Touring

We Took a Totally Terrific Tour of the Arizona State Capitol Museum.  It was really fun and interesting until my big kids all got distracted pretending that they were the original senators in the historic House Chamber.  They were so silly moving from desk to desk and reading the plaques about the men who sat at the desks, that our tour guide abruptly said "thank you for coming on the tour, feel free to look at the last room on your own".  I think my kids were better behaved when they were little.

 Here is the fancy mosaic of the great Seal of Arizona.  This photo was taken from the 2nd floor.  The guide pointed out that the mosaic is missing the cattle, but the mosaic was so expensive that they just put it in with the mistake.  I would have thought that being really expensive you would want it to be accurate.

 Here is the front of the Historic Capitol Building and the back of Truman.

This is the room where our tour guide abruptly departed.

Hazel enjoying the fountain in the rotunda in front of the Capitol.

 There are monuments to wars and memorials.  This is our favorite, one of the anchors from the USS Arizona.  (inside the museum they had an exhibit of artifacts from the excavation of the USS Arizona).

 There is a stamp on the anchor that tells it's weight: 19535 lbs.

 Truman and Abby worked together and could almost lift the chain.

 Hazel looking cute.

And the USS Arizona again.  This is the top portion of the tallest mast.

Happy Birthday Sydney!

The kids have realized that they don't have to choose birthday cake.   Sydney requested Flan this year.  It was a good choice.  It was the best flan I have ever made, it was silky smooth!

She had trick candles and so we spent a long time in the dark waiting for the candles to go out.

Sydney always wears mismatched tall socks.  She got a lot of socks for her birthday this year.

There was something else in the box hidden under the socks! 

Simply Stupendous

I can not account for R, so that brings us to S on the Sixteenth.

 Scrumptious Scones (thanks for the recipe Kami) and Strawberries.

 Silly Smiles.

 Skateland.

 Sydney Sipped Soda Solo.

 Six Siblings Sip Soda Simultaneously.

 Hazel the Skating fiend.  Last time we went skating she Struggled to Stay up-right.  This time she was quite independant.

 Sitting.

 S candies, and Scary Christian.

 Snickers really satisfies.

 Suprise it's Sydney's birthday.

 Sour!

Seat.

A Non-Alphabet Related Interlude

Christian and Truman spent the week removing what was left of our eucalyptus tree.  They told me that Truman just fell in the hole and looked so casual, that we just had to take a picture.

I am really glad to have the tree removed!  Now Kenneth can build me a clothes line!

Quality Q

 Abby gives a Querying glance

 This is the Quiche that was Quite good.

 Here is a side view demonstrating it's Quality ingredients.

 Hazel is in a Quandry.

The Quiche was consumed Quite Quickly and without Quarreling!

P is for Pirate Party

We celebrated P day by participating in our annual Pirate Party. We even took Photos.

 The treasure hunt!

Pirates have no manners.  The only silverware you are allowed is a knife.

 Pirates grab food.

Hazel won the belching contest.

Pirates are allowed to put their feet up, but other pirates are allowed to knock you off your chair if your feet are in their face.

Girls make great pirates too!

O - Oops

This post has been taking too much work.  Octavius the Oreo Octopus will join us when she is ready.

Other O activities:
We did eat Oreos.
We went Outside
and we did some Other stuff.
I practiced my Oboe.
Hazel was Ornery.

N is Nothing

 Here are some kids doing nothing.

 The weather was rainy, which is unusual, but also a pleasant surprise!

 Truman (above) played his tuba with me.  The etudes in my oboe book (below) have a bass line.  We sounded great together!

 Abby looking patriotic in the super hero bonnet.

 Syd and Abby enjoying the rain.

 We did a test of smoke bombs.  The Black cat brand were the superior smokers.

The Marshmallow fight we couldn't fit in on M-day.

Sparkler Art.

 If you look hard you can see christian's name in the above picture and Mom in the picture below.

In an effort to be American.  We made apple pie floats.  Apple soda and vanilla ice cream with carmel sauce on top.  Kenneth said it would be gross.  He admitted his mistake after one slurp.