The Year of the Horse

Happy Chinese New Year!

 

 

It's the year of the horse, and though none of us in the family are horses, a bunch of us are supposed to have a good year:

 

 Sheep (JR) will have an especially good year with promotions at work possibly in their near future.

 

Tigers (Me) pondering any potential real estate deals should proceed with them, as it will be a good year for property for hungry tigers.

 

 Dogs (Jason) will have a good year in relationships.

 

No mention of my two little Pigs, but I'm sure they'll do just fine.

Repeat

I am at home.

With 3 kids.

 

They cancelled school again today...

because it's 35 degrees and raining.

 

Ya know what happens when it's 35 degrees and raining?

Yep, it rains.

 

Apparently Houston thinks 35 degrees means "we need to shut down the city".

 

They might need a science tutorial.

 Here you go Houston, I got this, I did teach science for two years after all:

Water freezes at 32 degrees.

 

My kids haven't gone to a full week of school since before Christmas break.

It's been over a month.

I'm dying.

 

Icepocalypse '14

I know you're all dying to see the pictures of the Houston Icepocalypse.

 

The Icepocalypse that crippled the city and cancelled school for the whole day.

 

 

The icicles off the house.

 

 

The icicle on the fence.

I even had icicles on my back-up camera!

And if you aren't totally blown away with what I've already showed you, just check out our back yard.

 

 

So to compare, here's the one day we got enough snow for Durango to cancel school:

 

So yeah. Very similar.

Houston, He has Arrived.

When we told JR we were moving he was most upset to leave his theater group.

I promised him I would find him somewhere to perform in Houston.

 

 

We arrived in Houston on a Friday and that Monday he went to his first audition with Wildfish Theater for Seussical the Musical.

 

 

Good luck ice cream before try-outs

The cast list came in last night, and JR was cast as one of the lead roles.

 

He's Horton the Elephant. 

 

(As in Horton Hears a Who and Horton Hatches the Egg...both stories are combined in the musical.)

He's excited, and we are so happy for him. 

Lot of singing in this one, and he'll have 2 shows the first weekend in May.

I'm Here

I promise I'm still here and haven't given up on blogging.

 

I just have nothing to say.

 

I tried really hard to think of something to post and all I could come up with is that we've been eating lots of Mexican food....which is always a good thing.

 

 

And it's nice enough to sit outside in shorts and t-shirts.

We're enjoying it now. Soon it will be too hot to even step outside much less eat outside.

Fashion Fabulous Friday

Belts and tucked in shirts certainly add some time to the morning routine.

Having pajama day almost every other week sure was a lot easier than this!

 

 

Short hair and uniforms.

This is like baptism by fire coming from Colorado's state dress code of 

"a Broncos T-shirt is formal wear".

The End of a Hair-a

Yes, I went with a bad pun for my title.

I couldn't help it, it was go with the bad pun or cry.

 

I didn't really think their new school was serious about the rule "boys must have hair cut above the ears", but when 3 people including the principal, the admissions lady, and a coach told me I'd have to cut their hair before they could start I realized they were pretty serious.

 

I've always blamed Jason for Kyle and Reed's long hair.

I teased "Jason wants the boys' hair to look just like his did in 1976".

But seeing it cut off today was not easy.

 

I won't be able to tell them "shake your long flowing locks" anymore.

 

Who are these kids?!