I had a great week, a couple of my friends invited me to go swimming with them even though I had no kids to bring. I was able to help them with their kids, which I love, so that's probably why they invited me.
On Friday, Erin set up and shot off the bottle rocket her husband made, it was so awesome!! It flew over the house and into the neighbors back yard; the second attempt was a little more scary, luckily the kids were in the back yard. I yanked the rope but it ended up tipping the rocket over towards us... we ran and it blew off into the side of a nearby truck. It could have been pretty bad. I should have been scared but that just got me really excited, so Spencer and I made Torrie Rocket Launcher 1.0. Yesterday we went out to Erin's Mom-in-law's and had a "Bottle Rocket Festival", it was totally awesome. Erin and Trevor's 4.0 version was very successful, our worked too but needs some tweaking, the next version will definitely require a rubber stopper instead of a cork. We can't wait to do it again, I think we'll make sweet rockets with fins next time.
Another highlight of our week was Kali's report card. She is very smart and has mastered almost all of her kindergarten objectives. Her teacher thinks she is so great and we are so proud of her, I just think she's the greatest kid. She's learning the "7 Habits of Highly Effective People", and has been using them well at school; Sean Covey is actually going to visit her school at the end of April so that's really exciting.
We've been Geocaching too lately, I love it. It's a great family activity and Kali loves finding the treasure. We can't wait to go again and again.
I'm off to bed, I'm going to learn how to make bread in the morning... trying to be more domestic.
Hi you wonderful kids. BE CAREFUL !!!Sounds like the good old days!! Keep safe and take a picture !!Love from Nauvoo
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Oh I forgot to tell you to give Kali Big hugs and tell her we are proud of her work at school!And good luck in finding those treasures !!
ReplyDeleteYou guys are a ton of fun!! Love your updates! Hope breadmaking goes well! Love ya!
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