Last days of summer

Last days of summer!
A nice person at church gave the kids passes to the Children's Discovery museum here in town, so on the very last day of our summer break, we went!  The public schools had already started back to school, so we didn't have to worry about over crowding, that's for sure.

Their favorite area was most definiely the police car complete with sirens that worked and lights!
We packed a picnic lunch and ate their and then the kids played and played. 

A gigantic walking stick bug.  I couldn't bring myself to kill it or feed it to the chickens.  I decided if it was that big, it deserved to live.  :)

One last bake!

Putting on heavy firefighter gear!

Rachey was hilarious.  She loved to drive the police car.  She'd hit the sirens and drive like a mad woman.  It was so funny. 

Zane the chef.  :)

Cool black lights in one area.

That's it for summer! 

Our Special Summer! June

We started off the summer with a vacation to Colorado and then settled back in to normal life without school.  The kids played played played, went from Star Wars fanatics to WWII learners (Zane only-Rachel participates, but she can only take so much of WWII documentaries.) and we just had fun.

Reading!  Both wanted a nest.  I don't make them as good as Daddy!  :)

Math time!

Our biggest cantaloupe.  It was delicious!

One of my goals I tried to do was encourage the kids to cook with me.  Rachel was more interested than Zane, but we did make drop biscuits-one of his very favorites.

Our Pride of Barbados plant finally started blooming!!!!  I was so surprised!

This girl almost always says yes to baking and cooking.

Doctoring Daddy!!!  One time he had to have casts on both arms!  Whew!

Summer in July!

Our summer days consist of many things! 

She was so happy with her tomato picking!

Stormtrooper!  (I think!)

 I told the kids that during summer we would check out the Star Wars maker book from the library and actually do some science experiments.  They loved it.

Fixing to make slime.  Jabba Slime actually.  :)

 Next up:  Some kind of Star Wars volcano! 

Making the volcano and painting the lava on it.

Ready!

And from volcanos, we went to worship. :)

Next day, more experiments!

Making sugar crystals. 

And now making galactic planets out of hard boiled eggs.

Checking on his crystals.

Books from the library!

Happy with her tablet!