October 2014 – Page 2 – Andelin Adventures

Rexton’s party

Debby and Jeff decided to have an early birthday party for Rexton. With Jeff being in the army now, and he is done with his training, he is being sent to Fort Hood, Texas and they wanted to have a party for Rexton before they move. So after church, I made a big pan of banana pudding and we went to their place for dinner. Here’s the birthday boy!

The little ones had a good time playing with the other kids that were there. Actually I think they liked playing with the balloons the most.

After awhile we all headed outside to have pictures taken with Debby and Jeff, since they will be moving soon.

Then we came back in for cake and ice cream, but Rexton fell asleep, so we had to eat cake and ice cream without him.

After cake, most of the party guests cleared out pretty quickly. We stayed behind to discuss the plans for the week, then Debby sent us home with the rest of the ice cream and a bunch of other leftovers from the party since they are going to need to clear out their fridge in the next couple of days so it can be empty when the movers come to move their stuff. Rexton did wake up before we left, but that was after most everyone else had gone. 😉

My Birthday

Today is my birthday, and Kyle took the day off from work to spend it with me instead, as he usually does. I told him that for my birthday this year I would like some shelves in the laundry room. We went to Ikea earlier in the week to see if we could find anything there that would suit the purpose, but didn’t find anything that would work for what I wanted to do. So today we went to Home Depot to pick out some shelves. We didn’t like what they had in the shelving area. They just weren’t deep enough. So we went to the lumber area and picked out a piece of wood that was deeper. But it was super expensive so we weren’t super excited about this one either. When we were about to get an employee to cut it down for us, he asked what we are trying to make. We explained that we are making some shelves, and then he took us to another aisle of the lumber department, that had more options for shelves. These we liked better so we put the expensive pieces of wood away. We got the shelving we needed had it cut to size and left.

I also bought myself some vinyl lettering to put up on the wall, but since Kyle worked on the shelves for the better part of the day, we didn’t get it up. I took some before pictures, I’ll have to take more pictures when it is all done.

This is where he is putting up some shelves:

This is where I will put the vinyl lettering:

Kyle’s Funny of the Day

As we were driving past the Lehi post office I said “Look at all those mail trucks”, to the kids. Kyle responded with “I’m sure one of them is female.”

Father Daughter Bowling

As the leader of my girl scout troop, I decided that I wanted to have a father-daughter activity this year. We do a few family activities throughout the year, and we have a mother-daughter cabin trip every summer and I thought it was about time that we should invite the dads to attend an activity with their daughters. I found some cute father-daughter bowling patches and so we decided to take them bowling. Here are some pictures of my girls with their dad:

Apparently Dinah wasn’t with Kyle when I took these pictures. You can see just part of her legs and her feet in the second one…

Here’s a shot of Kyle when it was his turn:

We had about half of my girl scout dads show up with their girls today. I’m kind of sad that more of them weren’t there. But it was our first time ever doing something like this and I hope we will get a better turnout next year. 🙂

Lunar Eclipse

I really love stargazing. That’s one of my favourite things of living in Eagle Mountain, as I can look up almost any night and see the moon and many stars, sometimes the milky way, and on occasion a shooting star. When I hear things about an eclipse, I make an effort to view it, if weather and timing permits.

We had a lunar eclipse happen during the night, and the forecast was clear, so I was excited. I pulled out the camera and tripod and got them set up, taking them into the back yard to test taking pictures. Turns out, taking night pictures with a digital camera isn’t the easiest thing to do, so I ended up spending half an hour testing different settings, until I finally got the camera ready. Then I brought it inside and set my alarm for the middle of the night.

I woke up and went to the window, seeing the moon partially red, as it is during a lunar eclipse. Ethan also joined me, waking from my alarm. I grabbed the camera and took it outside again, and just sat on the back porch steps watching and taking a few pictures. I needed to tweak the settings of the camera again, probably due to the difference in light, but at least I knew better how to do it.