Cooking With Teagan: Chocolate Chip Cookies

We're getting ready for Christmas today with doing a little holiday baking. Teagan made a batch of chocolate chip cookies which turned out delicious although one tray of them were slightly over done to the point where they are not burned but they were a tad crunchy. Today was one of our busy days so it took us awhile to get this all done which is the reason for the outfit changes because a couple of times we had to stop where we were to run out to ballet and then later on Cub Scouts and by the time they were all baked it was bed time.

Excitement at Violin

What a surprise we got when we pulled up to our violin teachers house today and found most of her front yard turned into a gaping hole and all kinds of really cool earth moving equipment sitting all around. While we were waiting for our turn we got to sit in the sitting room and watch in amazement as they placed a very large tube into the hole. Today during his lesson Teagan actually obeyed his teacher and instead of the customary whining and fidgeting got right down to business which was amazing due to all the excitement going on in the front yard.

 Walking from where we had to park to her house

 The front yard

Teagan playing Twinkle Variation A with his teacher

Cub Scouts: Field Trip to KTVO

Teagan and his Cub Scout troop had a field trip to the KTVO news station here in Kirksville this evening. They got to be in the room with the news anchors and sit there and watch as they broadcast the evening news in Spanish. Then after the broadcast they got to talk with the news anchors and got to ask them questions and see how the green screen works.

Teagan's Cub Scout Troop at the news desk 

with Vanessa Alonso & Nancy Cruz

 Vanessa showing them how the green screen works

 Vanessa showing them why you don't want to wear 

this shade of green on the green screen or you disappear!

 Teagan asking Vanessa a question 

about doing the weather

 Teagan telling Vanessa a story

 The Cub Scout troop and siblings with Vanessa

Behind the scenes in the news office

Flag Football: Game 5

It was too cold and wet today for our game to be outdoors so we were inside today. Being indoors took a little getting used to because for the first couple of plays everyone was trying to figure out which way they were supposed to be going and what was considered out of bounds and all. But all in all it was a good game today both Arowyn and Teagan got to have a turn being the quarterback and getting to run with the ball, they didn't make it up the field any but they both had fun trying.

Going over the game plan

Teagan blocking for his quarterback

Getting ready for the snap

Arowyn going for the flag

Rushing the other teams quarterback

Arowyn in the mix

Teagan gets handed the ball

Teagan goes for it

Teagan trying to get past his opponents

And off comes his flag

Teagan blocking

Arowyn & Teagan watching an awesome pass

Arowyn hot on his tail

Arowyn gets the ball and goes for it

Truman Wind Symphony

We made it out to see the Truman Wind Symphony concert tonight. Arowyn & Teagan enjoyed the music and on schedule by the fourth song Teagan was completely gone. It was an overall beautiful performance though. And we especially enjoyed getting to see our dear friend Megan Hueber play the piano in the last two pieces.

Teagan down for the count

Megan playing the piano

More Megan

Megan again
(you might be sensing a theme here by now)

My quickly stitched photos
showing the whole orchestra

Megan being recognized

And last one of Megan

School at Work

I had a large amount of work that I needed to get done for my company like updating my website and getting prepped for some jobs we have coming up next month. So I was talking to Cham about how I could get the kids school done with all I had to do and he suggested that I bring them to him at work for a couple of hours so I could get some work done and they could still get their school work done. When I dropped them off I couldn't help but feel slightly anxious for him and afraid that they would be completely obnoxious while he had them. When I picked them up he said it had went well once he figured out that the kids sitting at the same table together was out of the question. But once he assigned them different rooms to work in everything went mostly smoothly.

Chamberlin & the kids doing school 

at his work kitchen table

Creature Feature: Turkey Tales

We made it to creature feature today and got to learn about the history of wild turkeys in Missouri. The kids especially enjoyed making their own turkey calls although they were having problems with the finer points of actually making it work.

Amanda telling the kids about the serve depletion 

of wild turkeys by 1925 due to over hunting

The Missouri turkey history timeline 

 Arowyn getting to pet the turkey fether

 Amanda explaining the difference between 

male and female turkey scat

 Teagan gets to try to draw a turkey track

 Arowyn touches the turkey foot

 Amanda demonstrates a wooden box turkey call

 Arowyn making her own turkey call

 Arowyn & Teagan demonstrating 

how they use their turkey calls