"So, it's been like a year."

Goal:  Summarize events since last informative post (July-ish) in 10-15 sentences.  Go!

Much of the summer fun from last year included cousins - Alanna and her boys came for 6 weeks and we had a blast (Sundance Lake, Camping BY MYSELFwith 7 kids and many more fun posts that could come off of that)!  We also went camping with the Cahoon side, had an extended Cahoon reunion (like 130+ people) and topped it off with my my sister, Kimberly getting married on Aug 17 (more pictures and info to come - hopefully).

School was a big "to do" this year with trying the public system after homeschooling.  After a month, we took Kienna out and then (after much begging on her part - despite her love of her teacher and classmates) we took Saryn out in January.  We are currently trying to figure out what to do next fall as I have decided that homeschooling and public schools both have major perks, but doing both at the same time takes most of them away (as does teaching piano and theory).

Most of the difficulty in the decision making for the fall (between school and a teaching schedule) is due to arrival of Cahoon baby #6 (girl #4) coming in June!  We are extremely excited, surprised, busy and ecstatic because of this news that we received in the fall - and the kids are beyond thrilled, too!

The kids have been extremely busy with school, music lessons, swimming lessons and just helping out around the house.  Kaia has grown around 6 inches in the last year.  Both Kaia and Kienna are preparing to take music exams in June.  Saryn has started the piano and put violin on hold (Jaymeson, too, put guitar on hold until he's a little older) and has really simplified things for me in the process.  Jaymeson started Kindergarten and is enthusiastic and having a blast (today he did a science presentation to his class about an elastic guitar he made).  And Benson is a little monkey, but is as cute as can be (as I've shown in a few random posts).

Jarett and I were also able to go on a little week trip to Florida - which was awesome, but WAY too fast!

One sentence to spare - wow!  For those who know who long winded I like to be, this should be very impressive!!  Of course, with this "postlude" I've gone over, but hey, I'm not perfect!  Hopefully this will be the beginning of another spurt of posts... it really is a much better recording of life than facebook, and more likely to happen than journal writing.  Until next time...

Missing Benson - but this was the crew while camping

Camping with my kids and two nephews - actually much easier than I thought, and a ton of fun!

Sundance Lake with the Moody cousins

Favorite Camping Pic

Extended Cahoon Reunion - Grandma Joyce

Kim and Nathan get married!!

Camping Cahoon Style

First Day of School (Public System)

Saryn is the coolest older sister ever - reads books, but also plays "maps" and builds forts with these boys constantly

We cut down the trees in our side yard - my first time with a chain saw.  Super fun!