A Colonial Dinner

The kids and I are studying the colonial period of American history. I am currently reading "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" to them, which is about a Quaker woman who is believed to be a witch by the Puritans in her community. This year we are doing a unit study approach for school, which consists of me reading a historical fiction book, and them doing schoolwork and activities that go along with that particular time period. I did the same history based unit studies with Meagan & Allison several years ago, and they loved it, and now I'm doing it with Justus & Nina. And they love it too. Unit studies are such a cool way to learn. Now with all that background you can better understand the pix. Tonight we had a colonial dinner. Our menu included Roasted Chicken, Fried Potatoes, Fresh Corn on the Cob, Boston Baked Beans, and Indian Pudding. I loved it. The Indian Pudding was really neat. The main ingredients are milk, cornmeal and molasses. The Boston Baked Beans were OK, certainly no one's favorite. But everyone enjoyed the fresh corn---Summer at 5 pieces! After finishing off 5 pieces of corn on the cob she said, "Mommy, I done", and I thought," I bet you are". Anyway I thought I'd share our fun evening with you.

On another fun note, for anyone who doesn't know, Vanessa delivered a little girl this afternoon, little Haven Alika. We are all waiting patiently (really we're waiting not-so-patiently) to see pictures of the newest member of the Everett clan:)

More Cute & Crazy Pix

Here are a few more pix that are kind of fun:) Here's Allison, exhausted after kayaking.

 Meagan being goofy while waiting for a show to start at Silver Dollar City. Here's Summer trying to get down a hot dog at camp. And a lovely picture of me:)

We're Still on the Prairie

After months of no internet service--we're back, and with a new blog too. After going round and round trying to access our old blog through a very old e-mail address, I said forget it, I'll just start over. So here we are.

The past few months have been busy. Meagan graduated from high school, we took a week and a half vacation to Missouri, where we went to camp, Silver Dollar City, and did some canoeing & kayaking. Since then Meagan has started college--and is doing great by the way:) We have started a new year of homeschooling with Allison in 10th, Justus in 6th, Nina in 4th, Gretch in Kindergarten, and Summer in the middle of it all. Here are a few picks of our last trip to Missouri, we'll be returning to Missouri on Labor Day weekend, with high hopes of being there when Vanessa has her new baby girl. And a few picts of our new bedroom--these are for you mom:)