Spencer's Science Fair at school

Jason, Lincoln and I went to Spencer's Science Fair at his school. We had time to kill before they wanted the parents in so we walked around and looked around.

 Lincoln wanted me to take this picture of him in the school. He was so excited to be there.

 Before the kids showed us all their projects, they put on a little performance for us with songs they had learned so far. It was really cute.

 This is Spencer's reaction when it was the parents turn to dance and sing. I took video of it while Jason and Lincoln danced and sang. Spencer got a chuckle out of it.

 Spencer with his classmates.

 Now it's time for the projects. Spencer's was a hit. We put together a 3 minute video that showed the eruptions of each pop. It was fun!!

 I guess this is just 1 of the many science fairs they will have throughout the year. He needs to participate in at least 3 to receive a reward at the end of the year. Yeah!!!! Can you tell how excited I am?

 This is Lincoln checking out the other projects. He really liked this water one.

 This was hanging in the classroom, so I took a picture of it.

 The boys in front of the board. Luke didn't get that we were trying to take a picture of the project board too. He kept going right in front of it saying, "Cheeeeese".

 Spencer was so proud of his project that he wanted a lot of pictures with it.

 Lucas would be playing in the yard and I would ask him to say "Cheese" and he would run right over in front of the board and yell, "Cheese". I guess it had to be in front of the board.

 Luke loves to put these handcuffs on and then say "Stuck".

 This is his "Cheese" face.

 Lincoln loves to fill his pockets up with everything under the sun and parade around the house with them all sticking out.

 Big Cheese

We helped Mom Hale get her freezer up from downstairs so she can use it more. The boys had a ride on the dolly. Such big helpers.

 He said I needed to take a picture of the back of him too.

Lincoln turns 4!!!!

 This just shows what a character our Lincoln boy is. Every morning he is supposed to go from a pull up to underwear and this is how he came out this morning. He is such a funny kid!!

 We decided to try out the Squishy bath that you can get at Wal-Mart. This is the boys waiting to go in. They were so excited to try it out.

 Luke sat in it and out he wanted to come. He did not like it one bit!!! So the other two had a blast. Lincoln says it was green applesauce, which was what it totally felt like. Warm applesauce. It was so wierd. Next time we won't do it in the bath and just do it in a container they can play with with their hands. But they loved it!!

 On the day of Lincoln's actual birthday we took the boys to Jungle Jim's Playland. Luke made it to the parking lot and fell asleep in the car. So this is how he went from the car into the stroller. He had a very short nap. He didn't want to miss all the fun.

 This place is perfect for this age group. All the rides are their size. It was perfect.

 Luke's first ride after waking up.

 One happy birthday boy!!! We love this little guy so much. I am so lucky to have him in my life. He makes my life so much better. He has the sweetest personality. He will come up to me just to thank me for random things and give me a hug and a kiss. Such a sweetheart.

 Lucas is thanking his horsey for the ride. So thoughtful!

We had a great day on Linc's birthday. We love to make their day a very special one. Lincoln still asks if he is still 4. He doesn't get the whole idea of once your birthday comes, then that's your age the rest of the year. He is such a special little guy who brings so much love and joy into our lives. Happy birthday, Lincoln. We love you so much!!!

Conference weekend

 We still put Lincoln in Pull ups at night, even though they are always dry, we still don't want to take the chance. So after he goes to the bathroom in the morning he knows to change into big boy underwear.....but this is usually how he comes out. Silly kid!!

 Reflections paper done.....thank goodness....next is the Science Fair project

 This is a great way to keep the kids quiet and entertained durning General Conference. Thanks to their Aunt Alisa who supplies the websites to go to. THey love to color each speakers ties and do all the activities.

 Lucas just loves to bug the other brothers bu handing them all the colored pencils one at a time until all the table is full of them. Then we put them back and he starts all over again. Hopefully next time he will be more into the coloring part.

 Science Fair project here we come. So we decided to do the Soda and mentos. Since he is just in kindergarten, we just have to make it as simple as possible, which is totally ok by me. So he guessed the Diet Coke will go the highest when you add the mentos candy. It was a fun experiment. I couldn't beileve how high they went. We eventually by the end had most of the neighbor kids watching too. It was fun.

 This is his thumbs up that the Diet Coke will go the highest and he was correct!

 He held the gadget that held all the candies in and then he was the one to pull the string that let the soda fly.

 Lincoln was totally amazed!!

 The experiment was a success and it was fun to measure how high they went. We went by the top of the eve and guesstamated how much higher each went. We measured that the top of the eve was 17 ft and the Diet Coke went about 29 ft. It was crazy!!!

 I got video of each one and now I am going to put together a video to play at the Fair. We also need to now put together the board and report it all. So those pictures of the finished product will come later. We just  needed to get this part done on one of Jasons days off.

It was really cool how high the soda went. And it wasn't a bad clean up either, Just hosed off the driveway and that was it. I think Spencer loved it!!