Category Archives: Family Fun

All about having fun as a family.

Upcoming Potluck and Planning Session

The new school year is about to kick off for most families and to celebrate we are having our Annual Beginning of Year Potluck and Planning Session!  This is a fun time getting to know each other better and supporting each other as the year begins.  It’s also an exciting time of planning what field trips we want to do, finding hosts for our Mom’s Get Togethers and mapping out the Sports year.

PHSA has a requirement that each family sign up to organize or assist in organizing an event each year.  This can sound like a daunting thing but  it’s not PHSA policy to throw you to the wolves.  We gladly take your hand and show you what needs to be done and a more experienced member will walk alongside you as you learn.  Often we encourage new people to host a Mom’s Get Together either at their home or at a local restaurant.  These are great ways to get to know each other better.

We encourage people to come and meet us and see what we are doing.  Who knows?  You may want to stay.

This year the Potluck is at Grecian Heights Park near the play structure starting on Thursday, August 21st at 5:30.  We hope to start the Planning Session at 6:30.

Air Show

We recently had an air show here in town, sponsored by the Pendleton Air Museum. It came at the end of the bi-annual Advanced World Aerobatic Championship that was held here too. Pilots came from many different countries to compete and the United States was well represented.

The weather was great and there was spectacular flying to be seen!

The FA18 getting ready to take off. It was very loud as it sat warming up it’s engines and doing system checks. It did a low fly over.

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This plane went cork screwing up, hung in the air…

and came straight down!

The winner of the World Aerobatic competition, Rob Holland, is finishing up a heart here.

It was a great way to spend an afternoon and I saw many homeschool families enjoying themselves.