Some days, it takes all your strength and you still end up face down in your makeup tray...

Julie loves her new fireflies from my mom.

Emoji Andy

Three down, three to go. :)

Even Shadow enjoys "watching" movies with us.

See through pop cans...

Happy Birthday Julie! :)

Awww

We're refreshing our memories...

Gotta be ready for our family date on Thursday. :)

Shadow found shelter in the kindling bag in the wood box.

She blends in so well, we can't hardly see her in there.

What a tiny little iPad I have...!

This is not good. ;) Julie's is in the foreground, mine's the one on the right. She's enjoying watching me "suffer". Haha.

Christmas boys 2015

Photo-bomb courtesy of Brutus!

Your cat's all flat and junk!

My sister in-law drew this. Three minutes on Julie's iPad.

The range is hot!

Julie finished her mounting of Mandy the Mantis.

Engineering: The use of natural laws applied for the mastery of natural forces.

Shadow loves to kill some rope!

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We learned how to use a pump drill last weekend

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A Purrrrrrfect Pair!

See how she's reaching up to touch his face... Awwwww.

Shadow is sitting in, with Johnny, on school for a bit...

In case you missed it, yesterday was Take Your Dragon(s) to Work day!

He's making progress with his armor...

I didn't know a candy company was part of our repertoire.

Build your own pizza. $7.25 for any combo you can dream up and ready in ~4 minutes.

Rapid Fire Pizza. Yum!

"I really love my Pepsi!"

Andy's school art project. Just a an artful arrangement of glitter glue.

Daybreak at Sunwatch India Village

We enjoyed seeing the shadows of their giant sun-dial nearing the Winter Solstice.

At least our hut had a furnace!

We learned to use a pump drill too.

Our hotel for the night last night. 23 degrees outside... Sleeping like prehistoric Buckeyes.

Now Andy's making chainmail!

What fun to hear the belt sander kick on in the workshop…

My curiosity piqued, I wandered in to find the boys, working together, building popsicle stick models.

Andy's been discovering what he can build with popsicle sticks and a glue gun..! :)

Johnny's all dressed up for the Nutcracker and hanging out with his new Shadow

She sits wherever he is!

Shadow adopted Johnny today.

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Another shot of Shadow

Puppy love...

Don't let David fool you--He clearly LOVES Brutie!

We officially added a cat to our back porch. Meet Shadow.

She follows him everywhere he goes, outside. She just waits for him by the back door when he's inside.

December?

I'm sitting on my back porch working on our family Bible study and I'm a little warm...!?
Well, Merry Christmas anyhow. :)

Great pictures of the boys goofing around with Brutus!

This crazy dog lets them do anything to him and never seems to get the least bit worried...!

An almost eerie glow this morning.

The cloud covered sunrise cast a lavender hue over the whole sky for a few minutes.

Julie finished decorating this year's tree.

Check out the "enormitree" of it! It's wider than I am tall!

The boys thought it was cool how I showed them to make a CD unusable...! :)

I figured I'd put some old computers to good use...

The boys were very interested in them. They're disassembling them piece by piece and figuring out what each piece does.

I bought a new timer so I stepped Johnny through fixing it himself.

"There dad, I fixed it!"

The spring, on the fan timer, gave out. Andy noticed this and came up with a quick fix that actually worked pretty well. :)

Andy's robot he made for himself

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Yo-Yo 2

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Now Johnny gets to start on his robot.

Andy's bot. Stage one complete.

Worked perfectly, first try. It actually drives pretty easily.

I captured a few frozen fall scenes this morning. Click the link to see them.

You can see all of them here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwbarton/albums/72157661881554452

Andy's puppet

Eerie morning

Frozen!

Johnny found this frosty spider web, just off our back porch, this morning.