Girl Scout Camp - 2014

Reagan and Kennedy attended their first Girl Scout summer camp in June. They loved it! It was especially fun because they were able to go with several of the other girls in their troop as well as their cousin Heidi. The last day Aunt Dorothy and I went to watch the closing and all the skits the girls had created. It was pretty cute! :)

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My favorite story/rule that the girls came home with from the week was "If you kill a bug you have to eat the bug." Love it! lol :)

 It was crazy hat day so I had to take a picture of these two crazy girls...

Reagan, Kara and Kennedy

 Jackson kept picking flowers which Aunt Dorothy helped him make creations from while the girls were doing their closing activities.

 The girls are definitely looking forward to returning to camp. Reagan's only regret for the week was only being able to spend the night one week. This crazy girl is more ready than Mom and Dad to start week long over night camps! :)

Girl Scout Cookie Sales

While we all do personal sales, our Girl Scout Troop has realized that as a homeschool group we have a great opportunity to sell cookies to college kids. We have taken advantage of this the last two years at UK and at Transylvania University. We send a group of girls to both universities (the campuses are both in downtown Lexington) around lunch time and sell between 300-400 boxes in 2-3 hours. It is amazing! College kids rock!!! :)

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Here is our crew (or cookie parade?) heading out to sell cookies with a couple of wagons overflowing with these delicious treats! :)

   Here is the Transy crew - ready and open for business!

Younger siblings get to join in the "fun" cookie sales as well - these two are at least good buddies and in the same Classical Conversations class. :)

 Brothers making better use of the wagon...

 Cookie salesmen or cookie thieves??? Judging by the smiles I'm sure you correctly guessed the latter... :)

BHLC Field Day

While we're on the subject of school and fun days, I thought I'd do a catch up post from the BHLC Field Day we had in July. The day was beautiful and so much fun! As you can see from the pictures below the kids enjoyed an unlimited supply of shaved ice. :)

 

 We were at a park but the main attraction was definitely the rented waterslide

 Kennedy and her "big, big sister" Zoe sliding together

 Our good friend, Tori, heading down the slide

  Our fearless leader, Wendi, had fun going down the waterslide with her son a couple of times. What a great day! :)

 Reagan enjoyed the slide too :)

  More cute kiddos having lots of fun! :)

 Waiting in line for the slide 

 There was a decent line at the other end of the slide waiting for the splash as well

 The older boys did a pretty good job of not disappointing the throngs

Thanks to the BHLC and all its members for another great year! We're looking forward to the 2013/2014 school year and classes getting underway! :)

Pumpkin Carving Party

We had our first pumpkin carving party last fall and it was so much fun! Uncle Scott and Aunt Arla were here for the weekend and brought a bunch of pumpkins from Wisconsin with them. My always helpful children were ready and willing to help move all the pumpkins to the back yard, or rather were ready to be moved with the pumpkins to the backyard. lol :) 

 Jackson (2 years old)

 Kennedy (not quite 4 years old)

 Reagan (5 1/2 years old)

 Four of my favorite people in the world! :)

 Jackson and Grand-Dad playing with gourds - how sweet is this picture?

 Best friends, Uncle Scott and Missy K, making animal faces with sticks lol :) - love these sweet faces too! :)

 These too! :)

 Besides moving pumpkins everyone pitched in to make all sorts of candy goodies for our party

 We had to take a break from the party planning festivities to paint some finger and toenails with new polish Aunt Arla brought. Jackson wanted to be a part of that process as well but Aunt Arla made him give her some kisses as payment first. And kisses are pretty funny business!!! :)

 Time to get down to business!

 Another picture of four of my favorite people :)

 Aunt Arla brought this amazing pumpkin man with her all the way from Wisconsin to decorate our front porch.

 We had a great time getting ready for our party, but as you can see from the pictures below, the party was even more fun!

One of the many things dad's are good for - cleaning out pumpkin guts and carving specified designs on pumpkins!

 

 

Mom's are pretty good at helping out too!

   As you can see from several of these pictures the huge orange suckers from Grammy were an enormous hit! And look, there was actually at least one child who helped with cleaning out the pumpkin guts! Way to go Heidi!!! :) 

Yummy Caramel Apples!

 Travis and Maddie working (or at least pretending for my picture) to be hard at work on their pumpkins. :)

It's official, children make much better supervisors than workers lol :)



We also had small pumpkins to paint and keep little hands busy

How sweet is this smile???

Having fun on the swingset while the adults area busy working :)



Because we were planning to celebrate Missy K's b-day in New York instead of having a birthday party in Kentucky and she was requesting cake pops we decided to stick a candle in one of our pumpkin cake pops and have everyone sing happy birthday to her.



Here's most of our pumpkin carving crew (or beneficiaries of the pumpkin carving crew) with the finished products

Thanks to everyone for coming! We had a fabulous time and can't wait to carve pumpkins with you all again next year! :)