So yesterday there was a Solar Eclipse. Hannah actually told us about it on Saturday, she had learned about it in school! So we headed outside with every trick in the book to try and capture it! The clouds actually helped filter the bright light so we could catch glimpses of it!
Cutie as usual!
"Supers!" The twins have been in their super hero costumes for almost 8 days straight. It is the first thing they talk about when they wake up and the last thing they cry about at night because we don't allow them to sleep in them! I'm not even quite sure how John got them to wear normal dresses to church yesterday! :)
Figuring out the exact time of the eclipse was a bit of a task, so the girls found some very creative ways to keep busy while we waited!
And then it happened! John had walked inside for a moment and then came running out with Taylor telling us that he could see crescent shaped moons everywhere! You see, even though you can't look at the eclipse directly, we found all kinds of fun ways to see it in our shadows! I'm not sure how or why, but during the eclipse, almost everything projects a crescent shaped shadow! Can you see all of the little moons on the fence? Just simply the leaves from our tree overlapping!
It was a cloudy day, but the clouds actually helped diffuse the light so that I could capture a few partial pictures! The lighting in the clouds and on the ground was pretty rad while it was going on!
Can you see it tucked behind the clouds?
John went inside and brought a mirror outside... do you see all of the moons from my criss crossed fingers in the reflection?
Aspen and Brooke weren't sure what we were doing exactly, so they did the next best thing... make silly faces in the mirror!
Hannah had so much fun experimenting with the shadows! She is really excited to go back to school with pictures to show!
It really was beautiful!
Still blows my mind! It was so crazy how the leaves projected little crescent moons! Wild!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand then we got bored :) So then buckets turned into hats, goldfish crackers turned into weapons, and we called it a day! Lol!
But not before we pretended our crescent shaped fingers were really long fingernails!
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