2026 Tucker, Ray and Brielle: all born in 2008 3 babies born within months of each other and now they're all graduating high school and going on to college and missions.
2026 Taco 'Bout a Graduation Party Instead of having a bunch of separate graduation parties, a bunch of moms from our neighborhood got together and organized a combined graduation taco party.
Tucker and Savannah are in a Shakespeare Play Tucker and Savannah were in a Shakespeare class with their homeschool group. Every Wednesday, we drove down to Carson City to meet with the Light, Truth and Intelligence Homeschool co-op group and they had a Shakespeare class for 1 hour each week. They read and watched plays, and gave
Grandma Bea and Grandpa Gene visit Reno Tucker and Savannah were cast in a Shakespeare play put on by their homeschool group. It was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', and Tucker was Demetrius, and Savannah was Titania. This is a picture before their first performance on a Friday afternoon at the Brewery Arts Center
The Silver Circuits Carson is part of the Silver Circuits robotics team. They applied for and won a scholarship from the Dolan Auto Group. The Silver Circuits had a competition a few days ago in Sparks They won! Their robot has two arms and it stacked the most cups on the rod.
Walking around the BYU Provo campus The wedding was in the evening, so we spent the day in Provo with Nan and Melvin, checking out BYU. This is the mascot, Cosmo, right outside the BYU bookstore. Cool swively chairs in the Computer Science building a lot of the buildings have cool hands on things to do
carson these-last-few-months-ive-been-working These last few months, I've been working on our robot for my lego robotics team, Mindstorm Masters, in FLL (First Lego League). Our robot is tasked to move around a field with different missions on it, and complete those missions to earn points in a certain amount of
Carson's robotics club Carson was invited to be a coach to a robotics club for 9-11 year olds. He has been attending their meetings twice a week now for about 4 months. We made a robot to complete some missions around a map with the missions spread around it. Each mission is
carson 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 alternative
Homeschool Thanksgiving Party There's a homeschool group that puts together holiday parties throughout the year, and we recently participated in the Thanksgiving party that took place at our church building. The party was structured like this: kids rotate through 7 stations in the gym, spending about 10 minutes at each one.
Commonwealth Hebrew class A friend told me about a homeschool class offered every Monday afternoon, so we went to check it out and the kids loved it. We now go every week, and I teach one of the classes once a month. Every Monday, the kids are together (ages 8-12) in one
First Day of School (and College) We officially launched our school year, continuing to home school Tucker and Savannah. Carson has enrolled in a New Testament seminary class and enrolled in graphic design and programming classes at the community college. He'll continue to do some home schooling and ACT preparation, but not quite as
Patriot Camp I heard about a day camp called Patriot Camp, and it sounded fun, so I signed up. Tucker and Savannah would be campers, Carson would be a youth leader, and I would be a Team Mom. Every day there was at least one historical character dressed in costume, and the
Tour of Southern Utah University We walked around the Southern Utah University this weekend. It was a beautiful campus, but a lot of it was closed. So we'll have to go another time. They have a reproduction of the Globe Theater -- the Shakespeare Festival is a really big deal here. If you look
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Our Spanish Tutor The children have been studying Spanish using Rosetta Stone online lessons, but we decided a couple of weeks ago to find a tutor to help each of us progress more quickly. We hired a college student in Colombia that teaches us via Skype on the internet. We have been meeting
Homeschool Study Areas The kids are adapting to the new homeschool study areas in our home near La Fortuna, Costa Rica. If you look closely, you can see Tucker studying Spanish in the covered patio: Savannah writing in the hammock:
Homeschool PE Class Goodbye Party, last day Coach Zack let Carson, Tucker and Savannah choose the sports they would be playing during the last week before the holidays, since it would be their last classes. They played dodgeball on their last day. Then coach announced that there would be a surprise: pizza, cookies and cupcakes after class.
Homeschool Chemistry Lab - Acids and Bases We have continued our homeschool study of math and chemistry into the summer. The boys are doing algebra, multivariate linear sets, and quadratic expressions while Savannah is working on multiplication, division, and speed (timed) additional and subtraction. The more advanced math has made some of our chemistry work possible. We&
University of Virginia We drove to Charlottesville to walk around the University of Virginia, the school that Thomas Jefferson built. This area is called 'The Range'. Both sides are rooms for graduate students. Because it's all original buildings from the 1800s, there's no air conditioning. For winter,
Savannah's Math (Borrowing and Carrying) Savannah has been practicing borrowing and carrying large numbers. She was especially proud of completing this subtraction problem with as many numbers as we could fit on the page.
Lafayette Elementary School Playground We were shocked when we saw the local elementary school. It was a large beautiful building. Angela said that it looked like a college campus. We are accustomed to the typical utilitarian schools so common across the country. Lafayette Elementary is a few blocks from our airbnb. The kids loved
savannah Family Workshop at the Peirce Mill at Rock Creek Park While visiting the Peirce Mill, some generous volunteers hosted a Family Workshop. They offered to help children make various old time crafts outside of the Peirce Wagon House. Savannah decided to make her own corn husk doll.
The Georgian Hightree by Tucker Knight One day, there was a tree called the Georgian Hightree. It was very tall. It was the tallest tree in the forest! But another day, when it saw that it was tallest tree in the forest, it started to brag to his neighboring trees like Redwood. Thinking that he was
Good Knight Art Tucker's Bob Ross paintings Carson's Bob Ross paintings by Savannah Savannah's family portrait
