Monday, June 11, 2018

Spring Engineering Expo

The Engineering students got to show off all of their cool work at CHS. Abby and Elisabeth's projects were by far the most advanced:

Abby showing Kevin how to wire a diode in the student-led workshop

Abby and Elisabeth demo-ing their "useless" box


Benji trying out Lena's drone

Friday, June 8, 2018

Volcano Cake

School ended last week, and it was a huge flurry of activity. For one of her last projects, Abby had to make a volcano cake for earth science. They added dry ice to it when they got to class, and apparently it looked really cool:


Thursday, June 7, 2018

Meadowcreek at Twilight

We had a beautiful evening and decided to wander down to Greenbrier Park and play in the creek:





Kevin trying to teach Benji to skip stones


Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Cub Scout Pack Advancement 2018

Benji has moved up to "Arrow of Light," the last rank before he becomes a boy scout next year:



Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Paul's Pinball Palace

We saw an ad in the local paper for a "pop-up" pinball arcade and decided to check it out. It was really fun, with lots of neat games in addition to pinball machines from many different decades:





Monday, June 4, 2018

Visit from Brady/Sugar Hollow Hike

Our friend Brady came down for a visit last weekend and we decided to take him hiking on Saturday afternoon. Because rain was threatening, we decided to stay closer to home and check out a hike at Sugar Hollow:

Benji wanted to wade in the river

Pretty butterflies congregating

There were tadpoles in every puddle




Friday, June 1, 2018

Memorial Day Flag Laying

With the cub scouts at Riverview Cemetary: