Keeners

We wanted the kids to have something fun to do during Spring Break so we decided to finally go to the Evergreen Air & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon to see the Spruce Goose.

The entrance fee is a little spendy but it’s worth it. The Goose is impressive.  Its wings (largest wingspan ever built) reach from one end of the museum to the other with all of the other planes fitting around it. The Space Museum is excellent as well showcasing models of the lunar lander and the Titan Rocket used to launch the Apollo missions, as well as tracing the timeline of our journey into space.

We also saw the Space Station 3D IMAX movie. I think Noah is less inclined to pursue being an astronaut at this point, having gotten a close up view of life as a modern astronaut. Not exactly Buzz Lightyear.

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Noah graduated from his  yellow belt to his orange belt in his karate school on March 27 at Union High School.

He had to do his focus form (aiya, in, down, pushdown, sir) and his escrima stick form (strikes 1-8).

He now begins working toward his purple belt.

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This year, I decided to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by making an Irish Lamb stew, having root beer and watching The Gnome Mobile with the kids.

A leprechaun left the kids a little surprise – a bag of green M&Ms and some chocolate “gold” as well as a Shamrock necklace filled with bubbles.

The kids enjoyed The Gnome Mobile. Noah even picked out a “jaunty” car from the prize box at school the next day for his reading group prize.

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Kaara’s preschool Christmas program was originally scheduled for December 19 but the “Arctic Blast” caused it to be rescheduled for January 6.

I was afraid it was going to be cancelled altogether when we woke up to 2 inches of snow on January 5 but fortunately the rain came and the program proceeded on January 6.

We came home from practice and I fortunately decided to have her try on the dress for the program, which I thought was hanging in her closet. But when I went to her closet, there was no dress. Wasn’t in her dresser drawers either. Have no idea where it is and so Kaara and I made an emergency shopping trip to find a Holiday dress. Fortunately, the new Penny’s opened last fall and they had several dresses to choose from. Kaara liked this pink one right from the start so that’s what we went with. Unfortunately, I didn’t think any of her shoes would go with it so we headed to ShoeSource and found these pretty silver ones that matched the buckle on the dress – the shoes cost more than the dress!

The kids did really well on their songs even though they hadn’t practiced in 3 weeks.

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