August/September!
What an end of summer.
Pour me some more coffee please.
Much making of sweets, rollerblading, shadow puppet theatre, running around town, Badger-Olympics, the last bit of summer swimming and summer snow cones, friends, Sharknado cake, and back to school and dance!
Summer sun, blossoming across the field.
Making candy floss.
From her garden.
Home textile sculpture.
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Now that we are back to a regular schedule-
rollerblading season has begun.
Post blading brekkie.
Six-packs on my six-packs.
Yes.
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Back to dance class
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Home is good.
Last days of summer.
Swim.
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A private showing...
Of I Want My Hat Back.
Homemade shadow puppet show!
A rehearsal.
brought to you by Can O' Pie
Wait a minute...
I HAVE SEEN MY HAT.
I love my hat.
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Opening Night.
For one night only.
Tickets, please.
The concessions were delish.
Backstage.
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Last gasps of summer.
Snow cones!
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Cookies for Badger Home Evening.
Happy Little Dinosaur game night.
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Last summer days in the pool.
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Going to the Bugfest at NHMU.
Using a 3D pen, she made this bug clip.
Outside of the NHMU...
Enjoying the sunshine.
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A little more summer.
A little last bit of pool.
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Around town, saw these cool plants!
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A friend over for fun times!
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Citrus squeeze.
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A collaborative work in progress.
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Two dates.
One mall..
Miss 3 & Miss 1.
Off on a sisterly date.
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Me and Miss 2 on a different date.
Us two.
These two.
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Homeschool High school chemistry.
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Date!
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A friend over for fun times!
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Lunch in the driveway.
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Some light reading.
To do some researching for developing new curriculum.
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The girls of Utah FTC!
First get together of the season.
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A lovely bouquet from my friend.
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Dino luv the sauce.
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Badger Home Evening.
Sharknado night.
Miss 2 and I were trying to make a roll cake with a shark design.
They were significantly running sharks.
This was in large part because we were attempting to make the recipe GF.
Back story:
The sharknado is coming!
For each of the kids their mission: build a sturdy shelter to protect from the coming storm.
It must fit all 5 of us and and it must connect to the other shelters, so that we can traverse between them.
It's a progressive dinner!
30 minutes build time.
The result.
Progressive dinner stage one:
At Miss 1's house.
The main.
Progressive dinner stage two:
At Miss 2's house.
The dessert.
The completed roll cake!
It ended up looking more like koi, than like sharks.
Progressive Dinner stage 3:
At Miss 3's
Drinks!
Fun times.
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More chemistry.
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Saving a random snail that we spotted on our walk.
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Out with some fellow FTC teams.
Touring Pioneer Theatre.
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She made this mud bunny while camping over the summer.
It's now getting an outer coat.
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We here at the Badgerie Menagerie are very tempted, when left unsupervised with markers.
We love markers.
So many kinds.
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More rollerblading.
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She started me on a path of dressing up my coffee:
whipped cream + chocolate sauce + chocolate chips.
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Time for icing a cake for my Music & Cake workshop.
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Miss 3 has a performance for the Dragon Boat Festival.
It was observed "celebrated" at Daybreak, out here in Utah.
Rehearsal.
As would be "reasonable" the stage managers forbid dancers from marking their dance on the stage during rehearsal, but have no problem letting rando people climb up the back stairs during performance to photograph with dancers.
The dragon.
There along with a few other Asians to help bravely represent.
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Time to decorate this cake.
Our first attempt at a piped frosting decoration of cake.
Used very janky-Duncan Hines stuff straight out of the tub, with some food coloring.
Not please with the stiffness of the decorations. It was an interesting experiment.
We will be revisiting piped frosting again.
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Speaking of decoration.
Our latest endeavor on her hair.
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From my Music & Cake class on music appreciate of music of the last 50 years.
So much to explore.
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More Highschool Chemistry.
bleach added to food coloring.
Gak.
Non-Newtonian Fluid entertains.
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Readying for Badger Home Evening:
The Annual Badger-Olympics
The donut for the donut munching race.
The GF version.
The pre-game dinner.
In the background: at stake are these really cool pens from Office M.
In the foreground, for one of our events: the scavenger hunt - a stack of lists.
Water relay.
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Human ring toss.
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How low can you limbo?
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Marks-person-ship.
With water-guns.
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Scavenger Hunt.
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Donut eating race!
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The last event two team capture the flag type of game.
Mixed reviews for this final game.
It's still a work in progress
Still trying to figure out the game design.
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The Medals!
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The Medal Ceremony.
Fun times!
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Seen around the house.
Latest made from a 3d pen.
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Working on transmission.
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Coffee out.
