Ares 1-X

My mom grew up on the very street that we live on. We are able to watch shuttle launches from our front yard. Sometimes, we go in the back yard to view the rockets that are launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Station because those launch pads are further south of us. My mom's dad worked for NASA for many years, she has seen many launches. She has told us how windows in their house would rattle when the Saturn V rockets launched the Apollo capsules into space. The shuttle program is winding down, there are just a few more launches left.

Today was the first time the ARES 1-X rocket was test fired. My dad was excited, it involves his work.

The Ares from our front yard.

The shuttle moves slowing in the sky,

but the Ares moved much quicker.

Always a good feeling here when a launch is successful!

Aimée

Monday's HYMN

This has been a busy fall for us. It has been warm here in Florida, which means the grass

continues to grow, and we continue to mow. :) School keeps us busy, but Todd and I both enjoy it. There are many opportunities for us to help with public ministry through our church, and that keeps us really busy... in a very nice kind of way.

Mom caught me and Todd a couple weeks ago

while we were all out distributing a booklet

that is a sermon our pastor preached called

"The Essesence of Christianity".

We had 40 teams from our church

go out with maps and cover

a certain portion of DeLand, Florida.

Todd and I were a team,

while Mom, Dad and Bear were another team.

It was a beautiful Saturday for this in DeLand.

One of the things I LOVE at our church is that we SING a lot. We sing all the verses of each hymn, and we sing different songs all the time. I have learned so many new songs at this church, and they are all songs from the same hymnal of our old church. It is really nice to sing some of the other songs in the hymnal. Here is one from yesterday:

COME, YE DISCONSOLATE

(Thomas Moore 1826)

Come, ye, disconsolate, where'er ye languish,

Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel.

Here bring your wonded hearts, here tell your anguish;

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Joy of the desolate, light of the straying,

Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure!

Here spaks the Comforter, tenderly saying,

"Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot cure."

Here see the Bread of Life, see waters flowing

Forth from the throne of God, pure from above.

Come to the feast of love; com ever knowing

Earth has no sorrow, but heaven can remove.

I am off to school...

Aimée

More TICO BELLE

I got a picture of TICO BELLE's Shadow over COCOA BEACH.

Over the Atlantic ocean...

in the middle of the picture is the

Banana River, and the hospital where I was born.

Also, in this picture is the BIRKENSTOCK STORE

where my mom gets many of her Birks.
We didn't stop to shop! :)

As we flew over PORT ST. JOHN....


We were all very happy that Bear got to fly on 'his' plane.


Another view of Cocoa Beach

It was a lot of fun to take this flight on a plane with so much history.
It was a fun thing to be able to do with my whole family.


Aimée

Flying

My brother, Bear, loves airplanes. There is one plane that is his all time favorite. It is a C47 WWII era plane that is located at the Warbird Museum near our home. Her name is TICO BELLE. She recently started to fly again, after having crashed in 2001. A friend of ours emailed my mom one day and told her to call the Warbird Museum, that they were offering flights on her. Mom called, then called dad, then we went out to the Warbird Museum and bought tickets for all of us to fly on TICO BELLE. Bear was excited. After having to reschedule our flight several times, Saturday was our day to fly. It was a really nice flight. TICO BELLE is a plane full of history. She was flown by young American men in WWII, and later became the plane that transported the DANISH ROYAL FAMILY. She now is at home just about 3 miles south of our home at the Warbird Museum. This is where my Bear fell in love with her. It was fun to watch Bear on his first airplane flight on his favorite plane.

Me on TICO BELLE
Bear and I looking over TICO BELLE.

Todd and Bear were on one side of ROW 1,

I was on the other side.

Mom and dad sat behind us.

Leaving the hangars at the museum.

We are heading toward COCOA BEACH.

I liked seeing the propeller go.

Busy Fall

October is here. In Florida, that means that the grass is still growing! Todd and I are back in school full time, and still mowing full time. I am ready for a break from the mowing.

This week, mom and I got our hair cut.

We had to wait just a little bit.

We both were ready to fall asleep on the nice comfy sofa.

I went first. I was happy to have my hair cut.

I have thought about letting it grow,
but I decided it would be too much trouble.

I am not a hair girl.

I like my hair to be quick to wash, dry, style,

and out the door without fuss.

Aimée Noelle