Lego pirate ship

Once again I forgot to post a post :-( 

This is what I have been wanting to make for a long time and so the other night Andrew helped me build a pirate ship. I made one a long time ago but it had a paper sail and the entire thing was blue. The sail this time is a wing of a dragon set that I got a few Christmas ago. 

This is the back of the ship.

This is the pirate's fish to eat hanging from the sail.

This catapult can fling pretty far. The ship is eguiped with double catapults so there ready for any battle.

The cool part of the ship is that it has a intereor. The sticks sticking out are attached to the cannonballs on the outside so if you push them the cannons will shoot. The pirates also keep there snacks and weapons under the deck.

LEGO Lord of the Rings

This is my LEGO Minas Tirith castle from The Lord of the Rings-Return of the King.

 If you have seen the movies or read the books then you will know what this is. It is built into the side of a mountain so that is what the giant rock is.

It is a castle also known as "The White City" or "The City of Kings".

 The symbol of Minas Tirith is the White Tree in the courtyard. It is on all the soldiers shields.

 A better view of the courtyard.

 There are houses in the walls, just since this is micro scale they are not there.

 An up-close shot of the rock.

The city inside of the gates. 

Here is a comparison picture!

New Origami

This post I made in April and forgot to post it :)

Once again Youtube has helped me fold some awesome things (with the exception of my spring).

The first is my spring that I designed one day with my kids menu at a restaurant called Country Boy. If you drop it on a table or another flat surface it will bounce up a few inches.

 

The next is a skeleton hand which I am probably going to use to decorate for Halloween.

This one is a fly swatter, I know, right your probably thinking "whats so cool about a fly swatter?". The cool thing is on the other side..... 

It's a Man Swatter!!!!!!!

On Youtube there is a lot of videos of origami dragons. So I started an origami dragon collection.

More Legos !!!!!

 This is a Lego Hero-Factory which is connected by a ball and joint.

Hero-Factorys are so much fun to make.

 I have a lot of pieces like this so I think that I will post another one soon. 

My mom said that I should post this on my blog. This is from left to right Aubrey, Carter me, and Andrew

 This is Aubrey.

 If you know her she loves animals so I put my Lego dog and cat beside her.

This is Carter me.

I love electronics so I gave myself a Lego computer.

This is Andrew.

He is always on his bike and he loves fishing(and overalls).

New Lego Stuff

This is what I am entering in the Lego Castle building competition in this months Lego magazine. I call it Knight-Mech. My first one did not turn out good because the arms and legs were not posable and it was more boxy. The five winners will win a $100 Lego gift card.

This is the back of the Knight-Mech. You can see the gold crystal on the back too.

This is my pistol that I made yesterday. It will shoot anything that will fit in the barrel. I used two of Aubrey's hairbands to make the launching mechanism.

I really enjoy building with Legos (exept the mess) and I hope to post some more stuff soon.

well gotta go clean up legos :)

LEGO RV and Boat

I spent several hours on Monday night constructing this RV.

Yesterday I built this boat to go with the RV.

My original intention was for the boat not to look like a lifeboat, but it happened that way. 

 The inside of the RV has a couch, a table and two chairs, a TV (you can't see it at this angle), a drivers seat, and two storage bins.  The room in the back is a bed room with a bed and extra clothes.

 This is the trailer hitch that holds the boat trailer and the RV together.

I really enjoy building with Lego's and I hope to post more Lego things I build.

The Snake

This is a King snake and the story of how we found it.

So yesterday my mom was mowing and she kept on telling us to get our stuff out of the yard.

I had already been in and out three or four times. I was building with Legos in the playroom when I heard mama screaming to Aubrey something.  I couldn't understand her and I thought that is was about picking her stuff up so I kept on building. Then Andrew screams, "CARTER! IT'S A SNAKE!".  I run downstairs and out the door and everyone is gathered around a tree. I look over there and I see a King snake (of course we didn't know that until later). 

 Aubrey runs off screaming, "I"M GONNA CALL MASUE"!

Aubrey comes back with a Lego box so we can catch it. Mama hands me the camera so I took some pictures while Andrew got a shovel and was trying to force it into the box that Aubrey was holding.  

We ended up catching it in the box.

Then everything went back to normal, I went to finish my space shuttle (hopefully I'll post it on here), mama went back to mowing, Hope and Benjamin jumped on the trampoline, Andrew went with me and I think Aubrey had school to finish. 

It was a pretty exiting Wednesday because we caught the snake (that eventually died) and on our way to church we were riding down the road when the car in front of us hits a deer and the deer goes flying over the rails by the road. That's right, we saw a deer fly!

This was the first snake sighting at our new house so it was exciting.

Our Pet Collection

 This is Aubrey's salamander named Tiny. He might look small in the picture but he's really longer than my hand. He is also really strong (for a salamander). He is not wet or slimy just rough. 

This is Tiny's terrarium.  He has a rock and some bark to hide under. Aubrey feeds him worms for every meal.

For Easter we got five ducks from our grandmother. At first they were inside but our parents said they stunk to much so they put them outside in the doghouse. 

 They all like to swim and four are Black Mallard females and one we aren't certain about yet.

We give them poultry starter grower feed and Cheerios for treats.

Aubrey and I got rabbits for Easter last year.  Mine died in a few days so we were able to get it replaced and then our grandmother bought one for Andrew too.  Last summer we had some very hot days in the 100's and two rabbits died of heat stroke.  Aubrey's is the only one remaining.  Her name is Coconut. 

 This is the hutch that our dad built when we all had rabbits. Now it all goes to Coconut.

This is Smokey the cat that has caught three mice, a mole, a chipmunk and a rabbit and that's only the stuff we've seen. 

This is Jojo the cat that we thought was to scared to catch anything but the other day she caught a lizard.

This is Bandy our fourteen year old dog that my parents have had since she was a puppy. She has a tumor and she is almost deaf and she thinks she's young so she tries to catch the cats but she can't.

 Aubrey and I got fifty chicks about a week ago from 4-H.

 They all (except one) are Barred Rock chickens. 

 We have only named two, the first one is Aubrey's Silkie chicken named Sunny (the one below is not Sunny).

 And this one is named Puff, she's mine and she has a yellow face.

 We have a lot of pets and they take some work (for example today I was changing the chick's water and I spilled a whole gallon all over the kitchen floor) but in the end they are really fun to have.

Now to build a coop!