Spirit Week

Last week was Spirit/Homecoming week at school.



 Monday- Cowboy & Indian Day

 Tuesday-What I Want To Be When I Grow Up (a producer and drummer)

Wednesday-Twin Day (Second graders all wore red)

Thursday-Blast from the past!

Friday-School Spirit Day!

Here's a picture of the boys from the Pep Rally!

James Henry scored a football at the pep rally.

It was a fun week!

Go Patriots!!!

Modeling Cutie

Makayla recently did a photo shoot with one of our favorite photographers, Carol McKinney for a local company called Custom Bows 7/23. They dressed her in a punk rock themed pettiskirt costume. She was so cute and did a great job. She loved it!

This is her daddy's favorite one!

Little Drummer Boy

Christopher is taking drum lessons! He had his third one last night. He loves it! He is always banging on something in the house and I think he's really getting it.
His teacher told us nearly all his journal entires are about drumming and for "what I want to be when I grow up" day at school he dressed as a drummer!
We are even looking into buying him a drum set! Crazy! As long as he uses his drum lessons to glorify God, he can make as much racket as he wants!

James Henry's very first field trip!

Yesterday was James Henry's first field trip! They went to the Library for story time, they read them several books with the letter D, since it's D week. Then they headed to the playground. He was so cute in his school shirt with all his friends!
James was actually off yesterday morning and was able to go with us and we drove some kiddos in our vehicle. It was soo much fun!!

Tri-State Fair

We have been experiencing some unusual Fall like weather and I am loving it!! We have been spending alot of time outside, we have even been doing our bedtime devotions outside. On Saturday afternoon we went to the park and fed the ducks and let the kids play.

On Sunday we went to church and then headed to the Tri-State Fair! The weather was wonderful and we had a blast! It was a great weekend!!!

 

She's a Star!

Makayla has just started taking theater classes at Amarillo Little Theater. People have been telling us for years that she should be in acting and we joked about it too! Now, I'm wishing we had done it sooner! They held the auditions last week for Alice in Wonderland. Makayla only had two days notice of the audition and we have never done this before! She worked so hard reading the script and pronouncing words and making facial expressions.
Auditions were on Thursday night and I was so nervous for her! She did so so good! She was asked to read for him 3 times that night. We had to wait until Sunday night at 5pm to get the cast list and we didn't say anything to her about it, we didn't want her to be nervous or anxious.
At 5:00 we pulled up the list ( ok, I checked it all afternoon just in case) and..... she was on it!!!!
She will be in Amarillo Little Theater's production of Alice in Wonderland in November! We are so proud of her!

Our Weekend Project

I'm not sure what came over us last Friday but on a whim we decided to paint and redecorate James Henry's room!
So, off to the store we went! We let him (with a little guidance) pick out his decor. He chose Spiderman! On Saturday we went to Lowe's and picked out paint. We decided on blue, thinking when he outgrew Spider-man the blue color would not limit us on a another room re-do.
James Henry was such a huge helper! Sometimes, a little too much help like when he painted a stripe on the door. Thankfully, it cleaned up easy!
By Sunday night we had completely purchased and painted everything and moved him back in! James Henry loves it and so do we. James said it is his favorite re-do we've done so far and I love completing these projects with my husband!