April Antics

Micayla soaking up some vitamin D while on break from boarding school in London.

Spring Soccer

Crashing the local high school.  Caught red handed...

Master Class in SLO with San Francisco teacher Zory

Hosteling it in San Luis Obispo 

Mrs. Frassett art classes in Huntington Beach

Fostering puppies again

Nate's eye injury (he ran into the side of the bathtub)

Sunset Beach

Homeschool archery class

Allie sewed this bathing suit with instruction from Ms. Hilde 

Owl pellet dissection 

El Dorado Nature Center

Louie and Ellie 

Nate's new 70's do for a TV show he was in 

Allie's nail art

Kern River

Dropping in again on Earthroots

Zen Magnets Video Contest!

Nate and I made this zen magnets video for the zen magnets contest!  My brother has spent hours upon hours in the past several months creating things with these amazing magnets.  As long as you don't stick them in your nose, ears or mouth, then you might want to consider getting some!

Here it is!  Enjoy!

An Adventure to the Past

By Allie


We went to the Heritage Square Museum and it was really cool!  We had a great tour guide named Martin who took us into the different homes and told us all about them.  I learned that a lot of movies have been filmed in the old victorian homes.  In one of the victorian homes someone who lived in the house died in it years ago, so mediums come once a year to talk to the ghosts.  There was a cool drugstore with a really old cash register in it.  I sat on a stool at the bar and held up a newspaper for a picture.  My favorite part of the whole tour was seeing a really detailed, nice big old victorian dollhouse (that I really want).  All of the homes were very fancy and beautiful.  On the outside of the homes they look so big but once you go into the homes they are actually pretty small compared to some houses now days.  If you wanted to buy a nice home way back then it would only cost $500!  The taxes were based on the height of the home.  In France people made the houses look like a 1 story house from the outside but it would be 2 story.  Victorian homes were called "Victorian" because it was during the time of Queen Victoria.  I also learned that in some of the homes the children weren't allowed in the living room or dining room while guests were over.  There were doors on the backs of the houses for the kids to go through and then go upstairs.  When strangers come inside they cannot go into the nice living rooms or the dinning rooms, they went into a front sitting room.  An added bonus was seeing chickens roam around the place outside the houses.

Doorknobs for little people!

Old Fashioned air conditioning!

Introducing...DoodleHeads Paper Shop!

I am excited to announce that I have launched my DoodleHeads greeting cards business!  I created an Etsy shop!  Right now I am featuring my winter/spring and St. Patrick's Day cards.  I'll be adding more designs soon!  Check it out!

                                                           DoodleHeadsPaperShop

At work drawing cards!

~Post by Carly~

A Few of Our February Favorites...

Colburn flautists!

Colburn Music School - Wind Ensemble Performance

Hot Chocolate in the rain!

Allie is an extra on a new TV show - coming soon to Disney Channel

Allie making Cherry Valentine Heart Pies for her friends for Valentine's Day!

JPL deer (can you see them in the background?)

JPL Tour!

Our friend was performing in The Music Man with Musical Theater West!

More nail art by Allie

Tour of the Quicksilver Headquarters in HB

With one of our tour guides and a quiver of boards.

Happy January - Here's to 2014!

Here are some of our favorites from the month...

Nate's new woodworking workshop!

Micayla flies back to The Royal Ballet School  (bitter sweet)

Nate loves ammonites and this one is huge!  At the Natural History Museum

Visiting the Space Shuttle Endeavor at the California Science Museum.

Practicing a newscast at the science museum.

Math factor game

Indoor camping!

A favorite manifesto!

Our friend's beautiful newborn baby girl

 Nate made this "solar oven"

Allie's marble nail art

Our favorite food truck turned into a restaurant!

Puppy sitting again.  Ginger and Marianne after a bath.

Puppy love!

At the top of STARR Ranch

Making PBnJ's for skid row (our group of homeschoolers collectively made 330)!

Rainbow Cleanse to end the year of the snake!

The Journey

Happy 2014!

I just wanted to share my latest composition "The Journey" with you.  I just entered it in the Composers Today program that I entered last year.  Professional composers review your piece and then offer feedback.  I got outstanding results and constructive criticism last year for my composition "Remembrance".  I highly recommend the program for any young composer who is looking to get feedback/advice on their piece.

I used the website Noteflight to notate my piece this year.  I can't express how much I love this program, it's free and totally user friendly!  Check it out!

Hope you enjoy my composition :)