Back to (Home)School Pictures 2014

Tomorrow we officially start our eighth year of homeschooling. Here are the back to school pictures of the boys for the 2014-2015 school year! We don't really worry about grade levels here… some are working ahead and some are working a bit slower and some are doing a bit of both… so when you see their "grade" below their picture just know that it isn't written in stone! Is it just me or are they looking old?

Wesley - 7th Grade

Eli - 5th Grade

Justus - 5th Grade

Hayden - 3rd Grade

JD - 2nd Grade

You'll Shoot Your Eye Out

Yesterday, poor JD was accidentally shot in the eye with an airsoft gun. The little neighbor boy was messing around and didn't realized the gun had a BB in the barrel. Our neighbor friend Noah brought Pickle to one of the neighborhood parents who drove him home.

We couldn't figure out why his glasses didn't protect his eye. He may or may not have had his glasses pushed up to his forehead. Either way, there wasn't much we could do. We put ice on it and let the offending child's mom know he needs an airsoft gun safety refresher.

We'll keep an eye on it and take him to the eye doctor if it doesn't look better or if it gets increasingly worse in the next few days.

And the next time the kids want to go play airsoft, I just might pull a Mrs. Parker from 'A Christmas Story' and tell them, "No, you'll shoot your eye out!"

Master Builder

Hayden built this Minecraft-looking guy out of Legos. It was pretty big and even had a pivoting arm.

Eli liked it so much he asked Hayden to help him build one too!