Birthday's....

The boys and I had a little Birthday party for my mom this past Saturday.  Her birthday was actually the 23rd, but do to schedules, and all that was going on, this last weekend was the 1st time we've seen her since her birthday.  I kinda got the idea to give a her a little party after we talked a couple weeks ago.  My mother doesn't do sweets, at all.   It took Becky many years to catch on that no matter how delicious hers cakes were, mom just didn't eat them.  So i didn't bother with pancakes and waffles, i went straight to the meat.  I made a platter with meats and cheese's and we had Wasa bread and summer sausage.  I tell you what, those european's might be onto something ;-)  We opened gifts, and even had mom blow out some birthday candles.  Rohan picked every thing out from the plates to the flowers, which he insisted on carrying the whole time at the store.  And yet, when it came to her getting here and wanting Kiss's, he was nowhere to be found.  We had a great time talking and eating away.  Mom was very happy with her gifts and the familiar breakfast. I liked that the boys were excited to make her cards and give her gifts.  I like that we've instilled that in them, that birthday's are special, and need to be celebrated.

The Bible....

You get points for trying......

Rohan Quote....

 "When i grow up i'm going to be just like my dad.....when i grow up"

Teach me....

In our rush to get out the door and get A to school today out of nowhere i hear.....

Rohan: dad where does God live?

 Eric: God lives in heaven. He watches over us and takes care of us with his angels. He's the king of kings.

 Ro: Whoah!

Oscar Night.....

The food.  If there is one thing we all do well, it's EAT!

More food, plus a close up of the "Oscar" i gave to everyone that got a Bingo, or got a catagory right.

Some Oscar Facts



The ballots and Bingo cards

Last night was the 84th annual Academy awards.  I use to watch with my mom when i was younger, but as i have gotten older, they have kind of fallen by the wayside, with Internet and all of that, i can watch the next day and then only watch the awards i want to see.  But for some reason this year i decided to host an Oscar party.  A few friends came and brought something yummy to share.  I demanded we all dress in out finest PJ'S and fuzzy socks and relax.  I printed up some ballots and some bingo cards and we ate and then sat and enjoyed the show.  We had a blast guessing who would win, and admiring (or not) all of the great dresses.  Who knew such a stuffy event could be so fun?  I will do one next year too, only bigger & better!! 

100 days!

Today was Aragorn's 100th day of school.  His teacher had the class do a 100 day poster/project.  I was excited, A's 1st big project :-) So i had A think for a while what he wanted to use for his 100 day, 100 item poster. He said at 1st he wanted Lego's, i told him unfortunately those were a little to expensive to glue to poster board.  So we put our heads together, and came up with computer pieces! We placed a call to a good friend who's also in the computer business, and it just so happened he had a computer he wanted to get rid of, from 1993, so we were happy to take it off his hands.  Between what we got out of that, and what Eric had already here at the house, we got to 100 pieces in no time.  Eric helped A with the gluing, because we had to use the hot glue gun (now THAT was funny, watching Eric and that glue gun) but A designed the whole thing, and supervised Eric.  Rohan of course had to get in on the fun too.  We did his 100 days poster in stickers & glitter paint.  He did all of the painting and sticker placement, i did the letters and sparkles (just for clean purposes).  He was SO excited to take his poster to school, and show everyone.  A's teacher, was so impressed with the work Ro did (and the fact he did one) that she hung it in the hallway with all the other kids.  He was feeling pretty special.  Aragorn also got a certificate for his perfect 100 day attendance, which makes mom & dad feel pretty special too.

Reptiles.....

The museum has a new exhibit here until July about snakes, and lizards.  As Eric doesn't do anything cold blooded, for this exhibit i was on my own.  I took the boys this past Tuesday, because A was out of school, and i thought it would be nice and empty.  WRONG.  It was packed, i had to park at the Zoo, and we walked over.  After having lunch we brought with us, he headed up to the 3rd floor.  Now, the museum says this about the exhibit "See more than 60 live snakes and lizards from five continents as you explore the evolution, movement, and feeding habits of this ancient group of animals"  I kinda had to laugh once we got in.  There might be 60, but that's because some lizards had as many as 5 to a terrarium.  So i don't think that counts.  But anyway.  The exhibit itself was just OK, it was nothing exciting, and certainly nothing exciting for us here in Colorado, that can go next door to the Zoo and see the same animals, and MORE, plus cooler ones.  There was nothing in particular the boys liked, and they really just wanted to watch the show that was going on.  But it was nice for us to get out just me and my boys.  And it was better than staying at home. The ride home resulted in a usual museum coma as we call it.  The boys passed out about 5 mins into the drive.  And then slept all the way home.

So much personality

Not the best pic, but all of us in front of the dinos

Getting so tall

Wow.....

Museum Coma

Musuem coma