Great weekend in Madison, FL

We spent the last weekend on our land in Madison, FL, with family. It was a great weekend, possibly a little too hot. The kids enjoyed it a lot and Alex's sister and her husband built on the tree house. It is awesome!!

So relaxed! :-)

The tree house from afar

Marlee helping to build

Gabriel wants to climb the tree house, too! Aunt Cindy is happy to help :-)

And he made it up to the top!

Adding a roof!

Gabriel found a new buddy!

The camp ground

Three boogers sleeping

The view from our bed in the camper (we slept in Cindy and Danny's new camper). Can't complain!

Upgrading the swing to a bigger one

Gabriel is helping

And so is Noah

Trying the new (family) swing

Planting trees

Gathering fire wood

Cooling down with his pants on

Making parking lots

Now we are back in Ormond beach, back to normal except the coop is over for the semester so tomorrow is a big pool/beach party. There are also a lot of birthday parties right now, which is fun!

Playing an Australian game called "pass the parcel" at a birthday party

Noah got to open one layer of the parcel

I was just reminded today of one a the very big benefit with home schooling. Marlee really likes math and today we were going a little ahead of where we are at the moment, on his request. It is so fun to be able to teach him things at the time when he want to learn them and not have to wait for others or for whenever it should be taught according to a schedule.

He initially wanted to know what 100-1000 was and I decided a thermometer was the best way to explain it

Marlee and Noah was outside playing while I was making dinner and Gabriel really wanted to join them... He ended up like this...

Just an every day life video

April - one of my favorite months

We have had some great days lately. Farmor has been up here for a about a week and has spent a lot of time in our garden and with the boys. We have also seen friends, had a reunion with friends from Marlee's previous preschool and been to the beach.

Reunion with preschool friends!

Doing math.

Alex found these orchids in some bushes in the back yard! Way to beautiful to be hiding in a bush!

I got an hour on the beach with this precious boy while Marlee and Noah visited the fire station with farmor

Our little parakeets enjoying some hibiscuses

We got this from some friends on our road and Gabriel loves it!!

Beautiful day on the beach with friends today. The kids had a blast and I even got to sit down for a while! Marlee is convinced that one of the girls, Roxy, is his future wife :-)

Back to reality after the beach, homework for co-op school tomorrow!

Welcome cousin Andy (Andres)!!!

So the big news is that the boys got a new cousin April 15, Andres Paul, Eli's brother!! Welcome Andy and congratulations Cory, Felicia and Eli!

Andres Paul born April 15, 2016

And now some pictures form the past week :-)

I just can't get enough of sleeping "babies"!

Marlee at gymnastics. Look at those perfect feet!

We walked/biked down to the river the other day and watch the sunset

Marlee and Lexi washing the car :-)

Gabriel on his favorite vehicle

Marlee singing the continent song at coop

Noah practicing numbers in his class

And they made their own donuts! Yum!

A cool monster truck marked by the soccer field last Saturday. Made Noah's day!

This guy has become really good at cracking eggs after all our omelettes, merengues and pancakes!

My angel!

Marlee at soccer practice today

Cold soccer morning, birthdayparty and gardening

So I did not quite make it to the finish line yesterday, i.e id did not update the blog all the way until yesterday, so here comes the second part, including today. 

Saturday morning we all got up early to go watch Marlee's soccer game (starting at 8am). It was a really chilly morning but we managed to stay warm while watching the game. It was  a lot of fun!

After the soccer game we went to the beach where it was a surfing competition and after that we went to a birthday party for a friend of Marlee. It was a really great day and it was nice to come home at night :-)

Alex and Noah

Marlee and the ball

Marlee has got the ball again

Chasing the ball (Marlee is in the middle)

Gabriel hitting the puppy pinata (who puts a puppy on a pinata!!??)

Noah's turn

And Marlee does not give it a break!

Yesterday and today we have worked in the garden and here are some pictures of part of it. However, there are no pictures of our banana trees, blackberry bushes or  blueberry bushes.

Our very first raised garden, built by us and mostly planted by farmor who spent several hours filling it up. Several different herbs, cucumber, tomatoes, broccoli, sweet peppers etc. Strawberries in the pots.

Our newest garden, which is now filled with sweet potatoes and a water melon plant. Sweet potatoes in the garden in the background. Raspberry bushes by the fence to the right.

Regular potatoes and tomatoes, and a sweet pepper

That is all for now and the very last news from the Newman house! :-)