Shuttle launch Video.

August 2009 Shuttle Launch

For those of you who don't know, in August of 2009, we went down to Florida, Cape Canaveral, Florida, and saw the Space Shuttle Discovery lift-off. What an amazing experience! VJ even got to push the button ( a button on Dad's radio), to make it lift-off! Dad wanted to see one, and them we kids and Mom hadn't seen one, so it was a trip before they disappear. :)

Discovery, ready for lift-off!

What a great view( with the help of Dad's

camera....a long distance zoom).

The V.A.B. building at night. Dad took the pic

from the place where we were going to watch the launch.



And even better picture of Discovery.

A shuttle or rocket engine. I forget now which.

All I remember is that it's an engine!

The V.A.B. .

Inside the V.A.B., an external tank in progress...

I think.

Mr. Sleepy( aka:VJ) and Noah, in our posh apartment.

See me in the background?

We had this nice porch/balcony, and it was wonderful

to go out there, lean gently on the rail, and look out at

sea, and smell the salty air......ah!

Same V.A.B. . Just back a little.

For those of you who don't know, or don't remember what "V.A.B." means, it means Vehicle Assembly Building. Dad said that where they assemble the shuttle, screw it together, set it on the launch pad, and them roll it out, on a big, huge tractor like thing. The launch pad ( my seeing from a video on YouTube with Dad) is on the truck, so the truck just pulls away and leaves the Shuttle, External Tank, and Solid Rocket Boosters sitting there. I hope I got everything right!

We even have a video of the lift off! I'll try to post that next. Dad and I both took a video; I with his camera and then he did his big expensive camera.

Katy

SNOW!!!!!

we got snow today! we drove through snow taking VJ to preschool, but we didn't get hurt. :)
When we got back, and before we left, Mom said that she hoped that preschool wouldn't be closed. And it wasn't.
Thank the Lord for the beautiful snow...... and I didn't have to miss my favorite past-time!: swinging on on swing connected tot he swing set, and listening to my MP3 play, and daydreaming!!!
Katy.
p.s. I post pictures I took ( with Mom's camera) later.....I think I'll have to get Dad to teach me how to load pictures upon the computer! :)
K.

Discovery Middle Shooting Post number 2

The poor boy shot in the head died today. I feel sorry for his family. The school went into
emergency procedure they hoped they'd never had to use. The other ninth grader that shot Todd Brown in the head in still in custody..... and I hope he will learn his lesson.
must go,

Discovery Middle School Shooting

Discovery Middle School had a shooting happen today in one of their hallways. A ninth grader shot another ninth grader in the head. The shooter is in custody,while the other boy is at Huntsville Hospital in serious condition. I heard about this from Mom when she asked Dad if he had heard about it. Nobody else was injured in this, except the boy shot in the head.
I looked ( on my turn on the computer) it up on the News Channel 19 website, and it said all of this ( after I heard Mom ask Dad if he had heard about it.).
One of our friends from church, goes to Discovery, but Mom read on Facebook that she didn't go to school today.

Dinner time! i wonder what Mom has cooked up for supper......
Katy

BSF night......thank the Lord!!!!

Tuesday! BSF night, at last! I've always liked going to BSF. BSF stands for Bible Study Fellowship. Mom and I carpool with one of her nursing buddies. Mrs. Julie has 3 kids, and do I enjoy chatting with them! We take turns riding in each other' s cars... you know, split the gas.Jonah, and Nathan ( Nate) have plenty to tell me about DS' and video games. They are pretty shocked to know that I don't have a video game, but they are staying with it that Noah used to have a little pirate one. But, god news, I'm not the only girl in the car! Paige is a girl, and girls understand girly stuff ( I DO NOT mean romance ( maybe when I'm older) but stuff like boys are very hard in the terms of being their sister). Tonight I'm bringing my MP3 player, and then we can sit in the back ( as not to interrupt the moms as they're talking) and then sing along with our music.

Sorry, I need to go. We have to take Noah to karate.

School

Oh, my! You should see how hard school has been these past few days! It's not a favorite for me, but I guess I can't back out of it. And it's no backing out of math, in our house. Whew! Dad's little motto thing ( for our school) is " If you can't do anything, do math." He's that serious about math! But it's getting easier on me, too. If I learn it, the other stuff gets easier, because the thing I learned before, some how ends up in the thing I'm doing now. I also found out ( funny because I just found out a few weeks ago) that if I don't complain about my school and chores, it goes by faster. That's been helpful, and God's help, too. If I think wanting to go outside and play, and then that I have to finish school, then I can make it go by faster by not complaining. I think that piece of info is really motivating.........don't you?

Good news: Mom's drawings really help in my health book( we are going back to my science book, though, cause the health book, is hard a bit for me) . She drew this little heart ( my health chapter was about the heart, blood& bloodstream what all of it does), and traced with a pencil how the blood flows through the heart, gets oxygen, comes back to the heart, and then pumps throughout the body. I think her drawings really help! They are super cool!! I guess I need her to teach me to draw!

Need to go! Sorry!