First Days of New School Year

Wow! Summer has flown by! Corey is attending Lake Oconee Academy which is our new public charter school. He is already learning the states, continents, and oceans. He is also studying spanish and poetry. He seems to be doing good for the beginning of 2nd grade. Corey will start playing soccer soon for the recreation department.

Tyler has started 6th grade at Nathaniel Greene Academy. He likes his school because a lot of his friends are going there. He is also playing JV football. He has had practice everyday of the week. NGA works on a block schedule. This block he has language arts, math, study skills, and chorus. He will be performing at different events for part of his grade. Next block he will have all new classes. I think 6th grade is going to be a challenge for him.

Summer Vacation

The boys loved the ocean! They really took to boggie boarding. That was their favorite thing.

This is the night that we went to the Magic Diner Theater. Tyler posed behind this wizard. Corey was is amazement of the magician. And Grace thought it was all just too funny.

Grace also loved the pools and water park. She was fasinated by the water dripping out of her bathing suit when she would get out of the water. (No, it was not peepee! She had a swim diaper on.) The boys enjoyed the pools and slides too.

Tyler and Corey at the Nascar Speed Park.

Grace loved the sand and hated the ocean. If we got too close, she was like a cat being put in water. She would literally crawl over my shoulder and shriek. Evan a lifeguard came to see what was happening!

We had just arrived and went straight to the ocean.

We went to Myrtle Beach at the end of July for vacation. We chose it because it was not so far to drive with an impatient, nearly 2 year old and would not require a lot of gas to get there. The hotel was really neat. It was the SeaMist. It is a large place with multiple buildings, waterpark, multiple pools, several resturants, activities for families in the evenings, and lots of extras included in the price of your room. We easily figured out a great schedule for us. We would eat breakfast in the room, go play in the pools and slides, come back eat lunch, Grace takes a nap, boys got to go exploring with either Pete or me which included a visit to Nascar Speed Park, come back to the room to get ready for dinner, and after dinner, go to the beach. For us the beach was better in the evening because it was not as hot and there were fewer people which made it easier keeping our eyes on kids. We also went to a Magic Diner Theatre at the hotel one night. The kids loved it. It totally amazed them. The whole place was very kid friendly. The pool at the water park was only about 6"-1' deep. The boys did a slide that went from one of the parking decks into the pool. They had an underground crosswalk for crossing the street. I guess the only down side was that it was not stroller friendly and the elevators were slow and crowded.

Tyler at 4-H Camp Burton Tybee Island

Tyler spent a week in June at Camp Burton, Tybee Island with 4-H. He had a really good time. They went swimming in the ocean, to the marsh for biology studies, visited River Street and shopped, and also toured Fort Pulaski.