Public Performance!

 Karianna has been taking voice lessons this year from a gal in our ward, and they were able to perform the National Anthem today at an ALA high school basketball game! Karianna was on harmony as she's able to hold it really well, and I was super impressed with how good and well-blended they sounded!  Such an accomplishment, in my opinion, to sing in front of your peers-at least in Karianna's case, as this is her school.  Super proud!

Science Projects

 This is just a crazy week with Jared gone.  We have to finish up science experiments this week, so we hit it hard today.  JD's experiment this year is all about dehydrating food.  We were able to borrow a food dehydrator from a family in our ward and interview the Dad, which I thought was GREAT research for JD.  He decided he wanted to dehydrate bananas, strawberries, an carrots.  He weighed them before and after with the goal of determining how much weight is lost in the process, which is essentially water weight. Here's the visual results, which I thought were pretty cool!

 Karianna's experiment was researching acids and bases, and then using that info to test different liquids in terms of how well they cleaned pennies. We ordered litmus paper online, and we really enjoyed testing different liquids, including others that were not in her experimental design (as well as some weird concoctions she created!  Her experiment showed vinegar cleaned the penny the best by far, which of course is very acidic, whereas bleach left the penny majorly discolored.

 Just an interesting shot of the chemical reaction of the bleach!

Jordan's 9th Birthday!