02-08 Kids

Here is Gabe doing what he usually does,  gaming and/or chatting with friends.

And here is Mic doing what she does as often as possible and I'm not talking about the emptying the dishwasher part. She is, most of the time, on the phone.  So if you try to call and we don't answer, it's probably because she is chatting with one of her friends. ;-)

02-07 Drain Pipe

We do not know why but Michaela always goes over to this drain pipe during our walks.  She is usually sitting and looking into the pipe.  During one walk Brian and both kids explored several feet into the pipe with flash lights.

02-06 Field Trip

Today we went to Inner Space Caverns in Georgetown TX.  Met our Eagles homeschool group there.

When we first arrived we had a picnic lunch and played on the playground.

And finally we headed down into the cave.  There is usually a train that carries everyone down but the car was undergoing repairs so we got to walk down. Walking up was the work out part.

We enjoyed our one hour tour in the cave.  Saw many stalactites and stalagmites and even a few bats that were hanging around.

02-05 Robot Battle

The boys robots are built and Gabe programmed them.  You would see on the video that Gabe needs to do some reprogramming but I can't get the video to load. I'll have to work on that later. 

02-04 Josey's haircut

We stayed home today.  I did something that I have been putting off for many months.  Got all the clots of hair off of Josey.  I watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and had Josey on the couch with me. (Now I get to watch the two Harry Potter movies I have yet to see)  Pretty much had to cut all the hair off.   She really doesn't look like a schnauzer anymore. I'm sure once we shave her she'll look more like  her cute self. =)

02-03 4 Leaf Clover

It's hard to see but those are two 4-leaf clovers.  Brian and Mic found them on our walk this evening.  Those clovers are popping up all over everyone's yards.  They even found a clover with 5 leaves.

02-02 Baking

Last week I received a bag of starter dough from someone at work.  It's called Amish Friendship Bread.  Yesterday was baking day.  I had two bags of the starter so I got to make 4 loafs of bread.  The first two were the original recipe, cinnamon bread.  The second two I made into Lemon bread.  Currently I still have 4 bags of starter is anyone is interested.  I have learned that it can be frozen to use at a later date.

Cinnamon bread was yummy. Crusty on the top because I didn't dust the top with sugar and cinnamon. I poured. ;-p

The Lemon bread kinda stuck to the pan but you can see all the poppy seeds! :-D  And again, I should have dusted the sugar on the top but you can never have too much sugar!

02-01 Veterans Memorial Park

We had a lovely 80 degree day today.  Seriously I'm not too happy about it.  It would be nice to have winter before heading into the 100 degree weather again.  But the nice day did not go to waste.  We started out at the Cedar Park Bark Park for Josey.  She isn't much of a dog when around other dogs, she turns into a chicken.  I didn't take any photos there but I pretty much had to pull and coax her around.  So we walked across the parking lot to the Veterans Memorial.  Haven't been over there to check it out until today.  Pretty cool. We walked the sidewalk that circles the memorial all the way to the top of the hill.  Took a stop near the top for the photo.  Wish my phone took better pictures.

I tried to get a nice shot of them but all Mic wanted to do was get away from her brother.