Vacation

Just a quick post to say that we had an absolutely wonderful time on vacation!  How nice to be home, but how nice that we got to spend such quality time together.  We spent time exploring 4 national parks - Arches, the Dinosaur National Monument, Bryce Canyon, and Zion!  We didn't do everything quite as planned, but adapted well I think and made the most of the situation.  It was also really wonderful not having to confirm to the school schedule.  This was just the week that worked for Mike's work, really about the only time he could get a week off all summer and for a while in the fall.  School officially started on Monday the 29th.  We were going to be gone - which if Noah was attending school normally would have cut our vacation short.  But fortunately, we're doing an online charter school option here and just took some of his course work with us, we did a bit before we left and I'm happy to say that he's definitely on track for the week.  And his science for the week was about using your senses...we were in the perfect environments to explore with our senses.  Noah and Josh both did a great job paying close attention to what they saw, heard, felt, smelled while in the parks as they worked on their Junior Ranger badges.  I'm working on pictures - there are a LOT of them!  So I'll update lots probably in the coming week.