Adam's Art

This is one of Adam's pictures he brought home from his art class last spring. They were obviously doing word art. I at first thought it said STONE, but he soon corrected me and I could see his representation of SILENCE after a minute or so. The red leaf is dotting the I and the cattails make up the C. Regrettably, he didn't have any room in his schedule to take any art classes this year. Read more!

What I've Been Doing Lately

The top picture is of new wallpaper in our laundry room -- yes, I got a little wild and decided to throw some up in this tiny room. I found the pattern while looking for something else and couldn't get it out of my mind. I suppose my house is like everyone else's and your socks get tired of living together and divorce. And for the life of you you can't figure out where they went!

The second picture is of our front room when you walk into the front door. The wallpaper just barely went up and next week we get carpet. YAY! When my wallpaper guy found out that it's taken two years to do a little bit of remodeling, he said, "And you're still married?" I couldn't answer that. It's been a little rough.

The third picture is of my biggest project yet. A neighbor walked in and said, "Oh, you have a wall of fame!" I used to have miscellaneous framed pictures up on this wall, but when I found these frames I loved the "orderliness" of them all. Each child has their own display. I had everything up a month ago, but the white mats were driving me crazy. So I spent all day yesterday taking every single picture back out. I spray painted them with a textured spray paint that looks like brown sand, then got everything hung up by 10pm last night. My experience with spray paint has been very minimal and I only started with one can ---- it took me an entire can for one mat! So, yes, back and forth to Home Depot. Gotta love it. The only thing left for this wall is to put up one of those vinyl lettering sayings at the top. I haven't ordered it yet, but am excited to get it up. It's going to say, "You're nothing short of our everything."

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Two More Dance Pictures

This is Adam and Megan at Junior Prom and the Valentine's Dance. NO -- they are not an item. I wish this girl didn't even exist because of the pain she caused Adam, BUT maybe he needed to learn something. I'm just too protective ;]

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Past Dances

Here are some past pictures from Adam's dances at school last year. Adam: This is me and Emily Davis, I'm still not quite sure how I got talked into this one, but there I am anyway. There won't be any "formal" dance pictures because this isn't a "formal" dance. Enjoy! I don't have the formal dance picture of this event, but he dressed with this cutie as "mimes". This one is from Adam's first girls-choice dance. He was asked by someone he didn't even know just days after his 16th birthday. She was a member of the volleyball team, and Adam knew several members. They all went together dressed in camouflage and had a great time. Adam: I had a heck of a time figuring out who asked me. Next is Adam and Stephanie on sentry duty.

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Horseback Riding Lessons

These few pictures are of Erica riding Dream, the horse she practices on. She's been taking horseback riding lessons for about 2 years now. She is in her element when she's on the back of a horse. Last week she tried an English saddle for the first time and said that Dream behaved himself. She said it was very hard because there was nothing to hold onto, your knees just have to squeeze and you have to balance. This week she started weaving in and out of barrels trying to keep Dream at a trot. Her instructor has had nothing but high praise for her and her abilities with horses.

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Jake started soccer a couple of weeks ago. Here's part of his team picture. Kyra reffed his game last night. I heard her telling him as they walked off the field, "Jacob, you talk as much on the field as you do off the field."

Jacob's reply was, "That's what I do best!"

He's playing defender mostly. In my day we called them fullbacks. He's very content with that and doesn't aspire to be a forward in the middle of chaos. He did get to play forward for a few minutes last night, so I'm happy he got some running around. His team is very good....they've never lost....so there's hardly any action down by the goal.

He's enjoying the 5th grade. The third day of school he came home "hating" his teacher and on the verge of tears because one of his teacher's rules was no singing on the bus. I asked him if they were on a bus today. He said No. I asked if they were going on a bus soon, and he said No. I said, "Oh, she's just talking about when you take field trips on the bus which is about twice a year." He said, Yes, and that he ALWAYS sings on the bus. We talked about his teacher being Grandma-aged and maybe she didn't like the noise. The very next day he came flying home and told me how much he LOVES his teacher. I asked Why? And he said that every Friday they get a FUN Friday, which means they do fun stuff after lunch like play games and watch movies. So....Fun Fridays win over No Singing on the Bus. Whew!!!

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Kyra Halloween Recital_Part 1

Kyra Halloween Recital_Part 1
Originally uploaded by twobusyhands

This is a video clip of Kyra's first recital in the fall of 2007. The video was too long for this site, so I had to split it in two.

Listen to this one first! And then I picked it back up in Part 2.
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