Kendi has quite the poses for the camera these days. I can't get a normal one. We can't hide her personality anyway.
She was especially happy about winning a kid's meal. 
When she told me not to help her I thought about how I didn't bring any band aids along. I was not expecting her to take off right away like she'd been doing it forever. I think riding her scooter helped her learn balance.
Jared pulled up from working on the house while we were still out riding and she got to show him.
I've been reading a lot of homeschooling blogs lately to learn other people's techniques and experiences. We all seem to be passionate about the same reason's for homeschooling. Courtney from My Ordinary, Happily Ever After posted this on her blog: We’ve seen the news stories about these new “sex ed” programs that teach all sorts of things that we weren’t taught in school under the guise of “preventing bullying”. But this report shows the true purpose of why the radical “sexual agenda” is trying to infiltrate our schools. This report was created by UN Special Rapporteur Vernor Munoz who was under mandate from the UN as an “expert” to issue an unbiased report on “the right to education”. Based on the content of his work, he is clearly not “unbiased” nor is he an “expert”. Among other things, this report claims that existing international treaties create a “Right to Sexual Education” (which they don’t) and that they only way to enforce this fabricated “right” is by implementing a sexual education program that not only undermines parental authority, religious convictions and traditional values, but also releases our children (and society as a whole) from any form of self control and gives them carte blanche to nearly any and all sexual behavior (except abstinence and restraint, of course). The report discusses what helps young people “have better sexual lives”, as if improving the sexual lives of youth is a valid goal of governments, and it strangely states that the “goal of education for sexuality” (which is significantly different from traditional sex education) is “to develop a transforming role for men by going beyond the …physical aspect,” whatever that means. REALLY? Since when does ANYONE want the government in their bedroom? Regardless of your beliefs on sexual orientation, I doubt that many people agree that it is the governments job to teach about technique in our classrooms. Specifically, in the report Munoz states that he “considers that pleasure in an enjoyment of sexuality . . . should be one of the goals of comprehensive sexual education, abolishing guilt feelings about eroticism that restrict sexuality to the mere reproductive function. ”With regard to HIV the report declares that “restricting sexual education to the issue of sexually transmitted diseases . . . may create an erroneous association between sexuality and disease, which is as harmful as associating it with sin.” To read her entire post go HERE. They want to teach this to five year olds. I know there is a lot to be debated about why we should or shouldn't homeschool, but this is a big reason for me. Not just because of how the government is getting involved with Sex Ed, but because of what is becoming socially acceptable in modern society. And then not just acceptable, but expected among kids. I don't think less of people who put their kids in public education either. I'm still open to all ideas of education and am not sure what I'll end up doing yet. I just feel like the battle between good and evil is getting more challenging and I want to know that I TRIED to do all that I could for my kids. If you have more information on what is going on with Sexual Education in schools, please share.
Getting a picture of these two smiling and looking at the same time is impossible. This is the best I got.
I didn't have Jared there to draw the lady bug for Aydri so I had to do it. I know it looks kind of Alienish.
For some reason you can't see the musical note shadows behind the ballerina very well in the picture. I'll have to try again tomorrow when it isn't so dark.
I have no pictures for yesterday. Jared and I had been to an overnight Halloween party and were getting home later than we had planned. We were nervous about driving home from Brian Head on the icy roads in the early morning.
The trusses are supposed to be here any day. It's supposed to snow on Monday so we may be having a crazy weekend getting the roof on.
Day63 was actually yesterday. I spent the whole day working with them on the house. I took Kendi with me in the morning. She's been wanting to make new friends in the neighborhood and was finally able to meet some kids.
Kendi took this picture.
Kendi is learning to entertain herself on a job-site like I did when I was little. A "Lumber Ride" is almost as fun as a "Hay Ride."
At one point I put them in the car and gave them food to eat. Kendi got a hold of the camera and took this picture.
Finally, at 11 am they got to stamp their hands and feet. I didn't get good pictures because I was so ready to leave. Kendi was an hour late for preschool so we had to take off quickly. I still haven't got a good picture of the final prints.
I tried to take pictures of the kids with their pumpkins, but by the time I figured out that I was overexposing them, the kids were done. haha. Oh well.
