So this week was way too busy with Junior trying to get a science project finished. It was assigned sometime in December I think, but way back in December, January 30th seemed to be so far away... The 8th graders could team up with another student and Tyler H. and Jr decided to work together this year, last year. They met a bunch of times to make stuff for their project, but most of the time I think they ended up thinking they still had PLENTY of time to finish it. So here we were the last week, dropping chutes at the school on Wed and getting all the final data and research typed up on Thursday. It really wouldn't have been that bad if only Jr was working on it alone. Now Emily knows that we wait till the last minute on projects and that for sure I am not supermom. I forgot to take any pictures of the final display of their project, but here are some pics of Jr and Ty at the school...
Jr and Ty getting ready to test their parachutes 
Jr dropping a chute at SRMS
Can you see the one Tyler dropped?
FRI
We were able to go to my mom's house on Friday night so that Jr could play with his cousins who were getting tended while my sis and her husband went to a viewing. It was fun for Jr to play with them and for me to spend more time with them also. They are so cute and are growing up so fast. My nephew Ben was wanting some cereal for a late night snack. As I was pouring him a bowl, it was funny because the "free toy inside" was this little race car that you could stick stickers on. The cereal was at least half gone, but the car was still inside the box. That would never happen at my house, even with only one kid. First bowl, find that free toy! I suppose that is the fun of eating cereal at Grandma's; you have a pretty good chance of getting whatever the toy is inside... He took putting those stickers on that car pretty seriously and wanted me to take his picture with the car later that night. He looked at the first one I took, and then said, "I really want it to look like the car is racing toward you in the picture..." He seemed so sure of what he wanted, so I just had to try again, and this is what he ended up liking...
Go speedracer GO~!
My sisters oldest daughter is growing up so fast....
What a sweetie~!
My two yr old niece snapped this pic of me and my mom...
See my mom there on the right?
SAT
Saturday Jr was tired from staying up and watching a movie with his Uncle Jared (wait, actually he fell asleep during the video, but hey...) so he had been trying to decide if he was going to go to the scout activity which was a winter hike. I had gotten a lunch packed and his backpack with his ski pants/gloves/hat/extra socks/all that stuff kids need the night before, but I wasn't going to make him go. I've "strongly encouraged" him in the past to go to things that he really wasn't 100% on, and you don't want to know how that has backfired on me. It seems like on those occasions, there was always some unforseeable problem that he would not of had to deal with if I hadn't "made him go". I woke him up and he decided that even though not every single one of his little posse of friends were going, since he knew for sure that Ty and Brit were going, he would go too. I was hoping that this would turn out to be fun, since when I went over to the church to drop him off, it was already freakin FREEZING, or maybe that was just me but I couldn't imagine going hiking around in the snow for hours... (So glad right now that the guys do Scouting and the most pressing thing the women hafta worry about is the Pinewood Derby in Cub Scouting.) When he got home, this was our conversation....
M: how was it?
Jr: IT WAS GREAT!!
M: it was? oh i mean, of course it was! so you are glad that you went?
Jr: Yup!! Mom, it was scary though, there was like these cliffs, with a canyon and it was icy and muddy and slippery and if you would have slipped off of the trail, you just would have DIED instantly!
M: um, maybe you shouldn't be telling me this part...
Jr: Well, I kept one hand on the side of the mountain at all time... I'm telling you mom, that mountain was my best friend walking up the trail!!
Then he told me all about the piles of snow they slid down, and how much fun (again) they all had, and I was glad again that they had good leaders that watched out for them today. (Of course he did not bother to put on his ski pants to play in the snow, so he came home soaking wet, but at least he was happy, so how was I going to be mad?) Fun way for him to spend 1/2 a Saturday~!
Scouts and leaders on the mountain
If you look in the center of the pic, then a little to the right, you can see Jr keeping one hand on the mtn on the way up (look at the mtns in the far back; pretty peeking up over the inversion we have out here...)
Scouts again (crossing a bridge it looks like)
Jr is at the top of the hill and this is the snow they were sliding down
P.S. thanks for the scout hike pics that were taken by jared price sent to me from cindy whitehead =)
