Library Day

Today was VERY windy and rainy. Great day to have set aside to go to the Library. We went for storytime. We love Miss Susan. After she reads she always has a neat project for us to do. Today it was decorate cupcakes. I knew this ahead of time and made some eggless ones for Sophie.






After the Library we went to Whitts for lunch and enjoyed a BBQ sandwich together. We dropped off a bag of contributions to the Thrift store and left with another bag:) Came home and popped popcorn and watched part of Princess Diaries and then laid down for a rest. I think Jaden was the only one who actually went to sleep.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Day 2 of Spring Break involved a Cub Scout Go See It. We went to the Recycle Center to see where our trash goes. It was actually very interesting to see how they sort all of the different recyclables out. They had a fun activity for the kids called Recycled Bingo. The cub scouts all partnered up and found the items around the room on their list. Readers had a certain list, and non readers had their own list.

Sophie did very well and was very serious about her list.

Jaden and Eli found everything on their list. After they had their first Bingo they didn't want to stop.

After the Recycle center we stopped by and saw Dad for a few minutes. It was crunch time for him so we didn't want to hold him up to long. We went to ROSS to do a little warm weather wardrobe shopping. Found some great deals on Polo (Ralph Lauren) shirts for Jaden. I got 3 for less than what 1 would have been retail. YIPPEE! I love a deal. Actually 1 shirt was cheaper than I could have gotten at Wal-Mart. GO ROSS. Jaden was very happy that he got new clothes.

Needless to say after all of that running they were worn out.

Happy Green Day, Happy Birthday Sis. B and an apology to Bro. B

Sophie was running in church Sunday night and Bro. B told her "No running in the Church". Jerry took Sophie to apologize and she would not tell him and hid her face. I told him she would write him a letter and she said,"Yeah, I'll write you one tomorrow." So the above is that letter. Just in case you can't read it...Bro. Becton I am sorry I runned in church.Please forgive me.I'll try to do better and not run in church anymore. I took it to Sis. B's birthday lunch. She said she would give it to him for us. Speaking of the birthday girl...11 of us joined her to celebrate at Macaroni Grill (my favorite).

Sis. Becton had Happy Birthday sung to her in Italian by an Italian.

Yummy Lemon Cake

Caught a few sweet moments of Jaden reading to Sophie. He had just taken a shower and put on his comfy clothes:)

YPG 2008

Every year our church holds a statewide youth event called Youth Praise Gathering. Students from all over Tennessee and Kentucky come to worship together.

Egg Hunt

I love ART!

Today I had the honor of purchasing my sons first piece of art from an exhibit. Pretty good for 1st grade. Tuesday night the school had an Dessert Reception and Art Show. I didn't have all the memos. I didn't realize until I spoke with another mother that all of the children had a project in the exhibit. When I figured this all out it was over. Lo and behold today we get an email stating that from 3-4 in the High School we could view our childs art and purchase it if we wanted. They had matted and framed them professionally. Well I made a big deal of it to Sophie and planned my day around it. I thought cool an art exhibit I can take the kids to and take pictures. I get Jaden and walk over to the High School and could not find anything at all resembeling an art exhibit. I was a little early so I decided that they had the routine down to a science and they were going to come in and throw down an exhibit in 10 minutes. No. I had a teacher come and ask me if I was looking for my childs art work. Yes ma'am. Okay we have to go through all this boxes (there were many) and look at each individual piece of art and see if it is your childs. WHAAAAT!

Well it didn't really take that long but it wasn't the kind of cultural experience I thought we were going to have.

So instead of having all of these great pictures of Jadens artwork exhibited we have random pictures of him holding his masterpiece. Oh well I LOVE the picture and can't wait for next year when I will pay more attention to the memos and grill him more on the details.

Jaden was very proud of the fact that we bought it and that I stopped by Grandma and Grandpas to show it off. They of course loved it and made a big deal about it too.

February 29, 2008 Leap Night Girls Night Out Cultural Experience.

So a few weeks ago I had another art event. My friend Mysty planned a girls night out with the purpose of giving some of us a cultural experience.
Here we are fixing to embark on our evening looking at art from Monet to Dali. I of course had my camera which Mysty quickly told me I would not be allowed to take any pictures inside the exhibit. So I took a picture of the very cool bathroom:)Hey... I didn't lug this big old camera and lens around not to leave with a few pictures.

They kicked us out of the Frist at 9 so we went on to Starbucks to chat for awhile