Photography

Casey is really into photography. This is a photo she took last Spring in our backyard bluebird box. This photo was one of 10 winners in the Nashville Public Television's Kids photo contest! We were told there were hundreds of entries.

She won a free trip to the zoo to take close up pictures of animals there and received an enlarged copy of her picture.

Below are some pictues she took last week, hope you enjoy them!

Special Offer for Casey

A cool thing happened 2 days ago.
I received a phone call from the girls' choir director at church. She would like for Casey to be in a choir teacher training video. The teacher could only choose 4 kids from a choir of over 100, and she chose our Casey! She is SOOO excited, partly to be chosen, and partly because she will get a little paycheck for participating that day.

A Normal Day!

Even though today is Halloween it appears that it will be a pretty normal day for us.
We will do school, chores, some house cleaning and laundry.
We will be returning some movies to Blockbuster and picking up more, fortunately we will get 3 for FREE by being members of their DVD mail order thing. When we return movies we have received through the mail to the store we get to exchange them for free ones, plus we have a coupon for one free movie. I love finding new ways to be frugal!
Then tonight the girls will go around our coul-de-sac and collect some free candy. Casey will be "an Army person", and Cody will be a Snow Princess.
Hope your day is wonderfully normal as well!

Reptiles

Homeschooling:
Today we went to our weekly homeschooling co-op. The girls are taking Zoology, where today they were able to touch both a corn snake and a bearded dragon. They took two of our pets, a green anole (lizard) and a frog (Freddie, pictured above), and fed the anole a live cricket on front of the class.
They are also taking art, health/PE, US Geography and Casey is on the Yearbook Staff.
It is always fun and the girls learn so much. Plus they get to hang out with their friends.
Casey also went to friend's house today for a party where they made costumes for their Webkinz. Overall a pretty good day!
P.S. Casey made a 97% on her math test yesterday!

Vegetarians

On Being Vegetarian:
Yes, we are vegetarians, or at least my husband, our 10 year old, and I are.
We have been vegetarian for about a year and my husband's cholesterol dropped about 170 points!
It has been much easier than I expected, although if I were to do it again I would have found a "mentor" first. There are so many great resources out there!
And no, we do not eat a lot of salad!

Laundry Soap

Homemaking:
Yesterday we made our own liquid laundry detergent!
It costs approximately $2 for 5 gallons of concentrate that eventually makes 10 gallons!
We will try it soon and let you know it works! Super frugal!
If it works well I will post the "recipe".

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