April Events

 We had a couple of events in April where we got dressed up enough to have our picture made:

This one was a spring colors theme.

This one was a garden party theme

And this one was a mahjong theme.

Winning in Waco

 Reed and his JA team won first place this weekend at an entrepreneurship contest at Baylor.

They missed school Friday and headed off to Waco.  (Which I'm pretty sure means Reed didn't attend school any Friday in the month of April.)

They had a tour of Baylor, and ate dinner at one of the dining halls, which he said was "excellent".

He said the business school and the campus were very nice.

Then on Saturday they brought home their 1st place finish.

Fish Update

 So we ate the fish that Kyle cleaned in the driveway.

Obviously I didn't cook it, but Jason did.

And here's what it looked like.

Much more appetizing than it looked in my driveway.

Reed said it was great, and Kyle said it was good (which is surprising since Kyle's the one that caught it.)

I said it tasted "fishy", but Chloe gobbled up the piece that accidently fell on the floor, so I'm assuming she's giving it 2 paws up. 

Not at Easter

As you could see from the family pictures, JR was not at Easter this year.  

Again, he was absolutely invited to come home for Easter, but he decided he would stay in Oxford.

Poor thing, he just looks miserable. 

Not in My Driveway

 Kyle went fishing over the long weekend, and when he came home, I asked him if he caught anything.  He told me an 18-inch trout. 

 I said, "oh, do you have a picture of it?" and he said "even better it's in the driveway."

So I peeked out the backdoor, and sure enough, a fish was being filleting on my driveway. 

I immediately went back inside where I called Jason to inform him that I was not enough of a boy mom to handle a fish being cleaned on my driveway.  

 Kyle then wanted to know if I would cook it for him. 

 And as we all know, I would have no idea where to even begin...which is what I told him.

So here's the fish, and no, I didn't take pictures of it on my driveway. 

Not in a Pickle

 The other day after school Reed texted me (from upstairs) that he was going to play in a young life pickleball tournament.  Three things struck me as odd about this since: 1. Reed doesn't do anything in the evening but study 2. He's not in young life 3. I can't remember the last time he played pickleball.

But after finding out it was a tournament where they could win money, it made total sense why he was excited to go.  

With Kenny being a tennis player, they came out on top (as Reed put it "I just let Kenny dominate") and walked away with the (literal) big check.

Easter

 We had a very nice Easter yesterday. 

 We all wore our Easter best. 

We had a gorgeous lunch 

The Easter Bunny visited the boys and Chloe

And we made them hunt eggs (the egg prizes were pretty good).