29, 2018.
Anderson
Monday, October 8, 2018
Jonah's first goal in soccer (October 6, 2018).
(from FB post:---- Jonah has played soccer for several years now, and while a lot of his early years were spent on defense, he's been moved around a lot more in the last year or so. But in all his years of playing he's never scored a goal. He's come so close to scoring a goal so many times (several times just in today's game), but today, he finally did it!! And FB won't even let me upload the video of it!!!
Well, at least I can upload the picture of the winning shot (and you can tell that he and his teammate are fully expecting the score by the smiles on their faces.
GOOOOOAAALLL!!) And it was especially sweet since Jake had told him he'd give him $10 for every goal he scored that day.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Honey Extracting Process (videos from 2014)
This panorama picture is from this year. The videos below are from last year.
I shared a few short videos of our honey extracting process a few days ago on Face Book. I thought I'd share the ones I took last year here as they give a little more info. Most of these videos are only a few seconds long. Two of them are a little over one minute. So, even though there are several videos here, the total time of all of them combined isn't much over 5 minutes. Hope you enjoy them.
Boxes of Honey waiting to be extracted
Honey Lift (lifting boxes of honey to working height)
Cleaning tops & bottoms of frames; unboxing the frames, and uncapping the frames
Cappings from frames sent to spinner
Cappings after being spun in the spinner
Wax melted, poured and ready to sell
Extractor (spinning honey out of frames)
Honey coming from extractor & spinner
Cleaning the boxes with before putting extracted frames back in.
More cleaning boxes
Filling boxes with extracted frames to be put back on hives.
Boxes with extracted frames; ready to go back on the hives.
Worker Bee Jonah (cleaning up honey spills)
Worker Bee Levi
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Jonah preaching
Well, it's been over a year since I've made a post on this blog. With FaceBook, I just so seldom get around to this. But, since my dad is not on FaceBook and I'm having trouble sending him this video of Jonah preaching via email, I'm putting it here.
Jonah preached 4 sermons this morning (I only captured 2 and part of a 3rd on video), but this is the shortest one that I got on video, so I'm sharing it. Hope you enjoy this special little fella as much as we do.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Jonah Recognition Day
We’ve
spent the last week at Cape San Blas on a much needed family vacation. After completing the first nine weeks of our
school year, I scheduled for us to take two weeks off before beginning the next
nine weeks. The Cape was the perfect
place to take part of that break. The
boys LOVE sand and water, Jake loves that there’s nothing else to do there (he
hates the beach) so he is able to rest (which is something that he never does
at home) and I love that everyone else is happy and occupied thus giving me a
break J.
Thursday
(Sept. 26) was a very special day for our youngest! We called it “Jonah Recognition Day”. Yes, Levi had a little bit of a hard time
with it (not the activities of the day but the fact that Jonah was getting
special recognition), but he muddled through. J
Jonah
really struggled last year in some areas.
Enough so that we were beginning to get a little concerned. And while we did not want to come across to
Levi that Jonah was “more important” than him in any way, we just really felt that
the obstacles he had overcome recently were in much need of recognition. That’s what made this day worth
celebrating. Let me explain…
*in
phonics last year things just didn’t click with Jonah for quite a while. Reading was NOT coming easily for him (which
is really sad for a kid who loves books).
Finally it clicked and he’s been reading constantly ever since (he loves
to read and does it all the time).
*math was also a bit of a struggle in
some ways. Don’t get me wrong, he made
100’s on almost every daily math page he was ever given, but in Abeka (the
curriculum we use for our homeschooling) there are timed math drills every day
and Jonah pretty much NEVER completed one of them. This year, 2nd grade, he’s
completed every one of them with time to spare and has made a 100% on almost
every one! He even has a 100% average in
math on his first report card!
*lastly, Jonah was just dismissed from
speech therapy after 2 years. While he
sometimes can still be hard to understand, it’s not because he can’t make
certain sounds anymore, it’s only because he gets in a rush and doesn’t
pronounce everything. He has really come
a long way and has worked hard to get there.
All this combined with his report card
(which was all A’s except for a high B in penmanship) caused us to declare a
“Jonah Recognition Day”. He loved
it!! This is how our day went.
To begin with, he was allowed to just
“veg-out” and watch t.v. That may not
seem like much to most of you, but we don’t generally allow the boys to watch
much t.v. so it was a special treat for Jonah.
Later, we had a family scrabble game (Dad helping Jonah).
(look at the
concentration on Jake’s face!)
Eventually Jonah bored with this and
moved on to play his tablet (another thing he’s not often allowed to do).
He requested hash for lunch, so… his
wish was our command. As you can see, he
approved.
After lunch, he chose to go play in the
pool where he greatly enjoyed his time until his stomach started hurting.
After a brief rest, we headed back to
the house where we surprised him with the brownies Levi and I had secretly made
earlier. I think that made his stomach
feel all better J (yep, the brownies and ice-cream are
sugar-free).
As he and Levi were sitting on the
balcony eating, they noticed a fish in the pond below so, fishing was the next
thing on the agenda. This was a very
short and unproductive activity, but they enjoyed it anyway. I think there are too many turtles in that
pond for there to be many fish.
So, Jonah’s next request was a game of
tennis (which was very short and could hardly be called a “game” or “match” as
there was more chasing the ball than anything else). But we all had fun.
(is
this tennis or baseball, Levi?)
The tennis court is right by the pool,
so before too long Jonah was back in the pool and Levi soon joined. That only lasted a short while before Jonah
decided the beach is where he really wanted to be, so…
Of course after you’re done at the
beach, you go to the pool to rinse off.
And, just to keep things interesting, they chose to go to a different
pool than we usually go to.
(as you can see, it was
really tough for me, but I managed ;-) )
Then it was back to the house for yet another brownie for Jonah, followed by left-over hash and ANOTHER brownie. This time, “Your Majesty” chose to have it on his room’s balcony. He is really enjoying all this “service” he’s getting.
He ended the day by watching some
football with Dad & Levi (only I think he spent more time playing with his
toys than actually watching the game).
I think he felt thoroughly “recognized”!! Maybe that explains this attitude…
(I am the king of the house today)
And since some of my family &
friends are not on FaceBook, I’ll include a bunch of pictures and videos from
our vacation in this post. Hope you
enjoy them J
(first time trying to skim-board)
(still trying to learn to skim-board)
These next 3 pictures are Levi "throwing" Jonah up in the pool. Jonah wanted Jake to come in and "throw him" but Levi assured him that he could do it.
(and THIS is why you can't really fish much in the ponds in the area)
I think Jake counted about 25 turtles after us standing on the dock for a few minutes (they come from all over hoping you'll feed them).
(Levi's about to get it figured out, but poor Jonah...)
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