Another sure sign that summer is disappearing -- yesterday, my oldest son took home the prize for our annual snow contest. Every year, starting the first day of school, all three of my kids are staring critically at the top of Pike's Peak on the lookout for new snow. The first one to spot new-fallen snow (fallen AFTER the beginning of school) gets $1. (In reality, the first time each of them points out new snow they get $1 so they all get one eventually but that does not at all hamper their excitement for the game). You would not believe how hard they try to convince me that there's snow every morning! Well yesterday afternoon, after a dark, cool day in the Springs... DS1 got into the car and said "I see new snow on the Peak!" I told him I wasn't sure. He said he was VERY sure. So we came home and checked the webcams at the summit... where snow was actively falling. So $1 for him!
My middle son's Cub Scout den did the 'diet coke and mentos' experiment yesterday (the experiment part being that they were altering the number of mentos being added in hopes of getting higher or lower plumes). I don't think the number of mentos had any effect. It was all high-flying and messy! The kids had a ball, and then we were chased out of the park by thunder and lightening.
And to wrap it up, here's a couple more scrapping pages from the weekend crop:
These are from the Cripple Creek Ice Festival which was SO much fun!!
Those two pages are mostly La Creme stack from DCWV
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