Getting behind...

Well, this is a bit of a catch-up post. I haven't gotten around to the blog for a little while, and we've been busy!

Here's our latest and greatest egg harvest! Keely didn't check on the chickens' nests for a few days, and when she did, this is what was waiting for her. 22 eggs, and not a single one was even cracked! Yum...






Liam's regained his former interest in ice skating, and he's been going to free skate with Ben once a week. Lessons will be starting soon, and we're going to give that a try again. Ben hadn't been on skates for maybe 15 years, but he got his groove right back on, and the boys have had a great time.






The stick bugs we got last October have sure gotten big! We love them, especially since they're so low-maintenance. All they need is a good squirt of water once a day and a leaf of lettuce when you notice the old one is shriveled up. We love to watch them do the 'water wiggle' when we squirt them, and seeing them change out of their old skins is pretty cool too...



I took a trip to Anchorage on Saturday, and brought back a couple of things for the kiddos. Liam has yet to open up his latch hook kit (it's a pillow with a yellow Lab on it), but both of them tore into the Magic Nuudles and Keely built a whole family, complete with a dog and doghouse for Liam. Magic Nuudles are like packing peanuts, except they're brightly colored and made out of cornstarch. When you get one wet it gets sticky and you can put them together and build with them. Here's Keely's masterpiece in progress.



Last year I picked up a bunch of old laptops at a garage sale for $2. I knew they didn't work, but I figured it would be fun to take them apart and see what was inside. They sat here for the better part of a year, but finally Liam decided to get out a screwdriver and begin the deconstruction. Last night at midnight saw Ben, Liam and I gathered around the kitchen table with screwdrivers and allen wrenches, prying, pulling, bashing and stabbing our way into the guts of the ancient computers.


When we got the screen apart, we found these two layers of filmy stuff that was quite fun to play with. We noticed that if you looked through them, things seemed to jump to one side, and that our faces looked pretty weird when we took pictures through them.

And finally, at long last, we'd taken apart every screw and torn, broken and crunched every last bit we could find. It was pretty fascinating to see the hard disk once we managed to breach its case. When we were done, around 1 am, we were too tired to clean up the mess, and left it for morning. As I write this, Liam's busy tearing apart the second one.
Whew! That's it for our crazy adventures for the last week or so...stay tuned for Chinese New Year (we're decorating today), Liam's birthday, and who knows what else!

Love ya!
Those Crazy Stevenses