Home fashion show, practicing volleyball with Liam, and Evelyn's second week of volleyball games

Out of order pose, but I liked this pose since it showed some Evelyn in action at volleyball this week.

On Sunday afternoon, the girls set up a fashion show in the hallway. They are very imaginative and creative when they want to be :)

Monday afternoon, Liam and I took Evelyn to the church to try and practice with serving, the most difficult challenge at this point. It was very tricky trying to do underhand due to righty not being strong enough. So Evelyn decided she was going to do a "one-handed" overhand serve. The chalkboard is to represent the net. She got it over quite a few times.

Now at her games this week...

She did go after a couple of balls and hit them, but not over the net :) But I was so proud of her whole team. They did SO SO SO much better this week than last week! A lot of them got serves over and there were even several volleys!

Evelyn doing her serve. She got a few over with no return volley so she got her team some points. She was SO SO excited about this. I'm so glad she has figured out, at least for now, a way to serve. She said she enjoyed volleyball SO much more this week because she figured out how to serve.

Good job girlie! You are fun to watch try and conquer hard things!
 

Clark Planetarium Part 2

Seeing how far the rocket can blast by the gift shop.

This was a really fun thing, trying to be the "weather man" on different planets. They had a script you could read but Collin and Liam really had fun with it.

When they did it together it was super funny. I did a video, but of course videos don't post well.

Understanding centrifical force.

Adeline trying to "lift" the weight of a star. She couldn't :)

Trying to drive the rover machines on Io, a moon on Jupiter.

She got it working pretty well!

You can sometimes move different parts of the big ball run to make balls go faster and in different directions which makes it really cool.

Ryan took a turn at being the weather man.

Collin shook his head at dad's antics.

Now the boys tried to drive the rovers and block other rovers of course.

Evelyn trying to escape a volcano eruption!

It is erupting again! Can you see they are trying to run away?

Watching the volcano intently.

This was a cool demonstration of wind power over sand.

A fun dancing display. Thanks, Clark Planetarium for a super fun and free adventure!
 

Saturday adventure Nov 9-Clark Planetarium Part 1

About once a year we try and go down to the planetarium. That place is very cool. More so cool because the actual exhibits are completely free, parking you can get validated for 3 hours or less, and it has a lot of interactive things for all age groups. Here Adeline is in the spaceship play area.

We always like the pendulum as you first walk in. You could spend hours watching that thing knock over the metal bars :)

Creating a tornado in the weather station is always fun.

They have a lot of "space" invader type games on the bottom level. A big hit for the boys.

Trying to land things on the moon.

The zapper machine.

Learning about the aurora borealis.

More zapping.

I can't remember now what this was about but positive and negative energy of some kind.

This cool ball run is a big hit for all of us. It is so cool to watch the balls go down the different routes.

Fun cloud demonstration.

Smelling what some of the other planets smell like. Gross is all I can say!

Adeline doing her "powers" with magic.

Trying to land the apollo.

You can't see me, but I FINALLY landed it on the super hard area, thus the green light.

A new favorite spot, showing everyone's heat index inside their body, which mine is always the lowest by far.

More fun space games.

Climbing into the shuttle.