Little Chefs + Yummy Ingredients = Fun in the Kitchen

This summer Sierra & I have been hosting kids cooking classes. All the kids have been doing a wonderful job chopping, mixing, slicing, dicing, stirring, whisking, baking, tasting :)! Plus they were able to take home dinner for their families to enjoy the fruit of their labor. Although, if you ask the kids I am sure they would say it was all fun & worth every bite! Sierra loved doing all of the cooking demonstrations & it was a win-win because she prepared our dinner right along with the students. :)

Oh, Just To Be Near You

Is it true that some pictures are worth a thousand words!? Well, this may be one of them. Sierra sometimes takes her books out to different places & it never fails that Princess will find her way to her. This horse just loves to be close to whatever is going on. She is so sweet & loves any attention she can get. She actually stood there & dozed for a long time.

The only thing that could be better would be to be reading on horseback. Sierra would probably try it if she could. :)

Fall Into the Words of Books

What an exciting year the girls & I have had this year with book club! I have been so impressed with the discussions that these girls have during our monthly meetings. All the girls have a way of devouring books & it excites me to know that they all share my love for reading! Here are some pictures from the year. This past week we had a balloon release to commemorate our year of "books" & to go along with our book of the month The Twenty-One Balloons. The girls thought it was a wonderful way to say good-bye.....Hopefully we can all come together again through the love of books!

My Sierra on the left.

First Day of School

Oh, what an exciting day! I was happy to see that Sierra was ready to start school. We have been building this up for a few weeks. :) On our first official day of school for a new year we try to do a few extra special things. I always have a gift for Sierra waiting on her desk for her to find. I make sure I get something that is educational, like a new set of books from a favorite series, a fun game, or one year I put together a writing box with all kinds of neat stationary, pens & pencils. The writing box has been my favorite gift because it really allowed Sierra to improve her writing skills. I even set up several pen pals for her so that they could write back & forth which was so much fun. Sierra loved getting her own mail. This year for her gift she received a jigsaw puzzle & some art supplies. We can get pretty happy over art supplies around here! Another thing that we like to do for our nature studies is to head out into the great outdoors. So I couldn't think of a more perfect day for a back to school picnic. Sierra loves to pack her lunchbox, grab a blanket, a few books & find a good picnic spot. To finish up our first day I decided to let Sierra make a batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies to share with some friends. This of course was what I used to freshen up on her measurements since we were trying to get in some review of past lessons. Too fun! We did actually find time to fit in all subjects for the day as well. Just in case anyone may be wondering. Sierra has one thing she is really looking forward to learning this year & that is learning to write in cursive. We both are looking forward to a new year with lots of new memories!

Storytime

Sierra was invited to participate in storytime at Lee Public Library last week. Thanks to
Mrs.Colleen for giving Sierra this wonderful opportunity to read to the kids. Sierra loved it & I must say that she had a very attentive audience while she read her story.

Sierra's book of choice was Mommy's Best Kisses by Margaret Anastas.

Sierra with some of the kids from storytime.