Saturday, March 31, 2012

The Sign of Too Much Laundry!!


You know you haven't kept up on the laundry when the kids can climb in the laundry chute and they poke out the top. I have got to get a better laundry system going - like maybe doing it more than once a week!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Science Fair



The past month we have been involved in Science Fair. Ethan and Avery were both participating this year. Ethan took three identical plants and fed them three different liquids (water, 7up and orange juice) and measured their success and growth. As you can see, Ethan defied scientific data and ALL three of his plants grew beautifully. Avery's project was on the pupil and how it reacts to light. She made these awesome models of the eye out of stryfoam balls. They both presented their projects to the judges and both did awesome!

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Girls' Weekend

Avery and I headed down to California for a little girl time. Avery is an amazing student and has done great on her report cards, so she got to miss a couple days of school and we headed down for some sunshine and fun with Grandma and Grandpa Edwards. We went to the Museum of Art and History, the San Buenaventura Mission, shopping and hunting for antiques. Grandpa took Avery on a special date to breakfast, shopping and feeding the ducks at the duck park. The weather was AMAZING and it was hard not to go house shopping as well!
On the Airplane
At the Mall

At the Mission
Mommy and Avery at the Museum
Grandma, Avery and Sloane at the Mission

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Pinewood Derby


Ethan participated in his last Pinewood Derby. His car this year was "The Jailbird". The leaders really stressed this year that the boys build their own cars, and cars from years past could not be used. Ethan made this great car all by himself. It wasn't the fastest on the track, but it sure looked cool and we had a great time. Cameron has a program on our laptop that sets up a rotation for all the cars to compete randomly and race them all in different heats. He even hooked up an amp to the computer so that there were different noises (like cars revving, crashing and it even played the National Anthem at the beginning!) playing during the races.