Scripture Challenge Continues!

We are now in Jacob!  We haven't missed a day yet.  We have discovered a couple of things during this challenge:

*Reading together is awesome when you're not too tired.

*We need to get our reading done as close to dinnertime as possible...as the night progresses we want to vegge out in front of the TV or something.

*Praying before studying really helps our attitudes and our understanding of what we're reading. 

*It's an effort to read everyday together.  Sad but true.

We are going on vacation today and I image it will be a challenge to get our reading all in.  

Good luck to anyone that is doing the challenge with us!  You can do it!

Scripture Challenge....

I'm a bit worried about getting our reading in today.  Matt left early and won't be home until 1:30am.  Obviously reading will be hard to do at that time.  Last Friday we met Matt at a park in Lehi to read and play frisbee.  The weather's bad today and I don't want to drive.  Hmmm.... Over the phone?  Not sure how effective that would be.  We'll have to see.

Book of Mormon Challenge

Who's up for a Book of Mormon Challenge??  

When Matt and I were first married we studied our scriptures together daily.  It was awesome.  However, over the years we've let our busy lives get in the way of reading together.  We decided to take on a scripture reading challenge~Read the Book of Mormon in 60 days.  

If you add up all the days that Joseph Smith actually spent working on the translation of the Book of Mormon, it ends up being about 60 days. If he can translate it in 60 days, we ought to be able to read it in 60 days.

We still have days when Matt is gone all day, so it's going to be a challenge.  We started last Thursday and haven't quit yet!  That's good for us!  We are already feeling the benefits of reading daily as a couple.  I'm so happy we are doing this!  We'd love others to join us in this challenge.  Let us know if you're up to it!

Read 8.85 pages a day!  About 15-25 minutes.

Children's Museum

So, I posted this already, but it's gone now...Not sure what happened.
We went to the Children's Museum at Gateway this week.  It was so much fun.  We spent most of our time on the second floor with the 'building' stations.  The best part for me was that there weren't very many other kids there!  We had frozen yogurt and also spent some time in the Planetarium.  It was a fun homeschool fieldtrip!

Matt's Europe Trip

Matt was able to go on a 'school trip' to Europe this year.  He went in March for a whole week!  It was for his International Business class for Graduate School.  (I was both happy for him and jealous.  He has now been on a cruise to the Bahamas and Europe without me!)  He should really be the one writing this blog.  I'll give an overview of his trip and he can add more later if he wants to.  

First, he went to France for 3 days.  They did a tour of the city. The Eiffel Tower and the Louvre were awesome.   

Then, he flew to Spain for 3 days.  He toured the city, the President's Palace, the Temple and the Bull Fighting Museum.  I think he also visited a Casino....

In France, he ordered the cheapest meal on the menu...French Onion Soup for $15.  The water was like $8.  He had  lot of fun.  He said that he's learned more in the past 2 semesters than he has in all of this other schooling combined.  He's doing awesome.  He has gotten all As and one B.  I'm so proud of him.

Funny Waverly

Wavy cracks me up!  This morning during school, she hands me her writing to correct and she says, "Prepare to be amazed!"  So funny.

Workbox System

I'm so excited for tomorrow.  We are starting a new system for our homeschooling.  It's an organizational system called the workbox system.  It's new to me.  I will post pictures of our new school room later.  If anyone is interested, this a link that describes the system:
http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Workbox%20System

I really think it will help our day run more smoothly.  I'm excited to show pictures of our new school room.  We've worked hard on it.  It's a much cooler room to be in!

Secret Garden

I wasn't a big reader growing up.  That was my brother Jake's department.  He'd read a 1,000,000 page Steven King book in one night.  I could never understand how he could do that.  I started reading when I became a mother.  Anyway, I haven't read a lot of the classics, so I'm trying to read some of them now.  Matt and I listened to the Secret Garden on the way to Wyoming.  I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.  I thought it'd be boring.  It wasn't.  I thought it had a great message of thinking positively and enduring trials.  I also liked how Mary's  beauty was related to the kind of personality she had.
Good read.