Congratulations Beckett!

We have found many incredible web sites to assist us as we homeschool Beckett this year and one of those sites is "Book Adventure"! Beckett earned 900 points by reading books and taking tests on them. He redeemed his points on a candy bar! It would have been so easy to go to any local store and get him a candy bar, but this had to be the one that was offered on the web site by one of their sponsors! We wanted to honor Beckett's efforts, so I called the 1-800 number to find the closest location of "The Rocky Mountain Candy Factory" and it was in Lebanon, TN! (2 hours away!) Fortunately, we were headed to Brentwood to visit Grankaki and Granbob, so we made a quick stop to redeem his points! I don't think he ever enjoyed a candy bar so much! It was well earned! Good job Beckett!

Don't worry, Helen got a cookie for all of Beckett's efforts! She just isn't holding it in the picture!

My "Willow Tree" nativity scene will never be the same! Not long after I had every piece placed "just so", action figures and dinosaurs started to arrive to see the baby Jesus! Even the Nutcracker left his post to check him out! Did you know that Buzz, Woody, Spidey and Sandman were there, too?

When we arrived home from church on Sunday, we found a new friend had arrived in the yard! He has been affectionately named "Prancer" by Beckett. Helen wanted to name him Rudolph, but of course, there is no red nose! The clues are beginning to come together, but still no clear cut answers as to how Prancer decided to make our front yard his new home! Beckett is just glad to have "an outside decoration"! The lights on our tree and in the windows just aren't enough for him! At least now, we have a lone reindeer to spruce up our yard for the holidays!

Merry

Christmas!

Quilts and Babies

Some of you have asked, "What does Helen do while you are teaching Beckett?" Well, here is what she did yesterday! She loves to play with her babies and yesterday she spread out all of our quilts from Auntie Mame and Grankaki and had quiet time with her babies! It was too cute! By the way, I figured out the "edit" thing! Shouldn't be a problem anymore! :) Thanks, Kathy!

Just a comment about the following post. I wish I had more time to learn how to do this blogging thing. However, I only understand the basics and don't have much time to explore how to make it look better! Anyway, when you read the following post, you will see how I messed up "Happy Birthday Ty!" The problem is, I can't figure out how to edit it properly! So, please excuse my off-center and misspelled heading! If you know me well, you know that it is killing me to leave it up there like that, but I don't have a clue how to fix it, nor the time to spend figuring it out! Ah, perfectionism! You gotta love it!

We Pick This One!

Well, actually, mom did! We picked the coldest afternoon to go pick out and cut down our Christmas tree! But it was fun! We will be decorating it tomorrow night and going to see Santa on Wednesday night! What a fun time of year!

We went to Chattanooga to celebrate Ty's 2nd birthday on Saturday! Ty is Beckett and Helen's cousin!He will turn two, get a new baby sister and have a visit from Santa all in one month! How exciting!

Our neighbors have had twins! They came over for dinner last Friday night and we had a great time! Noah and Turner slept through most of the evening, while Beckett and Helen had fun entertaining their big brother Carson! Sean and I even got to feed the twins while their mom and dad went to get some ice cream! Ask Sean about his "pump method" for getting Turner to burp!