Field Trip Day: Young's Jersey Dairy Farm

August 23, 2011 By 8 Comments

It’s a tradition with us.  When the big kids go off to school, my homeschooled kids and I take a couple of field trips…. Every school year, our lives seem to look just a bit different. This year, we have several “shifts” of school-age children.  The first shift gets on the bus first, then second [...]

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Young's Jersey Dairy Farm

August 31, 2010 By 20 Comments

Young’s Jersey Dairy is a well-known destination in SW Ohio.  It’s been around forever, I remember my aunt taking us there back in the 70′s when we would come up to Dayton to visit. It started as a family dairy farm, as the name might indicate.  As the years have gone by, they added batting cages, [...]

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Our Second Honeymoon: Day 2

July 28, 2010 By 4 Comments

Day 2 Agenda:  Jeep tour into the Rockies Check out these 6 seater jeeps!  We all piled in and hit the road. We weren’t really sure where we were going, but the anticipation was intoxicating! When the driver tied the stick shift up with a bungie cord, I wasn’t sure what to think….I was ready [...]

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Our Second Honeymoon: Day 1

July 27, 2010 By 3 Comments

Here we are, at the airport, not quite sure what to do with ourselves!     Yep, taking goofy pictures of ourselves like teenagers!  Are we really going on a vacation by ourselves?  Seems sureal….    What’s the first thing we do?  Look for sugar and caffeine…this will calm our nerves and help us cope.     [...]

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Our Second Honeymoon in Vail, Colorado

July 26, 2010 By 1 Comment

The last 6 days, Mark and I have been in Beaver Creek, Colorado on a second honeymoon! A trip alone seemed like a fantasy as we are obviously busy parents of a large family.  This opportunity to go to Beaver Creek, in the heart of Vale, came up several months ago.  My husband and I [...]

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The Learning Tree Farm

September 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It’s been a LONG time since we’ve been to The Learning Tree farm!  It’s a real working farm with animals, gardens, etc…Hubs saw in the paper that they were having a ‘Fall Festival’ so we packed up the tribe and took a road trip. Isaac and Bereket look on as the blacksmith works. Mark and [...]

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