2012 School Play

 Cora & Lena had a short play at the end of their 3rd grade school year.  Their drama teacher opted to do 5 or 6 small skits to ensure lots of kids got parts.  Cora was chosen to be a spider.

 She had this elaborate and quite expensive costume idea in mind.  I was not willing to spend the money for a 5-minute skit.  I had my own idea on how to make her into a sassy spider.  I explained it a few times and she wasn't sold on it.  I went ahead with materials we already had around the house.  Best part is that I got to use one of the boys many baseball caps.  This one was a freebie from Firestone.  REALLY?  Who's gonna wear that?

Lena was a fluffy bunny and Cora a purple spider.  The saga ended well.  Cora really loved her hat costume & I only spent $4!



can't be contained

 my man-child came downstairs after church and asked if this outfit "worked".  all these signs and symptoms of teenhood.  i turned to look at him and about died.  seriously, the boy has serious hot factor.

 i asked him where he got the idea for the outfit.  there wasn't really a reply.  what make him all the more adorable is that he is such a good, good kid.  so bright, kind, and respectful.  he really is the whole package.  i think i'm going to claw the eyes out of any girl that crushes on him. 



mother's day 2012

our primary this year made really cute magnets for the moms this year.  the kids actually picked out their flower petals and glued their blooms together.  i don't keep much memorabilia but when it's cute, i can't resist.  don't they have adorable mugs?

 Beauty.

A New Hobby

Cristian has started a new hobby over the past several months.

In May the middle school hosted a 5k and he decided to participate. He and Carlos trained for a few weeks before-hand and ran the race.  Since then, Cristian has wanted to go running on a regular basis so Luli stepped in and asked him to run during the week. 

 They have been running 3 times a week now for a couple of months and ran their first 5k together in July.

Cristian's time:  24:12

Cars and Coffee Houston - Aug 2012

I took Cristian and a couple of his good friends to a car show last Saturday.  We were supposed to get up at 4:30, but somebody slept in (yours truly) and we didn't get out the door until after 6am. I thought about skipping this one since we got such a late start, but decided to go anyways. 

The center piece of the show was this Lamborghini

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The drive was long but on the plus side, I got to listen to 11 and 12 year old chatter for 6 hours! At one point I asked the boys what they would talk about if they weren't allowed to quote movie lines to each other.  They swore they would still have things to talk about, but I have my doubts.  They were all super appreciative that I took the day to drive them down to the show, so it was definitely worth it.