Cleaning the Escalade

Keith and the kids finally decided to take on the task of giving the Escalade a deep clean. You can see Tucker is using a special brush attached to a drill, and he's using that to work the special soap into the carpet. It took many hours and

Ice Skating with cousins at the Grand Sierra Resort

Brianna, Jess and Carson Savannah and Jess Savannah, Jess and Bethany Tucker, watching the zamboni clear the ice standing outside the skating rink (had to wear our masks) this is inside the GSR, Carson found a ballroom named after him Jess was so nice to help Savannah all the kids

Christmas Eve

(For some reason, the pictures loaded in reverse order) Melvin, using his new branding iron Lori, Scott, Jesselyn, Bethany, Carson, Brianna, Savannah and Tucker The kids, picking up their candy from the busted pinata in the following pictures The talent show, with lots of performances of Christmas songs Savannah played

Bikeride with Grandpa Knight

Opening Christmas presents

Christmas card

Lone Pine and Manzanar Internment Camp in California

We drove down to Bishop, CA to look at a car for sale and ended up seeing lots of other things. This is a bakery in Bishop with a cool old bakery truck in front. We wanted to go inside and see what bakery items they had, but they weren&

Thanksgiving in Turlock, CA

We drove down to Turlock, CA, to my Aunt Diane's house to celebrate Thanksgiving. My parents were there, along with Beverly and her family and some of Aunt Diane's friends.

Thanksgiving Apple Crunch Pie Assembly Line

Keith makes an apple crunch pie every year at Thanksgiving. This year, we are in town and able to go celebrate with family, so he was asked to bring 3 of his apple pies. He enlisted the kids' help and they started the process at 9:30 the night

Grandpa Knight's woodworking

Grandpa Knight just got a laser cutter, so he showed us how it works and the kids designed a sign and watched it being cut. You can see all the other things behind Savannah. We put it on our pantry door.

Halloween

These pictures are from last to first, but oh well. Carson sat outside during the trick or treat rush. We went over to Beth and Norman's house the night before Halloween. Grandma Knight showing us how the apple peeler works. We went over to Grandma's house

Carson and Tucker

Carson has been working on his RC car for most of the summer, and Tucker just bought a drone with some of his saved up birthday money. We went to a park to give them space to fly/drive around.

Savannah's 10th Birthday

Grandma and Grandpa Knight and Aunt Teresa and Uncle Rogan came over to help celebrate with dinner, and a wide variety of treats: rice krispie treats, twinkie cake and Klondike bars.

Playing in the snow

We had a nice snowstorm that brought about 4 inches. Tucker and Savannah were playing outside most of the day making snowmen. here are the snowforts they made with neighbor friends

Tucker paints a rock

The kids draw on our glass door with dry erase markers. Tucker got a rock from our front yard and painted a beach scene on it.

Angela cooking in Visalia

with my cool Italian apron

Kids playing games

kids playing Catan

Savannah with cousins

I am cleaning out my photos; here are a bunch of Savannah pictures. Here she is picking apples at Grandma Knight's house Savannah with her newly tie-dyed t-shirt she made herself With cousins Liesel and Eliza and baby Paisley at the Ross house With a new necklace

Grandma and Grandpa visit

Grandpa Gene and Grandma Bea came to visit us for a few days. We went to Callahan park and Andelin Family Farm. Callahan Park is really nice cause there's lots of pine trees, a little creek, a playground and trails. Savanna got to open an early birthday present

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Homeschool Math - Chain Rule Derivatives and Line Multiplication

With the start of the new school year comes new subjects and variations of the existing. Carson has been studying the chain rule for complex derivatives in calculus. Tucker is continuing linear systems in algebra, but we took a few minutes to learn the line method of multiplying -- an

Andelin Family Farm

The Andelin Family Farm is in northern Sparks, so it is about a half an hour drive from our house. We heard that they are having a 'Summer Farm Days' event during August, and that they have a kitten barn, so of course we had to go so

Building a fort with cousins

Tucker, Carson, Ray, Leisel, Savannah and Eliza - in their fort.

Tucker's raisin story

Here it is: Hello, I am Harris the grape. I am about to tell you all about my dehydration. It was a hot Summer's day when it all started. Me and my family were at Raymond Beach, and I was lying out in the sun. It was so

Pioneer Day at Anita's house

Anita invited Tucker and Savannah to participate in their Pioneer Day celebration yesterday - it included wearing some pioneer clothing, a trek with a handcart, leather crafting, pioneer games all the while learning about some of their ancestors. Chad gave some instruction and information about the handcart before the kids

Carson's RC car

Carson and Ryan did some time trials with their RC cars Ryan and Jess came over for church last Sunday and spent the day with us.