Shiloh - 2nd Grade

While my little artist may not have produced as much work this year, she did still have some really great pieces.

A sweet family picture card that Shiloh made for my birthday, "Mom, I hope you are feeling better and I love you soo.  I'm sorry that your card is kind of late but it is made. Happy Birthday.  Love, Shiloh."

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A comic strip Shiloh made inspired by Love!

And then one about Cats!

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The new year and kicking off the goals...

Shiloh just loved her teacher, Mrs. Parker so much! "The Best Part of Last Year: Mrs. Parker."

"In 2020 I will learn to basketball and try to be kind"

"My goal....be kind"

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I found something that Shiloh had made at home: "We Love 1. We love when we don't want to. 2. If we didn't love we would suffer!!!  3. Love is very important!  4. Don't stop loving."

Very well said my sweet girl! 

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From Shiloh's art class this year...

One of her favorites!

This was a really interesting rubbing piece.

And some abstract pieces as well.

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A quickly made card...

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Shiloh mainly worked on big projects while schooling at home.  During her unit on Fairy Tales she was to explain if she liked fairy tales or fables better and chose to do so in pamphlet form...

"I think fairy tales are better because...

1.There is magic and ...2. happy endings 3. In fairy tails anything can happen.

Now and finally, get some fairy tales off the dusty shelf and get reading..."

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"How to sweep the floor."

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Shiloh had an assignment to write her own fairy tale, which she worked hard on.  Of course she had to include many illustrations as well. 

"Under the Sea

Once upon a time there was a mermaid named Violet and a merman named Bill. Bill has a pet goldfish named Sam. Bill likes to ride Sam. Violet has a pet seahorse named Love.  Violet also likes to ride Love."

"Octopus was trying to take over the ocean.  He was spraying ink at everyone and making them be controlled by Octopus."

"Violet and Bill and Octopus go into a cave, and there was magic in the cave. and the controlled animals were guarding it.  Bill and Seahorse stayed back and distracted them while Violet and Goldfish got the magic.  They ran all the way to Octopus and threw it at Octopus and everything went back to normal.  Hurray!  They lived happily ever after.  The End!" 

I somehow missed taking pictures of her large poster projects.  While we both were not prepared to have school suddenly stop, we persevered together.  I know it was a challenge for Shiloh to have her mommy as her teacher for the last few months, but we stuck it out together with many pep talks in between!

Girls Trip!

It has been a long time (aka pre-kids) since a girl trip could be attempted for this momma!  However, it actually happened during a recent wonderful weekend.

When we arrived, the gals saw that the property had some little horses and made a bee line to them.

So adorable!

Another Lord provision....the place that we had booked weeks ago called a couple of days before the trip to inform us that it was infested with rodents, thus, not going to work out.  Getting a spot near the beach (with only certain beach's on that list) that would meet our qualifications did not seem likely.  However, Lauren rocked it in finding this one in Beaufort, which I dismissed as being way to much....but in that it was a new listing, they actually took around $500 off the price.  It was amazing to be treated with such and no doubt a gift from the Lord.

Cheers!  How cute is this cup my friend's had made, along with our salty t-shirts!

We headed into downtown Beaufort to an adorable place for lunch.

Also, big smiles for friends that will split their meals with you!

Lauren is my plant friend.  She has an app and enjoys looking up new plant finds to learn about them!  So fun!

Front porch rocking and chatting it up!  Sorry caught you mid talking Heather, your still so adorable though!

Our salty crew!  We got take out pizza that was amazing that night, and enjoyed hours and hours of chatting it up together!

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I was thankful for some coffee and solitude with my Jesus the next morning before we got going.

We were headed to the beach next!  Huntington Island State Park to be exact.  We stopped at this roadside along the way, though, to get some boiled peanuts.

I made the gals take pictures with me since I did not have my kids along to photograph.  At the stand we learned that the park was closed due to flooding.  I was frustrated with myself for not checking previously, and there really wasn't any near by options that I knew of.  HOWEVER, with some vague directions, the peanut man explained of a nearby spot that the locals go too.

We did eventually find it and were thankful for that!  It was more of in inlet, though, so not so much wave action going on.  To get into the high tide water, we had to walk through a lot of "mud" that brought a lot of laughter.  This was the result that I was left with upon returning to my seat.  

We made the best of it, but this will not be a spot that I would return too.  My friends were good sports, which helped me have a good attitude.

Then we stopped for coffee on the way back home.  Caught Lauren by surprise with a picture.

This was a cute store that my family and I had stopped at a couple years prior, when they had just opened.

I opted for some yummy tea for a refeshing treat!

After getting cleaned up we headed out to dinner.  

The waiter was kind enough to take a picture for us.  He mentioned about the lighting not being great, but I didn't realize he meant this bad!

We celebrated sweet Heather's birthday that was this past week!

And then enjoyed some relaxing time on the waterfront.

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After cleaning up and packing up, we squeezed in a little more fun the next morning. Well, this part I attempted to convince them was fun.

It was pretty warm without any shade but oh so beautiful!

The girls obliged me in climbing up the tower before we headed out for brunch.

On the way home, we drove by the church ruins and hopped out to explore a little bit.

At this point, my selfie game was pretty warn out!

It is such a beautiful spot!

Although, I was a bit sad to see that they had put up a fence since the previous time I had visited.

Some like to wander around and examine some of the old tombstones.

Hard to imagine what life would have been like here so long ago.  I think Pearl would agree.

Such a relaxing time to soak up some soul filing fun!  So thankful for a chance to get away and spend such a special time with these ladies!