School’s Out!

Truck Wash

Woodworker Nate

For several years I have wanted Nate to learn some kind of craft, the way Meg is learning to cook and sew. Legos and forts are fun and a good use of a child’s free time, but it seems that a 10-year-old boy is old enough to make something worthwhile that lasts. You can imagine my delight when when he was able to take a woodworking course from a friend and fellow church member who excels at the art. I hope Nate will have many opportunities to develop more skills to go in that “toolbox.”

Ballerina Kate

Picture Day

 

Recital Day

Engine Project

What do you do if you finish your math books two months before the end of the school year?

How about build an engine…

Let’s start with a plastic model:

 

Plastic model, check.

 

Now let’s move on to the real thing:

Real thing: check.

 

Now let’s buy a truck to put it in:

Buy truck and put in engine, check.

Now let’s start it up:

 

Start it up, check!

 

Now let’s replace the hubcaps, seat covers, headliner, cracked windshield and rear-view mirror: Oh, wait, it’s not that kind of project.

 

Way to go Erik, Meg, Nate and Kate!!
(And thanks to our neighbor, Matt, for some valuable expert-amateur advice.)

Daddy and Nate Trip

When Meg turned 10 we started a little tradition of taking a special trip. So, about a month after Nate’s birthday, Erik took him on a fantastic Lead With Character Civil War battlefield tour.

Artillery at the Battle of Sharpsburg

Bird flew out of this cannon and hit Nate!

Surveying Gettysburg… Round Top in the distance

Morning exercise, gun display at Washington & Lee University

Stonewall’s grave

 

Transportation, full of snacks & soda, all you can eat/drink, no moms.

Strawberries

We missed you this year Frasers…here’s to 2015!