Pioneer Festival - Part 2

I filtered through over 1,000 pictures and came up with some good ones of Dayna.

Needlework

Painting her leather key fob

Paying attention in school

I hope she knew the answer!

Piping hot biscuits in the Dutch oven

Pioneer playtime

My pretty pioneer

Quite possibly my favorite picture ever

Eating our baking powder biscuits, beef jerky, dill pickles and ginger snaps

Watching an antique washing machine demonstration

All aboard

Cutting a rug

With her best friend

Love my girl!

Pioneer Festival - Part 1

This year's Pioneer Festival was a lot of fun - and a lot of work! Unfortunately, despite our best plans and backup plans in case of weather, nobody counted on floods. We had to reschedule the festival for the last week of school. Fortunately, only 3 of the 50+ volunteers couldn't make the new date, and we picked up some new volunteers along the way.

Our local newspaper even wrote a front-page article about our day.

The fourth graders rotated between stations including:

• Pioneer school
• Folk dancing
• Cooking
• Needlework
• Leatherwork
• Pioneer Games

 Between sessions, they were also able to tour a frontier post office, print shop, and train depot, ride a miniature steam train, visit with a beekeeper, watch a Dutch oven cooking demonstration, and take a hayrack ride. It was a fun, exhausting day!

Dayna's REACH Play

Dayna just had her second year in the REACH program (for high ability learners.) The highlight of their year is producing and performing a play. She had the role of "Baby Bear" in the play "Woolfie."

2015 Piano Recital

My second year with a full piano studio is now in the books. Once again, the students did a really nice job and we had an evening of beautiful music.

Annie even had her first piano lesson this month!

A Visit from Papa and Nana

We loved having Papa and Nana here for a visit over Dayna's birthday. A bonus was Nana making Dayna's pioneer dress for her school trip!

We waited almost a year for Dan to give my Dad the "Dirty Dog"

Annie's Dance Recital

Annie has absolutely loved going to dance class this year. We can't even drive past the church where she has lessons without her calling with glee, "That's MY dance class!!!!" We must say, she was a pretty little ballerina, and did a really good job as well.

Dayna's Birthday - Part 1

Double Digits! I can't believe how fast Dayna is growing up. She had a really fun birthday, made extra special by celebrating it with both sets of grandparents. The highlight of her birthday was very scientific: a butterfly garden where she watched and documented the whole process of caterpillar to butterfly (we're releasing them tomorrow) and a rock tumbler.