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My favourite time of day :)

'home'schooling............

When is homeschooling no longer 'home' schooling? If you are out every day driving to classes and organized activities and field trips...then is that still homeschooling?

Shouldn't there be more 'home' in 'homeschooling?????

oh so pretty...

Balloon at sunset..................

A couple more..............

I think that is ALMOST a smile on Lloyds face ;)
Susannah took the one of me :)

Tuesday...................

The weather couldn't be more different than yesterday! Yesterday was warm and sunny with blue skies and just perfect for a Fall walk.................today feels like winter. It is 2c outside and has been snowing/ sleeting for much of the morning.................we drove Chris in to work at the museum for 10am and then we went to the homeschool group.......it was at a recreation centre today because we lost our normal home and they are still on the search for another.....the room was ok...small but not many came along thankfully........we were discussing alternative locations etc when the lady who is hunting for somewhere came in......and another lady whispered to me to 'change the subject'.....I thought that was weird.....Its just Cheryl!!!! And all we were talking about was the old FR Haythorne buidling and what CHAMPS was.......as I hadn't a clue!!!! I can't see Cheryl minding us talking about it...or anything lol!

I guess emotions are running high at the group...everyone is upset and sad that we don't have a home right now and today I learnt so many things about the politics in this the worlds largest hamlet!!! It was an interesting morning......that aside, it was nice to see everyone and we signed up for the talent show at Christmas....

Sam was miserable at the group...I don't know if he is getting ill or if he was just very tired from yesterdays walk...........but he cried and was clingy......we decided to come straight home after the group...so after delivering 2 CD's of photographs to clients we came home........

There is no dance class for the girls tonight.......due to Thanksgiving...I'm really glad for that! I am exhausted and it will be nice to relax........in fact we are having our Thanksgiving dinner tonight because we didn't have time yesterday.......so we are having the big roast dinner and then pie and then watching the movie we had planned to watch last night.......RV ( I hear there is a weird homeschooling family in it! lol)

I heard back from the family that I did the photo shoot of on Sunday.......



GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS!!!

The one of **** lying in the leaves made my eyes water. We couldn't be
happier. I can't wait to get the cd and get some printed and hang them on
my wall asap. They are going to look SO good.

Your business is going to explode with all these referrals from happy
customers!!



Isn't that lovely feedback?????? I was thrilled!!!! That was the highlight of my day :)

tree creatures..................

This one looks like a horned animal of some kind:

And this one is like a serpent or dragon.....perhaps Elk Islands equivelant of the Loch Ness Monster???? Which would be funny because Nessy was spotted by a 'Spicer' too :)

Curly wurly.......................

I thought this was so pretty........

Enjoying Fall...................

Laurence enjoying the fun of Fall................

My boys...................

My Sons, Christopher and Laurence...............

Oh Daughter of mine...................

Susannah on our walk yesterday, and with her little sister Abigail.............

And one of us..........................

Doesn't Lloyd look just sooooooo happy to be having his picture taken??????????????

Hahahaha!

This is why there are so few pictures of him and us ;) I love you GROUCH!!!!!

Time for Fall pictures.....................

We walk the same trail at Elk Island Park EVERY year in the Fall to take our Fall family pictures...........we chose today (Thanksgiving Day) to do the walk this year and the weather was PERFECT!!! The walk is the same every year........Lloyd making sarcastic jokes about having his picture taken, the children jokingly moaning about having to sit so close so often and me stressing out about getting them to sit still and look at the camera at the same time....and always one child (this year Sam) who doesn't want to be a part of any of it ;) but all in all we always have fun :)

The trail we walk is almost 4km so it isn't too long but is just enough for little guys and has soooo many tumbled trees and rocks etc to sit on amongst the trees and very few people to get in the way ;)