The Five Browns

Last week we went to the five Browns concert at the philharmonic. These five siblings were home-schooled & all play the piano very well. They play classical music on five grand pianos. Most of the songs they play together, but they play some separately. I was very impressed by their skill, & would recommend them to anyone who appreciates the classics!

Billy :D

The Cornfield Maze

This year my family went with our cousins to the cornfield maze. It was a lot of fun! For the first time in ten years my mom actually won. So she was mas grande happy! I saw many people I knew while in the maze( mostly home- schoolers!). I hadn't seen my cousins for awhile so it was cool to see them again.

Billy :D

Graffiti Removal etc...

Last week I went to a volunteer graffiti removal. We went with BEST ( one of the homeschool support groups we're in). We finished a wall within an hour & a half!
Later that day I walked to my friend Justin's house & we hung out until we needed to leave. We were going to another friends house to play some football. We played for around four hours! After the game we had pizza & I taught Josh some self-defense "moves". After that we went to Cameron's house for a "sleep-less over"! That night we played 4 risk games! :D

Billy

BBQ @ The Goodbars

After church last Sunday we went to our friends the Goodbars house. Mr Goodbar and Brannen are in my Boy Scout troop and of course all of the go to church with us. Brannen and I had a nerf gun war. Brenna his sister and Billy ran into her room and slammed the door because we snuck up and attacked them. Then we went outside and played soccer. We aslo played with Brennas whip. Lastly we walked to a lake close to where they live and rode around in a paddle boat. First Brenna and Billy paddled. Then Brannen and I climed over them and they went into the back of the boat and we paddled. It was awesome.
Ricky Dave

Civil War Reenactment

I joined Boy Scouts about a month ago. Last week we went to Kearney Park for a camp-out. W hen we got there we put up tents and set up camp. Then we played games (assassin, flashlight tag and mafia) Apparently the group does something random on each camp out. This time it was taking our shirts off while playing the games. The next morning we went around Kearney park and picked up trash. After that we directed traffic and handed out programs. When we were done we grabbed some lunch and watched the battle. Then the parents arrived to pick us up. My family and I walked around and checked things out. We also toured Kearney Mansion.
Ricky V.

Choir Update

The Jr. High boys had the option, and I signed up for it, to sing in a program called "Real Men CAN Sing!" Yes we can sing, wow! Who would've guessed it? Well it's very hard to get guys my age to sing well because our voices are changing. I give credit to the people who have to run this program. Anyway we will sing at Fresno State later this month. We are practicing hard for this and also for the Christmas concert.

Rickydave

Riverpark Jr. High Youth Group

River Park Bible Church has an awesome Jr. High Youth Group. In it we play some crazy games. For example we play a wild game of dodge ball. In the Jr. high room we play ping pong, fooseball and air hockey. These are available if you come early or stay a little late. We have a lot of goofy fun but we also really get into studying God's word. I really like it all.

Eric David Vincent

The Annual all Church Picnic

We had a blast at the All Church Fall Picnic last weekend. They held it at Woodward Park on Sunday right after church. It was crazy hot and just the day before we were at the same park for our homeschool groups Kick-off. Anyway it was cool. We played volleyball, yes again, football, ultimate frisbee, and the extremely messy egg toss. We go to a huge church, so you can imagine what a mess that was. Dad teased that he didn't want me to ride in the car on the way home because I got egg junk thrown at my back. After the egg toss we got ice cream bars. We saw a lot of our friends that we got to church with, duh. But also friends that are in Boy Scouts and that we homeschool with.
Eric David Vincent

Art

We are in a art co-op with BEST. We have been drawing for the last few weeks. It was interesting seeing what my friends chose to draw. Some of them are really good. The co-op only meets twice a month for 2 hours each time. So we do other art stuff on our own at home. We also go to museums. Basically we are learning Art History and Art Appreciation in an Art Survey unit, well that's how it was explained to me anyway.

Dave