Graduations

We're so proud of our girls!

I love home schooling my daughters. It's hard for me to believe that I've been doing it for twelve years...such a blessing. We've been doing a lot of celebrating in the past month. Our oldest, Lesley, graduated from high school on May 6th. How the years have flown by!! Lesley already has a great start on college, and is looking into several areas of study as she thinks through possible directions for her future. She loves her Savior, her dog Gracie the Beagle, playing basketball, reading, cameras, and guitars of all kinds, shapes, and sizes. Her summer is already full with college classes, guitar lessons, work, playing softball, and hopefully time to hang out with her friends.

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Our youngest daughter, Ashley, actually could have graduated from 8th grade quite awhile ago, but we celebrated on June 5th. It was a combined 8th grade graduation and Suzuki Book One Violin graduation for her. Ashley began violin lessons in August and completed her first book in May. She loves the violin...I've never had to ask or remind her to practice. She has a great start on high school classes, and, like her sister, she also loves her Savior and her little dog Liberty the Maltese. Volleyball and basketball are favorite pastimes. She'd like to try her hand at cake decorating, has a job during the school year, and loves hanging out with her friends too. She just started her own blog too, check it out!

Welcome to my Blog

I've always been intrigued with blogs, so I've decided to try my hand at it. Although summer time has a 'busyness' of its own, it seems a wee bit easier for me to schedule in some free time during the warmest months of the year- and when we aren't heavily into school subjects.

So why a blog? Well...

When I was a little girl, I remember placing my hands into freshly poured concrete and firmly pressing down leaving two small shapes behind. Those hand prints were warmly viewed each time I passed them, and as I grew, on occasion, I measured my growing hands against the tiny forms. A simple remembrance of days gone by that I have repeated with my daughters. Hand prints on the front porch are precious memories... memories are what I hope to capture here.

My name is Kris Nickelson and I'm on this journey called life... I am a daughter of THE King, a worshiper, a wife, a mother of two daughters, a teacher, a singer, a dabbler in photography, and a 'trier' of new recipes. The kinds of things you might find here are spiritual, musical, edible, teachable (home schooling to be more precise), loveable (my family), definitely photographic-able.

Here we go...let the blogging begin!