Patriot's Day

Zaharis has a school assembly each year on Patriot's Day. This year, both James and Dylan were able to participate in the flag ceremony. Since James was the oldest scout participating, he got to call it, and Dylan was part of the Color Guard.


And one of James singing in the choir. It's a bit over exposed, but the sun was coming up over the building, and I couldn't even see what I was taking!

Science Camp

In May, James went to science camp with school up near the south rim of the Grand Canyon. He took along the camera to take some pictures. Many of them were of the buildings that were at the camp.

Solar Distilling:

The tall pines with one of the buildings in the background:

Wax Museum

James had a research project for school with an unusual presentation. The kids had to research a famous person, and then present some basic information as if they were part of a wax musuem. Each kid had to hold a pose until someone pressed the "button" that was in front of them. James chose Jim Henson.

Happy Easter!

It's Easter morning, and I wanted to be able to share our fun with everyone, so I finally decided to bite the bullet and start a blog. Boy was the Easter Bunny good to the kids this year!



Kaitlynn, James, and Cameron checking out what the Easter Bunny brought.

Doesn't Ashley look excited? (Teenagers....)

Dylan is Checking out his new Magic The Gathering cards.

Ashley and Cameron's baskets before anyone could disturb them.

More Easter baskets as the bunny left them.

Isn't Cameron's dinosaur basket cute? I found it last year after Easter (on clearance, of course) and had to get it to save for him. It even "roars" when you press the button on it's foot!