Art projects and new hats

Royal didn't have school on Friday this week. We still had Internet school so I knew that it might be hard to keep everyone going with Kale at home. It turned out that everyone did a really great job of staying on task. Actually Kai went with Justin to work. They planted new trees all day. We also had Sawyer here at our house and he had agreed to do school work with Hadley. Isn't he awesome? It was fun for Hadley to have a friend to discuss her work with. Sawyer kept right up and had fun playing homeschool with us. It really was enjoyable to have him here with us. They finished all their work before lunch! After lunch I talked Hadley, Sawyer, and Kale into starting an art project. We worked for an hour making crayon rubbings in different colors and using different textures, then doing a paint wash in a contrasting color over the rubbing. We learned about Cubism art. Anyway, I gave them a little break and then Kale was the only one who wanted to come back and finish. It took us another hour to finish the project and I was so excited with Kale's finished project that I had to take a picture. He had fun and is very proud of his art. He wanted a picture of him playing his guitar picture.

Saturday morning Hadley went to Othello for a Stake Achievement Day activity, Kai and Seila had a service project for mutual, Kai stayed home with me. We sewed a new car seat cover for a friend. Then I finished 3 hooded bath towels that have been waiting for me. I decided that I'd better start Seila's new dress (we picked up the fabric and pattern last week) while I helped Kai finish up school work that he didn't do on Friday. Kai was able to finish his essay and I was able to finish about an hour before we were supposed to leave for a Stake dance in Othello. It turned out pretty good. She chose black with white polka-dots. This is a style that she has been wanting for several months. In this picture she has a yellow shirt, yellow ribbon, and blue ribbon on but at the dance she wore a white shirt with a green ribbon belt. She made sure to buy several different colors of ribbon for belts.

Justin and I were able to find a hat on-line that had spf and a wide brim. He's supposed to wear one now all the time. It came the other day and he wore it on Saturday. He said it was a tough to get used to but he'll keep trying. He's also supposed to wear sunscreen but we haven't gotten that far yet. If anyone has any suggestions for a sunscreen that isn't greasy and you can wear comforatbly all day, we'll listen. Anyway, he came home and said he is of course having to deal with comments from everyone he sees and yes, Uncle Vard actually laughed. Good thing Justin loves his Uncle Vard! Not to worry, Justin will find plenty of opportunity to return the friendship.

I haven't seen a softball/baseball schedule but the first games are next week. Kai's still not sure what position he gets to play but he thinks it's looking like outfield. We'll see. Seila is going to be one of the pitchers again this year.