Snowstorm Harper is a family affair

 This poor son of mine was living in Hawaii 2 weeks ago... 

 Welcome home, Matt!!

 Mark knows how to dress for the weather

 Putting chains on the little tractor

 Luke helping shovel us out

 It's alot of work.

Grace and Carson have the perfect view.

 This sums it up... snowstorm Harper

 Poor Pat snowblowed at 3am, 7 am and now it's noon... probably we will need one more round of clean up... it's still snowing.

Little did I know that I was being spied on while I measured and took pictures of the snow depth.

13 inches in the backyard..

21 inches in the front yard drift

Matt is melting.... 

And she makes fun ties, too....

 I spent a couple hours making Luke a Start Wars tie.  He's very happy with it, and so am It.  

 He a pro at tying a tie.

 nice looking

Star Wars.... If you are interested in this particular tie, I have the fabric to make one more.  Comment here or shoot me a email.

Beat the Doldrums---Day 8---New growth and baseball??

 A tiny little sunflower wearing his seed coat hat..

 Baseball in Central New York...Our 12 inches of snow melted, so....play ball!!!

 Yep, 35 degrees at 3:15

 Luke has some big plans for this year!

The Naked Egg Experiment

 This is an oldie but a goodie.  But, with so many kids, and so many science experiments, I didn't realize that these two hadn't done the "naked egg" experiment. 

All you need is a jar, a raw egg and white vinegar.

Put the egg in the jar and cover with white vinegar.

 Bubbles immediately begin to form on the egg....the white vinegar has begun to dissolve the eggshell.

 After about an hour, the egg began to float.

 The next day, and the next day....change out the vinegar with fresh white vinegar.

After only one day, the shell is mostly dissolved and the egg is squishy.

 After 7 days this is what our egg on the left looks like compared to a x-large egg on the right. (we started with a medium egg)  This is also a lesson about osmosis.  

"naked eggs", raw eggs and a plastic Easter Egg

If you look carefully in the sunshine, you can see the yolk sloshing around inside the egg.  The outer membrane is quite rubbery at this point, 

 but not so rubbery that is can't break with you drop it on the counter...poor Luke!

Kim's egg made is outside and

it can bounce...a few times.

 Luke dissecting his egg goo.

Kim's splatter....the yolk was almost like playdough.

You can see our "naked egg" posts of the past here. 

The Doldrums......

I am bound and determined to get over the doldrums...

(Doldrums...defined as...a state or period of sadness or depression)

I see I haven't posted since Mark's birthday in January.  So I have decided that I will post one happy photo a day, everyday, 

To start off I give you a photo of my beautiful daughter and her brand new husband.

Photo #1

 And as a bonus photo....Kimberly and Luke

The Great Egg Drop Plop

Science rules....even on Christmas vacation!!

Gingerbread Houses-2015

 Kimberly got to work recently on our traditional gingerbread house from a box.

 great progress

 The next morning....still in her pajamas.  ...working hard...

 Finished!!!  And actually standing tall and straight!

 We then headed down the road to our local casino to see their beautiful gingerbread display. (we didn't let the kids gamble)

 Of course, everything is exciting, including parking at the top of the parking garage.  Luke wouldn't go near the edge.  

 Santa was there to greet us at the entrance to the Gingerbread Village.

 This village was amazing!  This year they added a train.  Luke loved it. 

 Santa's workshop

 SO MUCH CANDY!

 sweet, sweet kids

 That's a lot of candy canes.

 Kim-9, Luke-10 and Daddy-?

 Mom, Kim and Luke

 One BIG tree

Merry Christmas!