I Get My Muscles From My Dad

 So you read the post below and tried to read Luke's shirt.  Joy bought it for him.  "I get my muscles from my dad"

Luke's Sci Fair Photos

Fun to take a closer look at Luke's SF project:

Science Fair 2012

The Scientists with their boards:

 The kids goofing off in the gym while we helped cleaned up after Science Fair:

 Their boards close up:

The kids had a great time getting to do experiments with Dad and learning a little bit more about the Scientific Process.  We had to laugh at one of the judges' reviews of Luke's project.  It was obviously a teenage boy from the high school who didn't quite get it.  He made comments like "Student answered only yes/no to questions asked, did not have a strong understanding of project, data incomplete, appears that father did most of the project..." etc.  We just laughed and laughed when we read it. Um... Luke is 5, in Kindergarten, and basically illiterate.  And no, we don't let him play with fire.

Angels on Earth

As most of you know... we do not feel well at our house.  We have already been in survival mode, as I have been calling it, for several weeks.  Just the bare minimum in getting by.  We have been so blessed by our wonderful and neighbors and friends who have brought us dinner on a number of occasions during my many weeks of laying on the couch.  This week has been the culmination of SICK.  Rachel, Wesley, Luke, Jason and I have all gotten sick with various things.  My lame attempts to somewhat feed my family on occasion and have a few clean clothes to wear went out the window as Rachel and I have layed on the couch or in bed now for days.  We have had fevers and coughs and pinkeye (argh!  I HATE pinkeye) and then Rachel came down with RSV.  Jason took her to urgent care and then back to the doctor again the next day.  It has been days and days and days of fever and labored breathing and being held constantly.  And that is when cousin *Keri stepped in.  She called me yesterday morning, told me she was bringing me dinner and to get 4 loads of laundry ready that she was going to whisk away and return clean at the end of the day.  What do you do when someone calls you and tells you that?  You hang up the phone and cry.

Rachel waking up and checking to see that Dad had just gotten home.  And then she went back to sleep.

*Keri is married to Jason's first cousin Rus.  We were so excited when they moved into our neighbor not too many blocks away.  They have 4 kids, all the same age and same sex as our kids.  It has been so fun and such a blessing to have them so close!  Keri is sooo talented.  She just made the centerpieces for a lunch with the visiting General Authorities.  And check out Wesley and Beau at a roller skating class.

Scientific Expedition 2012

Scientific Expedition 2012 Team: Allie, Elena, Luke, Wesley.

The mission: Take temperature readings in the Embudito Spring for Allie's science fair project.

Team Bios: 

Name: Allie
Title: Principle Investigator
Experience: Has granola bars, a math book, nice pink hat
Best attributes: An oldest sibling command of all situations
Woops: mismatched gloves

 

Name: Elena
Title: Measurement Expert
Experience: "Marches like a Marine"
Best attributes: Fastest hiker, can apply an infinite well of wisdom to any situation
Woops: Allergic to Allie's granola bars

Name: Luke
Title: Energizer Bunny, Vicious Creature Identifier
Experience: Hiked 1 mile in the snow Saturday, cool red boots, counts to 100
Best attributes: Ability to keep on going and going and going
Woops: Finger gloves are freezing, mittens next time

Name: Wesley
Title: Humility Coordinator, Team Security Officer
Experience: Extensive wrestling experience, can repeat what you say endlessly
More experience: Able to find water in any desert and fall in it
Best attributes: Can scream really LOUD if lost
Woops: Got cold, dad carried out on back... and pink boots

 

 

 

So, the stream gets warmer the higher you go and closer you get to the spring...