Signs from Canyon
Must be on the South Plains of Texas!
I think this is SO thoughtful. A parking sign at United Supermarket in Canyon.
Fun camping in the Pecos
Here’s a few favorite photos from the images we took this week in the Pecos wilderness area in New Mexico, and I uploaded to Flickr. I have more short videos to upload, along with all the photos from mom’s camera which I don’t have with me this evening. We had a GREAT time!
This was the best fish I’d ever eaten in my entire life. You can’t beat freshly caught and cooked trout.
We camped at Terrero Campground, since Holy Ghost campground was closed for bathroom upgrades. This was our tent and campsite early in the week. It REALLY filled up (unfortunately but predictably) for the weekend.
There were hundreds of hummingbirds outside the Terrero general store. I took some video of this as well I’ll upload.
This was the weather forecast for Edmond the past week: Highs every day of 104! In the mountains at our campsite, it got down to the 50s and up only to the upper 70s.
Good times!
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Wildcat’s Pilot Helmet
Sarah and Rachel enjoyed trying on Wildcat’s old Air Force pilot helmet today. 🙂
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Cartwheels pano style
Today at Union Station in Kansas City, the girls asked me to take composite photos of them doing cartwheels using Pano. The results turned out pretty good for a first try!
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Fun with art at Kaleidoscope in Kansas City
This afternoon my girls and I were able to have LOTS of fun with my sister and nephew, making art at Kaleidoscope in Kansas City. In these two videos, Rachel explains how she is making a puzzle, and you can see the puzzle cutting process.
This was some magnet art I created on the whiteboard.
What a fun place to create and have fun!
Lots more pics are available in our “Fun in Kansas City” Flickr set!
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Lego Building
I think this is the first good lego project that I have done by myself that I am proud of. I first started a clone battle pack and made a decent ship from a youtube video (which in now taken down). I built that but wasn’t very happy because it looked crappy so I started changing peaces and adding new ones from my collection. After many revisions over it I came out with this. I am now proud of it, I like how I mad the engin and rear, the nice missals and guns, the cockpit, and it is all very stable. This definitely makes me one to stop by The Barn and get a little more serious.
Vote Your Favorite Twilight Characters
I am just interested about what other people like about the twilight characters. I will only have 4 characters but I know there are more.
I have never seen Twilight or any of them but I have heard a lot about it so I know some things about it.
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Rachel buys her first iTunes Audiobooks
Rachel has seen her siblings listen to audiobooks on their iPods, so this week she decided she’d like to have some of her own – particularly in light of our upcoming road trip to Kansas in a few weeks. Last night we searched the iTunes Store together to explore what was available that might be of interest, and she found a Dr Seuss compilation of nine books along with Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” which she thought would be great.
Since she just had $9, I agreed to split the cost of the books which totaled $13. This provided a good opportunity for her to learn how to divide by two, in a practical context. This evening at dinner she took 13 sugar packets at our restaurant and separated them into two groups, eventually figuring out she had to tear one in half. In this way she figured out we both needed to contribute $6.50 toward the purchase. This evening before bed she made her purchases with my help, and then recorded a five and a half minute podcast discussing her experiences with Audiobook purchases on iTunes. Lots of great learning together tonight!
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First Day to Mow for Alex
OKC Bombing
Things We Learned About Colonial Williamsburg
Photos from Colonial Williamsburg
Creativity in the Classroom
Sarah, Alexander and Wesley reflect on creativity in the classroom in advance of the July 2010 Creativity Institute in Oklahoma City.
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Williamsburg Ghost Stories by Sarah and Rachel
Last night we went on an evening ghost story tour of Colonial Williamsburg. Rachel and Sarah recount some of their favorite stories!