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Losing our Marbles
Recently, we put our engineering skills to the test as we constructed marble towers out of cardboard, paper, and boxes. Creativity abounded as teams designed and crafted their various structures; no two were alike! Some teams built freestanding structures and others used chairs, tables, and walls to support their towers.
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Two Parties in One
This spring, we had our Annual Bake-Off. Each Family creates a dessert and an accompanying commercial, showcasing their tasty creations. However, this year’s Bake-Off involved a twist. We combined it with a surprise anniversary party for two of our members, John and Margie, celebrating their twenty years of marriage. We still baked desserts, but instead…
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Caricatures
Leah makes us all smile with her cute and quirky caricatures. These sketches feature herself, her sister Ellie, her cousin Sammy, and her friend Andrew.
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Leah’s Cross Sculpture
Leah designed and created this gorgeous cross with Super Sculpey. Super Sculpey is a clay that can be shaped and hardened by baking it in an oven. Leah painted the cross with acrylic paint after it was baked.
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Summer of 2016
We spent almost every Celebration Night by the pool this summer–swimming, grilling, and playing badminton. The weather was beautiful (only a few rainy weekends) and the mosquitoes were fairly well-behaved. Or biggest accomplishment was finessing our Marco Polo skills: an addicting game when played “silently”. Speed and stealth became a necessity!
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Minute to Win It
Recently, we had so much fun playing Minute to Win It. Some of the challenges included moving skittles and ping-pong balls with only a spoon or straw in your mouth and moving a cookie from your eye to your mouth with only your facial muscles!
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Pumpkins and Christmas Concert
Every fall we enjoy carving pumpkins and every Christmas we love making the music of the season:
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Harvest Party 2015
Every fall we celebrate the season with our “Harvest Party.” We vote on a theme such as “Western”, “Sci-Fi”, “All Things UK,” etc. This year we picked American history (just between 1900-1945) and broke up into teams to decorate our meeting hall accordingly. For a couple of weeks everyone was busy decorating, making costumes, and…
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20th Anniversary
This summer we had a lot of fun planning a surprise party celebrating the 20 years of Bret and Gretchen’s marriage. We secretly prepared decorations, bought gifts, and invited family from out of state, anxiously hoping Bret and Gretchen weren’t catching wind of our surreptitious operations! Our covert efforts paid off when they walked through…
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Poolside Fun
Come summer, the pool deck is our go-to hangout spot on Friday nights. We all look forward to the leisurely dinners (lots of grilling!), relaxing in the water and just having a couple of hours to chit-chat about how our week went. Some of us can spend all night in the water while others prefer…