EKjourney Backup

Glorielle turned 8! I am looking at this picture and realizing how quickly the seasons in life pass.  We were in full on young children, toddler, and baby mode at this stage of life...and it was to be our last addition.  Sawyer was 6, Jubilee was 5, Evi was 3, and Brighton was 18 months.  We were a busy family of little ones.  Our life revolved around food, naps, diapers, playtime, routines.  We kept close to home to keep our routines and our adventures were trips to the library and the city park.   We are now immersed with elementary, Jr. High, and starting High School mode.  Sawyer is 14, Jubilee is 13, Evi is 11, and Brighton is 9.  We are a busy family of individuals rather than a group.  Our life revolves around homeschool, farm life, chauffeuring, friendships, and church life.  We have to say "no" to many good things in order to run our home and get our school hours in.  Our adventure at the moment is restoring the farm (...

I took a lot of random pictures this week with my cell phone, trying to record in the moment the daily happenings of our "vacation".  Last week, there was jury duty that took me away for 3 days and Phil went into work with the kids.  This week was our first full week at home, our "vacation".  I keep putting the word vacation in quotes because this has been a workation.  When we moved to the farm, we knew that it would take a few years to turn this run down, over grown place into our home.  The first summer was insanity as we were working toward getting this place to pass inspection so we could get a loan and Phil got a job as a school administrator which cut our vacation time in half.  We basically redid the entire home (roof, windows, drywall, plumbing, electrical, flooring, remodeling the kitchen, and reconfiguring the bedrooms from upstairs to downstairs) that first summer.  While Phil worked on the inside construction, I did clean up on the outside...