Sat, 30 May 2009
And what a week it’s beenThis week I spent a lot of my time at the kids' schools. One day was culture day at Melody's school where the kids went from station to station all day long. The activities were supposed to represent different cultures. They started with bocce balls, then moved to the Tour de France.
Later they did frisbee golf
and the high jump ( I'm not sure what those had to do with "culture," but they were fun.)
Look at that high jump form! Here we come, Olympics! They also painted tiles for a mosaic, made boomerangs, and other activities. It was a fun day.
I was back at the middle school the next day for the end of year awards, and Friday to share Subway sandwiches with Melody.
Bryan had final drama performances one evening. Here he is doing a monologue from Macbeth.
And The Importance of Being Earnest (or Ernest?)
He also had track team awards night where he received a plaque for his hard work.
Thomas had a game day on Thursday and an awards ceremony also. And he had a writing celebration where they got to eat pizza and then the parents visited to read the books they've been writing all year. Thomas has some pretty amazing stories written. Maybe he'll be the one in the family to get published. This picture was taken of Thomas with his teacher, Mrs. Pelley. She has been very patient this year (enough said on that.)
Only one more day of school for Melody and Thomas, and two half-days for Bryan, and summer will be officially here! I have a few more days to study for my nursing boards and then I will be care-free also. Poor Marc. His job continues. Thankfully. Happy summer to you all.
Sun, 24 May 2009
More birthday trivia.Did I mention that Thomas got a stack-O-presents on his birthday?
He got a couple of books and also a couple of Nerf guns and a set of Lego. Whose idea were the Nerf guns, anyway?
Then, on Friday night, we all went to play Laser Tag as a family. Thomas invited one friend to go along. Then we came back to finish off the rest of the cake and ice cream.
We still had time for the movie Bolt afterward. It was so cute, it almost made me want to get a puppy.But not really. Yesterday we all had chores galore to do, as well as resting up from all our birthday celebrating.
Thu, 21 May 2009
Thomas Turns Ten Today!It is the sad case now that everyone residing at our house (except the cat) can now measure his or her age in double digits. So I guess it is all downhill from here as we all get old. Meanwhile we had a nice day celebrating Thomas' new age. He had BBQ bratwurst, noodles and cheese, and Texas Toast for dinner, followed by present opening and ice cream cake. Yum.
Sat, 16 May 2009
PinningLast night was my nursing pinning. It was a nice evening and represents a lot of hard work. I'm glad to be done, but glad I did it. I don't know what I'll do with all my time now
Thanks to my wonderful family who supported me through all this.
Bryan turns 16
We started this week by celebrating Bryan's 16th birthday. Since it's an important birthday, I did suggest a party, but Bryan chose to celebrate at home with the family. We ate BBQ tri-tip, asparagus, and couscous. Then the pile of presents was opened. 
He found a prize in a crackerjack box.
Bryan chose strawberry shortcake instead of the usual ice cream cake. I hadn't thought about how much harder it would be to place candles on shortcake, so ended up using a big candle to represent a ten and then six smaller ones.
Sat, 09 May 2009
A Spring WeekendThings are winding down for the school year. This week the kids had their end of the year piano recital. Thomas and Melody both did a great job, but Bryan wasn't able to participate because of a concurrent track engagement. Now we won't have piano lessons anymore for the whole summer. I hope the kids will practice occasionally anyway.
Melody had her choir concert the same night so we had to race to the high school auditorium. She did a good job at this also.
At the same time Bryan was involved in two days of district finals for track. For this meet he did the hurdles and just missed moving on in both events. He admitted that he was really glad for track to be over because it's been a lot of work. I wish I had a really good picture of Bryan at this track meet, but I finally decided to get a new camera because the old one kept giving me fuzzy pictures. So I just got it and took it to the track meet without the SD card. I was about to take a fantastic picture of Bryan when the camera told me that the internal memory was full!I was really annoyed at the missed opportunity. So I'm just learning how to work my new camera. It has lots of bells and whistles and I may have to actually read the manual for this one.
Another MAJOR accomplishment of the past week was that Bryan brought home a Montana quarter! This was the last quarter missing to complete our three State quarter collections. When Marc and I started these eight years ago, we figured that we'd soon turn them over to the kids to complete. But kids just don't handle that much cash, so Marc and I have done most of the work on them. Yeah! We're done. Now I hope the kids appreciate them and don't just go spend all the quarters.
Jan Dill Hall St. Peters, Missouri
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