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School News: Special Helper

Today was Isabel’s special helper day and I along with Olivia’s mom and sister were the Mommy helper.

Today started out with morning prayer and special helper Isabel pointing out the months letters, numbers, shapes, and color, on the bulletin board and…

The Bible story today was from Luke 13:18-20 and was the story of the mustard seed.

Afterward we headed over to the tables to plant seeds in cups.

It’s blurry!… special helper Isabel and special helper friend Makayla.

After getting the seeds in the cups they each got to water their seeds. The seed cups were then placed in the window to grow!

Rebecca giving her seeds some water.

After planting our seeds we headed outside to play.

Girls swinging all together.

Nevan and Zackary.

Emily looked so cute on her bike with her pig-tails.

After heading back into the classroom Mrs. W read a story while the snack was being prepared.

The story today was about a Musk Ox and was about a musk ox who thought that he was unusual from his horns on his head to his fur on his back. The little musk ox gets separated from the herd and in the time it takes him to find them again. He realizes that he is special and that his horns have a purpose and even the fur on his back! God made you special and he loves you very much!

After reading the story and talking a bit with the class, Mrs. W asked everyone what they wanted to be when they grew up…
Devan – army soldier
Zackary – race car driver
Olivia – cow girl
Presley – astronaut
Isabel – doctor
Emily – teacher and a cook
Rebecca – cowgirl
Makayla – super girl
Nevan – (he didn’t answer)
Dany – race car driver
Aiden – policeman (a good guy)
Lilliana – police woman
Ezzra – author and a baker
Payton – cowgirl
Isabella – vet
Mila – planter (like flowers)
Ja’Siah – help the soldiers (like his dad)

Afterward, they headed over to the tables (as fish – special helper Isabel’s idea) to have their snack. After eating their snack Mrs. W had them do a project for her for their journals. They were given a piece of blank paper. On the front top of the paper they were to write their name and then draw a picture of themselves. Then flip the paper over and draw a square and then cut a line (but do not cut the paper completely off) along the bottom. I was helping others work on their papers and didn’t get to see Isabel’s before she handed it in. When they were finished they could enjoy free play until the bell.

The special helper today was Isabel! For snack Isabel brought to share, blueberry muffins and grape juice to share. For show and tell she brought…

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EMP

We headed to Seattle and the Experience Music Project (EMP) and Science Fiction Museum (SFM). I’m going to break it up into 2 different postings, this one will be about the music. Enjoy!

When we arrived, the EMP was just setting up for a private event, so we got to walk through the Sky Church before access was denied to anyone not invited.

Inside the Sky Church. The pink wall on the left was a giant screen behind the stage. The “flower’s” hanging from the ceiling were moving up and down, like jellyfish.

We went through the Guitar Gallery: The Quest for Volume (no flash photography in here), which was really cool room. Celebrates the work of innovators as Orville Gibson, Leo Fender, and Les Paul. I should have taken photos in here but there were so many people, I kept bumping into them or them into me. Crazy. We also walked through the Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution of Sound, room but again that was so crowded, we didn’t stick around. We quickly walked through the Northwest Passage, which traces the development of music in the Northwest. Following the early years of jazz and R&B and later garage bands.

Roots and Branches sculpture. Mostly guitars; but if you looked closely you could see other instruments as well. This was located on the 2nd floor and reached to the ceiling on the 3rd.

Drumming in the sound lab.

Strumming in the sound lab. Isabel says that her favorite part of the whole day was playing the guitar’s.

Tapping the drum table in the sound lab.
A cool “table” that changes instruments every so often.

Hitting the “ivories” and she’s loving it!

Later we entered into one of the “private” jam rooms and had a jam session…

Away

It’s been about a month or two since I’ve updated the family blog. At the beginning of August my Grandmother passed away and Isabel and I traveled back for the funeral. The plan, originally, was for us to stay a week or two and then that all changed after we realized the cost of flights to return home. So we decided to stay and drive back with my parents to Utah and then take a flight out of Vegas. Well, that didn’t work out either, so we ended up staying until the end of the month when my parents went on vacation… to our house. We rode along with them back home and got to save ourselves a few hundred dollars on flights for us. So now that I’m home and things are again starting to fall into a normal routine, I can hopefully get the blog back up to the latest news, information, and happenings of our life’s. So keep coming back, I’ve got a lot of catching up to do! See ya…

Riding And Crazy Golf

This morning while I was working on my final sewing project for baby Jace, Grandpa took Isabel outside to ride her bike. They spent most of the morning out there, going around and around the block. Thanks Grandpa for keeping her busy and building up those leg muscles! Enjoy!

After the bike ride and lunch, we headed out to the backyard for some crazy-golf. Grandpa built Isabel some crazy-golf holes for her crazy-golf golf game.