I didn’t get a chance to do my weekly update last week.  I had computer issues AGAIN!  After being told it was a hard drive failure and worrying for 3 days that everything I had was lost, I found out Monday it was the backup hard drive that was failing.  The computer guys said it worked fine the 3 days they had it.  When I turned it on it froze up EVERY SINGLE TIME!  Worked fine for them.  I brought it home yesterday and it has been running fine.  Maybe it just needed time away from us…

I  know I post a HUGE amount of pictures of Keilee but since she is basically my only subject I just can’t help myself.  And she is always doing something cool or silly or awesome so there you go….

I am trying to remember what we have been up to the last 12 or so days.  We did go to the Alabama Jubilee Balloon Festival which is always beautiful.  There is something about 60+ balloons flying right over your head that is breathtaking!

There is always cartwheels at our house.  And handsprings and splits and handstands and attempted aerials and more.  Keilee has bruises constantly all over her legs from them banging together.

Space Warriors came out on DVD.  Keilee is in it about 6 or 7 times.  We had to watch it twice and even pause to find her everywhere. 🙂  It was very cool.  There are so many scenes they told her she couldn’t be in because she looked too much like Lacey the main girl.
These pictures are from my TV so they aren’t the best.  The picture that she has the hat on is when Sean McNamara told Thomas Horn to ‘look at the girl in the hat and speak to her most of the time”.

We also went to the actual Space and Rocket Center.  It is $25 a person to get in or you can get a Summer Pass with 1 adult and 2 children for $40!!  So we took my niece and had a great time.  We always see something new every time we go.

As I have said before we spend HUGE amounts of time outside.  If I could afford it I would have a in ground pool, a trampoline and a tree house.  Keilee has been Hula hooping all over the yard.  She has gotten really good at it.  She also is forever throwing it up and twisting around and catching it.

Yesterday’s post was about Keilee’s latest video for “7 Cool Homeschoolers” I have a link to the video.  She has gotten so much positive things from that day.  She is emailing with the curator of the Old State Bank AND the County Archives about interning and volunteering.

Last week’s video was Free Style and Keilee decided to do a video about Nomad.  Nomad is such an important part of our family.  We weren’t able to get a dog since we lived in a townhouse until 3 years ago.  I think she appreciates him so much because she waited so long for him.  Isn’t that the way it is with most things?  Keilee has never done without anything but she also doesn’t get things handed to her left and right.  She is so appreciative of everything she gets.  Check out the video if you haven’t.  It is very sweet.

Keilee auditioned for “Aristocats” last night.  She was so excited about seeing her friends.  She loves all of these kids and except for Maddie Grace, she never sees them except during plays.  They stay in contact via text constantly.

There has been all sorts of learning going on.  Keilee has decided to read all 7 “Harry Potter” books. She has listened to them all on audio as they came out.  After I read them [because I was NOT going to wait to listen on audio] I would get the audio for us both to listen to.  She also read the first 3 when she was about 9.  She would read the book and listen to audio at the same time. [This was PRE Keilee reading :)]  But now she wants to read them all this summer.  She finished the 1st book in a few days and has started on the 2nd one.

She watches YouTube all.the.time.  Crash Course, Horrible Histories, Documentaries and more.

She has created several art pages.  She gets a quote or song lyric she likes and does a page. She has taste in music that I question at times. Nothing ‘bad’, she will not listen to a song with ‘bad words’ but bands that definitely are NOT Top 40.  I was talking to her about it the other day and later I came in and she was listening to “One Direction” radio station on Pandora [Not that there is anything wrong with them but she doesn’t listen to them]  I asked her what she was doing and she said “I am listening to bands you think I should”  Then she stated her point, “So many of these songs are about drinking and going to parties and liking boys and finding a girl, the songs I like are about perseverance and making it through anything and believing in yourself”  I looked at her and said, “Point made, listen to what you want to” 🙂  *She was NOT listening to just One Direction, you make a station on Pandora and they play similar artists.

The page about this “Brutal World” is from “Revolution”.  As I have said before she LOVES this book.  She is always talking about it or quoting it.

So that is a quick recap of our last couple of weeks.  Summer is in full force here.  We have been to the pool and had a blast.  Many, many more trips there are planned.  Play practice will start next week and Keilee has several things she is doing this summer.

Tonight she is off to a lock-in at one of her friend’s church.  There will be black light Volleyball and Laser Tag. So tomorrow I expect her to sleep all day long.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Keilee.  And it was an accident!  She was taking her phone out of her bag while she was outside on a blanket and she hit the camera button!  She and I couldn’t believe how it turned out!

Happy weekend!
Karen

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”  ~Anne Frank
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ~Henry James

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