2013 Blue Jeans week 19

Another birthday week--field trips, end of school concerts, league track meet, and just general craziness.  School is out in 4 days!!!  Yippee!  Let the summer begin!

Miss O made everyone at Sunday dinner a duck tape bracelet.  She does amazing stuff with that tape!

Miss E's birthday!  She wanted an Oreo cheesecake for her birthday cake--a child after my own heart!  

Field trip day!  Ben went with Miss E on her school field trip to the state capitol.  Fun!

Miss A's end of school choir concert.  She had a solo and did awesome!

I went to get into bed one night this week and was meet by this in my bed.  My little boy still loves his trains which makes me happy, and I don't mind having trains in my bed because it means I have a wonderful little boy in my home!

League track meet and Miss A broke 2 records, won 2 golds and a silver and helped her team place 2nd!  She is amazing! This next week is regionals, and only the top 4 make it to state, so we are keeping our fingers crossed.  She is only a freshman, so watch out!

Had a lunch date with a really cute boy today!

Miss E had a friend party for her birthday, and she wanted to take them skating.  These girls had fun!  

Thanks for visiting and hope you all have a great week!  I post Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays, so visit often!

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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!

 

Happy 8th Birthday Miss E!

Our middle girls have birthdays one week apart. It makes for lots of cake for a few weeks, which we don't have a problem with. So last week Miss E celebrated her 8th birthday which is a big deal in our church. When a child turns 8 they can be baptized and become an official member of the church, so this birthday was a big deal. Ben's parents drove 2 days to be with us for the occasion. It was very neat. I will share pictures from the baptism later, but first the birthday. . .

Ben and Miss E decorated her cake the night before per tradition at our house. Love that tradition!
Then this was right after her amazing blowing out the candles experience. As Miss E leaned over to blow out her candles her hair caught on fire and just flared up instantly. Luckily my mom was right by her and quickly stamped it out with her hands. Miss E was a little shaken, but recovered quickly and said, "This is the best birthday ever!"

Our flaming haired girl and her little brother who gave her a cute necklace and that cute pink shirt she is wearing.

Miss A gave her a cool giant tennis ball.

And Miss E was very lucky to have both sets of grandparents at her birthday. Here she is with Ben's awesome parents.

And here she is with my awesome parents and my mom's slightly burned fingers from getting the fire out of Miss E's hair. Crazy. Never a dull moment.

I think this was her favorite present. A giant Beamo frisbee. It is really fun. I would highly recommend it. The reviews on Amazon were great too, one person said they had one for 8 years and another said 15 years.

We are so blessed to have Miss E in our family. She is so full of energy and is always doing something fun. She is a great student, a very good piano player, a great reader, artist, and keeps us on our toes. We love you Miss E! Happy Birthday!!!