Meandering Moons

My Handy Hubby

We decided that we would try outsmarting the neighborhood creatures this year by putting in a well fortified veggie garden.  Phillip has been busy planning and sketching and building...

and now we have a beutiful raised bed in the backyard.  We planted tomato and pepper seedlings, as well as, okra, corn, and green and purple beans today.  

So this picture is of day 1... I will keep you posted.  Hmmm... I can almost taste those vine fresh beans now :)  Much thanks to my handy husband for all of his hard work!

Choot 'em!

We ventured to Topeka today to go see the boat and outdoor show.  Besides the draw of getting to see (and drool over) a bunch of boats all under one roof, Phillip had heard that Liz from the tv show "Swamp People" was going to be there.  Well, this just happens to be Noah's most favorite show, so of course we just had to go meet her.  Seems like half of Topeka just had to meet her, too.  The line was pretty long, but when we finially made it to the front she was nice enough to take a picture with her star struck fan :)  She was super nice and even stayed longer then scheduled to get through everyone in line.

They also had a booth for kids to shoot BB guns 

and bow and arrows

Great form!

Awesome shot!  The arrows on the ground didn't stick, it's a bit hard to see but his last one hit right in the center yellow circle.

Definitely a great day in the capital city!

As we were leaving town I snapped this picture from the car... thought it was cool that there is a statue of a bow shooter on top :)

A Valentine candy tractor... what more could a boy want!
Thanks, Nana!

Happy New Year, California

I am a bit behind in getting these pictures up... Noah and I had a wonderful trip to California the week after Christmas.  It was great to visit my family and friends and as a bonus the weather was fantastic!

We enjoyed a second Christmas when we arrived.  Noah's stocking was filled with cool science kits like this mini volcano.

and a baking powder and vinegar powered rocket...

that went quite high! (Notice the shorts... I know I already mentioned it but the weather was steller)

Uncle Adam surprised Noah with a real rocket engine powered rocket.  

Noah had a blast (hehe) launching all the rockets in his uncle's arsenal.

My neice Rosalie... the budding rocketeer :)

Pop and his girl.

Between the rockets and letting Noah shoot his air soft gun, Uncle Adam has achieved hero status :)

Last time I was home, I went the whole week without going to the beach.  I was determined not to have that happen again.  The weather was so nice that we spent two lovely days at the beach.

One of those days was spent with my friend, Liz and her two boys.   Here Noah is with his partner in silliness, Juan Diego.

We were able to get some horse time in, as well.  

Noah was super excited because he can finally reach the stirrups in the saddle Pop got him a few years back.  He also rode on  his own quite a bit ( and made sure that I got a lot of pictures to prove it!)

We had great New Year's Eve celebration... counting down the new year in New York :)

We played dominoes and drank sparkling cider, then at promptly 9pm (CA time) we went outside and had a ball with silly string.  As he was getting  into bed that night, Noah looked over at the clock and said something like "9:23... it doesn't get any better than this!"  Enough said... 

Melts my heart!

Santa was very good to Noah this year and got him a fish tank and a gift card for the pet store (to pick out his own fish) which had been at the top of his list for several months.  Well he came home with three little fish named Speed Limit, Now Open, and Massey Furgeson.  Well, Speed Limit never looked too full of vigor and sadly was found at the bottom of the tank by Noah this morning.  He was having a hard time with the loss and so I suggested that he draw a picture of Speed Limit so that he would always remember him.  Well, this is the result of that suggestion:

Never thought that I would be sad over the passing of a fish, but this just melted my heart!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Weekend crafts

Noah has discovered popsicle stick art... here are his lastest creations.

Tractor (of course)

and his pis de resistance... a combine.

 

Tis the season...

Tis the season... for Christmas programs (or, sorry... holiday programs).

Noah had his school winter/holiday program last week as well as the church Christmas program on Sunday. 

Download School

This is a video of his school program... hope it works.

He played the part of the Ram in the church program nativity play... he got to talk into the microphone (cool!) and say " I am the Ram with the curly horns, I guard the stall where the child is born"

You know you live in Kansas when... your child has a tummy ache and they describe it as  "like having a tornado in their stomach".

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!