A Brief Update

Wow ... it's been awhile!

Things have been busy but good around here. Life just keeps moving .... and so fast!

Fancy just finished up her Volleyball season last night with a great win. She had a fun time on a team with a bunch of sweet girls. She can't wait until the new season starts up in the Spring.

My little "Lady Longhorn" (my scanner does not give the best of color)

Bubby is just starting his Basketball season with his team, "The Sharks". He is super excited for the games to get going in December. Pictures coming soon!

School is wrapping up nicely over here as we head into our LONG winter break. This worked so well for us last year we are doing it again. I am ready for some relaxation and some planning for spring. We will tie up a few loose ends over the next day or so and then be DONE until January. Ah ... the freedom.

Ok, now for a few funnies regarding Bubby: This first one isn't as funny as it is sweet.

He decided last night he wanted to prepare dessert for the family. He made us all a serving of Chocolate Pudding with Whipped Cream and Sprinkles. He even HAD to put it in the "fancy glasses". He worked QUITE hard on his masterpieces. It was YUMMY!

Thanks Bubby!

 

And now for the funny: I came across one of his "inventions" today. He is CONSTANTLY inventing, building, and/or creating something. It was a wooden dowel he found in the garage that he had attached some pencil leads to with tape. He was wanting to see how it would write. I didn't get a picture of it at that point but told him he could try it and then needed to take it apart because it was dangerous to carry something around with so many sharp points on the end.

Ok ... so I said it ... did you see the word? DANGEROUS. Yeah ... that was a mistake.

Clearly this gave him another idea altogether. He disappeared for a bit (I was thinking he had gone to disassemble his creation ... HAH ... silly me) but I found out that was not the case. He came to me a bit later with this:

Uh, yeah. He thought DANGEROUS sounded pretty good I guess. He told me with this "Ninja Stick" he could fight off any "Bad Guys" that tried to get into our house.

Incase the pic isn't super clear, that is a 3 foot dowel with pencil leads and push pins taped to it so all you breaker inners out there BEWARE!

Have a GREAT Thanksgiving!

Science Fun

Bubby is learning about the moon.

Today he did a "spearmint" aka experiment to help him understand that although the moon seems to give off light, it actually does not. It is just a reflection of the sunlight.

He used a flashlight (sun) and a CD (moon) to reflect light onto the ceiling.

 

The plan was for this to take approximately 5 minutes. It took us a good 20 because he was having so much fun watching that reflection dance all over the ceiling. Midway through I gave up and got a load of dishes done while I waited.

Multi-tasking .... it's the greatest!

A Halloween Pic

Batman and The Purple Punk

(Yes, she made it up .... we discovered you have to be creative at her age ... the costumes they sell for this age group are ... um .... not okay!)

I didn't crop Pedro out because I thought it was so funny how he was looking at them as if they had lost their minds!

The "Boy Room"

So, we moved. And a big dilemma in the move was finding a place to house the "boy stuff". Drums, guitars, amp, stereo, weight bench (can you sense the testosterone here people?).

Anyway, we found a great house with a PERFECT room for school. Well, it was also the only option for the boys' stuff so they won. I still have a pretty great school room.

Without further ado, I present "THE BOY ROOM".

 

Okay, so you see those broken drumheads on the wall? And the busted up sticks in the container on the speaker? (You may have to click on them to enlarge to get a good look.) These are all products of Bubby's rock sessions and he is QUITE proud of them. So proud that we just HAVE to keep them and DISPLAY them. Good thing for him that he is so stinkin' cute because I am not a fan of displaying them.

He decided to name that wall one morning (while I was clearly not paying enough attention) ... here is what happened (the sunlight wasn't cooperating much):

"WALL OF DAMAGE"

I love that kid!

A Camping Trip

We took advantage of the great October weather and went camping for the weekend. It was a wonderful time filled with PERFECT weather, hiking, campfires, fellowship with some good friends from church, smores, hot dogs and fun fun fun!

Fancy and Bubby were in control of the camera for pretty much the entire weekend so as you can see there are LOTS of "interesting" pictures. Pedro seemed to be the most photogenic member of the family this weekend!

A very large spider in an amazing web. We saw this just over our heads on our hike.

Pedro, on the way to the campsite. He napped in his sweater. Poor guy ... the dilemma of being owned by a fashionable 12 year old girl!

This last one is my favorite pic they took of Pedro. It is as if he is saying, "What? I am camping. Don't you see me in my camping chair by the fire with my tiny tent in the background?"

haha

Back From Walt Disney World

Thanks Nanny and PaPaw for a GREAT week in Orlando!