Back to the End of the Year

I realized I hadn't posted pictures of the last day of school events for the boys, so here they are!
This was Jackson's 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Bowden. She was awesome! She was young, energetic, and was even known to play basketball with the boys at recess, which is pretty impressive. Jackson had a great year with her and we will miss her :)





Brooke attended the party with me and made herself at home. She sat at Jackson's desk and helped herself to his snocone.







I love Mrs. Cato!! She and Drew "clicked" from the beginning. I was so thankful that she could understand and even appreciate his love to talk. She was the kind of kindergarten teacher we all would of loved.









We surprised the boys and took them to the Rangers game to celebrate the last day of school. It was really fun. They were super excited and Jason got great seats, so all was well. This is the boys in the "kids zone" where they have all sorts of games for the kids to play.

Awwww.....brotherly love :)

All Things Kari!

The brunch bunch strikes again....this time, for Kari's birthday!
We planned a night of surprises starting by showing up at her house with sushi, petifores, and lots of gifts!





Kim, Susan, and Renee' just looking cute.









One of our activities was a game..."Kari's Life in Jeoprady" We had 3 categories to choose from. Family Ties, Life and Leisure, and Fashion and Decor (she is our in-house fashion consultant). So, we had a tough competition between the girls to see who could answer all the questions. JA took home the prize with the final jeoprady question....


On to the singing....we made up a song for Kari to a Madonna song and another to Garth Brooks. This is becoming a BB tradition. We take things from their lives and make it into a song. Kim is really getting into it....

Just me and Julie-Anne posing after a night of fun!

Next year, I hope we just do simple dinners for each others birthdays because I don't see how we can out do ourselves!! Happy Birthday Kari!

Flower Mound Champs!!

What a season! Jackson's team, The Storm, were undefeated this season. To top it off, they won the town championship!

The boys went crazy celebrating!

All the boys proudly showing off their trophies. In the winning game, Jackson was 4 for 4. Three triples and a single.

What a great game and a great season!

Gum for everyone!

So, the end of the school year is wrapping up and the boys are getting a lot of their work sent home with them that they worked on throughout the year.
I found this in Jackson's papers.....apparently, it was a persuasive paper they were to write. It's just cute, I had to share....punctuation (or lack of) and all......

GUM CHEWING

I believe that children should be able to chew bubble gun in Liberty elementary school and through out the world. First of all, there are three very good reasons for children doing such a thing.

First, at recess when there is nothing to do, they can play games with their gum like who can blow the biggest bubble and how sour it is according to their faces and stuff like that.

Second of all, every body loves a good piece of gum when they are exercising. Like when they are playing basketball and baseball and football and a lot of other things like that.

Best of all, kids won't be hungry so you won't have to take them to lunch.

So I think you should root for it too!

Keeping up...

I feel old...maybe it's the 100 degree weather here in Texas, but I'm tired just trying to keep up with my kids! They have a lot of energy!

We went to a golf store so Jackson could get fitted for clubs. I was in charge of watching Brooke. How hard can that be?

The child does not sit still for a minute! She picked up everything that she could within her reach. Anything on here eye level was fair game to her. I just wanted to sit on the nice benches that they have for the "non-shoppers." But, no.....up, down, walk, walk, sit down, stand up, run into the rack of clothes, wipe your hands on the mirror, let out a squeal, run into old men shopping for golf supplies. Some smile, some are irritated.....it goes on and on!

But.....take a look at this face. I'd follow her anywhere!

Field Day 2010

Brooke and I braved the heat and went up to check out the boys at their annual field day.
We caught up with Drew's class first at the basketball station. I was surprised to see how serious he was about the whole thing. He was very into it and wanted to win so he didn't have time to be his usual silly self at that moment.

At the basketball station....

I found Jackson's class at the Sno-Cone station?? I didn't know that was a sport?!? Anyways, all the boys had purple tongues and were ready to move on to the face painting station....

First of all, some kid like a year older than him is painting on his face and I can't tell what he's picked....

Ah-ha!!! It turns out a lot of the boys got mustaches and beards painted on. Here are the three amigos!