No Rhyme or Reason

These are just some misc. pictures from the month of April.

I love this one taken at the Space and Rocket Center in AL

Who can guess where this picture of Jim and the bear was taken?

This is a picture taken at the Indiana State Capital. I had never been there before a few weeks ago. It is a beautiful building.

Pinewood Derby

What a fun day at the Awana Grand Prix. The kids asked Jim to cut their cars for them this year. So being the good Dad he is he went out and bought a saw and spent hours this week making them perfect.

Lauren designed her car with blue and pink with polka dots.

Josiah asked for an alligator. He received the second prize in the Sparks division for most creative design!

Emma asked for a pencil car. She called it the Pencilnator. She received 2nd place for speed in the TNT division.

Abbey researched on the internet for fast car designs. Jim cut it to her specifications, she painted it and called it the Hippie car. She received overall grand champion for speed! She even beat the two adult entries!!

Last year our cars didn't even cross the finish line, so they were pretty proud! (So was Daddy!)

US Space and Rocket Center AL

Pretty neat place. Although I am glad we didn't spend $1000 for the girls to come to Space Camp. They have had fun, but not $1000 worth.

Jim even found Darth Vadar

A Lunar landing

Rock Climbing on Mars

It is interesting staying in one hotel room with 6 of us....we have had to do a little rearranging of the room to fit two air mattresses in. Josiah managed to use the desk and chair anyway.

Challenger Learning Center Fieldtrip

Abbey had a field trip at the Challenger Learning Center in Brownsburg last week. They went on a mission to Mars and I decided to tag along. The Challenger centers were created as living memorials to those who died in the Challenger explosion. There are 49 of them in the world and Brownsburg has one of them! The class divided into two groups. One group was stationed on Mars and they were in charge of monitoring the space ship that was coming to Mars. They each had different jobs that would exist on a space station, and in order to accomplish the mission each one of them had to fulfill their tasks. Abbey was on the Med team and had to record all of the medical tests that were being run and monitor the health of those on the space ship.

Here is a picture of Abbey at her station on Mars.

The other team was on a space ship heading to Mars to take the place of the other team on the station for two years. They had the same jobs on the space ship and also had tasks to complete. Half way through the mission the space ship landed on Mars and the crew from the Mars station got on the space ship to return back to earth.

On the space ship Abbey had to take the vitals of all of her crew mates and record the data. Here is a picture of Abbey tesing the radiation levels of one of her crew mates.

Number One!

Abbey had her basketball tournament last Saturday and they came in first place. Her team won every game all season and the last game was no different - final score - 28 to 18. It was a fun season, but we are all looking forward to having our Saturdays free for a while! At least until Soccer season begins!

Happy Chinese New Year

At Cardinal they have Chinese exchange teachers that will be at the school for several years. Because of this the kids have the opportunity to take some interesting special classes. This quarter Abbey and Emma are taking Chinese Fan Dancing. Lauren already had fan dancing last quarter and is taking Chinese Paper Folding this quarter.

Swetsville Zoo

While we were in Colorado over Christmas we went to our local zoo. Everything at this zoo is made from old machine parts, cars, anything metal.