I looked out my kitchen window this morning to a beautiful fog!
I could not resist stepping outside with my camera for a bit before all my kids get up.
That was such a peaceful way to start my day. Makes it worth all the money spent in growing our little garden 😉
We picked the last big batch of radish pods from our garden.
I actually pickled them which the kids liked but I am not sure about.
They are odd.
My youngest son has been on a game making streak!
They are all historical battle games so he has been researching like crazy.
Basically he made his own history unit.
Ha
The boards and game pieces are so impressive.
They are kind of like Risk and therefore hard for me to play…
By the end of the day my brain feels fried so I am not a great opponent. 
I am enjoying stepping outside and checking on my garden more than taking the actual pictures but I am still at it.
Even when it is something I am not excited about like these blister beetles eating up what was left of my potatoes.
The pests have been intense in the garden right now.
I am coating everything in Diatamacous Earth and it seems to be helping.
At the lake my oldest girl decided to see what was under the dock and found a surprise 😉
We watched him for a long time.
I use oksnakes.org to i.d. all these guys.
Then while swimming at a local lake we had another snake to study!
Both were harmless water snakes as far as I could tell but it is always a bit unnerving to see a snake where you are swimming…
Would you keep swimming if you saw a snake?
My boys did but I was done…
We actually have two sets of twins in our family.
My brother has twin girls as well and they are at such a cute and fun age!
The kids are pretty in love with their cousins.
My parents were down for a visit and met us at the lake one night.
I harvested some of our potatoes early because of wilt and the girls loved digging for them!
Gardeners!
Nightly pics.
The kids enjoyed the Super Charged Science Rocketry class.
I broke out the baking soda rocket after class one day.
After watching my new favorite homeschool youtuber I bought a bunch of books through The Good and the Beautiful!
They have a good moral and I love how diverse the lead characters are.
So far we have read over half of these and really liked them so far.
Lots of walking every week.
We are in that odd limbo time in our homeschool when we are finishing up everything and not really wanting to start new things until we start our new year.
Without a big break sometimes the years blend together and I forget we are going to start a new year with new grades.
We have not even taken a week off for a long time.
I am hoping to do so before we start our new school year, probably in September.
Anyone else year round school?
How do you start a new year?
Does it all blend together?
