Joshua & David

   This afternoon Joshua and David were riding around on the Land Shark.  They looked like they were having so much fun together, I ran back inside and grabbed the camera. 

Farm Tour/Nutrition

   Thursday, Sis. Melissa taught the Keepers At Home club all about nutrition and gave us all a tour of their farm.

We all sat on hay bales as we learned about the food pyramid and the five food groups. 

Filling out our food pyramid charts.  Can you name the five food groups?
Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Milk, Meats & Beans.

Everyday, you should have 6 oz. of Grains, 2 1/2 c. of Vegetables,
 2 c. of Fruits, 3 c. of Milk, and 5 1/2 oz. of Meat and Beans.
 

Also, everyday you should have at least 60 minutes of exercise.

We played many different games including, 3-legged races,
barnyard tag, dairy toss, sack races, jump-roping, and treasure hunting.

Sack Race!
We had to hop to a hay bale, eat a piece of cheese, hop
 back to our team, and give the sack to the next person.

Emily, Grace, and I

Barnyard Tag

Treasure Hunt!

 Our prize for completing the treasure hunt was a Moo Tube. (frozen yogurt)

 On each clue card was a little tidbit about the farm.
After the hunt we all read the information and Sis. Melissa quizzed us.

Posing with our "Milk Mustaches"!

Elainah playing in the cotton seed

Going on the Farm Tour

 Abigail and Joanna

 Faith, Joy, Lillia, Anna, and Hope
Best Friends!

Mama Moo

 The Farmer had some silage and chopped alfalfa for us to smell and feel.

 In the barn he let us stick our finger in the milker

Check out the size of the pills Hope, Anna, and Lillia are holding!

 We got to look at the milk in the tank

 We enjoyed snacks made with milk products; cheese, milk, and chocolate milk.

Our Farm Teacher...
She did an awesome job!

Alaska Day #5

  Friday (September 30th) was our last day in Alaska.  We had to turn the motorhome back in by 11:00 a.m. so we were quite busy getting everything packed and the motorhome cleaned.  Daddy had reserved a rental van for the day, because our flight wasn't until 8:30 p.m.

  After picking up the rental van and dropping off the motorhome, we went to Alaska Public Lands Information Center in Anchorage. They had lots of interesting educational videos. 

 We worked on a scavanger hunt.

 

Turning their papers in...

We went on a 45 min. walking tour with a park ranger, who told us about the

city of Achorage.  When we would get to a particular spot he would show us

pictures of that exact location after the 1964 earthquake.

After getting some subs from Subway we went to Eathquake Park.

 Joy burning off some energy.

 "EARTHQUAKE!"

There were a lot of signs and monuments at the park.

I thought it was very nice to see a scripture on one!

65-0219 THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.IS.FULFILLED_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  
Reverend William Marion Branham;

    "I told Mr. Woods; is present tonight. And, I guess, eight or ten of the man, or fifteen, that was there at that time when it took place; the next morning, where the Lord came down in a whirlwind and ripped the mountain out around us, and cut the tops of the trees loose, and made three blasts, and said, "Judgment is headed towards the West Coast."
    Two days after that, Alaska almost sunk beneath the earth. And since then, up-and-down the Coast, the belches of God's judgment against that spiritual screen. There is a iron curtain, there is a bamboo curtain, and there is a sin curtain."

        We flew out of Anchorage at 8:30 p.m. a red-eye flight so most of us slept!  We arrived in DFW at 5:30 a.m. and had a three hour layover.  We were sitting a gate over from the gate we were departing out of when a we saw two familiar faces!  Bro. Bucky and Sis. Andrea.  They were coming home from a vacation and were on our flight to Philadelphia!

     Our flight landed in Philly around 1:00 p.m.   After claiming our luggage we drove home.  We passed a marshy area and Joshua jokingly said, "Hey, moose habitat!"  haha! 

     The trip to Alaska was so enjoyable.  Thanks to Daddy and Mommy for taking us!