2013 Blue Jeans Week 18

Birthday week!  I am now officially the mother of 2 teenage girls!  Heaven help me. . .  In other news we have 9 days of school left and 3 big track meets--hopefully 4 if we make it to state.  Crazy busy end of the year stuff.  2 field trips this week--one next.  I am ready for summer!  Here is a look at our week!

Miss O turned 13 this week!  Ben made her a German Chocolate cake--yum!

And she got lots and lots of duck tape!  She loves creating stuff with that.  

After school smoothies by Miss O are a highlight at our house

After school activities--Miss E reading the paper and Mr J doing his homework.

Miss O decorating her cupcakes for her friend party.  My kids get a friend party every other year on odd birthdays :)  and you can see our ever present post-it notes on the kitchen cupboard--such a part of our lives.

Miss O and her cute friends--we went roller skating for her party.

Our whole family went too.  It was Mr J's first time roller skating at a rink.  He wasn't too sure he like it, but by the end of the night, he was a pro.  

Thanks for visiting and hope your week goes well!

I am linking up with Kleinworth Co and the Mom Creative.

Blue Jeans Week 16

Trying to catch up, but sort of feelin' like I'm drownin', and I seriously think April/May is as crazy as December! 

Sunday:  We had Miss O's family party today, and we have the tradition that the kids get to decorate their own cakes with their dad.  I make the cake and the frosting, but they get to decorate it with him.  They love this tradition.  This year Miss O wanted her round cake to be a bowling ball, and then she put some bowling pins on it--cool stuff!

Monday:  Miss O received the Presidential Academic Award tonight at the school board meeting.  Way to go Miss O and her awesome friends!

Tuesday:  Today I got to attend my Dad's retirement reception at the college.  That is my dad in the white shirt and my mom to his right.  It was fun to hear the different stories people told from the many years he has been there.

Wednesday:  As part of the young author's celebration I always help with the book selling.  It is a fun job because I get to work with the cutest lady--she is Mr J's kindergarten teacher and we both love her!

Thursday:  I don't have a picture to download here because I am using the picture from the front page of our local newspaper.  Miss O made the front page because her Arbor Day Tree picture got honorable mention in the district competition.  The funny thing was the paper got her name wrong and called her by her older sister's name--twice!  Miss O was not too happy to be called Miss A, but 2 days later they ran an apology, and Miss O felt better :)  But we were proud of her awesome picture !

Friday:  Today was Miss O's field trip to the state capitol, and Ben went along as one of the parent helpers.  They had a fun day seeing the state history museum and touring the capitol.

Saturday:  Today is Miss E's birthday (yes Miss O's and Miss E's birthdays are only 1 week apart) and she turned 9!  She is also showing off her cake that she decorated with Dad.  She decided she liked her sister's idea of the bowling ball cake, so she did the same thing :)  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?  She also had a friend party, and we also were taking the friends bowling, but for some reason (and I did call and check before hand) the bowling alley was closed when we arrived--ugh!  I had 5 9-year-old girls to entertain for 2 hours, and my plans fell through!  So we did some quick improvising and went to the church to play dodge ball, then back to our house for pizza, presents and jumping on the trampoline.  Luckily Miss E didn't seem to disappointed, and the girls had fun, but I was so ready for bed when all the girls were gone!  Note to self:  no more bowling parties!!

Hope you all had good weeks!  School is quickly coming to a close here--8 days left!  Oh, my!

 

Blue Jeans Week 15

A week behind but better late than never :)

Easter Sunday:  Love the new dresses and how they each have their own style--long gone are the days they would all wear the same dress :)

Monday:  Mr J didn't have school today, so he got extra lucky and got to go have lunch with Grandpa!  My dad is retiring this month after many, many years as the art teacher at our local junior college.  It is sad to see his office slowly being emptied, but I am excited for him to start a new phase in life.  Way to go Dad!

Tuesday:  Kind of blurry, but the girl was running fast!  Miss E's last soccer game today!  Yeah!

Wednesday:  Had lunch with some girlfriends today, and we went to this place that had the biggest and best hot chocolate I have ever had--all the whipped cream on top--oh my!

Thursday:  Beautiful day, and the crew went on a bike ride while I had some quiet time :)  so nice

Friday:  Two pictures for today.  Each April our county hosts a Young Author's conference/competition.  The school children write books and the best book winners get to attend a conference with 2 visiting nationally known children's authors or illustrators.  My mom is the co-chairman of this thing, so we get to attend a dinner with the visiting authors the night before.  Above are my kiddos with children's book author Pamela Duncan Edwards.  If you have never read her stuff, please check it out--super fun picture books your kids will love!

This is the other visiting author--Dandi Daley MacKall, and she has written over 400 books for kids--picture books, novels, check her stuff out.  They were both awesome to listen to and meet.  Great people!!

Saturday:  Today was Miss O's 11th birthday!!  We took her friends bowling then back to our house for pizza and then the girls had an impromptu hair salon--cute, cute! 

Happy 10th Birthday Miss O!

We celebrated a 10th birthday here this past week. . .

Per tradition, Ben and Miss O decorated her cake the night before.
Blowing out candles and opening presents. She got her new Harry Potter shirt that morning so she could wear it to school. Harry Potter is one of her favorite things.

She got a big ball from Miss A

Miss E made and painted her a cute ceramic bunny.

And Mr J got her a cool soccer shirt.

And thank you Nana and Grandpa for the 39 Clues books. She loves those! We love Miss O and are so grateful she is a part of our family. She is such a good helper and big sister. She helps make our home a very happy place! Love you Miss O!