I will follow

How does that song go?

I Love him, I love him, I love him, and where he goes I will follow, will follow, will follow......

That is my theme song.

No bathroom breaks, 'cuz that is asking for this:

That would be a small sampling of flour

 That got mixed, with oatmeal and dog food.

Notice the dog food on the bottom...to the flour/oats mix on top

Our poor dog has a wheat allergy

 After getting out as much as I could, saving as much dog food as I could, the dog food ironically looked like puppy chow.  He used the dog scoop for this project so I tossed the top layers of flour and oatmeal too. So sad at all those wasted muffins!

Yes, I am talking to you --- I am stuck on you like glue!

Where ever you go, I will follow

No ocean is too deep, no mountain too high

*I will however, need some chocolate on this journey.

Today is Kindergarten round up.

*sniff sniff*

And that is all I have to say about that!

She might feel differently!

Eggs!

With spring in the air and Easter around the corner, Spring Break seemed like a great time to make some naked eggs!

Step one: Place uncooked eggs into vinegar.

 Bubbles, must be working!

Step two: 24 hours later remove eggs, gently rub off excess shell and place back into vinegar for another 24hrs.

Step three: Compare the size of a naked egg to a regular egg.  The layer under the shell is permeable and allows water to enter to equalize the pressure inside the egg to the outside.

 Step four: For more fun, now add the naked eggs to colored water.  If you put a naked egg into corn syrup it will shrink since corn syrup has low water content.  We used oil to see what would happen.

Step five: Amazingly all four eggs made it through the entire process. Not much change in the egg in oil, but the ones in the colored water became saturated with those colors.

 We broke them outside into the garden.  The skin of the colored eggs looked like deflated balloons.

And that is one of the things that kept us busy over spring break!  Now go out and enjoy your spring weather!

Welcome Spring?

Yesterday, on March 19th, we had a chance and plan to go hiking. It was the one day our entire day was free from any other distractions.

We didn't do much hiking.

In fact, snow shoes or cross country skiing would have been more appropriate:

 Excited to get going!

 Snow pretty!

 He really got into the snowball idea!  WATCH OUT!

 They each made their own angel

We found animal tracks in the snow and marveled at the blanket of pristine covering everything.

 Told ya to watch out for those snowballs!

 Snow cone? Refreshing!

 Catching snowflakes!

 No, I'm not ready to go home!

 Proof that I was out hiking too!

The snow really picked up on our way off the trail.

It seemed so fitting, but the kids kept looking for and picking out a Christmas tree for us. A Charlie Brown one they wanted!

Serious Hiking

Now, if you are hiking and don't have short legs and short attention spans coming along, there are more challenging trails!


Such as the Grand Canyon!

 Now, the short amount of trail that the guys did on this trip, could have been handled by the entire family. But they were on a mission. A mission to get registration to hike, rim to rim, preferably from the North Rim to the South Rim.  And on this fact finding mission, children were not invited.  The kids will also not be hiking the 26 miles rim to rim either, in case there was confusion about that.

On the other hand, the finger rock trail is not for the faint of heart or anyone with a fear of heights!

As high as they could go without ropes.

This 11-12 mile round trip hike takes all day and the trail is not well marked. It is for the serious hiker!