Playing With Afternoon Light

Not feeling so well.

June Loves Her Veggies

June loves her fresh veggie treats. Here is some video of her begging for a treat, complete with shaking the cage with her teeth. As you can hear, she can be pretty insistent. Silly pig.

Isaac's New 'Do

Isaac styled his own hair tonight and loves it.

A picture with Quincy.

Up for bid: 2 Babies Determined to Find Trouble :-)

As of yesterday Asher's crib is no match for him; he comes and goes as he pleases. Last night he and Samuel found the Aquaphor(like Vaseline) on the changing table and evidently thought it looked like shampoo. I cannot get it out of their hair! Here they are with cornstarch in their hair, which was followed by a wash with Dawn dishsoap(both were suggestions I read online).

Jeremiah and I were watching a movie one room away while they did it, oops.

It helped, but Samuel especially still has super greasy hair, if anyone has a suggestion, I'd love to hear it.

Happy Birthday Spence!

Opening gifts today.

We went to Applebees tonight for dinner where Samuel decided it was finally naptime.

Intent on his leapster game.

Digging into his birthday dessert.

Sharing with brother.

A couple of Spencer, the early years. :-) But not so early that he was still called Ethan.

These are both in his 3rd year, looking a lot like Asher I think.

Love you big guy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a yummy Thanksgiving feast today!

Isaac really wanted to eat off the bone.

Ash was ready for a nap.

Quincy's First Bath

I just realized I may not have mentioned here that Annie turned out to be a Quincy. Thankfully I had suspected right away and we've kept them separated.

Anyhow, Quincy had his first bath yesterday. He didn't love it like June did, but he looked pretty cute wrapped up when we were done.

Snow is fun?

The snow is new for Asher all over again.

I'm not sure he's entirely convinced it's a good thing.

It is November, right?

It was a gorgeous day today, we spent a lot of time outside playing in the leaves.

I think his "cheese" smile is much more funny than Jeremiah does.

Ready?

Set.

GO!

GO!

GO!

I'm No Longer The Only Girl In Our House!

Yesterday we adopted 2 guinea pigs! They are both girls. I let the boys think they are their pets, but really, they're all mine. :b

This is June.

And here is Annie.

First Flights of Bullet and Rainbow Machine

We finally flew my Bullet and Isaac's Rainbow Machine. I've had the Bullet for about a year but just now finally got the first flight off. The Bullet has an avionics bay and payload bay, but I flew it with just the booster to keep my certification attempt simple. We took a rough landing causing some damage to one of the fins; since the damage requires repairs before another flight can be made I failed to certify on the flight.

The launch site is pretty remote. This herd of creatures was crossing the road a few miles from the launch site. We think that they are antelope, but that just seems weird.


Our first launch of the day turned into a drag-race: Isaac's Rainbow Machine against someone else's Mean Machine (the actual name of the Estes kit). I was pretty worried that the Rainbow Machine wouldn't fly straight because it is an extremely long and skinny rocket. It took our motor a second to come up to pressure so the opponent left us in the dust, but we ended up going quite a bit higher. The Rainbow Machine ended up flying straight so it was a great flight.


Finally hooking up the Bullet for first flight.


Ignition and then the Bullet leaps from the launch pad.

We had a good time on our walks to retrieve the rockets. Isaac liked looking at the various plants, rocks, and soil and would get excited about every single cactus (of which we saw probably 40) so we really had a great day. Spencer, Samuel, and Asher spent most of the day in the truck but they came out occasionally to watch a rocket or fly a kite.


We decided to take one last picture while unpacking the truck. We don't look so happy but it really was a good time :)