Things we did and made this week

Earlier this week we were visited by a Frenchman wearing a Bob Sanders jersey who was much more peculiar than any other Frenchman who has ever paid us a visit. He brought us bread. Turns out he was very nice and hardly spoke with any accent. Becca, George and I had a wonderful time listening to his wild stories about life in Paris. We're not sure where Owen was the whole time.

After our visitor left us, we knew just what to do with the bread. Mmm, french toast. If only our guest had arrived with syrup, too. Oh, well. C'est la vie.

The boys were floored by Rick's spell-ability.

George--aka G-point-one-four--sporting the fly pi medalion he crafted to celebrate Pi Day, March 14th (3-14, get it?).

This part of Owen's US government project highlights on our president. (By design, Mr Obama's head is not to scale.)

Signs of spring

Signs of spring are everywhere. Slowly the neighborhood is coming back to life.

The balls, bats, kicking tees and training cones we planted last fall are coming up earlier than expected.

Another great weekend

Another weekend races by. This one was all about making good food and cakes, painting, trading cards, the art museum, muscle making, music making, football at Butler, hoops, differential equations and some evening game-playing as we lounged by the fire. If only the weekend lasted all week.



Becca's screen print. She liked it so much she taught the process to her students and they went nuts.

When I figure out what this means, I will let you know. This is Rick writing, not Becca.

Owen is gearing up for his career in film. He spent much of each morning filming a riveting LEGO baseball story. He made it with our video camera, but in a stop-motion way. What took him an hour to film lasted about two minutes in real time. It was great. Circular white pieces attached to string looked just like baseballs flying out of the stadium. There was a serious collision at the plate but the ump missed the call. Really, we got it on tape.

George went deep in his own right. He made this collage for class because they are studying the states, and his pick for the midwest was Iowa, of course. Rememebr, he's named after the quasi-official king of the southeast region, home-based on the Iowa Girls Farm in Mt Union. Not only that, but his father was born in the booming metropolis of Mt Pleasant, his grandmother was once crowned Queen of the Rural Electrical Co-op, and his grandfather, according to a handful of aging residents of the Wayland retirement home, is still considered the sharpest shooter the WACO High basketball team has ever known.

Friday night means pizza night. Homemade Thai Pizza was this Friday's delight.