science fair - egg geodes

audrey participated in her school's science fair. she wanted to study minerals so we made geodes.
she learned what geodes are and how they form. what egg shell geodes are and how they form. we also experimented with different ingredients to see which one would make the best crystals. we tried baking soda, epsom salts and alum powder.

 painting the egg shells (that grammy cracked so carefully for us, thanks grammy) with glue and then sprinkling the ingredient (baking soda, epsom salt, or alum powder)

 

 baking soda

 epsom salt

alum powder

the finished project

names

when we chose the names for our kids the meanings of those names was very important to us. i wanted to have something in each of our kids rooms with those meanings and verses that seemed to fit well with the meanings. heres what i came up with:
Audrey - noble
Anne - full of grace
1 John 2:12-14

 

Miles - soldier
Elliot - the Lord is my God
2 Timothy 2:3-4

easter 2015

we did easter at our house again this year. the weather stayed nice enough that we got to play outside for alittle while.
i got some great action shots. :)

 hiding and hunting eggs

 

 

 watching the hiding and hunting eggs

 swinging

 audrey and i made this lamb cake. i even let her do the black icing all by herself and she did GREAT!!
i am so thankful that we get to celebrate easter, and that the Lamb of God gave Himself for us.

cracker face

miles is making art with a new medium these days, crackers.
here is the face he made the other day. he did it all by himself (we normally only give him 2 crackers at a time).

making more necklaces

i made a few more necklaces - one for a friend and one for audrey (she told me what beads she wanted and where).

 shes not proud of it at all. yes, those are clear dolphin beads on it.

spring break

we have been enjoying our spring break.
audrey and jake went to home depot and made some bookends.

then we went to the library for a "where the wild things are" puppet show. it was alot of fun. we also checked out some books.
on monday we went to the modern art museum. audrey enjoying art.

miles enjoying art, well really just the bench because we let him crawl all over it.

on tuesday we went to the zoo. it was a great cloudy day that kept the crowds away. and most of the animals were active so thats always fun.

 the kids as explorers.

the library

i love the library.
i love that it has tons of books that i can read and enjoy for free.
i love that it has movies and tv shows on dvd to watch.
i love that it has exercise dvds that i can try out.
i love that you can reserve books online and then just run in and pick them up.
i love that they have fun activities for my kids like the puppet show we went to last saturday.
i also love that when my kids get new books from the library they are busy looking at them for at least an hour.