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Annette is in to a new kind of drink. It's actually a bit weird. I haven't tried these funny drinks yet because they have sugar in them (or at least I'm pretty sure they do). It called FruiTeaLicious.  There are these little ball of what Annette says is tapioca and they burst with flavor in your mouth. You get a wide straw to suck up those little round balls, very interesting. The lid is sealed on.  Brent ruined  a great picture by adding rabbit ears. I really dislike when kids do that.   Here is a sweet one of Ethan.  Annette bought one for Josh to try. They are the cost of a fancy cup of coffee that you'd get at Starbucks.

My first graduate, so many feelings! My adult son checking in at the doctor's office for the first time on his own. Late birthday celebration. Joshua's first coffee press.

I'm not an experienced selfie taker but I tried yesterday (9/25/16) at the coffee shop. Here is me with a goat (is that what it is?) Brent and me. This selfie taking is not easy when trying to get everyone in the picture. Maybe I should carry around a selfie stick! Love his smile!

It's a bit quiet here at Homeschooling6. My mother-in-law is visiting and we've been pretty busy. My nieces and nephews started back to school too so that's been fun. They look so cute with their backpacks and all. We won't start our homeschool for another few weeks (after Labor Day). I'm still collecting a few more things for school. I'm almost done. Hopefully I'll get some pictures and videos going soon. My one little corner where I make the videos is kind of dark but it's the only space I have so it will have to do. Annette took some senior photos of Josh. This one his eyes are a bit squinted. We took this in front of the docotor's office. We had an appointment Monday. We will take some more today. His announcements arrived too. I'll have to blog more about them soon. Josh has been accepted to the Alert Academy. We are excited for him. Please pray as there is a medical issue that came up and it might impact if he will be able to leave in Sept.

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My babies are coming home!!! TODAY! I can't wait to give them a hug. I miss them so much!!!! Here they are at their Great Grandma Tanny's house. Look at the nice tan Ethan has. They all look like they've grown some.

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Saturday the 13th Annette and I helped out with passing out backpacks and school supplies. It was a lot of fun. I love seeing all the excited kids come through the line. We went with my Sister-in-law and niece. Of course our first stop was Starbucks! Selfie of Annette and I :) Annette and her cousin picking out a backpack. Because Annette was helping she was able to pick a backpack too. The one she's holding is what she picked. There were a lot pretty quilted ones this year. We arrived at 7:30 and stayed till about 11:00 helping out. I was able to get a backpack for Lance too! I picked the robot one pictured above. I think he'll like it. My niece treated us to lunch at Whataburger. It was fun and I enjoyed hanging out with my niece and sis and taking a selfie with my daughter :)

Saturday my husband dropped my dad and Lance off at the Greyhound bus station. I didn't go because he was on the way to work. As Lupe was leaving he realized he hadn't taken a picture so he snapped this one at the last minute. I love it! Grandpa and grandson on a 24 hour bus ride across the states. So cute! My brother-in-law came up with the catchy title: Generations on the Move They arrived safely in Georgia Sunday around lunch! My niece pony-fied my family =)

I know some of you don't hang out on Facebook so I wanted to share here as well some Thinking Tree sales. All links to Amazon are affiliate links. JUST RELEASED!!! And half off at $14.70 (now $18! Still a great price!) You can see the inside of this one by scrolling down to the comments section. Right now Amazon doesn't have the "Look Inside" feature just yet as it was released yesterday (the 15th). Fun-Schooling with Minecraft Journal pdf and in color HERE ! This one too! Unfortunately the Horse Dreams journal doesn't have a peek inside. Naomi, Sarah's 11yr. old daughter created this one and it's really, really, nice. I was able to see the inside. The flash sale for both of these is a few days so don't wait =) Only $4.50! The Kindle version of Windows to Our World is FREE.    I really enjoyed reading this book. I stayed up till 2:00 A.M. reading it.   Window's to Our World is a wonderful love story about Sarah from The Thinking Tree. Her love

Last weekend my husband, Annette, and Joshua attended a real estate/investment conference which ran from 9-5 and sometimes till 6:00 P.M. Lance and I tagged along. We all packed up and left Friday morning. Lupe and the kids went to the conference while Lance and I hung out in the Hilton lobby. It was actually really nice because there were no distractions and we got a little schooling done. Lance worked in his Language Smarts book from the Critical Thinking Co., did a little fun-schooling in his Winter Boys Journal from The Thinking Tree, The Case of the Missing Mountain by Master Books, and played some Clash of Clans on my phone. The bathroom was right around the corner. The Hilton was huge and yet every time I used the restroom there was nobody in there. The paper towels to dry my hands were so soft and thick, haha. Not your average towels from Target or Walmart bathrooms. All you need is one to dry your hands =) The second day Lance and I spent the day in our hotel, the one with

We, um I, had a box day on Monday. I was so excited! My sweet Annette wasn't here to open her Heart of Dakota: U.S. 1 (high school) so yeah, I opened it for her, teehee. Sorry that's it's in video. I am having problems with taking pictures with my camera. My computer doesn't want to recognize the camera sd card (think that's the name) so I am not able to upload my photos right now. I'm not sure how or when that will be fixed. Right now I have to take a picture with my phone. When I plug my phone to transfer the pictures they all don't show up. I don't know what's going on. I click on all the photos I want transferred but an error comes up saying try again. So, now I have to upload the pictures to facebook. I do this so only I can see the pictures because I don't want all my photos on FB (that's why I blog). I then have to go to my computer and download them and save the pictured on my computer. It's a pain!!! Back to the Box Day post, heh

I miss my Ethan. He's so sweet. I can't wait till August 18th because that's the day he will come home.  We took this picture before he left. I think we were Skyping with Caleb. Here he is (Brent in the background) at his Great Grandma Tanny's house picking some lemons for his Auntie MaryEllen.  My Grandma's backyard use to be green with grass but now it's too much for her so a lot of the grass has died. My grandfather (he passed away when I was a teenager) planted lemons, avocado, apple, orange, fig, and a few other trees on their property. A dream for me. I'd love to have all those trees in my backyard. Imagine the money we'd save.  Around July 9th we took an unexpected trip to El Paso. My grandmother-in-law passed away.   Although we are sad to see her go we know she's in a better place. She had a stroke eight years ago that left her wheelchair bound. She wasn't able to move. She wasn't able to feed herself or even talk. It was really sad