Bureau of Land Management Field Trip

We went on a great field trip to the BLM. The kids had a blast. Nick really enjoyed it until Smokey showed up, then it was all downhill. Seems Nick still doesn't like costume characters.



Before Smokey, the kids got to learn about fire safety, and hear the story of Smokey The Bear.



They got to meet Smokey, I couldn't get a picture of Nick with him though, since Nick was hiding on the other side of the room, as far away as he could get. At least he wasn't the only kid there scared to death of Smokey.


Our group photo. We just barely got Nick in the picture, he's hiding behind our friend over on the side far, far from Smokey. It looks like she's blocking him, but that's just because he was trying to figure out how to hide behind her. Crazy kid.

The kids got to crawl through the truck. Nick enjoyed that. They also had a chance to shoot the hose, which Nick would have done, except it had a stale, kind of citrusy smell to it, and it made him start dry heaving, so he ended up hiding from that too. I think it would've been okay if he hadn't already been so worked up about Smokey.

All in all though, he says he had a lot of fun, so that's all that counts.

Radio Station Field Trip

Two weeks ago we took a field trip to a radio station broadcast center. It was a short field trip, but the kids enjoyed themselves. They got to see where the DJs talk into the microphones and where they record their ads. I just got the pics, so here are a couple:




A photo of the group (almost the whole group of us).

A few extra pictures for Grandma and Grandpa

Grandma and Grandpa sent a little box of goodies for Nick, as they often do. Here are some pictures of Nick opening his gifts:


Nick loved the pirate santa ornament!


I'm just going to open this one behind my back. (We don't know why he tried to open it behind his back, he may have been trying to hide to avoid the camera, I don't know). Once he did finally get this open, he told Erik that this gift must be for both of them :) So it looks like daddy is going to be helping with the airplanes.



A new game, yahoo!!

Volcano Explosions

Today we finally exploded our volcano, actually, wasn't much of an explosion because we had a hard time getting the baking soda into the narrow mouth of the bottle, but it came up pretty decently.





Coloring the "Lava" (vinegar)




Measuring out the baking soda.

Outside now, here we go!



In goes the lava



Putting in the baking soda



Watch it explode!



Let's go see what it looks like now!

Art Show

Last night Nick decided he wanted to have an art show. He called himself Runner, and gave us a ticket to get into the show. He had set his pictures (quickly done line drawings done in dark colors on dark construction paper) up in the living room.



Nick and his art show.

Volcano Continued

We worked some more on our volcano today. Today's job was painting the volcano! That was fun, and surprisingly didn't take too long or make a very big mess at all either, except for the paint the Nick flicked into my hair :)


Starting painting.


Finishing up.


The Finished Product

Church Program

Nick was in the kid's program at church today. Each of the kids had a small part to say. We weren't sure if Nick was going to get up and do his, because he flat out refused to try yesterday at rehearsal, but today he got up there and said it no problem. I was so proud of the job he did.