Happenings

Here was a project the kids did. It's so great, I give them the book say do this experiment and boom they do! Smarty pants! We were studying rocks and Rome (don't they go together? ) Well it was a great unit study! We still are needing to have the Rome party, keep posted to see some pictures of that! :)
Collin reads the book and tell what is to be done! What a man!

Cassie does the pouring of the Epsom salt!

Anna will stir the ingredients!

As you can see in Cassie's face the smell was not that good! They did super....though the outcome a few days later was not as perfect as the book pictures, they still learned and had fun too.

Next we have another project!


Anna and Cassie did some really great volcanos for school the other day. Since it was Granny's birthday we set them off in honor of her! The girls did great! I love to homeschool! OK most of the time!! HA The fun stuff is awesome!

And lastly on my thoughts is AMO!


Today Amo (our cockatiel) has flown the coop and left the family. Really I sold her on craigslist. She chirped one to many times right in the middle of us recording our CD. She was a good bird....WELL, Steve hated her, and she really only liked me :) but it's quite around here tonight without her. Amo means 'love' in Latin, although there was little of that love in her....I know maybe she did not speak Latin! HA
Goodbye Amo. By the way this is Murren with Amo on her head. She did love to be on peoples heads should I tell you the ones she pooped on? Only a few. :)

Happy Birthday Kolten!

What a great guy this Kolten is...."Everybody loves him, nobody hates him, guess he's really cool"!!! :) It's true-- he is fun, sweet, always willing to give a great hug, and funny as can be (reminds me of a mix between Kenny and Jason, really a bit more like Jason). Now that's gotta be a really cool person!
May the Lord bless you Kolten and continue to lead you down the straight and narrow way. Your sisters are lucky to have you around to keep them safe and happy. You are sooo awesome at playing your hammered dulcimer....I can't wait to see your new one that you are getting, how exciting! We had fun at your party tonight.
Kolten we all love you tons and are soooo glad you are our nephew/cousin! Happy Birthday

Do you all love the 'bright light antlers' above Kolten? HA I guess he had a bright idea.?!

Cassie's Tea Party Pictures

Cassie Marie with her new birthday doll.

Don't they all look so pretty. Anna did not know she was to dress up...oops.

Yummy food and sweet tea manners. :)

Murren, Katrina and Mailee. Notice the chocolate on Katrina's face...sooo cute!

Esther, Cassie and Mercy - Cousins - Friends Forever

Wintergrass 2008 was awesome!!!

United with the Dewgrass again!!! Yeppee!!



Cassie, Anna, and Kaiti.

Kids jamming room.

Youth jam hiding in the hallways...they say the sound is better. It was hard to hear in the main areas because so many different jams happening.

Yep, it was AWESOME!!! Tons of music, beautiful motels, fun time spent with Grandma Dot, little sleep, great concerts, watching the kids jam, seeing old friends, meeting new friends, and getting inspired to play more and get better!!! Thank God it all went fabulous! Thanks again Grandma Dot for taking us and spoiling us! :)

Happy Birthday Cassie!

My little Cassie Marie is 10 years old today!! WOW!! She is such a sweet little thing, but is growing up really fast! Here she is in this picture with her new full size birthday fiddle purchased at Wintergrass from Grandma Dot and Grandpa Ken this last weekend. Boy was she happy to get that! We had an awesome time at Wintergrass with Grandma Dot, she spoiled us a whole lot! I will post more about that later.
Anyway, we are very proud of Cassie, and are blessed beyond words for our 4th child and 2nd born girl. She is so helpful around the house, she has a tender heart, she loves the Lord and wants so much to do good and please Him. She loves to draw, create artsy things and play with her sisters. She is doing so very awesome in school and is learning fast and well. She is always ready for fun, the joy that is in her is so overflowing. You really never have to guess how she is felling, she wears here feelings on her sleeve (so the saying goes). I love the life she has in her, it's fun, it's exciting and it blesses my socks off! I pray as she grows older she will continue to serve the Lord and follow Him with her whole heart. Happy Birthday Cassie....we Love you!!!

Chess Tournament!

