best of show

I'm still finishing up the month of May, with our day at the home school fair.  Right as we walked into the gym, we discovered that Gracie had won "best of show" for the table runner that Aunt Gail taught her how to make.  Her first purple ribbon!

 Luke loves putting things together and this year picked out a pirate mansion to work on.  Sticking to the same theme, he also entered a drawing of the pirate mansion that he put together.  Luke knew exactly what he wanted to enter, and was very happy with his two projects. 

 Dylan and Gracie have been very interested in learning how to use my camera.  After it rained one day, Dylan knew exactly the kind of picture he wanted to take.  He was able to capture the rain drops on a rose in our front yard.

 On another day, he followed this bird all around our neighborhood trying to get a good shot.

 Gracie was able to capture a close up shot of one of many butterflies that we chased during our December trip to Cayucos.

 Dylan entered his research report on the dropping of the atomic bomb and received a first place ribbon.

 He also entered his science project which tested the accuracy of the 'five second rule' when it comes to dropping food on the floor.  In our house, it is safer to drop food on our kitchen floor than it is in our living room.  An interesting side note: there was some kind of bacteria on the ham lunch meat that didn't get dropped on the floor at all!

Gracie did her table setting based on the Little House on the Prairie books that we have been reading.  For the two weeks before this, Gracie loved having so much time to play with Evee, as Sarah stayed with us while Matt got things settled for them in Tennessee.

 Abby won "best of show" for her creative table setting with a jungle theme.  We were so impressed with how much she made on her own, especially the utensils made out of sticks.  So cute!

 Grammy always comes and supports the kids!  This year she left little notes beside all of their projects. 

 Dylan got a first place ribbon for his art entry based on the speech he gave to our home school group, teaching them how to draw a horse.

This was some of the group that came to support the kids! Lori, Chris, and Emi came later in the day.  This picture makes me feel so blessed!