Thursday, December 27, 2012

Friday, December 21, 2012

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Study Party at the Bookstore

So nice to have someone to study with! 

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Carsten is a GREEN belt!

He's done with the beginner belts.  Green is an INTERMEDIATE belt.  Congratulations, Carsten!


Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Portrait of Some Pumpkins

Frances' pumpkin
Athena's pumpkin
Carsten's pumkin sitting on Athena's pumpkin's head (do pumpkins have heads?)



Frances' other pumpkin

Yikes!



Sunday, October 14, 2012

Carsten at Snorkel Control

Touring the Blueback Submarine

The Sonar Room (Steering! Although we're not really moving)
At Snorkel Control
The Torpedo Room.   That's just a manikin up on the top bunk, but the torpedoes are real!



Friday, September 21, 2012

Happy Birthday, Athena!

13
I think she'll be an easy one to get through the teenage years due to her high level of common sense.  So far so good.,

Update five minutes later:  Uh oh.  I asked her what she wanted for dinner, and she said "cake".  I laughed and said sure but of course was joking. . .two minutes later now, and Carsten just came in to ask me if he can have cake for dinner, too, and reports that Athena is eating "a ton of cake' . . .

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Today's News

Today's Register Guard

Gramma's new Boston Bull, Mindy

Friday, August 31, 2012

Sunday, August 12, 2012

日本の本!

Look at what I bought!







Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Hi Frances!

Message for Frances <3

We sure miss Frances, all the way over in Japan.  But maybe it'll be nice for her to have a little break from her younger siblings ;)




Saturday, June 9, 2012

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Posttest Post Kung Fu and Calculus





We had two tests today. . .Carsten had his belt test -- the first one in the big kid class!  He now will have belt tests less frequently but his belts will be solid colors only.  He is now an ORANGE BELT! 

. . .And Frances had a FOUR HOUR AP CALCULUS EXAM Four hour calculus exam sounds hard to me, but reportedly it was "almost easy."  Probably it was only easy because Frances was the one taking it!