Glittery Rocks - Color Connection # 16

Ms. Burrito picked some white rocks at the gravel pile that the construction team were using at our porch renovation. She painted them with glitters.

Life at it's Best

My father-in-law has celebrated his 89th birthday a week ago.

Dad live a pretty good life. He survived the WW2, been to some countries in Asia such as Japan and Philippines. The interesting thing to note despite of those travels is that, he never flew on a plane.

At his age, he still drives and do stuff although we are worried because his one eye can't see anymore.

My SIL Chris made a beautiful cake for Dad!

One more year and Dad will be 90, I pray that God will still bless him with more years of healthy life.

"Life ends when you stop dreaming. Hope is lost when you stop believing. And love fails when you stop caring. So Dream, Believe , and Care... Life is beautiful."

Unleashing Stress through Mini Olympics

Our school starts the school year early compared to other schools so even if we have snow days, we still completed all the things that we need to discuss in the classroom. That's why, we got out from school early too. During our last week of school, we had a mini Olympics at our gym.

Family and friends were invited to watch us play. I am so happy that my Dad, Mom, and brother came. We UNLEASHed all the stress we have in school and enjoyed our day through sports.

We warmed up before we started the wall to wall run race. That's me, the shorty one hehehe.

The sack race, I fell down once but I got up and kept on going until I reached the finish line.

The crab walk was fun but a little bit hard. Mom and Dad said I was fast.

We lost on the tug of war against the first grader but it's okay, we were little compared to them.

Even our teachers played against the 8th graders at the end of ever games.

That's my very nice teacher at my back, I love you Mrs. Runkel!

Before you go, I am inviting you to join me every Saturday for my new meme that started last Saturday. You can still link up because it is still open. Thank you!
Thank you Mom for uploading the photos!

First Day of School

Today was our FIRST day of school. It's a FREE dress day so I just wore one of my dresses.

I have one big bag of supplies (tissue, paper towel, paint shirt, arts and crafts, gym shoes, ziploc bag, clean wipes, and many more). Thanks to my Mom for covering my books. Below is my religion book before my Mom put the cover on.

I have three new classmates in First Grade. I like it more now that I have my own desk. When I was in kindergarten, we were five of us in one table.

Mom, Dad, and my brother sent me to school this morning but only Mom and my brother fetched me after school. My teacher this time is a little bit strict but I like her just like my kindergarten teacher. They're both very nice! Mom only allowed me 30 minutes to peek at my blog because I have to go to bed early.

Pixie Dress Up - Color Connection # 3

Welcome to the third Color Connection. I would like to thank everyone for joining last week. Please invite your friends your friends to join us, thank you!

P.S. Next weeks linky will be at Tita Dhemz.

My entry this week is Tinkerbel. I dressed her up in the computer and I took a picture of it. Next time, I will show you my Daddy's drawing of the pixies which I colored.

My latest favorite game is dressing up the pixies.

Fun Day at the Lake

This was the first time that we went to Tomlinson Run for this year. We've been there three times already and we plan to go back before the warm weather slips away.

There is something in nature that just  entertain all of us.  As much as possible, we want to  let the kids  explore the nature even if  it means for us to drive far.

We plan to rent one of those boat next time so we can explore the lake.

The geese are messy but they brings entertainment for the children. This would be my watery wednesday entry.

Campground Exploration

We decided to  explore the campground at Tomlinson Run  the last time we went there. It was our first time to drive around and we were surprised how many many people were  camping that day.  Almost all of the yurts are occupied and there are pop-up campers  in most of the camping sites we went to.  The campground offers camping equipment for rent.  You can also call in advance to reserve some of  the yurts that are avaialble.

Driving around the camp site reminds me of the show that my husband and I watches on TV.  It's a show where this  guy show you how to survive in the wild even in a very harsh  weather condition.  All this guy has is some camping tools and some basic things  he needs.  It's  amazing how he could survive  it, I feel bad when he got caught with a very bad weather because there is nothing he can do to  call for help.

We have never experienced to go for a camping as family yet but  we are hoping that we  could do it when the kids are old enough.  Camping is a great activity especially if you have teens.  It gives them the opportunity to  explore the nature and forget about the busy life that they have in school and other stuff.  

We are buying some camping gears little by little so that when time comes and we are ready to go,  we  have the things we need.  We bought a sleeping bag when we were still in Korea but we still need  additional sleeping bags for the four of us.  I found a website that sells rucksacks and other camping gears and  tools.  If you are into nature, you might have seen  the owner of this website, Ray Mears.  He is a star to  one of the  popular outdoor survival in extreme weather condition show.  I am not sure if he was the celebrity of the show we were watching on TV.