Sunday, April 25, 2010

Busy Saturday

Last Saturday we headed over to a kids' extravaganza event. It was a combination of Hands-On Kids' Learning (which we never even made it over to), Boy Scouts Exhibition and the Science Show. Bria had entered her recycled rocket in the science show and we spent a couple of hours exploring all the different hands-on activities.


The girls tried out: horse riding, rock wall climbing, giant bubbles, soda explosions, goo, hydrogen flames, bird feeders, maze puzzles, throwing games and a ton of other things I can't even remember. Here are some pictures from the fun morning. I know a couple of you called and asked how the day had gone and we were all so tired from the busy weekend we had overall, that I just didn't feel like going into the details. The girls had fun though. Bria and Nathaniel (and Emmy) were disappointed they didn't win the recycling competition, but they had fun making their rocket anyway.

Yes, that is me climbing the rock wall too.








Thursday, April 22, 2010

Too Busy To Blog! or TBTB

I think that may be a recurring theme from now until next Fall...... with warm weather here so much earlier than usual, we seem to be soaking up as much outside time as we can. I've also been busy on some projects in my "spare" time that I will share more on later.


But right now everyone is still sleeping (we had a tired and whiny/crabby crew today). So I thought I'd try to post a few pictures of what we've been busy doing lately. Sophie enjoying cookies from Alexander's birthday!
Emmy, Alexander and Reed playing a "recycle" game
Ok SOphie, smile!


Friday, April 16, 2010

Recycled Rocket

Let me start off by saying I've been terrible at updating the blog lately. The days have been so much busier since we can be outside again and I've got my hands into a big side project as well, so I just haven't had time to sit down and blog in awhile!
And.... I don't really have time today either! But I promised Bria and Nathaniel I would get the video up of them as soon as possible. They spent yesterday afternoon building a rocket out of recycled materials that they are going to enter in a city-wide competition on Saturday. They had a lot of fun building it and did a great job. Here is a short clip of the finished product!
(and I'll try to get a daycare update blog post on here again soon!)


Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Easter Pictures

Like I said earlier, we had a great time with family this weekend. Here are some pictures from our trip.... Jon, the girls and I and Ron went out to the Holthe farm to look around.
Making a gingerbread house (leftover from Christmas) with Grandma Holthe.
Emmy on a motorcycle ride with Grandpa Hansen
Cousins after church
Game Face time!
decorating eggs

Jumping Back In

Traveling down to see family is always fun, and exhausting! We all slept good last night, that's for sure.
Now to jump back into the routine with both feet - everyone headed back to work today and the girls are back to school.
Thanks to all our family for putting up with us all weekend! I'll try to post some pictures later....