72 Hour Kit

Good family night tonight! We opened up the 72 hour kit to check on it since Mt. St. Helens is starting to rumble again with earthquakes. We were shocked to see how long it had been!...I had diapers in there for Katie (now 8) and all the food expired back in 2005. Good thing we checked it out. I'd hate to see how my nearly 6' teenagers would squeeze into size 8 undies! :)

New guest poster...Alexis Monique

Alexis REALLY wants to have her own blogging page. Problem is, she's only 11 and I worried about her doing that on her own. I agreed to let her occasionally be a guest poster on the family blog. She calls those posts: "Monique Moments," after her middle name. She totally cracks me up! So, when you see the "MMs" you will now know those are all Lexi!

monique moment

look at that, little miss scholar :)

MONIQUE MOMENT.

JUST TWO BFF'S!

8th grade Science Experiment = Explosions

Evan and his friend Spencer had to devise an experiment for their upcoming Science Fair. They decided to go with something that exploded, of course. They dropped various numbers of mint Mentos candies into Diet Coke and watched the chemical reaction. Spencer's dad, Rich, and friend #3, Grant, all came to watch the display. Katie and I were there to video tape. This video is the last bottle where they put the rest of the Mentos they had in for a total of 22 Mentos. They are total spazzes. Gosh! I love these teenage boys!

Leadership Alexis

The principal of our school recently invited two girls from each 5th grade class to lead the school in a penny drive. Our little Alexis was one of them! The author of the book, "Three Cups of Tea" is coming to town soon and all the schools are raising money to give this author since he uses all funds to build schools in the Middle East for girls. Alexis is BEYOND excited and is just thrilled to be in charge of something. She is driving me slightly crazy thinking of all the things they can do to motivate the students to bring pennies. Kind of a bad picture of all the girls! They are super cute otherwise! This photo is on the school's website and you can view it up close by clicking here. :)

Fundraising Dinner

Happy to see our friends the Evans. He's a judge with the superior court and we love them all to pieces. Isn't it great that such a good man sits as judge of the community?! We heart him and his cute fam! Here Alexis is showing our ticket #68 (they were on #40). We waited a while, but it was worth it.

One of our community members passed away last week and a local burger joint decided to do a fundraiser for his family. This good man was a deputy with the Sheriff's department and also coached football and basketball at the high school and middle school. He was 37 years old and died of a sudden heart attack while playing a pick-up basketball game. He leaves behind three young children.

We decided to converge on this small restaurant and make that our dinner plans. We were delighted to see so many of our friends come out and support this man's family. The restaurant eventually ran out of food. Makes you glad to live in a small town sometimes.