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Water Rocket

Emily — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:40:05 +0000

If only I had a video camera to capture this – this rocket launches fast (the 3 pictures above were all taken within one second). Ryder built it out of PVC pipe and a 2 liter bottle for our church’s VBS program. The short story of how it works: slide a half-full 2 liter bottle on the end of a PVC pipe. Hook up a bike pump to the other end of the pipe. Pump until highly pressurized. Pull string to release bottle. Get wet. Over the 4th of July, we took it out on the river with Ryder’s family and had a blast (ha ha ha) with it.

Sailboat Centerpiece

Emily — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:44:01 +0000

I’m not much for flowers on my table, but sailboats? That I can do.

Q: What’s the easiest way to get a Christmas tree out of a second story apartment?

Emily — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:48:01 +0000

moving

Emily — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:33:00 +0000

double the Ryder, double the fun…

Christmas Review, part 4

Emily — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:57:01 +0000

And last but not least, part 4 of the Christmas craftiness:

a pair of slippers for Chloe

And best of all, they fit!

Happy (almost) Halloween!

Emily — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:02:00 +0000

A few weeks ago, my mom reminded me that I had some Halloween decorations here with me in Atlanta. So after pulling half the boxes out of the crawlspace in my bedroom, I found the bag containing the Halloween “puppets” I made in clay class sometime in elementary school. Say hello…

Then my dear friend Annalise came to visit while she was in town for a work conference. Visiting another mutual friend, we got to carve a pumpkin! Carving pumpkins is probably my favorite Halloween activity, besides eating candy corn, of course.

(click for all the Halloween pictures)

Anna’s Surprise Birthday Party

Emily — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:21:00 +0000

A few weeks ago, Ryder and I threw a surprise birthday party for our friend Anna. She was completely surprised and jumped about a foot in the air when twenty people yelled “surprise” from her loft.

see the whole story

Super Spinning

Emily — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:13:01 +0000

Back when Ryder and I went to the Botanical Gardens, we had lots of fun playing with a huge rock that you could spin around. I can’t take video with my camera, but I can take lots of pictures in rapid succession:

Update: if you don’t have QuickTime (cough, cough, Dave), see the Flash version

The Dandy Life of a Dandelion

Emily — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:35:00 +0000

While in Chattanooga, we studied the life cycle of a dandelion. Here, we present our findings for your review:

Los jardines

Emily — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:42:01 +0000

(the gardens, that is)

Even though the temperature reached well into the 90s (it must have, I was certainly sweltering…), Ryder and I ventured outside on a sunny Saturday to explore the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, which currently have a really cool “sculpture in motion” exhibit throughout the gardens. Most of the sculptures were moved by the breeze, some by human force, and one, by sound! The gardens also had, as you might expect, lots of pretty flowers. So, of course, we took lots of pictures.