Hannah's Artwork

Well, these photos need no explanation.  Hannah has been working on some watercolor at home in her art studio (her bedroom!) and coming out with some amazing, amazing paintings.  I couldn't be more proud of her - her artwork brings such pleasure.  I am always amazed at what talent God has given her to enjoy and glorify him with.  

Ryan Turns 12

On April 29th, Ryan (my baby) turned twelve!  I can't believe it.  The days with my children are flying by.  We have them but for a moment more, and then they will be gone...

Okay - enough sad stuff.  Ryan's birthday was extra fun and special this year and I don't want to take away from it!

He had a Stargate birthday cake... (pumpkin of course)

Danny took Ryan and the boys to a shooting range in Baltimore that turned out to be a blast! (no pun intended!!)

 No, Jacob and Grandpa are not star-gazing with cookies on their foreheads.  When the boys got home, we played a sort of "minute to win it" type of game - where there were many challenges which had to be accomplished in one minute or less.  We had teams and we kept score to see who would win the grand prize.  It was a BLAST!  Grandma and Grandpa were here, and so it was hilarious watching all of us and them try to perform silly challenges.

Here is Jacob trying to do the cookie challenge.

And Ryan trying to flip pencils into a cup...

But alas, as predicted, Jacob and Hannah won the grand prize!  This included a nice little plastic gold trophy, some candy, and some money... 

Catching Up - Starting with Florida

In March, we went to Disney for about nine days and had one of the most wonderful family vacations we have ever had.  I don't know why, but it just seemed to be more fun than usual, and we had more family "moments" that seemed special.  I absolutely adore this picture of Jacob and Hannah.

And this shot of Jacob is incredible.  He is so photogenic, I don't think he could take a bad picture.

The only down side to the whole trip was coming out of Epcot late one night and finding our rental car looking like this.  That was not fun.  Danny had to stay to take care of it (while we took a cab home) and he didn't get back to the house until nearly 3 a.m. 

Shot of the day

A game of poker with Indy watching every move...

Painting Ryan's Room

BEFORE...

DURING...

AFTER!!!

Great job honey!!

Chemistry Class

Jacob has been doing some amazing things in school this year - some unique art projects, British Lit. presentations and reports, an excellent video presentation for history (with a good bit of humor thrown in), and some cool experiments and projects for chemistry class. Math? Nothing exciting about geometry. No fun projects or reports happening there. Just math.

Chemistry is a different story though! Mrs. Ellis (the science teacher) lets them do projects to earn bonus points and here are a couple samples of those.

This is a picture of maple syrup that he boiled down to make candy - he had to pour it on ice and take observations and measurements.

Yummy.

I am happy to report that Jacob is an excellent student - taking some challenging high school courses and getting A's in every class! Sooooo proud of you Jacob!

Remedies

I took this shot of Danny as he was taking his dose of remedies. Each of these bottles contain a remedy that he has to take three times a day... though we have never used homeopathy before, we are quickly becoming believers!