Week .43 Photo Notes | 1. birthday shopping and a ferris wheel ride 2. back on my bike 3. a wednesday afternoon picnic, just like we use to do 4. more researching for reports 5. Penny and Bella 6. happy birthday cinnamon rolls for a surprise 7. haunted house 8. our annual visit to the […]
Documentation Week .42

Week .42 Photo Notes | 1. a late afternoon visit to the park 2. one last sunflower for the season from a boy 3. doing challenges at the park after a visit to the library 4. taking a walk 5. a seed pod, fully open 6. Penny’s first bike ride 7. starting research for a […]
Documentation Week .41

Photo Notes | 1. making new friends 2. letter writing 3. currently reading 4. red floral 5. puppy love 6. a visit to the mormon pioneer trail 7. a cricket 8. oranges from a boy 9. library day
Documentation Week .40

Week .40 Photo Notes | 1. our weekly library visit 2. busy work 3. mornings spent playing with legos 4. visits to the park 5. a little watermelon jack-o-lantern 6. long late afternoon shadows 7. fall flowers 8. diving down the rabbit hole of our genealogy and history 9. lots of puppy cuddles
Documentation Week .39

Week .39 The Redwoods Joseph B. Strauss Here, sown by the Creator’s hand. In serried ranks, the Redwoods stand: No other clime is honored so, No other lands their glory know. The greatest of Earth’s living forms, Tall conquerors that laugh at storms; Their challenge still unanswered rings, Through fifty centuries of kings. The nations […]
Documentation Week .38

Week .38 “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving also serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” – L Tolstoy Photo Notes | 1. sketchbook 2. a boy’s broken tooth and a late night dentist visit 3. my cast is off but […]
Documentation Week .37

Week .37 Photo Notes | 1. my son’s “all white house”, he’s stepping up his building skills 2. dot-to-dot 3. thumbnail sketches 4. evening read aloud 5. bella luna 6. colorways 7. colored pencils 8. working in our sketchbooks early in the morning 9. picking out papers
Documentation Week .36

Week .36 Photo Notes | 1. Fern is missing 2. our second weekend at Crystal Park, MT 3. searching sifters 4. a bright spot on a bad morning, Snowflake coming in to snuggle 5. another little bright spot, a katydid 6. searching Dillon, MT 7. this little cat, who isn’t even ours, spent a few […]
Documentation Week .35

Week .35 We spent five days in Montana that overlapped the last two weeks. While most kids in our area were returning to public school, ours stepped into the past and saw the wild west come to life. We observed Beaverhead Rock just as Lewis and Clark had done with Sacagawea in July of 1805 […]
Documentation Week .34

Week .34 This Friday I was out of town and posting this as usual was not an option. I think this past week will be one that stands out this year because its the week that I broke my arm, which happens to be my first broken bone ever. On the 18th we decided to […]