This past weekend, we travelled to Sussex, New Brunswick to attend our second HENB - Home Educators of New Brunswick Annual Home School Conference.

AGAIN, they did a FANTASTIC job with the conference.

We left feeling like we all learned, grew and closer as a family and as a husband and wife!

Friday night, check IT OUT!

Check out where we got to eat for supper!!!

DQ, BABY!!! 

And Noah got to enjoy a BLIZZARD!!!

Jacques (finally) asked if he could take a photo of me so I could be included in the photos - YAY!!!

Saturday morning, we dropped Noah off at the children's program (yay!  oops, did I say that out loud?) and off Jacques and I went to learn!

The key note speaker this year was TODD WILSON, from Family Man Ministries at familymanweb.com.  If you haven't heard him speak, I hope you get the chance!  What an inspiring speaker!  He speaks the truth on so many levels and he 'get's real' (that's what one of the sessions was called that we attended). 

Well...I ended up buying ALL of his books because we believe in what he says so much.  We laughed so hard at his amazing sense of humour, what a RIOT!!!

If you are a homeschooling family, the books that are a MUST HAVE are the quadrilogy of The Offical Books of Homeschooling Cartoons (found HERE).  I laughed my tush off reading them (like, I mean tears rolling down my face and all).  You definitely have to be a homeschooling parent to 'get' some of the humour!!!

At Todd Wilson's booth, he was handing out stickers for people to wear!  Notice Jacques pride wearing his sticker!!!  I'm SO lucky to have an AMAZING husband who is super supportive and helps out in the teaching role in our family! 

Not only the speakers, and the used curriculum sale and the vendor hall do I LOVE...but the thing I love most about these weekends is the loving behaviour that is shared between older children and their parents (especially boys and their dads).    Something that I am pretty sure you don't see as often in public school children as you do with homeschooled children.

Last year, there was a few moments with a father and son that touched me and now this year....this was the father and son that touched me.  So, as a fool, I pretended to take a photo of the speakers (the first one is Paul Farris from HSLDA, Home School Legal Defence Association and the second photo is of Todd Wilson, of Family Man Ministries) but really I wanted to capture one of the BEST things about our weekend!!!

So we chose and purchase all our curriculum for September this weekend....so excited to get it all organized and ready to go!

Math - Saxon 65 (with the DIVE CD...so some variety of doing work on the computer)

Grammar - Growing with Grammar Level 5

Comprehension and Writing - Writing with EASE (and I tell ya, this book scares ME - it's HUGE)

Science - continue with Considering Gods Creation (but we saw some other newer - much more expensive programs that looked VERY appealing)

Geography - I've decided NOT to use a formal curriculum for Geography, but will be using the book: Passport to the World (we'll be exploring 26 different countries where Noah will fill his passport with 'stamps' from around the world) and we will continue to explore Canada, province by province using a book called: The Big Book of Canada

History - continue with My First History of Canada

French - continue to plug away at Rosetta Stone French (Levels 1-5) - which will probably take us a few years

Looking so forward to our coming year of school....with a year of experience, things can only get better!!!