September 2022

 MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER

Dinosaurs!

Playing in dinosaur footprints

Digging for bones

In a dinosaur nest

Tug of war with pulleys

Lifting your weight with a pulley

Playing with shadows

Lying on a bed of nails

Perspective room

Doing a lab

Making and launching paper airplanes

Building with Dean

Light dancing

Two of a kind

REMEMBERING THOMAS

CO-OP FUN

Audrey made her own hanging gardens of Babylon.

A balancing, hanging game

WASP ATTACK

A wasp nest got disturbed and I was attacked on my face by a bunch of wasps. This is what I looked like the next morning! 

UDVAR-HAZY AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM

It was awesome to see the Space Shuttle and so many famous aircraft.

Blackbird

The Bell X-1 (first supersonic aircraft)

Brooklyn's favorite plane

Dusty Crophopper

F-14 Tomcat

AUDREY

Audrey came in dressed like this one morning and announced, "Mom. I'm ready for homeschool." 

Audrey making cuneiform and hieroglyphics on a cookie at co-op.

MADDY

ABBY

NATHAN

Nathan's ancient history class

Cuneiform cookie

JARED

BACKPACKING THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL

Jared and Nathan joined the Cranney's to hike part of the Appalachian trail. 

ANTIETAM BATTLEFIELD

Nathan and Jared paid a sobering visit to the Civil War's bloodiest battle on its 160th anniversary.

                                         

The Dunker Church

The sunken road

The cornfield

Burnside's Bridge

WASHINGTON DC TEMPLE

Audrey and Brooklyn enjoyed walking around the temple and the visitors center. 

Abby and Maddy did a long walk from our house to the temple with all the Young Women. 

BROOKLYN

Painting nails

Brooklyn eating lunch outside at school. 

THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM

It was absolutely beautiful 

We loved the amazing collection of bonsai trees

LABOR DAY AT GREAT FALLS STATE PARK

We had fun hiking the Billy Goat Trail.

At the overlook

The C and O Canal

We had a nice picnic lunch after our hike.