April 2020!

Today is the last day in April and I'm writing a blog post about the month!  Hooray!  This has been the fastest month of the year I think!  It feels like it just started.  And now it's almost May!  It's almost been maybe one of the best months of the year!  Haha, well, I'm sure other people can say otherwise because I forgot for a moment that we are still having a pandemic, but I've gotten to have Zane and Rachel and Jeff around me all day and it's been great!  We have made it through over a month of homeschool!  I feel like I know what my kids are learning!  The kids have gotten to play, play, play!  And it's been so nice to have no obligations to be anywhere.  I love that part.

So, on to pictures!  I have quite a few this month!

Pretty blooms!

I was waiting to see this bloom, but the deer ate it.  :)

Little peach!

Mom's huge rosemary plant!

Little monkeys

Snuggles are the best

With woof woof and his new blankie

 We had a lovely rain and we had to run out between showers and check the creek!  It was fun to see it fuller and fresh!

The water on the white rocks was fresh!

We made pumpkin pie using an egg beater!  They loved it!  (I'm not sure why this picture is in with the rain pictures.  Maybe we made this during a shower.)

The cabin that Daddy built them!  It's awesome!

Leading singing in our little family devo!

Oh, I was really proud of these.  I made a yellow cake mix into chocolate cupcakes!

Mom has pretty irises up there!

My sweet Rachel likes to take pictures!

 Going to town once a week for groceries and coming home with goodies  was like Christmas!

Stormy clouds

Rain lilies were blooming!

Easter decor!  Isn't it lovely?! 

Saturday expedition!  We had such good hikers!

Trail leader

Pa's cistern

This girl!  Queen of the whistles and quite a character!

I thought these were so pretty.

Millipede

These are beautiful.  Claret Cup cactus

Playing in the flower garden

Kite headed for the ground!! 

 Easter Sunday picnic!

I think this is a leech!

I made a pecan pie

Cinnamon raisin bread

Homeschool...we needed a divider!  haha

Learning to divide

Enjoyed watching red ants

Making fact family flowers

Roll the dice, make a fact family

Friday is treasure day!

Antelope horn milkweed

Rachel made soooo many flags!  Here is the German flag!

And the Swiss flag!

More division!

Creating a dam at the spring

Helping with supper!

Cute little pinion!

Neat cactus growing in a dead cedar stump

Love this picture

Cool cave!

Cupcakes iced by Rachel!!! 

 Back in Victoria!

We picked carrots! They are good!

Well, this was different!  I had to go grocery shopping. 

Homeschool set up.

My setup while homeschooling

Making taco seasoning

Both helped me weigh ground beef!

Rachel got her training wheels off!!!  The second day she didn't want to ride because it was soooo hard.  The next day she went out and went around the house and came back and said it's soooo hard!  Zane saw that her back tire was flat.  She said, my legs burned!  Daddy pumped it up, but the next day it was flat again.  So he changed the tire with her looking on.

Learning to type!

Multiplication arrays in Leakey.

Hope May is just as good as April!  I loved this month!