Fall Scents/Let's Look at School Pictures

 Happy Wednesday blog friends!  Today I am linking up for 2 different topics.....

Fall Scents and Let's Look at...School Pictures

First up....fall scents.  I love most any fall scent like cinnamon, pumpkins, spices, etc.  At this time, my fall candle I am burning is this one I found on clearance from Altar'd State, but I also saw it sold at Anthropologie.  The scent is Baltic Amber, which smells good, and the candle it self is in such a pretty jar and I love the fall color of it as well.  Also, I think it will have a long burn life!

For bathroom soaps, I am a fan of Bath and Body Works hand soaps, especially in the holiday season. Here are two I plan on opening soon.  With all the extra washing of hands these days, it is fun to have scents we enjoy!  I would love to hear of any other fall scented hand soaps you like and where you buy them. 

Now a peek into Let's Look at School Pictures.

I am throwing these back to my girls pictures.  My old school pictures are in a frame at my parents house and not sure if I have any or not here.  

Back to when we homeschooled and the girls were part of Veritas.

One of my favorite pictures of my youngest :)

Fast forward to 5th and 8th grade when we were living in Bogota, Colombia.  The girls were still homeschooled at this point.

Year 2 in Bogota, they started traditional school for the first time, yet really not so traditional since we were living in another country.  Isabella was the only American in the high school and Brook was one of 2 Americans in her grade.  This was a small, Christian school.  Every day, they rode on the school ruta, which was the white van you see in the picture below.  They had to be in the lobby of our building by 6:20 every morning.  It took 45 minutes to an hour to get to school, depending on traffic.  The days were very long.

Year 3, Brook returned to homeschooling.  This was taken on the balcony of our 16th floor apartment overlooking the Andes mountains.

Isabella returned to the same school for her 10th grade year.  We moved back to the USA mid year and she finished 10th grade homeschooled again in the USA.

This is day one of  11th and 8th grade, homeschooled living back in the USA.

The next year, we found a public school for Brook where she could explore her art talent & it has been a great experience for her.  This first day was a hard one for me to watch her get out of the car and go to school for the first time stateside.  She walked into a high school of 2000 students and didn't know a soul.  She has come a long way in the past 2 years.

Isabella continued homeschooling her senior year.

Today, Brook is in her junior year and Isabella is in her 2nd year of college.

I am thankful for this post just for me to look back on some of their school years.  My goodness, don't they go by quick?

Enjoy a fall scent as we wait on fall temperatures and enjoy your time at home with the kids too!