Friday, June 7, 2013

Homeschool Field Trip to Dino Space Adventure

We are blessed to be a part of a wonderful homeschool group in our area. We have had field trips to the local bank, post office, L B uniform factory, and other places this last school year. To end the year, we went over to Camdenton and visited the Orion Center/Dino Space Adventure. It is a Biblically based science museum. The kids really enjoyed their day there. They especially enjoyed all the outside activities. They had huge sling shots so the kids could shoot water balloons at "dinosaurs" out in a field. There was also water rockets and zip-lining. Well, you just take a look. You'll see that they had a great time....


































Updating Our Blog...

It's been approximately a year and a half since I've updated our blog. I thought I would try it again! We'll see. Just check in from time to time and see. I'm not going to try to go back and cover the last 18 months, but here are some highlights....
This is a picture of the girls when we went fishing one day at a local lake.
 Back in April, I walk/jogged my first 5K. I finished the 3.1 miles in 42 minutes. I won a 3rd place medal in my age division! I hope to do it again!
 Here the girls are on Easter Sunday!
We have 5 kids from our church that qualified to go to the World Quiz in Indianapolis this summer. We are really proud of all of them!
 Lexie donated 10 inches of her hair to Locks of Love recently. We are proud of her!
 Here's a family picture that we managed to get on Memorial Day!
Keep checking back! Now that it is summer break for us, I may have a few more minutes in the day to post pictures of what's happening in the McClain Home!!! We hope you are all doing well!

Strawberry Jam

  I've been wanting to make fresh strawberry jam for many years now. I finally made the trip out to Amish Country this week and this particular family had 2 flats left. I bought one of the flats and was able to make approximately 30 half-pints of jam. Some of it will be sold to help our Iberia Bible Quizzers earn money to go to the World Quiz.
 I'm looking forward to more canning this summer! I'm hoping to make some salsa next week!