Events 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7

 More April events...

I had a bingo luncheon, I didn't win.

I had a hats off to spring luncheon. There wasn't a contest, but we know I always win at hats.

We went to a white party 

And though not technically an event, we celebrated Alex's birthday so I'm going to count it.

And I had a fundraising luncheon yesterday.

She's Famous

 Look who ended up starring in her groomer's Instagram! 

And here's how she celebrated her big debut.

Pig Plaques

 The buyer pig plaques for the auction came in and here we are.

Yes, we got to be in Kyle's again since we're friends.

And here's the pig we bought. 

Notice how it's behaving and not having to eat to have its picture made.

Newsworthy

 So Reed has been in the news and writing the news this last week.

His BPA group showed up in our local neighborhood magazine.

He had the cover story for his school newspaper (that's really a magazine). 

To nobody's surprise he wrote about eating healthy.

And he won 1st place in news writing at district last weekend. 

Event #2

 We had a school district event to go to last week.  The theme was "yellow rose ball", so I did my best to look like a yellow rose without actually wearing any yellow roses. 

I hate these rotating video things, I never know where to look. 

And here I am with my friend, Kristi, who invited us to the event. 

Eclipsed

 So we had the eclipse yesterday.  Thank goodness we weren't in the path of totality, so we didn't have to deal with all the traffic and tourists the hill country had.

I really didn't give the eclipse much thought, and I just so happened to be checking our mail at the time it happened.  My across the street neighbor waved me over, so I ran to his driveway. He pointed it out between the clouds, and I saw it.  I just looked up at it, and thankfully I'm not blind, but if I start having eye problems I guess we can come back to this blog. 

Reed was able to get a picture.

And here's what the rest of the family thought about an event that won't happen again for 20+ years. 

Event #1

 For some reason April has become the new May.  It seems like we always had lots of things to do in May, but this year everything seems to be in April.  Jason and I had a charity event to go to last week, which was outside, so they requested "no high heels".  I barely even own flats, so I would up wearing tennis shoes. 

Here's what we looked like. 

And since Chloe's bows matched my dress, she wanted a picture too.

Summer Cut

 Chloe got her summer cut this week and she is really feeling herself.

Here she is before

And here is her after

And apparently she got lots of compliments on her morning neighborhood walk. 

85

 My daddy celebrated his 85th birthday on Easter Sunday, so we had his party the day before.

I had no idea I was ordering an 8 and a 5 that had to be put together.  Not only did they have to be put together, they came in a box as strips of cardboard with no directions.  Thankfully I'm married to an Aggie engineer that has the patience of Job. 

The balloon arch was an easy set up, but I'm pretty sure MawMaw and Granny Sherry's fingers have blisters from tying ballons knots. 

We had a cute entrance set up

And a yummy cake (I forgot to take a picture of the Mexican buffet)

Speaking of forgetting to take pictures, basically if you arrived early or stayed late you got a picture with the birthday boy, and though it doesn't look like it from these pictures we had about 80 people come.

The original 3

My cousins

Paw Paw's favorite nieces. 

My 2nd grade teacher and her daughter

The counselors from Humble High School

And the family that was left at the very end (Kyle and Reed were already back at the house hunting)

It was a very nice birthday party!

Easter Sunday

 We don't have any family pictures from Easter Sunday since we weren't dressed up since we went to sunrise service at my parent's church.  

After sunrise service they have breakfast back at the church, and Jason was volunteered to be on eggs and bacon duty.  They even gave him an official apron to wear. 

After breakfast I did get a picture of Chloe stalking the driveway waiting for us to come back.

And the boys got their Easter baskets when we got back home.  Reed shamed me for not "personalizing" them, but I've learned it's best to get everyone the same! 

We dropped JR off at the airport around 2:00, and he was back in Oxford by 7:30. 

He's Home

 In honor of the Golden Child coming home for the weekend yesterday, here is the only evidence I received that his band played at both his fraternity house, and one of the bars in town last Saturday. 

Season Ending

 We finished up Reed's track season this week.

He tried what seems like a million different poles this season, and I'm not sure he ever found one he loved.

 Jason and I were laughing about how big this one was.

He was able to vault 10 feet this year.

He ran the mile at the district track meet and came in 5th with a time of 4:51. So while it's great he placed in top 6, it wasn't the time he wanted.  

Last year in this same race he ran a 5:32, so his improvement is definitely something to be proud of.

I don't know if he'll continue pole vaulting next year, or just focus on running, but it's been fun this season to watch him.

And to officially end the season he said the same exact thing to me last night as he did last year, "I'm ready for track season to be over and go back to cross country." 

Keeping the Title

 There seemed to be quite the buildup to the battle of the bands this week.

This is the only picture I've been able to get, and I still don't have video.

But I do have lots of pictures with the trophy, as they won again! 

Rodeo

 The rodeo has come and gone and I didn't even talk about it once! I was so disappointed with this year's line-up.  I either didn't know who they were, or really had no interest in seeing them. 

Bad lineup aside, we did have fun at the BBQ cookoff as we always do.

And we did make it out to 1 rodeo.  We saw Hank Williams Jr, who I thought was terrible, and I think we stayed for 4-5 songs.

Here's hoping the best thing Houston has to offer will be better next year! 

Skiing

 The kids did lots of skiing, Jason did 1 day, and I did 0 (which was just fine with me).

Jason and Reed 

Jason and Kyle 

That's Reed on the right 

And Kyle's self-portrait of his legs and boots.