Spring Break!

I don't know if we'll do Spring Break camp or not next year, we'll have to see what the numbers look like at the end of the month, but this year made it tempting to keep it around! I did a Classics-type theme which included Olympics, a Pyramid Building Contest, a trip to the Mythical Creatures exhibit at Fernbank, Ancient Gods craft projects, and then the kids watched Hercules or Percy Jackson on Friday. So much fun!!

Roman in his home made Hoplite armor

Kornel presents Duncan, champion of Athens, with his shield

On your marks...

Lennox picks up big brother's discarded weaponry-- for Sparta!

Jimmy marks the oranges for shotput

Louis helps the kids with the pyramid building contest

Remember the TIV? We got a surprise when we got to Fernbank-- the DOW (Doppler on Wheels) was visiting! I got to meet Josh, too!

Thomas mimics the troll-- pretty scary!

K group numero uno outside the entrance

Rock climbing!

The weekend after raviolis, John and Paige grabbed us on the way home to see if we wanted to come with them to the rock climbing gym the next day-- heck yeah we did! Jeremy's been climbing once before a long time ago, and the most I ever did was a small wall set up at a Venture Crew retreat in HS. Needless to say, much fun was had and we can't wait to do it again! 

Jeremy, John, and Nandan watch Anu get hooked up for her first climb

Anu and Paige

The boys

Anu went straight up without hesitation! She's the daredevil!

Nandan and Paige

Jeremy and Nandan on the wall-- Nandan is 90% monkey

John makes this look easy...

So does Paige!

I finally conquered my elevated heart rate and made it to the top my fourth time on the wall!

Ravioli Time!

We wanted to have dinner with John and Paige, so we decided on a house dinner on the front porch-- probably the best thing about getting along so well with our neighbors! Jeremy invited Nandan and Anu over and we had a make your own ravioli party!

Paige gets excited about her first ravioli!

Jeremy's up next!

Curried potatoes, butternut squash, spinach, bacon, gruyere cheese, ricotta cheese, and walnuts were on our ingredients buffet-- YUM!

Nandan and Anu sample the options

John takes a gander

Paige and I toast to a lovely evening-- that's the kurta Nandan brought me back from his last trip to India. Ignore the random lady in the background...

Violet was obsessed with Jeremy's marathon medal

AND my high heels! We had to distract her just to get her to leave them here!

Storm Chasers!

I don't know how many of you watch Storm Chasers, but we're pretty big fans! We LOVE extreme/severe weather! Yes, it's a double edged sword-- frequently people and property are harmed and families lose loved ones and means of living, BUT the Storm Chasers who do it for research are doing a great service to us by learning more about how these storms form and how to predict them.

Fermbank Museum of Natural History is right up the road from us and they are a real TREASURE! They have so many awesome exhibits, recently they've had Geckos and Water, and now at the IMAX they have a Storm Chasers film called "Tornado Alley"-- we haven't gotten to see it yet, but plan on fitting it in. I was lazing around one day on Facebook and noticed the Fernbank page had a picture of the TIV-- THEN I noticed that Fernbank HAD the TIV! The TIV is the Tornado Intercept Vehicle and is SUPER cool! Sean Casey, the IMAX film guy, helped design and build this thing to withstand severe weather so they can get awesome IMAX footage and scientific data!

Rear shot of the TIV

IMAX Camera Turret

Side shot of the TIV

Cameraman's chair

Me and Marcus Guttierez-- the TIV's driver!!

Imagine driving this thing! And yes, that IS a light switch from a house!

And thus start the updates...

A LOT has happened since the last time I really had a chance to update, a lot of it having to do with more injuries... we've been blessed with good health up until recently, so I suppose it was just about time!!

Anyway, be prepared-- lots of updates and lots of pictures!

Agape Update!

I promise I'll update this with "life" stuff soon, but until then you should enjoy another update on my biz blog over at Agape Events!

Doin' It!

Just updated the biz blog with a post about bridesmaids dresses! I am getting things done (albeit not around the house) this weekend and I'm going to be pushing hard to promote Agape Events! Now if only I could figure out how to get a Cutest Blog on The Block background up with the new Blogger template...