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WSU Engineering launches senior toward her future

This is a picture of her winning first place in the IE paper contest.

We are so proud of Johnny for all his 5 years of Cub Scouting!  He really tries to be a super scout- living the scout promise as he strived for earning many achievements and electives.  He certainly lived up up to the Cub Motto of 'Do Your Best'!

Cub Scout Promise

I promise
to DO MY BEST
To do my DUTY to GOD
And my Country
To HELP other people, and
To OBEY the LAW of the Pack

Here he is pictured with Akela who presented him with a custom painted arrow with symbols representing his Cub Scout Achievements! He is now an official Boyscout!

We are so proud of him!

What an exciting day! WHW NXT Team Wins First Place!

Jeremy and Johnny were on one of the Homeschool Teams for this 2008 Lego Mindstorms Challenge. This is a 6 week competition and this year's theme was Natural Disasters: Rescue Robots. Their Professional level team competed in all areas: Table Display, Technical Notebook, Oral & Powerpoint presentation, Spirit and Sportsmanship and 5 senerios. Their team was made up of 13 students ages 9-12. The team split up into 5 subgroups and each worked on a different senerio or playing field. Our team used the Lego NXT Education Kit to compete. J3 and J4 worked on the Tornado senerio. They scored 700 on their first official run and then a complete 1000 points on their next run. They could keep the highest of the 2 runs... naturally 1000 points was terrific!!!  Then they went on to help their teammates with other senerios until time ran out. Happily, they won First Place in Notebook and Table Display! Also the Big First Place Throphy for the most points overall!!!

And to make the day even sweeter, the WHW RCX Team won 2nd place overall. Another Homeschool Team won 3rd place!   They learned a lot about programming, testing, building, teamwork... including Jeremy stepping in to do the oral presentation when a fellow team mate became ill.  And helping other subgroups progress in their senerios! They worked great together and had a great day with a surprising.... and exciting ending!  Perserverance is alive in these kids as they want to continue meeting to solve more of the other senerios!

Congrats WHW NXT TEAM!!!

This amaryllis flower was given to us by Grandma --

It was the cooolest plant to watch grow... we literally could see it grow... 3 inches in a day, etc

We were fascinated!

I found this on the amaryllis.com website.  -

After-Bloom Care
After-Flowering. After the amaryllis has stopped flowering, it can be made to flower again. Cut the old flowers from the stem after flowering, and when the stem starts to sag, cut it back to the top of the bulb.
Leaf Growth and Development. Continue to water and fertilize as normal all summer, or for at least 5-6 months, allowing the leaves to fully develop and grow. When the leaves begin to yellow, which normally occurs in the early fall, cut the leaves back to about 2 inches from the top of the bulb and remove the bulb from the soil.
Bulb Storage. Clean the bulb and place it in a cool (40-50 deg. F), dark place such as the crisper of your refrigerator for a minimum of 6 weeks. Caution: Do not store amaryllis bulbs in a refrigerator that contains apples, this will sterilize the bulbs. Store the bulbs for a minimum of 6 weeks.
Plant Again. After 6 weeks you may remove bulbs whenever you would like to plant them. Plant bulbs 8 weeks before you would like them to bloom.

Toot Toot! Right in our own home... a Train Show!  Wow... look at the detail... spot lights (flashlight) and all the CARS movie characters too... sorry you missed the show but you can enjoy these pictures!

Todays word to look up

Boisterous

=To be rough and noisy

This sounds like my family!

Very Exciting Day!

Johnny won Best of Show for his Pack Pinewood Derby - voted by scouts

Johnny also won 2nd Place for Fastest Car

Johnny won the Judge's award for Best of Show for Den #2

Johnny was so excited - he made a Star Wars XWing fighter plane (with Dad's help)  He really likes everything Star Wars and he was thrilled with his design and very thrilled with the results of the Race!

Here is Johnny's this year's Pinewood Derby entry:

Star Wars X Wing Fighter

Check out our family's other 5 cars for this year including

Jeremy's Star Wars Landspeeder:

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Marshall/461457/

Here is Jamey's 2009 Pinewood derby Star Wars Lightsaber:

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Marshall/645588/

Here are the entries for the rest of the kids:

Jenny- entered her old reliable - Red Rocket - She came in second place for Outlaws -- we were shocked that old Red Rocket could be beat! Guess who beat her?

Joey- made a new entry this year - started the day before the derby and won the OUTLAW Races!  - Pictured below: The Red October -Submarine

Jeremy- made a new car this year - He won Best of Show for Outlaws!  A Pinewood Derby Star Wars Landspeeder (Luke's hovercraft from Episode 4)

Check out the other family Star Wars Pinewood Derby cars here:

Marshall Star Wars Pinewood Derby Cars

Jamey entered his last year's car - Doc Hudson - from the movie 'Cars". Sadly this car is a slow car- and Jamey knew it and he was sad as it lost every race!

Jessy- Smiled and danced along the race track and her Herbie -who has magically been a winner in year's past - didn't win much! But she had fun!

Here is our 5 page Christmas Newsletter... Don't feel obligated to read it all... but the pictures are great - perhaps you can take a look at them!

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Well, not real ones, but socially acceptable type... remote control!

Ok, not everyone still likes this spidy!! Jessy has decided it is scary when it appears unexpectedly! (mean brother!) lol!

Boys will be boys... and dear friends 'called it' when they sent this to Jamey for his birthday! Too fun... thankyou!

Here is Jamey and his favorite bear Boinky!

I know... just makes you want to recite:

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy... was he?

He is a huge 'CARS' fan... Disney made a great movie this time!

He also likes to dress up as a super hero:

Here is Buzz Lightyear from ToyStory!

Johnny and Mom made a wonderful Creation Lapbook... we are so very pleased with the results and Johnny learn so much about Creation and what the Catholic Church teaches about Creation. We also studied Michelangelo and the Creation paintings on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. This is his first completed Lapbook and he was so eager to work on it every day. We counted this as part of his Parvuli Dei (Cubscout Religious Award) requirements instead of making a banner about Creation.  Fr. John seemed to be delighted in his effort and the results. We were too!  I think everything in the Lapbook came from free Internet sources or graphics.  I will try to take more detailed pictures someday and add them to this post.