Kerr Christian Homeschool Academy

After the Texas Star Party, we hit the ground running - we had 2 weeks of daily swim lessons and then Vacation Bible School (VBS).  We also had a little down time in which the kids just played and did a little bit of school work a.k.a math! A created a telescope for Barbie - very well thoughtout design!!  She even had a shroud for the bottom, but it was dismantled before I could get the camera.  Oh well, it still works!  Z helped a little bit - usually being the runner for fetching the wandering legos. This year, the theme for VBS was Creation.  The publisher was Apologetics Press .  It included some dinosaurs.  We own several of their dinosaur books so I was comfortable letting the kids go.  Z learned that "extinct" means they are all dead and that's why we don't see the dinosaurs because "they're all extinct!".  The kids enjoyed the week.  H enjoyed the ending auditorium time except for when they started roll playing with thin...

******Note: this is an extremely LONG post with lots of words and a few pictures spread throughout************* Just before we left, a friend told me that it sounded like camping with our family would be an adventure.  Let me tell you - she had NO IDEA what an adventure this trip would turn out to be. And, let me just say that not every unplanned activity is fun and turns out better than the planned one.  We started off the week before the star party by pulling the trailer out of the backyard because of all the storms moving in.  It's a good thing since we go enough rain to pretty well saturate the ground and would have made getting the trailer out impossible.  We spend the week packing and loading and shopping and organizing.  The PLAN:  Leave Thursday when Craig got home and spend the night in Dinosaur Valley State Park.  On Friday, spend the morning visiting the dinosaurs and their tracks and then driving to San Angelo State Park....