Tahoe

Hello!  So the story behind this post, in a nutshell, is that I went to Tahoe with my youth group on President's Day weekend, and took all these awesome pictures with my brand-new camera, and then blogger wouldn't let me upload said pictures.  And finally, TWO WEEKS LATER, here is my post about Tahoe.  *Sigh*

We stayed in Zephyr Cove, and the church conference center was super pretty!  All these pictures are from where we stayed.

Here's the dock.  There was a protected little swimming cove (right) encircled (ensquared?  haha) by the two docks and then the open lake was out to the left.

This lovely boat came around the lake with some tourists aboard.  They waved to us, seems like they were having a good time :)

Looking out from a rock near the docks onto the lake

Here is the swimming/beach area...it's probably used more in the summertime haha but the water was super clear, some kids jumped in!

Our winter retreat was four days, Friday through Monday (the first and fourth days were spent driving).  We got to play in the snow, hang out in our cabins, and go sledding!  It was super fun!  Some other things we got to do:

-Polar Bear Plunge (I didn't do this, but it's pretty much where you jump off the dock into the ice-cold lake.  Fun?)

-Marshmallow Olympics (A series of competitions involving marshmallows.  Included trying to eat a full bowl of ONLY the marshmallows from Lucky Charms; Chubby Bunny; Marshmallow Creme Santa Beard; and Marshmallow Field Hockey.  Our team lost haha!)

-Epic High School vs Middle School snowball fight...which I missed most of...

We had an amazing time and I'm definitely planning on going again next year!

More posts coming soon, now that Blogger has its picture-uploading problems fixed :)

Happy Homeschooling!

Some Days

Today I created a schedule for school...because some days it's hard to get everything done if I don't have a time and place to do it.  [Just FYI, I wake up at 6 or 6:30 in the morning.  My choice.]

Here is my schedule of awesomeness :D

Bible- 7:30

Math- 7:45

Science/History (we take turns)- 8:45

English- 9:15

Latin- 11:20

Other-Civics, Extra reading, Latin HW- 1:15 (after lunch)

PE- Depends.  If I'm just doing some simple exercises I can do it earlier, but sometimes I'll ride my bike or something after school with my friends.

Don't worry, I always wear a helmet haha!

For Bible I'm currently reading Jesus Freaks.  It's really good!  Math, I am reviewing how to use the distributive property in Algebra which is not exciting or anything but pretty easy.  History is American History woohoo!!  Making a scrapbook, will take pics when done.  In English I am reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is really confusing.  And in Latin, Roman History because Miss Weight is taking a credentials course and she needs to complete a history segment.  Roman history is really cool, but personally I think they just took everything from the Greeks, renamed it in Latin, and made it bigger.

That's all, hope you enjoyed seeing how my day goes.  Right now I can't upload videos to my computer but when I can maybe I'll make a Day in the Life video blog for here.  What do you think?

Happy Homeschooling!

Day 2

My mom and I are about to paint little gnomes for my brother and sister :)  Cute huh?  I will post pics when they are done!!

And my second day, of course, went swell.  History, Bible, Math, and English, done by 10:45, then just had cooking class (mom taught me how to make roasted tomato sauce for our spaghetti tomorrow--yum!) a few minutes ago.  It was all in all a great school day!!

Sorry for the short post, but I figured better short than none at all, right?

Happy Homeschooling!