Weekly Challenge #302

Happy Monday all!

Our week started off on a bit of a downer as Artoo was home sick from school both Monday and Tuesday.  The only upside of this is that Artoo seems to be handling colds better now and we are able to manage them from home without a visit to the hospital.  Small Victories!  (Well, that's actually kind of a huge one, to be honest)

He was happy to be back at school on Wednesday, except by wednesday i had started to feel kinda crummy, so i spent a lot of the week resting up while the kids were in school because we had a big weekend planned!

Chewie and his friend E have been bowling in a league since September, and back in November they won first place in local tournament qualifying them for Provincials!  So, this weekend we drove down to Regina for the Provincial Masters Bantam Tournament.

he's drawing in his sketchbook!!! chip off the old block. ;)

 His tournament was on Sunday afternoon so we went down Saturday morning, met some friends for lunch then took the boys to the Science Centre - which they loved.

Artoo and Anty

Chewlie and the Ankylosaurus

 The Science Centre was fun and full of lots of hands on activities for the boys.  I loved the bubble area.

BUBBBBBLES

 We also like the light area - there was a pretty cool wall where you stand in front of it and a light flashes and takes a shadow picture.  We all made as silly positions as we could think of, however they don't photograph well. lol.

artoo learning about colour and light

 Of course, what kind of science centre doesn't have a ball that makes your feel like a Mad Scientist?

I can make the lightning DO MY BIDDING

 And Artoo loved the infinity mirrors.  We had fun dancing and singing and waving at all the other Moms and Artoos in the mirrors

thumbs up. 

 It was a super fun way to spend the afternoon.

in the mouth of a megalodon shark

 Science is so fun and cool and stuff.

The rest of the afternoon and evening was spent at the waterslide park in the hotel - where Artoo braved the super fast waterslide, even though he was scared.  He decided he was NOT a fan of the waterslides, and much preferred to swim in the pool or play in the spray park.

Chewie, on the other hand, was off on the slides the second we got there.  We had an adjoining room with his bowling partner's family (they're close friends of ours since high school) so he and Miss E were off like a flash.

I dunno, the guy on the other side of this hotel door looks mighty suspicious....

 And even though it was a long day with science and waterslides and staying up late and eating too much sugar, they both played awesome the next day for the tournament.  They played 4 games and Chewie was bowling well above his average.  There were a few bouts of the 'grumpies' towards the end, but all in all they did really great and came in 4th place out of 24.

Miss E and Chewie and their Master bowler Julie,
 who is a Canadian 5 pin bowling champion

All in all it was a really great weekend, i'm super proud of him.  I hope he continues bowling because he seems to enjoy it.

Weekly Challenge #302: "UMT Hamadox by Diana Schreur CZT"

 For those of you who are new, the first Monday of every month is a Use My Tangle Challenge, where the challenge of the week is to use a tangle created by one of you!  If you have a tangle you'd like to submit you can add it here and be sure that it follows the guidelines for submission.

This month's UMT is Hamadox by Diana Schruer, and you can see the step outs here - This should be an easy one, seeing as wee're all warmed up with last week's Paradox duotangle. I had been seeing this tangle being used in the Mosaic app for a while, and i didn't know how to do it, but i love how it looks.  So i'm super excited to see it come up this week. 

Here's my take on it: 

have a great week!

And if you're on the Zentangle Mosaic App or Instagram - i'm @iamthediva - come on by and follow me, and i'm going to be using hashtags on the app for each of my weekly challenges. So if you're game - use the hashtag #DC302(Diva Challenge #302) for your tile this week! You can also search in the app for people's contributions to the challenge by clicking on the hashtag from inside the app, or using the search function. 

If you have a blog or host your images on line (like on Flickr or Picassa or Pinterest), add the site-specific URL where your tile is posted to the linkey machine below! Don't forget to link back here so that others can join in the fun! (if you don't know how to find this, you can see my half assed tutorial here) Also, please feel free to come back often and visit the links of those people on the linkey machine - don't forget to leave a comment or feedback, everyone loves feedback. ;) 

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