SixSibs

While we were touring the capitol building, the 5 youngest of the 6 sibs were able to have a little fun, getting “dressed up” in 1850′s style clothing!

A “period” picture (complete with sandals and tennis shoes!)

John made a great “Federal”

Luke just wanted to be a peaceful farmer.

It was Rachel though, who was really “in her element”

We all had a very good time at the capitol building and I think I’ll be able to scrape together one more post from the pictures I have left.
Until then,
Adam

Here are the last of our Columbia Pictures:
I hope you enjoy them!

A Hopi doll

A replica of an Inuit man in full hunting gear

As Isaac said, “you wouldn’t want to meet this guy in the dark!”

An “antenna-lope”

A Byzantine crucifix

A Byzantine statue of Mary and the baby Jesus

That pretty much exhausts my collection of interesting Columbia picture! Stay tuned for some pictures from Jefferson City!
Thanks,
Adam

This is part 2 of 3 of our Columbia pictures (part 1 of our archaeology, art and anthropology pictures) I hope you enjoy seeing the pictures 1/4 as much as I enjoyed being there! (and taking them)

Plaster replica of a Roman statue from the early first millenium

An Egyptian statue of a seated scribe

I forgot the what, where and why on this one!

Lots of examples of Greek and Hellenistic art work and pottery

More Greek pottery

Even more Greek art!

I still have quite a few interesting pictures to show you, so stay tuned for part 3 of 3!

Like I said, I took a lot of pictures, so this is going to be the first third of the pictures that I took in Columbia

Woodcut by Fred Geary at the Ellis Library’s Art Museum

Another Fred Geary Woodcut (there were over 50 on special exhibit)

Steel plate used to print copies of George Caleb Bingham’s painting “Order No.11″ -the plate alone took over 3 years to complete!

A very nice worker at the Missouri State University archives showed us some interesting artifacts from the Civil War

A “cross-hatched” letter- the writing went both vertical and horizontal- this didn’t make for the easiest reading experience!

An 1864 Confederate $50 bill

The archives had a mind-boggling array of just about anything old that’s made of paper that you could possibly want- letters, wills, title deeds, books, newspapers and so much more! We only spent 30 inside and it almost felt like you could easily spend 30 years!
Adam

The six sibs recently had the privilege of taking a 2-day trip to Columbia and our State’s capitol: Jefferson City. We had a very good time and I took a lot of pictures (too many to fit in one post) so you’ll probably be seeing some pictures of us enjoying, learning and just having fun on our trip very soon!
Adam

An amazingly eloquent quote that we saw while on a trip to the Missouri State Capital:

Yesterday night, right after we had finished eating Luke told everyone to come out and see what the dogs had discovered: a 3 1/2 foot long black snake! I was able to distract it momentarily with a stick and grab it behind it’s head (I’ve always wanted to do that!) I carried it around for about 5 minutes and we then put it in an old 5 gallon bucket, where it stayed for about 15 minutes until it got bored, climbed out and climbed a nearby tree! (I didn’t know snakes could climb so well!)
The snake charmer:

Would you call these people “snake charmed”?

Bye,bye snake!

Have a good day and keep waiting for more eloquent, amazing and stupendous blog posts!

Yesterday afternoon we were all getting kind of bored so someone suggested that we make the entire alphabet with nothing but our bodies! Rachel, John and Isaac were the ones who did the actual letter forming and I (the camera guy) took their pictures and served as their “birds eye view”- telling them where to move and how to lay. It took us 40 minutes but we finally got it done!
P.S. If you weren’t able to figure it out, the 7 pictures are supposed to spell “SIXSIBS” (all of the letters we did were capitals)

I hope you enjoy these sketches that I did (they aren’t all that recent- I did them before we left for our vacation). I have really enjoyed reading and learning about dinosaurs since before I could read (ask my mom- she knows!) and since we were going to go to the creation museum I decided to do some research which motivated me to do some sketches.

Allosaurus

Diplodocus

Icthyosaurus

Plesiosaurus (and two unfortunate fish)

Triceratops

Spinosaurus

(click on any of the photos to enlarge)

As we were driving home from church on Wednesday we saw this amazing cloud formation; it reminded me of Psalms 19:1-4:

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
² Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
³ They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
⁴ Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.

We do truly have an amazing god.

I hope you all are continuing to enjoy your 4th of July, we are having a very good time shoveling manure (actually I was the only one who was able to do that) reading books, visiting with friends and just vegging around the house. We all are wearing our matching patriotic t-shirts that our mom bought for us to wear on our trip. We always wore matching clothes on our trip so that (hopefully) no one would get lost and if they did for some reason become separated from the “pack” whoever was lost would be able to get connected with the group a lot easier. It was nice to be able to quickly spot where you were in our “caravan” and where the majority of the group was heading but it also drew even more attention to us (I say more attention, 8 people hiking through Boston or Washington DC already draws a good bit attention without matching shirts) and produced comments such as “1,2,3,4,5 boys- Holy Smokes!”, “Isn’t that cute” and just your average breed of wows, yikes’s and other interjections. Anyway I say all of that to say that we were able to get a new picture of all of the six sibs (our current picture is over a year old) and I thought you might enjoy it. The only usable picture that our dad took is from a different angle than the “classic” SixSibs picture because we had already done a entire family portrait and Paul decided that he was tired and lay down on the floor instead of sitting on the couch and waiting until we had a perfect seating arrangement and camera angle (I actually think that it looks pretty good considering the fact that there are little people in it). So here it is:

I hope you have a blessed 4th of July
Adam

P.S. I guess I spoke too soon about people who swim in ice water being crazy- I swam in it myself for 10 minutes in the evening!

Here are some pictures of the (unfinished) prison that we are going to use in “John the Detective 2″
The lighting isn’t very good but I hope you’ll be able to get an idea of what it will look like.
Adam

This is what I look like:

And this is what Rachel thinks I look like:

(I disagree with Rachel strongly).

Here are some cloud photos that I took :

Here are some more nature photos that Rachel and I took:

Sheep Sorrel by Adam

Butterfly Bush by Rachel

Pine tree by Adam

Blueberry leaf by Rachel

We have done some of changes to our cart.

We took off the old huge back  wheels and put on  some new ones that we got from an old golf bag that had removable wheels. The cart goes a lot faster than it used to because the new wheels have much better bearings. You will probably see it in one of our future movies.

Here are some pictures that Rachel and I have taken.

Click on pictures to inlarge.

Acorn by Adam

Pumpkin by Rachel

Mushroom by Adam

Rose by Rachel

Vine covered tree by Adam

Sycamore seed by Rachel