Thursday and Friday

We have been working hard on school these days.  We are planning on a mini-vacation for the family mid week next week and we want to get all our work done before we go.  Today we did Friday and Monday work.  It was a lot of work, but the kids did GREAT.  Spelling this week with the homonyms did get better for Johnathan and Nattalie, but Daniel is still having trouble with them.  I think that I will test him tomorrow and Sunday and see if we can get this one all taken care of so that we can move on to new words on Monday.

Thursday night Nattalie had cooking class at the church.  She has fun working with the others girls.  Last night they worked with making yeast breads.  Instead of making regular bread they ended up making bread shapes.  Nattalie made a really cute turtle.  I wasn't able to get a picture of it before she started to eat it. :)

While we were at cooking class the boys went to the gym.  They had a fun time....spent most of the time swimming until we came and picked them up.  Wow, they sure smelled like chlorine when they got in the car, but they did have FUN!

And we received another great blessing yesterday.  John and I have been talking about getting a juicer and juicing to get more vitamins and nutrients into our diet.  I was talking about this with the cooking instructor and she mentioned a friend had a great juicer on her garage sale.  Her girls are in the cooking class too.  So when she got there I asked her about it.  At the end of cooking class she had brought it back with her and just gave it to us.  What a blessing!  Thank you Amanda and Chris!

So, we were so excited about the juicer we stopped off and got some fresh fruits and veggies to try it out.  When we got home we cleaned it all up and started making juice.  Funny story....we didn't have the tool needed to take the blade and mesh net off to clean it up afterwards.  Oh no, what are we going to do?  Got online and ordered the tool for only $8.00, but it will not be mailed out for about 3 weeks.  How are we going to get all the fruit stuff out of there.  Well we used some toothpicks to unlock the blade lock to be able to clean.  Praise the Lord...it's all clean.  Guess we were just to excited to use it that we didn't make sure that we had everything we needed to take care of our new juicer.

Friday has been going by quickly, but we are looking forward to spending the evening with friends. Then we are looking forward to a busy tomorrow with soccer and Johnathan headed off to a corn maze with the youth group.