Kinetics Festival

Oxford holds an annual Kinetics Festival where everyone participates in a wacky bicycle obstacle course and other "make" fun.  It was awesome seeing all the bikes. We especially liked the pit stop where bikers had to hop off their bikes, put on an Olsen twins mask and carry an egg on a spoon around a giant Bob Saget head!

 Meditation pop rockets... don't ask me.

Spin Art!

Trip to Papaw's House

What a great time we had at Papaw Jack's over spring break.  Fishing, egg hunts, bonfires and more fishing.


 Fishin'

 

Eliot caught a small mouth bass

                                                              Blue Gills

                                    

                                                                     Cleaned fish

 

Fried Fish!

        Egg hunt and toasted marshmallows.

 

Tractor pull

                                         making a squirrel park for two baby squirrels

 

Eagle Creek-Papaw's dock

 

Happy Kids, Happy Easter!

Berea

We had a great time meeting Grandma Boots in Berea, Ky.  The kids blew off some steam before driving the final hour to grandma's house. 

Oxford's Egg Hunt

The Saturday before Easter Oxford's youngest residents all meet on one field on a mission to collect candy.  what a turn out!  There were eggs as far as the eye can see.  We decided that it wasn't as much of an egg "hunt" as it was an egg "grab".  No children were harmed during the gathering of these eggs... we think. 

Cincinnati Zoo

Our first trip to Cincinnati's Zoo with quite the motley crew.  It was a lot of fun! Our favorite was the Insect house that had the coolest leaf cutter ant display.  A clear plastic tube lined the walls of the entire building inside which leaf cutter ants were busily carrying their leaves back and forth.  I had a surreal moment as I watched them wondering who could be watching us scurry about our own busy ways? 

for fin

 

i saw your moves fin.  now here are mine...

Eliot Turns 8!!!

Happy birthday to Eliot.  He had an awesome Harry Potter-sleep-over party with the neighborhood gang.  A good time was had by all!

                                                       Platform 9 3/4

                                               The great hall

                                                 Nimbus 2000 cake

                                               Really silly girls

 Snack and potions bar complete with Butter Beer, Everyflavor beans (they mean EVERY flavor including booger and vomit!!!), blind cat eyes, bloodworms, smores, and much much more!

                                                                The wizards

                                                                   Dueling with wands

                                                                 Birthday boy

love you Eliot!!!