Crazy Hair

Hi!Abigail here!!
On Friday, March 27, 2009 it was crazy hair day at school. Me having long hair knew I had to do something. So mom did my hair and this is how it turned out!!!!! Everybody loved my hair including me!!

Thaddeus Dale Knowles!!

Our house has a very unique character, our Thaddeus! Since our grandmother has insisted that every child do a blog entry regularly, little Thaddeus has been eager to do his blog. So this entry is going to be about things that Thaddeus picks himself to be recorded. (Eliza is doing all of the actual recording, with Thaddeus dictating.
This previous week, we rented the movie "High School Musical 3". Thaddeus being much like his older brother Trevor, can never just sit through the movie, he has to be doing what they are doing in the movie. The dance scenes in High School Musical 3 were highly inspiring to Thaddeus and when ever we watch it, he dances along. One night we decided to record some of our favorite dance moves from the song, "The boys are back".



When Thaddeus is not dancing, is modeling his unique fashions!!!















One night Thaddeus couldn't find any pants. Mom told him that there were pants downstairs and thaddeus being a little self-conscious about stripping through the house so he decided that a foam roll would be better!! Don't you just love him?!

Hi -- Abigail here, with the question of the day.

How do you drown a blond?
Can you guess? Here is a hint . . .



You put a mirror at the bottom of the pool!!!!

Happy St. Patricks day!!!
from Abigail

Math Olympiad

Abigail again on this blog.

On Saturday March 14, Mom and I went to the final math Olympiad competition at Shorecrest high school.When we got there, we signed in and went to the "opening ceremonies." the opening ceremonies included the rules and thank yous to sponsors. We then went to our assigned classroom and took the first individual test. After we finished that we had a 10 minute break and took another individual test. Then we had a snack and went back in our classroom and took an easier team test. My team included me, Schuyler and Michael peters (they're twins). we finished that test and took yet another break and team test. Finally we had finished taking our tests and went to eat lunch. As soon as we were done with lunch we went to the gym for entertainment and door prizes. The entertainment was fabulous. It was a group of kids doing circus tricks. They had tightrope walking, juggling, plus lots more. Finally came the time for awards. I tied for 5 in individual and my team tied for 4.
At school the next Friday we had a party/award ceremony. I got in the top 3 for 4 grade girls and I got 4 right on one of the monthly tests, so I got recognized for that. I also got a participation award. I had a lot of fun and I'm going to do it next year.

As promised to my grandmother, I Trey, am writing this week with the intentions of publishing information and pictures about my eagle project. My eagle project was planning a Christmas Party for the Seattle Spina Bifida Organization. I was put in charge of most of the responsibilities in the planning for this event. The project began on Dec. 5, a Friday night, when about 15 people came to our church building and helped set up the cultural-hall for the event. The next day, over 100 people showed up to have some Christmas fun. For the kids, there were craft tables, letters to write to Santa, cookie decorating, and a puppet show. The adults were welcome to enjoy all those too, but I created a most-difficult Christmas trivia quiz for them. Those who answered the most questions correctly won a prize (p.s.- no one got 100%). Overall it was a really fun event and all the volunteers had a wonderful time playing with the children. I must say it was the only eagle project in history in which there were more young women volunteering than young men. I am a couple merit badges away from completeting my eagle scout award. Stay tuned for that event. Here are some of the pictures:


Above: (lower, right- Me, trying to catch my breath for a second
Below: (Puppet Show enamors volunteers and kids.)

Memories of an Old Man!

Hey Eliza Here! Doing the her duty on the blog! (for the record, the second time, since the last one was deleted second within completion!!!) 

This week (Tuesday to be exact) we celebrate Daddy's 46 birthday!!! yeah!!! This wondrous occasion was celebrated with homemade pizza's! The pizza's were imitations of the famous ones from Christmas eve, as they did not have quite as many toppings, but they were yummy nevertheless!!! 

   This is Dads creation.  And this is Dad enjoying his creation! 

        

                                                       

This year each child also completed a questionnaire for their knowledgeable father. This questionnaire covered various fun facts about the year he was their age. (For example: I did a little quiz on the year 1976 because that was the year he was 13) These questionnaires covered anything the child wanted, though most of them covered things like the top songs, super bowls, Olympics, world news, world leaders, world records...ect. Dad did pretty well on Taft and Trey's, and moderately well on mine, but we didn't even make quizzes for when he was 9 and 4 because we didn't think his memory would reach out that far!!! 

Because some of the top songs of those memorable year were songs the children were not familiar with, mom and dad began education our minds with classic seventies literature (or in my words, the crazy hippiness of the seventies!!! man, the seventies were sooooo retro!!!!) Our little peruse through the seventies lasted a little longer than anticipated, and the rest of the night was spent cleaning up pizza mess and reliving the seventies!! 

      

Thaddeus didn't know what        This is an example of

to think of the seventies            the very retro seventies!

     dancing style!                     (This is Earth, Wind and Fire)

(p.s. yes grammy beth, all the pictures were taken on the brand new blogger camera!!)