few pics from the zoo

I went to the zoo this past week and just wanted to show u a few pic I took. it rained for about 5 min but over all it was nice.

Long time no read...

Since I haven't posted in a while I thought I should play some catch-up. Bare with me and all the pictures.

This is Lexi's science fair project. Her hypothesis was that the longer the barrel of a marshmallow gun, the farther the marshmallow would fly. She actually found that her second longest barrel, not her longest, shot the marshmallow farthest.

This is Merrit at Ecology camp trying to start a fire using flint stones and natural fiber. It took a long time, but, with persistance, he finally got it. He was so excited! He had such a great time at ecology camp. This is one aspect of the kids' school I will miss when they start going to Flushing schools. This camp is just awesome!

These are some of the kids at the annual school fundraiser their school does. This year they put on a school carnival. They had parents or other relatives sponsor different games or booths. One family brought in the horses from their family farm for the pony rides and one sponsored the moon walks (these were Jaxson's favorite). It turned out to be a really fun night and the school raised about $2500 profit. That was pretty good for them and next year they will have all the games made up so they will make even more money without that upfront expense. I'll miss this part of their school too.

We put in a garden this year (even though we don't actually have anything in it yet) and we had to cut out the sod in order to do it. We rented a sod cutter from Home Depot (our home away from home) and Charlie cut up the sod. Then he rolled it up into these rolls. I thought they looked like giant snow balls and so challenged the kids to make a "sod" man. They took me up on it and this is what he looked like. I hope you can see the details in his face. It was hard work to make him. Those rolls are soooo heavy!

This is Makayla just before she was baptized. She actually invited several kids from her class at school and four of them came, although only two made it to her actual baptism. She was so excited to share it with them though. She is such a sweet spirit and good example of a missionary for me.

Makayla is really into Pokemon right now (go figure) and so she wanted to have a Pokemon themed party. This was the first activity we did. All the kids made Pikachu hats to disguise themselves as Pokemon so they could go and find Pokemon (cards) that were scattered throughout the room to capture. They seemed to enjoy it.

And now I'll toot my own horn and show you the blanket I made for Makayla for her baptism. I made one for Lexi and partially made one for Merrit too. It's become kind of a tradition for us that I hope I can continue better from now on. I still have a couple more squares to iron on to Merrits and then tie it to the back and then bind it and Makayla's and I'll be caught up (probably just in time for Chelsea's).
Sorry for the length of this post but I'm glad that I'm pretty much caught up now.

GO WINGS!

Even us NEVADANS like to watch a good hockey game...

unfortunately, the last two haven't been what we would call good.

Hopefully, they manage to pull it off!

Greetings from the Howe's

We are doing great! It is wonderful to have the temple a mere 20 minutes from our house. We have been able to get a lot of Brian's family work done and also some of mine. It is hot and extremely dry here in Vegas. Let's see, it was 103 two days ago! Haven't had any rain for about 3 months. We really miss grass! Although, at the temple there is grass!!

I have a question?

I wanted to know if any one had any camping suff we can barrrow. On June 20 Ed, the boys and I are going to be camping at the potter park zoo for the night. So I wanted to know if any one could help let me know thank you Jocelyn

New Phone Number

Chuck will not be caring his cell phone it has became our home phone and the number has been changed to 304-841-2980. I have to pay for his phone until Sept of 2010 so we thought this would save us money in the long run. We will see, sometimes I'm not sure when I spend 1hour on the phone to Social Security and then another 1/2 hour to JT's therapist. But that is ok I should have to call SS very often after we get everthing worked out. Hope to see to all of you soon. Love ya

hello

Ed and I have talked about it and we are putting the weding on hold for right now. We where going to fast and we wnat to make sure 100% that it is right before we do it. I just wanted to let every one now that. Mom thanks for everthing. I love and miss you all.