Fun for Boys

Jason, JR, and Reed went to Jason's deer lease in Ozona, TX this weekend. They hadn't been to the deer lease all season because we always had something going on (and when I say "we" I pretty much mean "JR" since he's the busy one).

 

 

This was the last weekend, and was only open to youth. 

 The plan was to take JR and Kyle (Jason said he couldn't handle all 3) because Kyle seems to be more interested in hunting than Reed. 

But Kyle said if he couldn't shoot (he's not old enough to shoot yet) he didn't want to go.  So it was JR and Reed off to Ozona...and no, I have no idea where Ozona is. I think it is south and west and about a million miles from Houston.

 

 

Here they are sitting in the deer blind.

From my understanding this is considered "fun".

 

 

As you can see, it was a successful hunt. When JR called me he said, "I shot my first American animal!" 

 

 

And if you need more proof that they had a good time, here's Reed coming home yesterday.

Oil Pastels

I didn't even know what oil pastels were, but Reed kept asking for them for Christmas.

In fact, it was the number one thing on his list, and he'll tell you it was his favorite thing Santa Claus brought him.

 

He learned from the drawing videos he watches online that he needed oil pastels to be able to blend colors.  I thought they were just going to make a huge mess, but here's what he brought me his first time using them.

 

"See how I can blend my colors, mom.  You can blend crayons."

 

What can I say, he was right.  He needed those oil pastels.

 

Then to show me how he's been needing them all along, he brought me two pictures to compare.

Sonic in crayon at the top. Oil pastels at the bottom.

 

But he did learn that you can't oil pastel everything.

 

Here's his Elsa he did with crayons and a sharpie.

 

Now, I saw his Anna when it was just in pencil, and I actually thought it was better than his Elsa.

After he oil pasteled it...not so much.

7 on the 7th

So I do believe the birthday celebrations have drawn to a close...until the end of the month when we get around to having their birthday party.

 

Granny Sherry took them to Benihana's for lunch on Sunday. Jason gobbled up their leftovers before anybody else (as in me) could even get a bite.

Decorated door + Captain America party masks + candle "crown" from school + swords from the dollar aisle at Target as presents = happy birthday boys.

 Last night Grandpa Gary and Granny Buffie took us to eat Mexican food.

They were excited to get to wear the birthday sombreros.

 

They finished off the evening with the clown cones at Baskin Robbins.

Back at It

As you can clearly see, 2 of the 3 were not so excited to be headed back to school today after Christmas break.

 

 

Better Than Getting Nothing

I feel so sorry for anybody who has a birthday that falls from Thanksgiving until the end of January.

That time frame includes 3/5 of our family: Jason at Thanksgiving and Kyle and Reed on January 7th.

 

(JR and I hit the "6 months away from Christmas" birthday jackpot.)

 

We were trying to move to Houston during Kyle and Reed's birthday last year, so, not only was Jason not able to go to their party, we didn't even get them anything.

It wasn't like we purposely didn't get them anything, we told them we'd get them an archery set once we moved...and then we never did.

 

 

Buying them "stuff" is out of the question since Christmas was just two weeks ago, so this year we took them to Monster Jam.

 Because how can you go wrong with monster trucks and almost 7 year olds? You can't.

 

 

We even had pit passes so the kids could go "on the field" before the show.

Reed writing his name on one of the cars to be smashed.

 The wheels are kinda big on these things.

Not monster trucks

 

 

JR was super excited about seeing a Taco Bell hot sauce walking around.

 

 

This is Grave Digger.  It won the race.

This is Monster Mutt. It won the free-style.

 

 View from our seats.

By the end of the show almost all the trucks were upside down and wrecked. 

But I think that's the point.

I Almost Tossed It

We've already got the kids registered for Camp Olympia this summer, so when I got a flyer in the mail from them I didn't look at it to closely. I glanced at it as I was about to throw it in the trash, and thought...that picture looks familiar.

 

 

Yes, that's JR coming down the water slide.

Think we can put this on his resume? Does this count as modeling?

Needless to say, this piece of mail went from almost in the trash to on the fridge.

2014 In Review

It's time for the annual blogdown cliptacular.

As always, selected clips may not be considered the"best" thing that happened that month.

 

January

Houston was crippled by the icpocalypse.

There was literally one icicle, causing us to miss 2 days of school.

 

February

The Broncos lost the Super Bowl.

JR cried and screamed, "They're not even trying to win."

 

The Seahawks are now referred to as "The Team Who Shall Not Be Named" in our house.

 

March

My science fair project was awesome.

It's already been re-used this school year.

 

 

April

Reed's allergies were so bad I thought the poor child had pink eye most of the spring.

 

 

May

Kyle and Reed went on a field trip to the lamest place on the planet: Moody Gardens in Galveston.

They saw a penguin, and that's pretty much it.

 

 

June

The boys took my favorite picture of the year in St. Thomas while we were on the Disney Cruise. 

July

I loved seeing JR as the Tin Man in The Wiz.
I hadn't seen him in costume before the show, and I actually burst into tears when I saw him on stage. But it was okay since my mom and Granny Sherry did too.

 

 

August

My mom and I went on our first ever girls' trip to Seattle for my friend's 20th anniversary party.

We had a blast.

 

 

September

We learned that Abby can tell time. She lets herself in the doggie door between 1:30-2:00 to go pick up the kids from school. She's also super photogenic.

 

 

October

My book character pumpkin was awesome, but it didn't win squat.

 

 

November

Kyle's hidden hula talent was discovered.

 

 

December

The boys went to a Texans game and saw JJ Watt do his thing. It was a big deal.

 

 Here's to 2015!