What's your brain made out of?

Bailey carefully sculpted her brain model out of chocolate chip cookie dough. Then it was baked and flattened. Darn it! Not what she had in mind, but it worked fine. Her science teacher gave her a good enough grade. =)

I had models this year made from jelly beans, jello molds, marshmallow, traditional posters with clay, pie crust dough, Styrofoam, pumpkin with insulation foam (way cute), and even a lasagna! Holy moly.

Halloween 2010

Dillon had a hockey tournament in Aspen this past weekend. We were there Friday and got home early afternoon yesterday, just in time to carve pumpkins and enjoy trick or treating at home.

Only the girls went trick or treating this year. D never got a chance to make his idea for a costume, a can of toxic waste, and to top it off, he had a horrible headache. He was content to stay home and answer the door.

B was a sailor girl and A was a flapper. She didn't know what a flapper was, but she didn't care. It was a pink dress that shook when she twirled.

(they were nice enough to share their booty with D)

As for D's hockey weekend, the team was amazing! They showed so much improvement and really played well together. They had 4 games- winning 2 and losing 2. On Saturday morning, they played a team called Boulder Navy. D was in net and faced something like 32 shots, saving all but three. They lost 3-0.

Sunday morning, they are in the semi-final game and it just so happens that they are facing the same team. Unbeknownst to the other team, Kevin had had the team watch their game Saturday afternoon in order to see what they did well and where they needed work. When we played again, it showed! The score at the end of regulation was tied 4-4. It was an amazing game that was now heading into sudden death overtime! 5 minutes later the score was the same. Now they had to go into a shoot out. Each team had 5 players take a shot on the other team's goalie. It was so exciting, but I was crying with worried for D. We scored once, but they scored twice. In all, D saw over 40 shots in that game, while the other goalie saw maybe 24.

Although we lost, it felt like a win. It was a great battle.

Avery's 1st haircut... sniff sniff

She has been asked for a little while and today I finally caved. She is thrilled!

Singing in church

Both girls sang in church today, but I didn't have my camera during the 1st service. So here is Avery singing "This Little Light of Mine."

Summer is official over...

but we are actually so glad to be back in school.

Bales is now a 3rd grader...

Big D is now a middle schooler.... WHAT?!?!?!?!

6th grade already?

D and B go to camp

They were dropped off this afternoon for 6 days of fun in the woods. This is a camp that is connected to my church and so luckily for both of them, they already knew someone. Bailey was excited, but D was apprehensive on the way. Once we were there though, there were no worries, no tears, and they were off and running.

Have fun you two!

A new nephew in Portland...

Born to Todd and Elizabeth on July 7th.

Quinn Eccles Whalen

The monkey meets gymnastics...

Last Friday Avery had her first taste of gymnastics. She's hooked.

Just look at that happy face!

As she left today, her second lesson, she asked "when do I come to my next 'nastics, Mom?"

Kayaking the bay

My first kayaking trip!!! On the bay behind Ocean City. I loved it and so did the boy.

Far view of the bridge leaving the north end of the island.

Under the 9th street bridge.The bird sanctuary.

Beach week 2010

The set up is quite an operation...

Aunt Bob, Isaac, Andrew and wave surfer Dillon

The cousins building away...

New best friends Bailey and Katie- They hadn't seen each other in 5 years and within moments, they were attached at the hip.

Avery and Alex, belly surfing...

All eight together for the 1st time ever!!!

Dillon 'stache. Bailey 'stache Avery 'stache

Mama 'stache...

Bailey makes friends everywhere she goes...

Bike riding on the boardwalk.

Happy Day after Mother's Day

This was my breakfast in bed. Made by Bailey.

So sweet!