Banana Car

Andrew is competitive about some things. The pine wood derby is not one of them.

2 days before the pine wood derby Andrew decided to work on his car. He wasn't interested in having the fastest car, he just wanted a car that was cool and funny at the same time

Bananas are way, way cool!

Meet the Banana Car 2016!

 Front view.

 Andrew was going to add a Dole sticker from a real Banana onto the car, but I found this Bobby the Banana playing soccer.

Andrew told us that he was planning on losing every single race. That was his goal.  But he won the first then the second and he kept on winning.
The other boys in his den would cheer on the banana car.

 The car ended up in fourth place!

Andrew was a little disappointed that he did not reach his goal, But after getting a small golden cup and some candy everything seemed to be alright.

Hannah's Birthday

Hannah turned 11 this month. In 2016 all three of my kids are going to be in the double didgets. Wow! Hard to believe.

The Kids love to decorate for each others Birthdays.  As tradition the decorations get to stay up for 1 week. This tradition just sorta happened. It wasn't on purpose but because I'm usually slow to clean up. Now the kids think that is the norm. Funny how those things work out.

 Natalie made these balloons and they represented Hannah's life.

 Here are some close ups. LOVE THEM!

 Did you see Emily's goats?

 

Hannah is so cute! So glad she is one of my girls.

There Hannah. Nothing cheesy.

It's all about that Bass

Hannah plays the Bass.

She loves that bass and practices diligently.
Hannah also wanted to take lessons but we were having a hard time finding a bass teacher. Those we did find were both far away and very expensive. Luckily there is a high school bass player who rents a bass from the store and he is an awesome teacher!


Most of the time Hannah is very happy with her choice of instrument, but a lot of the time she gets frustrated with the music written for the Bass.

I was walking past Hannah's art notebook and found these pictures.

I feel you Hannah. When viola's play in a waltz we just do the chuck, chucks. Boring and repetitive.