And we're off..

Fall is the start of a new kind of busy for us. It seems we get the most family time in during the fall months. We have had such a great week this week. Kennedy started Kindergarten. We are homeschooling her this year because of her age/intellect ratio. We hope to integrate her back into the public school system for first grade next year, as they will have no choice but to take her-because she will have completed Kindergarten successfully. I think she is doing so well and I can already see a change in her. She has always loved to learn, and now she just seems happy to have a daily task and purpose.

Kennedy also started gymnastics this week. Jeremy and I really enjoy watching her gain skill in this sport. It is just a fun weekly activity we all look forward too. My mom bought her a new leotard. Kennedy was very excited to be able to finally wear it. She looked adorable.

This week during science we learned about insects. So yesterday we took a "field trip" to the Butterfly house. Kennedy was so excited and she was really in the learning mode, applying what she already had been taught and just in awe of the new insects she was able to see. I let her borrow one of my cameras and allowed her to take pictures of the insects. We learned about arachnids, and we watched the movie they show. The movie was cool because it showed a caterpillar morph into the butterfly. I was amazed and how she just soaked all the information in. She had a great time in the butterfly house itself and we just had a great family day.

Kennedy took pictures of roaches, beetles, and praying mantis. I was really proud of her because she doesn't care for bugs.

One of the volunteers was showing Kennedy how some of the South American butterflies were iridescent. She thought that was really neat..it is really neat if you ask me.

I could not get a photo of the Blue Morpho butterflies opened up. I was bummed.

We were there at the right time yesterday and got to see some butterfly just emerging from there chrysalis. Kennedy had never really seen that and she was pretty amazed. We had such a great time. :)

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Disney On Ice-Our Photos and Review

We had such a fantastic time on my birthday. I am so blessed with a loving family. Jeremy, Kennedy and I went to Disney on Ice 1oo Years of Magic on the night of my birthday and it was such a great time!

I was so happy to have gotten a good picture of Kennedy and I. This is one of the best birthday gifts ever, plus I know my mom will be happy :) (Hi mom!!!)

Kennedy bought herself a cool light up wand for the show. I was surprised to see how Jeremy was even looking forward to this event.

The show started with Mickey, Minnie, and the gang. It quickly moved to Aladdin. The Aladdin show was very neat.Genie pooped out of the Zamboni. Kennedy got a real kick out of that! Our favorite part was the Multi Genie part of this. It was very cool.

The cast and crew from Finding Nemo was also part of this uber fun show. I was so impressed with the shark Bruce. It was so neat to see our favorite characters just come to life. We were in awe.

Another great part of the show was, Beauty and the Beast. It was so great to hear the music from the movie (who doesn't love Disney music??) and see the Beast skating around so flawlessly, was fantastic.

He "magically" turned into the prince and then he and Belle did some great skating tricks.

We were also excited to see Ariel and Eric, Jasmin and Aladdin and of course Simba and Nala.

There was defiantly something for everyone in 100 Years of Magic. Toy story was one of my husbands favorites. The Army men were very entertaining. Of course Buzz Lightyear made an appearance.

My personal favorite was Mulan. I was absolutely delighted to see she was part of this fantastic show. Mulan is such a great story, it was no less cool on ice. I loved the way the depicted it during this show. It was beautiful and Kennedy and I couldn't help but sing along with the Music.

I kept thinking how happy I was to have done this for my birthday during this show. This was such a worth while and fun family night.