Sunday, March 18, 2012

Time To Catch Up!

Life has been very busy lately and when I get home I have been too tired to think about the blog so a lot has happened in our little Monkey house since FEBRUARY!!!

Now we are on Spring Break and planning a camping trip so I'm sure there will be more stuff to share very soon so I guess I'd better get caught, right? So if you have the time and desire to see what we've been up to, I'll post-date some photos and such from the last month of our lives.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Volcano

For Logan's birthday he was given a volcano kit. We have been working on it (on and off) for the past month, getting it ready for an eruption. Here are the stages of our creation.



Step one: String the supports for the cone.








Step 2: Cover the sides with plaster strips.


Step 3: Paint the now dry volcano.







Step 4: Add baking soda and vinegar to tube and watch it erupt. (A little messy so we did this outside)



Archery Skills

Logan has been practicing archery skills lately and wanted me to take a photo of his accomplishments.
Nice shootn' Tex!

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Pinewood Derby

This was Logan's first year participating in the Pinewood Derby with his scout group. He and his Dad designed a Batman car that was super slick. It was fast, sleek, and he dropped it at the practice run and bent the back axles!!! Eric replaced them, but it didn't run as fast. Oh, well. Lesson learned (I hope). Better luck next year. But he did have a lot of fun!



They also had an Outlaw class where anyone could build a car and race it. Logan wanted Eric to enter his pinewood truck he made 26 years ago and Amanda wanted to race it for him.




At the awards, Logan won an award for best paint job...
... and came in 6th out of 9 cars in his den. In his defence, he did have some really fast cars in his den to compete with.
Amanda (Eric) won an award too! She (He) placed 3rd! Not bad considering that the kids have been playing with and crashing that car for the last 8 years!

But the best part was at the end. Logan and Eric got to race each other's car and Logan came out the winner! See Video Below.

Logan and Eric's Race