whatever letter I give them. We may do something like this over the fall and winter with bible scripture :)

Really there is no end to the amount of things you can choose from. With the hot weather coming up our cards will have more to do inside than out. We try to go outside between the hours of 8am and 11am since are heat is almost unbearable.

Are home is not that big so we have to get creative with our space, our yard is very big which normally is used to burn lots of energy, but the heat has stopped us from having much yard fun.

The kids seem closer this summer working together and learning new things is fun to them. It's been really nice not hearing I'm bored or what can I do, they just look at the Bingo cards or pick a card from our bored activity vase. Ticket to summer is something we have not started yet since everything else has kept us so busy, I may add it this next week just for fun, will see.

I hope all of you are safe and staying cool this summer!!

Pamela

Oh, No!!!

I just found out today some very sad news. I was sent a email from Live Action please pray for our country more than ever. I don't normally write things like this on my blog, but I am so sad about this as I'm sure many of Americans are.

Here is the message I got sent to me today-

Today the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act along with the bureaucratic mandate that promises
to fine or even jail employers, insurers and private citizens who act
on pro-life principles in the health care arena.

?Obamacare? ? an unconstitutional and unwarranted intrusion of
government into civil liberty, religious liberty, and the private
sector - jeopardizes the very existence of many businesses, charitable
organizations, religious communities, Catholic schools and hospitals.

The insurance mandate seeks to coerce individuals into financing and
facilitating procedures and drugs that violate their consciences and
take innocent human lives.

Live Action President Lila Rose expressed the determination of many to
continue to oppose the unjust legislation and never to comply with it,
even to the point of civil disobedience if necessary.

?Today?s Supreme Court ruling strikes at the heart of both Life and
Liberty. Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry expect to make a
killing off of Obamacare?s unconstitutional, socialized medicine
scheme. We will not comply with this mandate.?

She continued, ?Today, the Supreme Court has upheld nothing more than a
Ponzi scheme to expand the abortion business. If this legislation is
not overturned by the next administration, Obamacare?s socialist-style
diktats will be used, not to provide better or more affordable health
care, but to expand Planned Parenthood?s abortion empire across the
backs of American taxpayers and people of conscience ? and at the
expense of our religious freedoms.

?In light of today?s ruling, Americans will greet Independence Day with
prayer, sacrifice, and renewed energy to continue our opposition to
this mandate. We must also recommit ourselves to restoring full
constitutional protections of Life and Liberty to the most vulnerable
in our society: unborn children.?

Summer Plans Part 2

Well since my last post something has happened in my life, a great blessing has been placed in our home.

I mentioned in another post that I had Compatible with complete placenta previa something that I have been very scared about for the past 50 days.

We had an ultrasound done this past Thursday and got some great news. My Midwife called to tell me I no longer have Placenta Previa and my Placenta is 4 cm / 2inches away my from cervix now. This means I am clear of everything I was told I could not do, and I can now have a normal delivery. I have one last Ultrasound in a month before the baby is born and we could not be happier.

So our summer plans have not changed much but they do include a little more running around now that I am feeling better.

We have had a great summer so far, I hope you and your family have as well.  It has been very hot so we are trying to find things to do outside that we can all handle as a family:)

Here is what the rest of our plans look like for summer (at least the next couple of weeks), things could change if mommy has a baby sooner than we think:) We do hope he stays put until at least the end of August but only God knows that.

June 18th - June 30th

Continue with Summer Bingo, Our bored activity cards (which has been great) Ticket to summer, and our library activities.

Finish up some school work that we have not finished.

I plan on making Sacred heart tie-dyed t-shirts, we have never tie-dyed anything before and I thought these were cute.

My hubby is working on a simple scavenger hunt for the kids, with maybe a camp out in the back yard. My kids really want to camp out in the backyard, will have to see how many end up in the house before the sun comes up. We have never camped out as a family, we are more of a hotel room service family, at least we were. With 10 of us staying over night anywhere can cost a lot more since we have to stay in Condos/Houses at resorts. The Double Queen room just won't work anymore.

If the heat lets up a little my wonderful hubby will be taking a bike trip with the girls, our trails are so pretty where we live.

Bowling a lot since my family loves to bowl; our bowling lanes are offering 2 free games of bowling per day all summer!!

I will be continuing My Proverbs 31 bible study which has been fantastic. I would encourage you to check out Women Living Well Ministries and see what you think.

I hope to finish up my End- of -the year interviews with my girls; I am so behind on these.

Otherwise with all the summer games we really are keeping busy throughout the day.  We are still trying to keep activities simple and almost free:) It really is unreal how many things you can do as a family without breaking the bank. Here are few pictures I took; these things were all free to do!!

The girls loved playing in the water and washing their bikes.

We thought them they need to take care of everything we have including items that sit in the garage.

Daddy practicing with his Bow

Nice shooting!!

The girls were asked to go outside and write a little about what they see in the backyard.

What things can they find around the trees, and what do the animals do during the day.

Just a few pictures of the Parade, it happened to rain 30 minutes before the parade started.

It stopped raining just in time:)

Our littlest girl loves animals; at the fair in our town she was able to pet some little goats.

She was so happy

Did I say we love books, well in my home books are everywhere and I love it, even CJ who’s only 21 months enjoys looking at the books. We have been doing a lot of reading as a family and on our own time. 

July 1st - July 31st summer plans coming soon....

Keep Enjoying your summer!!