The Eclipse

Last Sunday the kids got to experience a Solar Eclipse for the first time. It was pretty exciting! I told the kids not to get the telescope out because you can't look at the sun through it... but do you think they listened?

I wish so bad that I had an SLR sometimes. Ok, not sometimes but all the time. This is as good of a picture I could get of it... which you can't even tell there is an eclipse.

Since we didn't have glasses... thanks to facebook and our friend Jason Huhtala, we made a pinhole in a piece of paper, held it up to the sun, put another piece of paper in the first papers shadow a few feet back, and we were able to see the effect of the eclipse on the sun. It was pretty cool. It was a lot darker outside than normal, but this was the only way we could really see the moon over the sun.

Elijah got more excited to see a plane in the sky.

And who can watch an Eclipse without all the kids jumping on the trampoline? Not the McOmber's! And as you can see, Ezra could only take so much bouncing.

Mom, hurry! Come and get me!

Mom, I can't live without you!

Ahhhh.... mom, much better!