Cool Punch Bug!

We used slo-mo to figure out why two spidget finners were pulsing...?

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Andy finally gets a "first-hand" bike. :)

He's usually the "beneficiary" of hand-me-downs".

Tasted just about like you'd expect. Pretty odd!

Johnny was begging me to let him browse YouTube!

I asked him for what. He replied that he wanted to research "regression to the mean". By all means, haha. We listened to it, together, in the car.

I ran out of sick days, so I called in dead!

Sometimes you're just content to have laundry piled on your face!

This is definitely one of those weeks! ;)

Shall we play a game of cat and mouse?!

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Look what Isaac alerted us to!

Julie and Andy ran out and found a swarm of Magic Cicada and now we have several new pets!

Turns out, Johnny's team took third place at the state competition., last weekend!

Silly kittens, iPads are for people!

Epic cloud formations last night!

Turns out we should have been looking behind us, while we were busy playing the gasoline game!

I won the "gasoline game" four times, in a row, while filling gas cans last night.

Johnny was impressed! ;)

Julie sent me this. I guess she's launched a new business?

Andy's last one for now, a yo-yo player.

Andy's figuring out how to make his 3D pen work for him.

Here's his Kendama player!

Start of the summer fun at youth group.

You can get a little feel for what shooting on steel is like

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Just some random, pre-summer fun

You can click the link to see what we've been up to, so far. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwbarton/albums/72157683685933216

"Stop staring at my ammo!"

Between the two of them, they've tucked away 100 rounds for their next stage. :)

A great way to spend the morning, yesterday!

Andy's work from his 3D pen!

A volley ball player.

Where does that door go?

"Probably leads to the roof, but it's guarded by a plant…!"

Johnny gets to compete at states, this weekend.

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My nephew's eye for photography!

Good thing I just got out of the car wash. It was clear blue sky's at the time…

The boys stalking my mom's cat.

Good thing she's easy going! Haha.

Julie says she sees a wolf among us... ;)

Now that's some spicy chocolate...

It was sure fun hanging out with my mom, at the Dragon's, for Mother's Day!

Jungle camo cat!

Johnny's first steel challenge

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Women can be so scary!

Percy and Shadow just suddenly decided to have a standoff. I agree with Percy! ;)

25 feet each, of 3 different weights, easily stowable in a backpack, and rapidly deployable

The perils of being a gummy army man in "battle" at our house...

Andy swears the pink ones taste better than the blue ones...!

Maybe it's like left vs. right Twix!?

Happy Mother's Day to my kid's wonderful mom!

6331 = I Love you

More math fun with the boys...!

Part of a big man fun day today!

Sometimes, you just need to spend the weekend at Grammy's!

Nice night for a ball game, last night!

Highlights from Andy's volleyball game

We had a UFO sighting this week...!

Oh wait, I think it might be Andy's drone...?

Volleyball fun. Andy's serve/point/bump and the hazards of spectating.

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Having fun solving triangles with stir sticks, over coffee, with my boy.

We're debating the relationships of the sides of a 30-60-90 vs. a 3-4-5. Good times.

Andy's overflow from his skill shelf, nicely organized!

The clouds have been great lately.

Probably from all the changing weather!?

Andy's first volleyball game last night

My nephew's peep box, book report handy-work!

The top photo is the outside, the bottom photo is the inside. He made the figures out of Sculpy clay

Some of the fun of Andy's birthday!

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I'm sensing a theme here...!

To see all the Kendama from Andy's birthday, click the link below:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwbarton/albums/72157681582503670

The clouds and sunset were epic last night

Cognex car?

Just wait until he gets all the graphics applied...

It's that time of year again.

Country life...!

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Another year of AWANA.

We even had Cubbie Bear!!! I'm proud of my boys and their willingness to serve.

Nice view in our front yard!

Happy birthday buddy!

The Kendama King! He's amassing quite a collection!