Busy Week!

Whew, this was one busy crazy week!  

Monday:

I don't even remember what happened on Monday.

Tuesday:

Gavin's Birthday Party

A snow storm hit us Tuesday, actually 2 snow storms hit us.  It was also the day that we had planned Gavin's birthday party with friends.  He wanted to go to "Kangaroo Zoo" in Pleasant Grove.  Easy cheesy, thought mama.  Drive a bunch a 7 year olds to a giant play place.  Then the snow storms hit.  We had a foot of new snow on the the ground by 11:00 in the morning.  I started thinking that maybe today wasn't the best day to drive others peoples kids around.  So I planned an impromptu 'pirate' party just in case the snow didn't let up.  Well by the time the party started the neighborhood roads were barely passible, but the main roads were just fine.  So we headed to the jumping zoo.

Moey on the 3 story high slide

There were about 15 different inflatable jumpy slidey fun house toys for the kids to play on.  They had much fun. (Note, Gavin still didn't get his two front teeth for his birthday.)

Halle on a bouncy snail.

We returned home to presents and pizza and colorful cupcakes.  5 7-year-olds have a lot of combined energy!

Wednesday

First Den Meeting

I got to hold my first Bear Cub Scout Den Meeting this week (by my self, (stupid needy client at work.))

We did more magic tricks.

After scouts we had a mad rush to start and complete two science fair projects that were due the next day.

Gavin tested Density, first by testing which was heavier, oil, water and corn syrup.  Then he tested several different small items to see if they would float or sink in the density concoction.

Moey wanted to see what she could add to bubble solution to see if you could make bubbles last longer.  She tried sugar, salt, pepper, corn syrup, maple syrup, and extra water.

The results were fairly predictable, pepper and sugar didn't help so much.  The syrups helps some.  But the results that we were not expecting is that SALT added to the bubble solution make the bubbles last exponentially longer!  The bubble lasted an average of 16 seconds, the longest salt solution bubble lasted more than 4 minute.

They didn't even mark the salt on this graph, because the salt points made all the other points look basically the same.

After the fun experiment part, we spent the rest of the long night working on journals and poster boards.

Yeah for procrastinators.

Thursday

Crazy hair day!

It is also Red Ribbon Week.  The kids got to dress funny each day this week.  I am just realizing that I didn't get any pictures of  "Career Day"  Moey dressed as a Zoo Keeper and Gavin Dress as a Scientist (think Bill Nye.)

Moey had  the great idea of using paper cups to give her self voluminous ponytails.

Halle's hair is always crazy

Gavin got a faux hawk.

Thursday night was the open house for the science fair.  Gavin has Gymnastics on Thursday, so he didn't come with us.

Friday

Go visit family

Don't go anywhere because the car is back in the shop.

We had to replace the front deferential in my car a couple of weeks ago.  It cost a pretty penny.  So when the 'service 4 wheel drive' light came on again, we rushed the car back to the shop, leaving me car less.  Here's the hitch.  The car shop closes at 3:00 on Fridays, and is closed on Saturdays. So if I wanted my car back before Monday, I had to figure out how to get it myself.  

So Cooper got his first stroller ride! Fortunately, the car shop is only one mile away from our house.  We only got stuck in the snow a few time. ;)

Whew, what a week!  Time for some snuggle for me!