Loving Christmas Break

Only a few days into Christmas break and I am LOVING it!! Having nothing to do and no where to be is fabulous. We sleep until we can't sleep anymore and I have decided that I deserve a break from the 6:00 am treadmill run every weekday morning until school is back in session. The kids are enjoying playing outside until the sun goes down and we even saw Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs yesterday. We have already made a quick trip down to Austin to visit with the Jones side of our family and tomorrow we will head to Missouri to be with the Martin side. We are very excited about Christmas and Santa Claus coming to visit...only 3 more days!! Hooray for Christmas Break!

Grossology

On Friday Joshua and I went on a really gross field trip. In Frisco there is a Sci-Tech Discovery Center where Grossology is now on tour. Most the time we are trying to teach our kids when it is the appropriate place to burp or toot or whatever...and to use their manners. Well at this place it is very acceptable to talk about all of our bodily functions...in fact they want you to. The kids thought it was great as we learned about throw-up, poop, toots, blisters, burps, snot, boogers, and every other gross bodily function that is part of the human body.

Did you know that your small intestines is 20 ft. long?
- or that on average we burp 15 times a day
- or that E. Coli is good in the body but bad out of the body
- or that we swallow 1 liter of snot every day
These are just a few of the fun facts that we learned. We also got to help dissect a cow eyeball, and see how our stomach digests food...it was pretty gross to say the least.

Joshua with a giant pair of kidneys

His homemade blister....ewww!

We walked through a gigantic nose. These are some lovely nose hairs.


Noses come in all shapes and sizes. I don't know what Joshua is doing in this picture....silly kid.

Dissecting cow eyeballs. Another interesting fact that we learned is that cows have night vision and all cows have brown eyes.

A giant game of operation..Joshua with part of the intestines

This is Nigel...he constantly has snot dripping out of his nose.
The boys loved this station. They got to make farting noises over and over and over again.
This is the skin wall. Their were hair follicles that the kids could climb on like a climbing wall. We were running out of time so we just took a quick snap shot. The kids were really tired at this point and ready to have lunch. I don't know how they could even think about food after all the disgusting things we had seen and learned.
Joshua's group ready to head back to school.....it was a really gross day!

Cutest Baby Ever

I swiped this picture from my mom's blog. This is my niece, Payton. I love this picture...it makes me smile. Isn't she the cutest thing ever? I could just eat her up!!

Joshua's 9th birthday...Lego style

Joshua had a great birthday party yesterday. He is obsessed with legos so we had to have a lego themed party. He and his friends first rocked out to lego rockband (which by the way is so much fun), they each had their very own lego kit to build picked out especially by Joshua, and the goody bags were a big hit...complete with a lego coupon, lego magazine, lego club membership, tips and tricks card, and of course a bunch of candy. The goody bags were so cute but I totally forgot to get a picture...ugh! It was a fabulous party if I do say so myself. :)

Josh and one of his best buds, Andrew rockin' out to "We are the Champions" by Queen. (please ignore the red eye)

Most of the group with their power miner lego kits

Building the kits...

The finished project

Hmmm.....What should I wish for??

Joshua's favorite series of books......Diary of a Wimpy kid. He reads these things in just a couple of days. They are very easy reads, but if you have a kid that hates to read. These are great!

Joshua hit it big with cash and several gift cards...he's a "loaded man", or so he says.

This gift got all the "oohs" and "ahhs" from the crowd. His friend, Jaren was very generous with this gift. Joshua is dying to put it together.

One of Joshua's favorite things about legos is the little lego people. I haven't figured out why, but they have become a real obsession for him. He has a small tackle box in which he stores them. He takes them with him almost every where we go...or he at least tries to. Cary figured this lego tic, tac, toe game would be perfect for him because it came with 10 lego people. As of this morning I think Joshua estimated he has about 50 of these little guys.

It was a good birthday...now only 19 days left until Christmas!!

"This is like the best birthday present ever"

Today is Joshua's 9th birthday. He woke up to what he says is the best birthday present ever....SNOW!! Of course it is raining now and almost all melted, but it was super exciting and fun while it lasted.