Baby, baby.....

And more babies! Rose's Girl Scout troop is making up gift boxes for the local rehabilitation center and asked for donations. I had seen this pattern for dolls to donate a while ago and fell in love.....They were a big hit with the brownies, especially mine!

A bag of dollies! I am definitely keeping this pattern to use again, so sweet :)

Jr. Honor

Liam made the Honor roll again this quarter!!
This is the first honor roll in Junior High, a little different than grade school. An assembly with his whole team to show what good grades everyone has. Liam's school does a team program, students have a group of core teachers for their regular subjects (math, english, science and social studies) that are shared with everyone on your team....maybe 100 students per team, 2 seventh grade and 2 eighth grade teams. This works out really well as all the teachers coordinate homework and projects.
In case the pic is too blurry, his GPA reads 3.5714

SAVFD

Today for Jr FLL we had a visit from an Ambulance! The Junior First Lego League program is new this year in Fairbanks, but I couldn't pass up the chance to get Rose involved. For this program each group must choose some form of biomedical engineering to study and do a lego model and presentation about. As you can see our group chose to study an Ambulance. The very nice folks at Steese Area Volunteer Fire Department were nice enough to bring theirs by to show us.

Patriots

Abbie Rose's second grade class went to the Pioneers Home today to preform a patriotic program for the residents in honor of Veterans Day.

They whole class sang some songs and some of them also had a short speech. Rose said a quote from Martin Luther King.

The residents all enjoyed it very much (especially Great Grandma!) and so did the kids!

Skiing!

We all have skis now! Today was our first day of skiing as a family, we went up to Birch Hill Ski to use their arena. A nice flat groomed area to learn in. Sorry the pics are a little blurry, the camera was cold and having a hard time getting moving...next time I will remember to put it in an inside pocket!

Bouillabaisse

This time with traditional fish! Loosely based on the Cook's Illustrated chicken bouillabaisse. Very tasty and added to the list of really good things to make for dinner :)

For those wondering, bouillabaisse is a fish stew with potatoes, fennel bulb, tomatoes and wine sauce spiced with saffron. You serve it with something called rouille, a sort of spicy saffron mayonnaise sauce.

Late trick-or-treats

A big mama and her this years calf came to eat the frozen pumpkins late last night. We spooked them off long enough to toss the pumpkins off the front porch, can't have them breaking my duck (or the porch!) But they must have lost intrest as the punkins were still there in the morning. I'm going to stack them up out in the yard today!