Little Update

I just wanted to let everyone know that I haven't forgotten about blogging, I've just been a little busy lately. I plan on putting up some pictures of all my pretty plants that are growing like crazy! I also plan to put up some pictures from our last weekend when we climbed Mount St. Helens.

I promise that I didn't forget about the blog...it's just been a little crazy with lots of stuff going on. I have also started a summer class this week. I go 2 hours a day, Monday-Thursday. It is a nutrition class and it's been pretty interesting so far. It's only 4 weeks too, so that will be nice. I'll have another class done and still practically have my whole summer left!

So, there will be more updates to come soon. I hope everyone is enjoying the sun while it's out! With the way this weather's been, who knows how long it will last!

The Garden...

So, our little garden is just growing away! Everything is coming up and growing just great! I'll keep the post short so you can get to the pictures.

Here is one of our tomato plants, flowering!

The carrots are growing little by little

Our bell pepper plant with a little flower
The parsley

Lettuce growing a little bit
The potatoes are growing. Some of the potatoes seem to want to come up but I just keep covering them back up and let them grow...but they're growing!

Rich's Rocket

This past weekend, Rich and I were sitting around the house and he was playing a little Rocket Robin in the morning. Then he turned to me and said, "Let's go get some model rockets!" So we went down to the hobby shop and picked out our rockets and paint and then came home for a day full of building and painting. This post is just going to show Rich's rocket because his is done. I'm still painting some of mine, so I'll post that soon when it's finished. So here's our day in pictures and Rich's rocket!

Rich cutting out the rocket fins

Rich and his rocket engine

The nose of the rocket

Waiting for the glue to dry
Still waiting for the glue to dry...
Rocket painted with primer
Waiting for the paint to dry

Rich's Rocket! (I just wanted to say that this rocket was called the Baby Bertha at the store...Big Bertha with the mommy rocket I guess, and it was definitely big!)

Rocket Robin Update

So Rich and I have been playing the Rocket Robin game again and he's made it up all the way up to 450,802 meters. Well, I was playing some this morning and I got 442,873 meters! I'm sooooo excited.

Just a screen shot of my amazing altitude!

So, how far can you make it?

It's Been An Early Morning...

This morning Rich and I were woken out of a dead sleep...well Rich was anyway. I got up at 4:30 because I had to use the bathroom and then I couldn't fall back asleep. I was almost back asleep when, at 5:00 there is an instant, gushing water sound. It sounded like there was water just pouring down the outside of our bedroom wall, only it wasn't outside...it was coming from next door. We were both pretty awake after a minute or so and we both thought, that's the sprinkler system.
While we were trying to figure out what was going on, the fire alarms started going off. Now these aren't your normal fire alarms like you have in your house...no these are like the ones you find in schools. We even have one of those really loud red boxes right outside our bedroom door and a bell that goes off outside. So as soon as those start going Rich and I get dressed and head outside. So we're standing outside for a minute or so and I say, "look at all the water poring off the porch of the apartment next door to ours!" Oddly enough the guy standing next to us was the guy that lived there. He said that it wasn't his because the water was pouring down his sliding door, so he thought it was someone above him.
After a little longer I noticed that there wasn't even the sound of firetrucks. I told Rich, "good thing this isn't a real fire, because it's sure taking the fire department a long time to get here!" A few minutes later the fire department did show up complete with oxygen tanks and axes. We immediately thought, someone's door is going to be bashed in. (Luckily no one's door was actually bashed in.)
It turns out that, each apartment has a sprinkler outside on their porch as well as sprinklers inside. The sprinkler outside on our neighbors porch had gone off. The firemen were really confused because sprinklers are supposed to do that, they don't go bad or get set off accidentally...they should only go off for a reason. So they had to replace the sprinkler before we were allowed back inside. They fixed the sprinkler, but I noticed they were still trying to figure it out while we all went back inside.
We ended up standing outside for about an hour in total. Luckily it wasn't raining like it's supposed to today...
So that was our morning. I'm completely awake now and I can tell it's going to be a loooong day. Now what am I going to do for 3 and a half hours until class starts?