A Birthday and Clay Sculptures

Last week Nathan turned 7 and we celebrated as a family.  Here he is posing with his presents.  This is his cool guy pose.

Here is his cheese face.  He got legos and some of his favorite snacks.  That beef jerky was the first to be eaten.

 Here he is with one of his completed Lego sets.  He loves building new sets and never needs any help from us.

Melissa loves crafts so we ordered some sculpey clay for her.  You cook this clay after you make things out of it so your creations last a long time.  We got a multicolored pack in the mail and these three were pretty excited to show me all the colors.

Melissa got right to work making cute small animals.

Here are some of her creations.

 Nathan tried his hand at clay animals and he was pretty good too.

 Here are his creations.  A small shark, a turtle, a bird, a narwhal, and scary black bunny.

Today I am thankful that:

*Emily and I have had fun going to some model homes and open houses together.  We aren't planning to buy a new house but it fun to see houses.  In this fancy model home the granite was the same kind that we put in our kitchen.  We were happy to see that.

 *Holly had a great time at Husky band day at the University of Washington with her band and about 15 other high school bands.  She is out there on the field with her band.

Here is a closeup of her band.  Holly is in the middle of the back row playing the piccolo.

*Scott safely returned from his work trip in New Orleans.  We really missed him but we are glad he got to have some new adventures like riding this Segway on a tour of the city.