Where's my cell phone?

Telling on myself today...  I was on the phone with Tim, multi-tasking as usual.  I was trying to get ready to walk out the door.  Purse...check.  Shopping list...check.  Packages to mail to Tim...check.  Keys...check.  Cell phone...   Cell phone...  "Grrr...Where's my cell phone?"  I growl into the phone.  Tim was kind.  "Uh...you're talking on it," he responded quietly.  I can think of one place I'll always check before I ask, "Where's my cell phone?"

Fun Weekend

About 8:30 Friday morning the phone rang.  It was Tim.  The conversation began with him asking, "How much do you love me?"  It turns out he was stuck back east in a "nor' easter."  His flight home for the following day had been cancelled.  As of 7:00 p.m. this evening, he was still in Philidelphia, unable to fly out.  His flight is now scheduled to leave tomorrow evening, and instead of coming home for the weekend, he's flying straight to Atlanta for two weeks.  Bummer.  We miss him.

This weekend was Sydney's baptism in Logan.  She's such a sweet heart.  We had an amazing day with her, and enjoyed our time with family after the baptism.

Olivia, Megan, Sydney, and Sierra...just being girls!

And what's a Campbell family gathering without a take-down wrestling match? 

Nate, sunburned, dehydrated and tired after winter camping with the scouts.  He says it's fun.  I'll take his word for it!

Science Fair

Several weeks ago we were eating, drinking, and breathing science experiments to get two of them ready for 6th grade Science Fair.  Tim got in on the projects, but missed out on the actual fair.  Here you go, Tim!

Jeran's experiment was borrowed (and expanded) from Mythbusters.  They folded phone books together overlapping one page at a time.  The friction of the pages against each other makes it so the phone books can't be pulled apart, even with an army tank (on the show).  Jeran tried different types of books, and ended up with similar results.  If you're bored and want to turn a lot of pages, try it sometime.

Megan experimented with brownies (of course!).  She tested cooking brownies at different temperatures and reported on her results.  Of course the best ones were the ones cooked at regular temperature, although the low temperature "gooey" version wasn't bad either.  I heard several people looking at her display say, "Mmmmm.  I'm going home to make brownies."  Maybe the experiment should have been how many people would see a picture of brownies and want to eat them!

Brainfreeze!

Blogging for Tim:  We love you!  The most exciting thing we did all day was make smoothies. It was actually smoothies by default, because we were out of eggs and Megan wanted to make brownies. Nate was at scouts.

Yum!

Brainfreeze!

And again with the brainfreeze!

And now that I'm to this point in this blog entry, I did remember something kind of exciting that happened today. Nate tried his own science fair project...adding water to a tube of Airborne. When the experiment got out of hand he tried to hide it in his sweatshirt, but the pressure from the fizzing Airborne kept popping the lid off. When asked about the popping sound coming from inside his jacket, he said it was his cell phone.  Sometimes I want to crawl in his head just to see how it works, but it would probably scare me to death.  When I see a tube of Airborne, I don't think, "Hmmmmm..... wonder what would happen if I put water in this?"  I'm sure somehow the things that are a mystery to me make sense to him.  

Just Stuff...

Last summer when Tim was out of town I blogged pictures and updates every day to keep him up on what we were doing while he was gone. I don't think I'll try daily blogging again any time soon, but we'll get a few pictures in this week of what we're doing while Tim is gone so he can get in on some of the fun. Tim, if you start to see pictures of a painted basement in the next few weeks, you can't say I didn't warn you!

Today Jeran and his friends were "hanging out" for a few hours. Good thing they're too old to "play" because what they're doing looks waaaayyyy too boring to be called play.

Beautiful girl. She baked cookies yesterday and would have baked more today if I had said yes...and Jeran's friends wouldn't have minded, since they helped us dispose of a few cookies.

This picture is from earlier this month. I was trying to crochet headbands after watching a few "how-to" tutorials online. Joie has been nice enough to be my guina pig. I think I need more crochet experience. Susan, I need some lessons.

This is the only picture we got of the boys' ice fishing trip. Jeran carefully laid out all his clothes the night before in the living room. Check out the layers. He didn't miss a detail. There's a shirt and sweatshirt under the coat, and even gloves at the ends of the hands. It was his first ice fishing trip and he was excited and making sure not to forget anything!