Other Fall Happenings

 Here's a collection of pictures from other happenings the past few months.

Our family was invited to be the guest Wish Family at this year's Make-a-Wish board members dinner.  They treated us to a fancy dinner and Justin got to talk to the group about Annie's diagnosis and her wish trip to Disney World.  We met some great people, and they enjoyed meeting Annie and looking at her trip scrapbook.

Before the Make-a-Wish dinner.

Molly and I enjoy creating new hair styles for her.  It's fun to try to re-create styles we find online, and Molly has the most perfect, thick, long hair! This style didn't turn out at all like what we were planning or expecting, but we thought it looked pretty cool.

Molly had a project at school to build a car that was powered by a balloon.  It had to meet certain requirements. She designed it all herself, and then Dad helped her figure out how to reduce friction on the wheels and make it go faster and farther.  Molly did end up winning a prize for her car.

Lexie was awarded Student of the Month and it was fun to hear from her teacher all the ways she is helpful in the classroom.

And more recently, we attended the Holland Performing Arts Festival.  They had a lot of fun crafts for kids, including these sculptures to create.  They had a ton of live music and bands, and we even got a tour of the Arts Center.

The highlight of the festival was watching Bandaloop perform on the outside wall of the Arts Center.  Bandaloop is a vertical dance team from California.  They do some really cool dancing on the sides of buildings and mountains.  Their videos online are really cool because they move as if the wall is the ground, but with gravity acting in a different direction, and having ropes suspend them, they can do some really cool things.