LEGOS

THE AZ SCIENCE CENTER HAS A LEGO EXIBIT. SO OF COURSE WE HAD TO GO ON THE MEMBERS PREVIEW DAY. REILLY HAD A BLAST, LOTS OF LEGO CASTLES AND DESIGNS TO LOOK AT, SOME OF THEM HUGE!!! YOU ALSO CAN BUILT AND PURCHASE WHAT YOU DESIGNED OR YOU CAN GO INTO A DESIGN AREA AND JUST BUILD WITH THOUSANDS OF LEGOS. WE WILL DEFINENTLY BE GOING BACK.

THIS DRAGON IS MADE OUT OF ALL LEGOS. AWESOME!!!!

New Addition To Our Family!!!

As of a few weeks ago, We added a new addition to our family. And if you know Brenden very well you know What it is. That's Right we go a new motorcycle. (I was told I was remiss when I didn't put it on our blog). He got a 2008, Vulcan 2000, lots more horsepower and it is more comfortable for the backseat rider. He also ordered a new seat with a bright red stripe on it and back rests. Lots of fun to come.

More picture with Brenden on them to come.

Inspiration and Imagination

On Wednesday, May 13 we went to the Phoenix Symphony with a home school group. They do a concert series called Symphony for the schools, this one was 'poetry, paint and dance' children listened to the music and had it inspire their imagination. It was really nice and perfectly timed, only about an hour, so by the time Reilly was saying 'is it almost over' we were on the last song. They played music like 'Ride of the Valkyries',and 'Fight of the Bumblebees' along with several others. You get the idea, most of the songs were very upbeat. Reilly and I really enjoyed it.

Reilly said this favorite part of the Symphony was the one where the students on stage danced 'like vampires', I think the music was 'Dance of the Furies' or 'Danes of Transylvania".

I can't remember which.

I think this was really ironic,

I though this is great, only $3 for the tickets, great deal! Then I had to spend $12 for parking.

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so sad I forgot to take a camera

Archery Saturday, 9 May, 2009

Reilly went to a free archery class through the Town of Buckeye last Saturday.

It was really HOT, but he had a great time.

He was so excited at the end of class they got to shoot balloons

and he was one of three kids to pop a balloon with his arrow.

The boy's got Talent.

This picture is at the end of class right before he popped the balloon.

This was at the beginning of class, the instructor went around to each student to help with form and stance, ect...

Below is the target with Reilly's arrow in it

School

Yea, yea, yea!!!!

Charlee is well and back at school, only a week and a half out of school.

There is only 8 days left of school, she is so excited to return to school.

Charlee update

Charlee has Infuenza B and A.

FEVER 105 Degrees

Charlee has some weird bug.

On Friday morning she had a fever of 101, then it went away and she felt great the rest of the day. On Saturday she felt tired and had 101 fever again, but by 8:30 her soccer game time, she felt great again. Felt fine all day long, no complaints. Then Saturday night she started to feel yucky and we had her stay at home with Brenden, (No Luau, so sad). She went to bed early and at two in the morning woke up with coughing, and coughing and more coughing. Poor thing. So we wake up every couple of hours because her cough is so bad.

Then about 9 am, she starts to feel dizzy and shaky and telling me she hurts all over. So we take her temp again (we just took it an hour before, only 100) and the thermometer says 105 . I make her sit in the shower as she cry's it's to cold. (not). We are on the phone with the doctor, and he says to take her in if it doesn't come down or call 911 if she starts to have a seizure, OK I am getting nervous now. Well within like 15 minutes it's down to 104 and within 2 hours down to 102(she says she feels better now).

I don't like to take them in to the ER and expose them to lots of other germs when I can handle it. I am really blessed that I know what to do in an emergency.(MA and EMT training) She is on the 2 hour rotation on meds (adult doses - as long as she drinks lots) and we are going to doctor in the morning.

Sorry if we exposed anyone to this!!!

Mom just leave me alone.

Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough. . . . . . . . . . . . .

whatever, no energy

LUAU

Our stake had a really fun Luau last night . The food was yummy, the company was great, and the entertainment was exceptional.

Brenden was all set to go (handsome isn't he), when Charlee started to not feel so good. So Brenden volunteered to stay home as long as I brought him food home.

The Hawaiian Red Neck Cowboy!!!

Reilly playing at the park on the the wiggle worm (???) that's what we call it, with friends and other children from the stake.

Soccer - The last game.

The Rail Hawks - Charlee's team

Coach Haakeem


The Crew - Reilly's Team
Coach Michelle

He always does this

We had a great time at soccer games and they learned so much, and are finally getting good, it almost is a shame that soccer is now over. Almost! Now we have 4 evenings during the week with about 1-2 more hours added to them and a saturday that has at least 3 more hours added to it. They did wonderful!

Charlee's team only lost one game the entire season, and tied one.

Reilly's team improved so much, they won one game and tied one game.

We are very proud of them.

Volcano's

High on the Mountain Top

(outside the science center)
I am king of the mountain

Our experiment with a twist

At science class, it was on volcano's. Reilly was really excited, he can tell you about tectonic plates and the where the biggest volcano is in the world and the universe are.

Today was all hands on, we did lots of different experiments.

Our favorite was the one like the vinegar and baking soda, but with a twist, the foaming part stayed and grew. I am going to do this one at home if I can find all the ingredients.

Labeling all the pictures

For whatever reason, I can't get the pictures to show if I label them, so I am labeling this blog for all three events.

Chihuly: The Nature of Glass at the Desert Botanical Gardens Saturday, April 18, 2009
We went to the Desert Botanical Gardens with our wonderful Aunt Pamela, we enjoyed the awesome glass exibit. (Reilly had fun taking pictures, over 200 just of the glass). We also went to see the Butterfly Exibit, always an exciting activity. It is kind of magical when you have a butterfly land on you. (Pictures Above)

Butterfly Exibit at the Desert Botnical Gardens
(Pictures Below)

Turtle exibit at the Phoenix Zoo - Friday, April 17, 2009
The Galagapos turtles behind the scene, the turtles name was Ralph.
(Pictures 2 below)

Turtle Trapping at the Phoenix Zoo

On Friday April 17, 2009 we participated in an AZ game and fish home shool event. We went to the Phoenix Zoo and helped them catch, sort, and educated the public about non-native turtles. It was really interesting and we all learned alot. They gave us alot of information to learn so that we could infor the people crossing the bridge into the zoo about what was going on in pond/river. I didn't know that non-native turtle were out-competing our native turtles, even eating them in some cases. Reilly and I were the outreach people and Charlee got to be the runner, she was allowed to take the turtles (in a container) from the pond to the where the data was collected. She was allowed to write the data down for the biologist. (from PHS).

As a fun bonus, we received a free pass to the zoo and an upclose and personal tour of the galapagos turtles.

Here is the link to the news story:

http://www.azfamily.com/video/stevebodinet-index.html?nvid=353027&shu=1