Here are all the cousins that played today! They all were awesome!! WINNERS!!! We were so proud of them.
Emma, Ellie, Jared, Devin, Collin, Murren, Kolten and David!!!!!! Great job you all!

Winners!!!! Kolten's trophy will have to be mailed he did get one (they just ran out).

Team chess club in that age group....won first place!!!

Devin and Collin tied for 1st place!!!!!


Collin....he won!!! Oh yeah...that's my boy!!!! :)

Ellie and Kolten. Can you tell Kolten is scared to death!!! HA! He won!

Ellie and Devin playing with the others.

Murren deep in thought! She did good! No trophy this time but did win some rounds, we are so proud of her anyway.

Everyone did tournament a great job today in the chess tournament! Most of them are qualified from todays wins to go to state! They are also qualified to go in a few weeks to a team chess tournament that their chess club won. They all had great attitudes and were sweet to the others.

On the way home I rented 'Searching for Bobby Fischer' It is a true story movie about a young amazing chess player. After that we all played nerts! It was a great evening. Really good because we got Steve and Alex to play nerts with us! What an awesome family I have!! I love each one of the kids and yep, all the cousins are super too! God is soooooooo great!!!!

WHITE RABBIT!

The Goldman's say WHITE RABBIT to all you in blog land.....For those who have not been a part of the White rabbit day, please let me explain and welcome you to join us!! It's the 1st day of each month, you must be the first to say "white rabbit"! It's fun, our friends the Deems let us in on the fun day. So we are letting all you on it too!! (Alex claims all other days, "Black Bunny"! HA!)

Again WHITE RABBIT! Gotcha first!!!

Happy Birthday Abigail

Happy Birthday Abigail!!! You are 5 years old today, WOW. I pray you would continue to love Jesus with all your heart. It is so fun talking with you, and seeing you grow up. You are as sweet as you look and sometimes as funny as can be! Have a wonderful day today. We all love you so much!! Happy Birthday sweetie!

Pictures from Tournament

Before Awards were announced these young people led worship. Aaron, Tait, Dylan, Natalie and Alex. It was beautiful! Alex said this was the the Best time he had during the tournament....I am not surprised! :) The worship was always wonderful every morning and it really set the scene for the rest of the day.

The competing Cousins...well Devin was missing. Are they a good looking bunch or what?? YEP!

Collin and Anna. Collin won 3rd. in Expository and Anna won 3rd in Open Interpretation.

Anna said she wanted to place so bad, not for herself but for Grandma Dot. She said she spent so much money and she did not want to let her down...so sweet! For you Grandma Dot~!!!

All the cousins get so happy for each other! They all are so encouraging. Anna, Destiny and Karissa.

Anna and friend Tessa. Before the awards were announced....the butterflies were flying for sure!

It was a blessing to see all these young people do their different speeches and do so well. The community judges that came, (from all over town) were all blessed by the children too. Many of the judges said over and over they could not believe the kindness and support the kids showed to one another. There was prayer in the halls for one another before they would compete and there was much fun playing games when in between speeches. Kids from 7 years old to young adults 20 playing games together. It was a great tournament. I do believe Jesus was glorified and that is the whole point of life!!!! I hope to figure out how to post some of the videos of the speeches here soon, I'm having tech difficulties.

Happy Birthday Jared!

The handsome cousin, nephew and good friend Jared is 7 years old today!! Wow! He loves and is so good at chess. Jared is always happy, ready to play and have fun in life. He's so handsome too! He is doing so good on his speech, (thanks so much to Great Aunt Vickie). He loves his time of school with her. The funny picture is him was taken when he was doing his speech at the junior tournament...getting ready to spit out his water after brushing, it was great!
Well, happy birthday Jared the Goldman Family loves you very MUCH! God bless you this year. Can't wait for you party...hey what are you wanting anyway?

Speech Dress Rehearsal Last Tuesday

They all look pretty fancy! And they will all do great on there speeches I know! Live speeches to come.....

Twins -- Mailee and Murren -- 7 Years Old

GOOD news!!!! Mailee is on the left in every picture.....so you know who is who :)
Well I said Mailee is on the left but that's if you are looking at the picture, she is the one on the right if you were the girls! How tricky must it be! HA