Snow pictures

Continuing the effort to make the blog look more alive....snow pictures!

Elizabeth throwing snow at the door while Timothy looks on from inside. One more year, buddy! One more year!

The view from inside as Timothy watched her playing in the snow.

Elizabeth was the one who hung out by the camera the most, as if you couldn't tell!

How 'bout some pictures?

All these posts of just text makes the blog look boring. Or maybe that's just me?!?! Regardless, I thought I'd share some pictures with you.

Some "fun" pictures.

John

Caleb

Just call him Moses!

Our monkeys jumping on our bed (does that girl have hair or what?!?!)

Pump it up!

Nifty little place we found on the northwest side of Columbus, around Marysville. Our homeschool co-op took a field trip there. Big room full of inflatable play things (like a giant slide, an obstacle course, and a jumpy!). The kids had a BLAST (but very expensive so who knows when we'll be going back?). John was a little scared of just about everything but the toys they had! (He did go down the 20' slide, though -- with his Mommy -- but that's a picture that WON'T be posted!)

Caleb eventually got with the program (him getting off the smaller slide at the end of the obstacle course) but the only way he'd go down the giant slide was with our friend, Fionna. Elizabeth was our little dare devil but I just didn't get any good shots of her 'cause she kept moving!!

The obstacle course

The giant 20' slide

The jumpy

How 'bout a friendly game of....

Candy Land?!?! :)

More pictures: COSI

We went to COSI yesterday for a NASA event. Actually, the NASA part was disappointing but the kids still had a great time, as always, at COSI.

Part 1, playing with robotsJohn kept holding the remote backwards! :)

Part 2, playing in Kids Space (no pics of Nathan 'cause he has to hang out in the "big kids" room playing video games; Caleb was being camera shy)

Playing at the park

This is what you call a full house, folks! :)

Headed out for a little bit of play time today. Didn't stay very long because the wind was making it really cold out. Not looking forward to tomorrow's high in the teens! :(

Labor Day Weekend

How was your holiday weekend? Ours went smoothly. We started off the weekend with soccer and our school year kick-off party, the Medieval Feast. Nathan gave reports on King David from the Bible and Peter the Great. He also played the role of a bard and recounted the story of Robin Hood. His friend, Fionna, gave reports on Jezebel and Queen Elizabeth and played the harp. They pulled "swords" from the stone to assign themselves new names for the day. Nathan was Sir Burger of Bun, Caleb was Sir Sand of Castle, Elizabeth was Lady Apple of Juice, and I can't remember what John was. They designed their own coat of arms and then we played some games. We finished the day with balloon jousting and a game of Catch The Dragon's Tail. Here's some pics -- the cake I made (supposed to look like a shield and has Eph. 6:16 on it for the "sheild of faith"), Nathan and Fionna in their costumes, and then
Jonathan and John in Nathan's masks.




Also this weekend, we went to a church softball game. Jonathan get up to bat 3 or 4 times and actually hit the ball every time!! Check out this action: