Field Trip, Weekend Visitors

Last Tuesday Andrew and I went on a field trip with our home school group to the museum in Winnipeg. We had a two hour tour of the Nonsuch ship and the fur trade. We had studied the fur trade earlier this year. As Andrew said, "It was fun to have it come alive!" The Nonsuch ship was brought to Winnipeg and then the museum was built around the ship.

Andrew examining the fox fur...

Here he's leading the charge...

On Thursday Nancy (my sister) and her family arrived to spend the weekend with us. The kids were so excited for them to come. In fact we told them they could stay up until their cousins arrived but when 10:00 pm rolled around we told them to go lay in their bed and we would get them up when they got here. They pulled in right at 11:00. We kept our word and got them up. It was midnight before we got everyone back to bed. We had a great time with them and are so thankful that they took the time to drive up and spend the weekend with us.

Olivia and Kimmie washing dishes...

Gerald finished his classes today. The kids and I were so excited that he wouldn't have to spend the evenings doing homework now. Olivia kept telling Gerald that now he could wrestle with them in the evening. We are definitely happy to see some of our commitments winding down. Olivia has one more week of ballet with the recital on the weekend. Awana has three more weeks left. I have three more tutoring sessions.

The weather was so beautiful today! The kids (and their friends) spent time outside today - in fact Olivia has a bit of a red neck from the sun today. Tomorrow is promising to be even warmer. Maybe with the hot sun will finally melt the rest of the snow in the yard. It is almost gone!!!

Have a good evening,
Sandy