Yes, the Auction

First, I think I was able to fix the video in the previous post so it will play.

And now, the school auction. 

IT. IS. OVER!

Hallelujah! 

We got to have the Rock On guitars in our yard the day before and the boys were super excited.  They even light up at night.

This has been a full time job for me since May. 

 We were supposed to raise $180,000, but blew that out of the water when we raised over $250,000.

I give lots of the credit to my awesome husband who did an amazing job working the big board...we made $30,000 on just those 14 items! 

Here I am with the other auction chairs, it's pretty easy to find me in my Britney costume. 

With Jason

With our neighbors

I was so tired I went to bed at 8:45 Sunday night, unfortunately for me, I woke up to 104 emails, and that number had climbed by the afternoon.

But we are in the home stretch now of just tying up lose ends. The long days are over. 

OVER! 

Not the Auction

Our school auction I chaired was on Saturday night, I'm not ready to talk about how awesome it was yet, so enjoy this video of my kids trying really hard to break one of their bones. 

2 Concerts But Only 1 Me

JR, Kyle and Reed all had Veteran's Day concerts/programs this morning. 

They were both at the same time, so I had to pick. 

Reed (being the most like me) said there was no reason to come to their concert since neither he nor Kyle had a solo, speaking part, or special part. 

"Plus there's so many kids singing it's not like you could actually hear me."  He spoke it so bitterly, it was almost like I was saying it to myself. 

But he's right. Look at all those kids. 

Here are some of the other pictures/video I was able to get from friends.

Reed's class

Kyle is in this video, but unless you're his mama you'll never find him. 

JR's program was very nice.

They sang The National Anthem, and then a medley of songs with both the band and the orchestra.

Happy Veteran's Day to PawPaw and Grandpa Gary!

So Deplorable

Well that was unexpected! 

The Boys of Fall

This is the 3rd year of the boys playing football and they have yet to be on a winning team.

The season ended at the end of October and I honestly can't remember if they won 2 games or 3.

At least they have learned how to lose! 

Reed made a touchdown or two since my last post and completed quite a few passes. Kyle continued to do a good job hiking the ball.

They missed the team picture day to go to a Texans game, but it didn't matter since I take my own pictures anyway.

Last Lesson

JR had his last cotillion dance lesson last night.

It was also mother/son, dad/daughter night.

You can imagine how thrilled JR was to take me.  Jason threatened him within an inch of his life, and he still asked if he could take Chloe as his date instead of me.

Here we are before we left. And yes, I'm getting my Christmas trees up.

And here I am with the kids that asked to have their pictures made with me...individually! 

Kyle bought himself some Sky Walkers and only takes them off to go to school.  

They had a little lesson with the other kids, and then they spent the evening dancing with us.

Fall Concert

JR had his fall choir concert last week.

He has a new choir teacher this year, and though the new teacher frustrates us mamas with his lack of communication, he totally makes up for it in the teaching our kids to sing department.

The advanced choirs started off with the National Anthem.  Reed has been to plenty of plays, musicals, and concerts and when they finished he turned around to me and said, "Wow! That was really good!"

JR is standing next to next door neighbor, Mary. Of course they have to act like they don't even know each other. 

Then JR sang 2 more songs with the advanced men's choir.

Here's a little sampling of one of the songs.

We were super impressed and are very happy with the new choir director!

As usual, JR had a big fan club in attendance.

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Kyle said he refused to go to the choir concert to watch JR, but was happy to go and watch Mary.

Reed went to watch JR, but was first in line to get his picture with Mary.