Florida Vacation with our friends the Shorts

So we are going just a little bit out of order here. I have remembered how to get my pictures in and I am getting some much needed posts in here. We went to FL in June to be with our wonderful friends the Short family. We would live with them if we could, especially me and Cody. They welcome us into their home and are so great! Life is just heaven with Ellen. We took a beach vacation with them this year. The last time we were able to do this Sis was 4 so Cody and Taylor were 5 and little Kasey wasn't with us yet. So it was much needed. We got a condo on Madeira Beach. Ellen and I want a place their. It is awesome!!! We saw dolphins swimming right out our balcony in the mornings and the other direction at night. So we played on the beach, ate great food including lots of gelati, and the kids played volleyball. The kids got to ride go carts and the big kids went parasailing, which they loved. It was one of our best vacations ever.

Our visit to a compost pile for science

So most all of you know by now that we have chosen to school Kasey at home. We are using a curriculum called K12. It is awesome; not easy by any means but really exciting and wonderful. One of our lessons in science was on producers, consumers and decomposers. Rather than take her out into the woods and find it happening to an animal, we visited our wonderful friends the Royle's who have a terrific compost system in their yard. Mary was so helpful and showed Kasey her piles and how she does her composting. This year we will be posting lots more about our school experience. Or at least I hope to. I will also try to include the big kids. haha! Hope you enjoy it.