Circadian Rhythms, September 2015

Other photos and happenings from September...

A Sophie creation

A little bike riding before school

Everyone passed their eye exams

Sitting in a box

Taking down dead trees in the yard

Sitting in a box in the yard

Pretty hair

Roasted peppers out of the garden and into the freezer

Sophie was not a huge fan of volleyball clinic

Hannah's now a flute player! (Thanks, Kelly!)

Colorful sunset

Last swim of the season

My latest theology hero tweeted me... quite the exciting day!

Snuggled in my bed instead of getting ready for school

Making pancakes with dad ...

... and cheesing for the camera

Fun selfie with MS colleagues

Hannah's 6th grade school photo

Burning of Fort Seybert

My colleague Susan, who is Hannah's 6th grade social studies teacher this year, is very involved in the Treasure Mountain Festival in Pendleton County, WV. Her family has long lived on the land where a colonial era fort stood called Fort Seybert. In 1758 the fort was raided by Indians and the English settlers taken captive. (For links to further details on the story, see here.) Each year re-enactors from the time period gather on the site to demonstrate what life was like in the colonial era and to tell the story of the fort's capture, which concludes with a burning of a model fort. Here are photos from the day. Other than the excitement of the burning, the other highlight of the day was having Mrs. Melendez teach us how to throw a hatchet.

Sophie's 2nd Soapbox Experience

In September Sophie had her second experience racing a soapbox derby car. Here's what she had to say about it. (Photos courtesy of Papa.)

A soap box derby is when two cars race two times each time on a diffrent track.

Now I will be telling what I think of racing

Racing in A soap box derby is really fun you get to race against people you don't know which makes it easier to concentrate sometimes a race against people you do know is fun to for example I have raced against Eleanor Yoder who is a friend from Church I have also raced against Taylor Myers  and sometimes you don't win sometimes you do. My dads friend Matt is the person who runs all of this his daughter Miley races to.

This year I raced to times the first time was the very first time I raced. last Saturday I raced my second time.

Soap box Derby helmets look like this.

Hannah Turns 11

I attempted to get Hannah to write the post to go with these photos, but apparently both she and I have been too busy to get to it! So here's the short version...

Friday after school she had friends over for a sleepover. It involved swimming (twice, once in the afternoon and once after dark), chocolate peanut butter pie with sparkler candles, and sleeping bags in the library. A fun time was had by all!

Saturday and Sunday she opened gifts. Lately she's very into space and robotics. Basketball will be her sport this year, and she's been practicing some with her dad. Sophie got Legos too.

Monday she got to pick the restaurant she wanted to go to with Granny and Papa. Wood Grill was the choice. We had some selfie fun while we waited.