Boy Scouts

Yesterday I stayed home from market, and Lydia went instead. I did some school and housework stuff.

We got 25 new baby chicks in the mail the other day, so I was taking care of them. Unfortunately, three died.

Then, when everyone got home from market, we all went to Oliver's Boy Scout Court of Honor. Oliver was given lots of merit badges he had completed.

This is the Scout Master giving Oliver the merit badges.

Sorry these pictures are so dark. This is the group of boys who completed a Klondike race (or something).

The whole Troop 55, with their leaders. Oliver is the one on the other kids shoulders. :)

So that's what I've been doing. Yesterday was Election day, and I hope you all voted! ;)

'Til next time!

CHAP Convention!

I've been keeping very busy lately! What with baking, and working in the garden. Although Friday and Saturday I managed to take "off"and go with my mom to the CHAP (Christian Homeschool Association of Pennsylvania) Convention. Which is a HUGE event for Homeschool parents and kids. There are a lot of booths set up, selling Homeschool curriculum's, or promoting Christian Colleges ( I went to a lot of those!). There are also workshops for everybody. Many famous speakers who have either been homeschooled or homeschool were there.

I went to CHAP two years ago, but wasn't able to go for the past few years. I decided that I wanted to go this year. So I signed up. :)

This is me, in the car....(blah!)

I thought this picture was appropriate, (with the "homeschool" van in the background) We used to have one of those....but ours was brown.
:)The CHAP convention is always held in the Farm Show Complex. There were about 200 booths there. :)

This was really funny! I was walking past the Pensacola Christian College booth, and then recognized who was manning the table. :) Matt has been at Pensacola for the past two years when I have gone to camp there. He drove all of us to and from the airport, and also helped in the song services. :) It was really funny meeting up with someone I knew from FLORIDA!

Another time, I was walking down a row of booths, and I heard someone calling my name. I turned around and saw Abi, a girl I had met at Pensacola. It was really weird. She and I hung out part of the day, but I wasn't able to get a picture with her...:(

(don't mind me: I look really weird in this picture)

This year, CHAP had something new: Special sessions just for Teens. I signed up to go to them. It was really good! Diana Waring was our speaker, and she was really great!

In this picture, (that's Mrs. Waring standing on the chair) four of the teens are getting ready to act out Jesus and his Disciples...(we were acting out some Bible stories)

And here is a video from our last session. We (the audience) were supposed to be "the wind and the waves roaring". The three guys on the left were disciples and the other guy supposed to be Jesus. It was actually really cool!:)

And this was us, practicing our wind and wave sounds. :)

And that's all I have. I had a load of fun! and I'm hoping to be able to go again next year!

I hope you all are having a good week so far!

Yesterday was my first time going to market this year! :)

I went with Mommy to Bethesda, Maryland. It was cloudy most of the day, but thankfully it didn't rain on us!

This was the only picture I managed to get. We were sitting in the truck waiting until 9 O'clock to park. I'm sorry I haven't been able to post much recently. I've been baking a lot lately (which is what I'll be doing today) and haven't been able to get any good pictures for the blog! :)

That's all for now! Hopefully next time I'll have something a little bit more interesting to write about!

:)

Market's have started!

Today was the first day of market. :)

This is Oliver and Mommy leaving in the box truck.

Daniel tore out our window and put in a door. We're going to build a wrap-around porch/patio onto the back and side of our house. So we're just starting with the door to the (unbuilt) patio.

This is a bush right outside the door. I thought it was really pretty!!!
Anyway, mommy and Oliver did well at market, and I had my first experience of almost running over a squirrel today. I screamed really loud and slammed on the brakes...(that did NOT make the guy behind me happy!)

:), but I missed him!

That's all for now. Have a wonderful weekend!

This is a video of the ensemble playing "I've got my eye on you" from Pirates of the Carribean. :)

This is part of the piece I played for my concert. Its "Come Thou Fount."
:)

Yesterday was my first baking day of the season! :)
Just a few pictures of the things I made. :)
Also I've put on a few pictures from my Orchestra Ensemble's concert last night. :) I'll hopefully put up a video later! ;)