Space and Sports

Well, here I am again. I will try to get you a little more caught up on our lives and what we have been doing since we got here. We went to the Johnson Space Center one day and had a great time. It was fun to see everything they had there. We were able to look at several of the space suits. It was interesting to see what they first started out with. The kids thought it was great to try on the old helmets. You can see how this one just drowns Carter!
We also got to walk around in a mock up of the space shuttle,
see a movie and see what it would be like if we were on the ground at a launch. Scott and the kids also got to feel a little bit what it it would be like with no gravity. There was so much to do! We didn't even do half of it. But we got passes to last for a year so we can keep going back! The kids ask me at least once a week when we are going again. Come on down and you can go with us!!!!


Something else that we have been doing is Tennis lessons for Taylor, and Gymnastics for Carter.
Carter and Carly were very supportive of Taylor at his lessons and would even let me watch for a good portion of the time before I had to take them to play on the toys. Taylor did great with
his lessons. He learned how to serve, shuffle, hit forehands, and backhand. They called him "killer" because he could really hit the ball hard.
He had fun and really learned a lot in just a few lessons. Taylor is the one on the left in the picture. Even though he was about the smallest in the class he really did well and held his own.


Carter had a great time in his gymnastics class. They worked on somersaults, cartwheels, balance beam, doing a somersault on the balance beam!, scissor kicks, splits, springboard jumps, and that arm thing when you are done with a trick. We didn't get any pictures though because one of the lessons got cancelled and so I was off on my weeks and didn't take the camera to the last class. Sorry! Carly was sad that she didn't get to participate in the the gymnastics class but she wasn't quite old eneough. Maybe next year....