Del Mar

After getting all of our trees, we drove down the road a few more mile to the Del Mar site. Del Mar was a huge mining town over a hundred years ago, and now of course it's just ruins. But we love to see that kind of history, so we really enjoyed going out there. On the way there, we found a shaft that went straight down, and the boys and Cahl had fun tossing in rocks and listening for them to hit bottom so they could figure out how deep the hole was. The kids all had a great time seeing the old stone buildings and mining cars, and running around finding treasures. We packed a lunch with us, so after all the exploring was done, we took a break and ate. We also checked out the small cemetery on the way back.

Vertical Shaft

Tristan found an old glass Gatorade bottle

Really cute spout on an old oil (?) can

Safe

What we think is the bank safe

Mining car

Tristan and Hunter

Old Cemetery

Tree Hunting

Yesterday we headed up toward Caliente to go tree hunting again this year. We got 5 trees- 4 to decorate the front yard, and one for inside. We decided to go to the same area as last year, and the kids all had a lot of fun running around finding their trees. We even ran into 2 little bucks on the way up the hill.

Hunter found his tree

Cahl carrying out the house tree

Jasen helping cut down his tree

Brinley was just happy to run around

Hunter pulling his tree to the trailer

Tristan bringing his tree out

Ta-Da!

School Awards

Today was the 1st trimester awards at Tristan and Jasen's school. Jasen received both the Attendance award and the Straight A Honor Roll. Tristan also received the Attendance award, as well as making the A-B Honor Roll! We are so proud of both of them!!

Jasen

Jasen

Tristan

Tristan

Nativity

Today Hunter's preschool class went to an elderly lady's home and performed a little Nativity program and sang for her. They all did a great job, and the lady really loved it.

My little Shephard

Hunter with his Super Service Award

Senior Design

This semester, Cahl worked with 2 other classmates as a team on his Senior Design Project. They chose to do their project on combined sewer piping systems. They worked hard for months doing research, writing their reports, building a model and more to enter their project into the Senior Design competition held today. Hunter, Brinley and I went down to check out their project, as well as the other 12. There were a lot of people there, including local business people, professors, ect. Cahl's project looked great, and he'll find out the results of the competition next week.

Team ESI

The Model


Cahl at the competition