Telephone Pictionary

We love to play telephone Pictionary. The Helm clan has been playing this game for years. A few years back we saw that it was for sale in Walmart. Oh Man we missed the opportunity to make Millions!

I have to post Natalie's run. We have a a bunch of funny ones but this one was so good that I have to post it.

Natalie started with "Release the Cracken!" She was talking about the huge ocean monster, The Kraken .

 Andrew was the next one whos job it was to draw the kraken But he didn't know what a Kraken was.

The fact that Andrew didn't know what a krahen/cracken was did not stop him. No, he proudly drew to the best of his ability.

 On the left side of the paper was this picture.

 And on the right.

 Focus on this section of the picture. Left side.

 Right side

Yep, Showing a little bum cracken.

I was next in the pictionary line and I had the picture upside down and thought that it was 2 swimmers diving head first into the water. WAY, way off. Should have noticed that little line.

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.