Summer Fun

Our summer has been filled with lots of this:

Each morning
we fill up our camelbacks
strap on the helmets

Head out into the heat
for a nice cool ride

We take turns picking the route
driving through the neighborhood
Catching the "cool" morning breeze.

Fun little cards...

Since I have been on my "summer vacation,"
I have had some extra time to make some fun cards.
I joined a little card club to motivate myself to get back in the mood.
And my BFF moved far away so I made the tag for her goodbye party and all the girls gave her a cute moving survival item.
(paper plates and utensils, gift card for pizza, cleaning supplies, little cereal boxes, turquoise duct tape I don't know who that one came from... and some chocolate.
I might have missed something, but it was fun!)

It's the dog days of summer

And it's DOG GONE hot outside...

DOGGONIT!

The Long and Short of it

A gorgeous summer sunset,
taken by an 11 year old budding photographer.

Schools out for the summer...

Boy how things change in one school year.
*Clothing sizes remained the same, children's bodies grew.*

Tag-a-long fabric, now has a home.

Mommy is home again and everything is swell.

Crisis

Yeah!

I would say Crisis.

Look at the temperature.


Now I am well aware that is probably NOT the air temperature,
but good golly! That was the temperature when I got into my car after work today!
I guess there is only one thing to say:
Hello Summer!

Billie's Science Project

Billie's End of the Year Science Project:
Make a diagram of either
the Earth's Layers
or
the Layers of a Volcano
Billie girl chose to make a Volcano
and She wanted to make an "edible" diagram

Stirring the cake mix.

Tracing out where we need to cut out the cake.
We cut out the cake where the lava would be flowing.
Once the cake was cut we put it in the freezer to freeze it
so the "lava" wouldn't absorb into the cake.

To make the Lava we made up a package of Strawberry and a package of Cherry Jello to make the dark red color. We followed the quick setup directions from the package. Once everything was combined we put the jello into the fridge for about 5 minutes. This set up the jello just enough that it was kind of chunky looking when we stirred it. This served two purposes: The Jello didn't absorb into the cake and it also gave the Lava some movement.

Here Billie is working on making the mountain with the frosting.
You can see we already have the cake cut and the Jello in place.

Here is the finished unlabeled project.


We used the following to decorate:
Red Hots
Crushed Graham Crackers
Crumbled up cake bits
Frosting
Chocolate Jimmies

I am so proud of her! She did awesome on this project. And go ahead and ask her.
I bet she might be able to tell you all of the layers of a volcano.

He is 11...

...he got in the car after school promptly farted. Then he proceeded to dig out his lunch and eat on his sandwhich. At some point he burped pretty loud. I said," Grant it is not polite to fart and burp in such a confined space". He said "mom the bacteria is working hard to digest my food. The bacteria need air so that is why I burp and when I fart it means the bacteria is sweating."

..."Just a little FBI mom,
you let the gate open."
(He meant FYI)

..."Did you know that everything that you eat has starch in it?"
(he said it everyday for like 4 in a row, and now that is our running joke back whenever he says hey mom.)

---Apparently I am a mother of an 11 year old. :-D---