Showing posts with label this moment in june. Show all posts
Showing posts with label this moment in june. Show all posts

Sunday, June 21, 2009

House Guests!

***The Wiley Boys (Goodie + Topo!) making them selves right at home.




The Boys are staying with us for a week this summer while Pamy is away with her family and then they'll be back in the fall when she goes to france with the department. lucky us!!!

Bub loves being around a couple of sweet pups who are as mellow as she is!



It was another good week at Country Day, this time teaching a paper sculpture class!

On the first day everyone made "a place" out of paper.

Wyatt's neignborhood


Shannon's Garden


Gabe's Factory



Austin's little house with a fence around it!


Evan's Playground, with swings that actually swing.


On tuesday everyone made a jack-in-the-box. the bulk of the morning was spent figuring out how to make a container that would stay closed.



Morgan decorating her box with some block printed elephants!



EGG DROP!
can you make a structure that will keep a raw egg from breaking if we drop it from the two stories up?????

STURUCTURES





Gabe got very involved with this project, he worked quietly all morning, without talking to any of the other kids.

"these round tubes are going to be the shock absorbers, they catch some of the bang when it hits and I drop it. The long wing things are like second absorbers that fly out to slow it down and then make it better when it hits. The egg goes in the bed on top of it."



Gabe and Sarah Beth getting ready to drop!


3-2-1-DROP!!!!

Did it break?? did it break?


oh yay! it worked!!!



Evan and Josecline get teady to drop!


oh bum,it broke!


Everyone looking cute, with my lovely assistant Sarah Beth!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

hmmm... I seem to be in Savannah. STILL!

WHELL! I'm writing to you for the first time ever from my own bedroom!! Jess is all set up in here for the summer, with a computer! what a treat! today has been quite a hoot so far. everything was going great and according to schedule except for the mysterious illumination of my CHECK ENGINE light, which happened last night driving home from my friend Nikki's house. I figured that the lights coming on probably had something to do with my oil being changed yesterday....... but I brought the car in this morning just to be sure. (darn good thing, too!) It turns out that all sorts of (MAJOR) things are going wrong in there... loose belts and and a faulty engine. OY VEY. It seems that the engine needs replacing and the whole car might take a weeks worth of work. oh mama..... and it may not be worth it anyways, old car that it is. SO, it looks like a new car is on the way (just what our check book wanted to hear, right?!?) My DAD is flying down tonight to help figure out the best course of action. I was rather worked up at first, and then I realized--- after I came inside from this 105 degree day--- that it is really really alright. it really is. I'm going to spend this day chilling out because there is ABSOLUTELY nothing else for me to do at this point and it will be wonderful.

more to come later. be well, be happy, feel good about yourself + this moment in june.