November 10, 2009

tempting

I'm _VERY_ tempted to open this box..

There are only a few people who know what this box contains. If you look close enough you can make out what it is, but even that is not revealing - even on google.

The reason this box has shown up once again around here is that some of our house guests needed to relocate for a while. Relocating these house guests was necessary to set into motion some of the longer term ideas we have for the sub-surface area we have here (basement plans).

For now I'll let the Jura stay put..

Posted by Kevin Foote in on November 10, 2009

November 03, 2009

Halloween 2009

This year was the first year the boys were jazzed about making up some costumes and heading out for some trick-or-treating.

So they came up with their idea for a costume and we worked a few weekends to make it happen. The final work was completed by Matthew and I, he really was a big help on this.

Here is a picture of the boys just before departing on our adventure around out into the evening.

Costume notes: train has smoke stack that accepts input, dishwasher has silverware basket that accepts input. :-P

We stayed out for about 45m to an hour on our walk down Grant St.

Interesting things said:

This is so neat. We are going to all these peoples houses who we don't even know. - Matthew

Posted by Kevin Foote in on November 03, 2009

September 30, 2009

inspiring, powerful

My awesome wife has been doing lots of searching and assimilation of information on homeschooling and in particular the CM methodology of homeschooling.

While she was out and about on the i-net tonight she found this clip. We think its awesome for many different reasons (travel to name one of our tops). We both sat there and watched it a few times over :-)

updated ambleside link - oops

Posted by Kevin Foote in on September 30, 2009