Happy Birthday (and I'm back in business)

You might be wondering where I've been.

That is a crazy story that I will share later.

 

 

I'm so happy to have cable and Internet back (5 days is way too long!) but today we are celebrating Presidents' Day.

 

 

The kids are home from school (I think they've now gone two full weeks since Christmas) and JR said we should celebrate President Reagan's birthday since it's February 6th.

(Of course, JR would know that.)

 

 

I thought that was a wonderful idea, so this Preseidents' Day we are also celebrating our favoritey-fav President Ronald Reagan.

 

 

And for the perfect Presidents' Day picture, here are Granny Buffie and JR getting read to go to a Texas Republican candidates meet and greet. 

They had a great time, and filled my yard with all kinds of political signs. 

Rolling

 

Still no roller hockey, but as the smiles show, they sure were glad to get skates on their feet again.

Such Drama!

The other day JR asked me if I'd take him to New York to see some Broadway shows.

I can't exactly fit a trip to New York in right this second, so this weekend we went to two of the local high schools' productions.

 

Friday night JR and I went to see West Side Story at Stratford High School.

I've always heard great things about their drama program, but man!

At one point I looked at JR and said, "We've got to get you in some dance classes!" 

 

Being the crazy stage mom I am, I kept looking for the non-dancers they would have shoved in the back row. 

Nope, none to be found. These boys were good.

 

Then on Saturday I took all the boys to Memorial High School to see Shrek the Musical.

 

The costumes and scenery were great, and the boys really liked it.

Memorial also has some really talented kids, but thankfully, I didn't feel like I had to rush out and put JR in dance lessons.

 

 

Fashion Fabulous Friday

 

 

 

It was "Jesus Day" at school awhile back.

Kyle totally looked the part.

Until he turned Jesus into a Ninja Turtle.

100 Projects

I thought I was prepared for Texas.

 

Unfortunately, I totally underestimated a few things:

1. Traffic

2. Reaction to "cold"

3. Projects

 

Oh my goodness, I have two kids too many to handle the amount of projects.

 

Right now JR has a science fair project and a presidential book report going on. (He, along with 95% of his class, picked President Ronald Reagan.  No one picked a democrat.)

 

 

Kyle and Reed just finished up their 100 days of school project.

The moms did a great job on the projects:  Battle scene dioramas, crayons melting down the page that looked like it could hang in a museum, and an exact replica of the "Up" house with 100 balloons.

 

 

I'm not mentally ready to compete with the other moms yet, so the boys just picked out what they wanted to do from my selections on Pinterest.

 

 

Kyle did a s'more with 100 marshmallows.

Reed did a fish bowl.  His artist brain almost exploded when I told them he had to group them in tens. He wanted the fish swimming prettily around the bowl. 

This was his answer to the grouping "problem".

FYI, if you have to do a 100 day project:

 Hot glue and marshmallows= awesome.

Hot glue and goldfish crackers= the project is lying down for a reason.

 

Wish me luck on the science fair!

3 Eyes and a Few Teeth Between Them

So if you're still crying over the Broncos big loss last night, (JR was in literal tears screaming, "They aren't even trying to win!") hopefully this will make you smile.

 

Here's a toothless kid and a one-eyed dog, for ya.

Doesn't get much better than that.

(And in this sentence I'm thinking 'better' might actually mean 'pitiful'.)

Go Broncos!

This bunch is pretty excited to cheer for the Broncos.

 

Me?

I'm so upset about missing out on all the fun in Denver I can hardly stand it.