Happy Mother's Day! It's pretty awesome to be the mother of these cuties.
For family home evening this week we had a Bob Ross painting night. Abe picked out the episode we followed, gathered all the supplies and set up space for us to paint.
Here we are getting started on our canvasses. We used acrylic paint instead of oil paints like Bob Ross uses because we have lots of acrylic paint, it smells better and is easier to clean up. However, Bob calls painting with acrylics "agony city" because the paint is harder to blend. Also, our paintings took significantly longer than his to finish. We paused the video frequently while we caught up to Bob.
Here's Gib dabbing some highlights on to his bushes.
Abe used his fingers to finish up his painting.
The finished paintings look pretty good. Bob Ross is right-- anyone can paint.
We had a fun night painting together.
Gibson built a trebuchet out of chopsticks this week. A trebuchet is like a catapult, but it uses a counterweight to propel the projectiles. Gib's counterweight is a rubber band ball.
Abe's school held its honors night on Wednesday. Abe got an award for having a great GPA.
He also received a BIS LEADS award for showing leadership, enthusiasm, academics, determination and success.
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