Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Murphy's 50th Birthday Celebration
Our town, Murphy, celebrated it's 50th birthday this past Saturday. We went out to the festival they had at City Hall. The Longhorns were playing Arkansas that day, so we made sure to represent UT by wearing our burnt orange. Papaa Herbie joined us and enjoyed the classic car show they had. They even had his favorite car, a 1950 Ford. Rachel's mom loves pink and probably would have tried to steal the car in the picture.
Green Means Go......to Amazing Jakes
Our elementary school has a behavior color chart they use to track how each child behaves in class each day. They use Green to signify good behavior for the day, Yellow shows that they had some challenges that day, Orange means very tough day and Red means that something really bad happened. They also have a Blue color for outstanding behavior over and above good behavior for the day. As a way for the kids to follow good behavior based on the schools system, we gave them a team challenge that if they all came home with Greens for 7 straight school days in a row, we would go to this new Pizza / Arcade Game place called Amazing Jakes. I am proud to say that they completed the challenge on the first try. They even each came home with a Blue on one of the days. It was neat to see them work together and support each other as a team to reach their goal. They would tell each other at breakfast each morning to remember to get a Green in class and they would congratulate each other at the end of the day when they did. Here are some pics and a video from our outing to Amazing Jakes.
Froggyopoly
Caleb challenged Froggy to a game of monopoloy. Froggy wanted Caleb to be the banker. Whom do you think won??
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Dog Ate My Blogwork
No, really, he did. Sure we don't own a dog, but it's the only excuse I could come up with for not posting a blog in the 4 weeks since school started. School has definitely thrown an additonal element into our lives of more things to stay on top of.
First, there was the adjustment to everyone in the house getting up at 6:30 am. It's actually great to be able to spend time as a family in the mornings now even though we don't recall any of the conversations because we are all half asleep.
Next, there was the mountain of paperwork you have to fill out the first week. At this point, we have no idea what we signed up for or given permission to, but I am sure the school or PTA will let us know what we did and didn't do.
Then there is the amount of papers the kids bring home on Thursday each week telling us of everything going on, what we should talk to our kids about that happened in school and what activities or groups we should be getting the kids involved in. This is the day designated by the school to make you feel inadequate as a parent.
We know it is getting close to the next phase in life where we will be taking the kids to all types of activities. It's hard enough right now to get home from work, try and spend a couple of hours of quality time together and then get the kids in bed by 7:30pm so they can get a good nights sleep. We have tried to hold off as long as possible because we know how crazy it will get, but they are definitely starting to show interest in doing things. Abigail is very interested in taking a gymnastics or dance class. We are also looking at the Upwards basketball and cheerleading program at our church for the kids.
Many of you know that I have started a new business called Captured Memories doing customized video & photo productions. I have really enjoyed doing video projects for our family, transferring tapes to DVD and also making picture slideshows and thought this is something that most people would like to do for their families, but just don't have the time to invest in it. I am looking forward to seeing how this hobby turns into a business. You can check out some of what I do at my Captured Memories blog site http://www.capturedmemoriestx.blogspot.com/
Thank you to those of you who check in here from time to time to see what is new with our family and I hope to keep it more up to date and have some new pictures for you to see.
First, there was the adjustment to everyone in the house getting up at 6:30 am. It's actually great to be able to spend time as a family in the mornings now even though we don't recall any of the conversations because we are all half asleep.
Next, there was the mountain of paperwork you have to fill out the first week. At this point, we have no idea what we signed up for or given permission to, but I am sure the school or PTA will let us know what we did and didn't do.
Then there is the amount of papers the kids bring home on Thursday each week telling us of everything going on, what we should talk to our kids about that happened in school and what activities or groups we should be getting the kids involved in. This is the day designated by the school to make you feel inadequate as a parent.
We know it is getting close to the next phase in life where we will be taking the kids to all types of activities. It's hard enough right now to get home from work, try and spend a couple of hours of quality time together and then get the kids in bed by 7:30pm so they can get a good nights sleep. We have tried to hold off as long as possible because we know how crazy it will get, but they are definitely starting to show interest in doing things. Abigail is very interested in taking a gymnastics or dance class. We are also looking at the Upwards basketball and cheerleading program at our church for the kids.
Many of you know that I have started a new business called Captured Memories doing customized video & photo productions. I have really enjoyed doing video projects for our family, transferring tapes to DVD and also making picture slideshows and thought this is something that most people would like to do for their families, but just don't have the time to invest in it. I am looking forward to seeing how this hobby turns into a business. You can check out some of what I do at my Captured Memories blog site http://www.capturedmemoriestx.blogspot.com/
Thank you to those of you who check in here from time to time to see what is new with our family and I hope to keep it more up to date and have some new pictures for you to see.
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