BenSpark Family Adventures

 Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02421 Today Allison took our giant zucchini and made two loaves of zucchini bread. One was regular with one half covered in pecans and the other is chocolate zucchini bread. I had a small slice of the chocolate one and it was really good. I know it is not on my Virta plan but it did not raise my blood sugar that much more than regular dinner. It was worth it to have some of this since I haven't had zucchini bread in forever.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02420 A few weeks back I realized that I had a bunch of LEGO points from the LEGO shop and so I made a purchase of a couple of sets including the Optimus Prime BrickHeadz set. This one has Optimus in both robot and truck mode. I moved a few things around in my display area to add these two little guys. They go great with the light up LEGO Prime. I also got a Bumblebee one and I'll put that guy with my light up Bumblebee that I assembled the other day.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02419 Our pepper plants have been growing larger and larger but they hadn't started producing any peppers until now. So this little guy is just starting off. I hope that this will end up proding plenty of peppers once it gets going.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02418 I finally completed building my Transformers Bumblebee LEGO set. As I built it I also set up the lights. There are a bunch of wires out the back of this but maybe I can hide them better. Might have to rearrange my lit up LEGO sets soon. Also, the next build will be Soundwave.  I took my car for service this morning and knew I'd be at the dealership for a while so I took this with me to build a bit while I waited. It definitely made the time go by quickly. I only got through 2 bags before they were done.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02417 Eva had to go into school today for a half day so this is technically her first day of Senior year. I cannot believe how quickly the time has gone. Time has gone so fast and is just getting faster. So many things are happening at once, too. College applications and more are on the horizon. Tonight Andy had a meeting at the High School for their math class. We got information about the whole program and found out some great things. Andy can have breakfast at the High School and they provide calculators so we do not have to pick one up. Also, this program is going to be challenging and I hope that Andy enjoys it. I know that they are going to be challenged in this program. Andy did complain that their last class was too slow and boring. Let's hope that this works out. I know Andy is up for the challenge.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02416 Whenever I play Fortnite with my cousin these days he'll say that he cannot hear me. Well, today I was in Best Buy and figured I'd pick up another set of headphones to see if they would work better. I had a $10 gift card to get this set that was already $30 off. So for $30 I have a nice new set of headphones. Hopefully he'll hear me now. I went to Best Buy also to apply for a job there. The thing is, every place around that is hiring is doing so online. I've been applying to a lot of places via indeed.com. I haven't heard anything yet but hopefully soon I can pick up some part time work.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02415 The other day I put together a mini knockoff LEGO set of a knockoff Optimus Prime. the set allowed me to not only build Optimus as a truck but also as a robot. I decided that once I built it that was the end of it. No Robot mode for me, just making it a truck and leaving it that way. It was a very cheap thing but it was fun to build albeit very challenging because the pieces were so small. My Optimus Prime display is getting more and more full. I'll be taking a lot of my older Transformers figures out of storage and I've decided that it is time to sell them. So there are many in the boxes that I'll be cataloging and then I'll decide if I want to keep any. Probably any that are Optimus and or Wheeljack. Maybe some others.