School art work and Hunting season!

The first week of the kids going four days a week has past and I have things that I need to work on to make it run smoother.  The mornings aren't to bad, I pretty much have those down pat. The kids do really well at getting up in the mornings without a fuss. Its the nights that need a little work.  I think that I am going to start making crockpot meals that way it will be a little easier at night and I wont feel like I made Jacqueline rush with her homework.  Also we can spend a little more time each night with a learning game that Nathaniel brings home for the week.  They do do a good job at playing the game by themselves and doing homework without any help, but not really helping makes me feel like I rushed them and I feel rushed. This week I am going to try to have dinner done or almost done when they come home from school. It will be a good trial, they only have two days of school this week. Yesterday and today the kids had off, they only have school on Wednesday and Thursday this week. They are more then happy to go back to school tomorrow, they have been asking and wanting to go back! They have been having a blast learning and making art. Nathaniel learns a letter a week and does art work relating to that letter and Jacqueline does it according to the season or holiday.

These are Nathaniel's, he his really doing good.

Nathaniel's house for last week with the letter 'h'

Jacqueline made spiders during the week of Halloween.

Her bat!

Not really sure what this was, but it almost looks like she made flowers at different stages. 

Anneke took this picture of Jacqueline's art that is hanging up in the clinic where Anneke works!

Anneke also took this one of Jacqueline's art work, also hanging in the clinic. 

Jacqueline's Starry Night! This one is my favorite and looks close to the really one!

Jacqueline told me that they learned about Vincent Van Gogh and the Starry night. She was really proud of herself for telling me the name and the artist!

 This is Jacqueline's homework for the weekend! I was so excited to do this with her! "Tom" is going to be a princess, and is half complete. We are going to finish him this afternoon!

Deer season opened on Friday and I was excited for our first hunting season! We went out on Saturday to see if we could get anything. But all we saw were bucks and two does that were running and were we driving!

Like this guy! He stayed there for quite sometime just watching us!

It was a fun day of hunting even though we didn't get anything that day.  Kevin went out on Sunday and got a mule deer doe! Now we have one tag left to fill, also another doe. 

Got her taken care of before the snow storm really hit!!

I'm taking her in to the butcher tomorrow to get cut and wrapped.  We do want to cut and grind the meat ourselves but we don't have the right knives or a meat grinder.  We are hoping that next year we are able to do that. Kevin is out today with Nathan and his two boys hunting. He is not going to try to get our last one until after the boys and Nathan get one. If they go where Kevin got our one, they all could get one, Nathan and the boys could get their bucks and we our last doe.  There is a herd of about 15 in the area.  Kevin saw the leader buck this morning when he check the water tanks.  

We had a nice snow storm that came through.  We got about 7 inches, that is what the weather channel said.  As it past over it left behind freezing weather, highs in the single digits to low teens and the lows in the negatives. Brrrr!! But is sure is beautiful!!

Hope everyone has a great day!! Happy Veterans Day!