School SPIRIT Days!!!

Every school has spirit days to my knowledge. But it seems to me that they have gotten a lot more fun since I was in school back in the dark ages!! When Chris and Tyler were in elementary everything was always 50's day and crazy sock day. Even when Amelia was in Kinder it was 50's.


 But middle school the last 3 years and high school are really with 'IT'!!! Now we have Nerd Day, Crazy Hair Day, Generation Day, Would You Still Be My Friend If I Wore.... Day, Hippie Day, Mis-Matched Day, Twin Day, etc! Further more my kids are 'brave' enough to wear wild and crazy things to school!

 Would you still be my friend if I wore.......?     In this case....Star Wars Pod Racing Geek Helmet!!!

 Crazy Hair Day ~ 3, count 'em THREE wigs!!!!  Yes, AJ wore a Dorthy wig, a Punk Rock wig, and a Light Up Yeti wig from Animal Kingdom!!  This is sure to make the yearbook!!!

 Nerd Day!  Have you seen all the CRAZY DUCK TAPE out when 'back to school' supplies are out in August?  I think my kids keep them in business!!!  If wearing 3 homemade hair bows is not nerdy, a homemade bow tie, and necktie, the glasses, then I don't know what is!!!!

 This is Tourist Day!!!  Can you tell Amelia takes after her Mom?!!!  Look closely at the EARS.  Sorry, it was 7:55am, I'm still asleep!   But these are the new GLOW EARS! Disney T, Ears, camera, lanyard, with room key, and lanyard for school ID.  I think she passed for a Tourist!! Oh and a Backpack!

AJ decided to go against years of tradition and NOT be Star Wars for Halloween!!  WOW, I was in shock.  Well, it paid off!  The school had Generations Day!  How Cool!  I told him he could be past or future!!!  He decided to be past and be Original  TREK ~ I raise my kids so well!


Do your schools have crazy spirit days? Do your kids dress up? Seems like I'm always digging around to find something for AJ or Amelia so the can dress up for school! Usually the night before! Most of the time they have to pay $1 ~ this is raising money for United Way.

Please tell me what kind of special days your schools have.  If you are a teacher, do you dress up??

Cozyflier

No More Braces!!!

That was a fast 2 years! Yes, 2 years ago AJ had braces put on and now they are off! He had them a few months longer than Amelia, but that is fine. Everyone is different, erery mouth is unique an now he has a hinged retainer. AJ has tongue thrust! Oh well, he now has a beautiful smile, or should I say a more beautiful smile!!

 One last picture with the BRACES!!!!!

Dee is loosening the brackets!

 The bottom is off!!!!

Working on the top

They are out of there!!  No more braces!!!

AJ and Dee, she is so sweet!!

 AJ and Dr. R. Massey.  We have 3 Doctors at Smiles by St. Clair.

 AJ with Dr. James St. Clair.  Look at his awesome smile!!!!



Now AJ is saying that it feels weird to have 'plain' teeth! All I can say is that this Damon technology on the braces is amazing! I had to wear braces for over 4 years, have metal bands go around my teeth and was tortured on a monthly basis. Amelia and AJ were in and out of braces in nothing flat! Both kids have beautiful smiles! Thanks Smiles by St. Clair, you all are AWESOME!!!! Cozyflier

Legacy Play Village

10 years ago the community got together and built an awesome play park for our kids. It took a lot of volunteer man hours and planning and our village is a really cool place. I was so excited when Lubbock decided to build one because I was familiar with the concept from Enid, OK. Enid had built one in their town and my two oldest sons enjoyed playing in that park when they were little. My grandmother use to live in Enid, OK!!! Anyway, last week AJ had some friends over and we drove out to Legacy Play Village. It is now 10 yrs old. Wow, how time flies! I thought I'd share pictures of our fun.

 We might be open for business!

 Get us out of here!

 This place is huge!  Look up at the Right side of the pic, thr protruding angle, there is a face in the mesh!

 We are up at the top level!! 

 Chuga Chuga Choo Choo!!!!!

 Wagons Ho!   Hunter, Amelia, and AJ!

 Hunter, AJ, and Treavor.

 My 'little' angel!

My baby!!

 We've got muscle!

 Whee!!!  Round and round we go!

 Who's KING of this Rock??!!??

Do you have a play village in your town? This park is wonderful. There are many picnic tables. Lots of swings and areas for the kids to play and use their imagination. Slides and bars to let energy be burned off. Happy Summer! Cozyflier

2012 Recognition Ceremonies

Well school is out and I'm trying to catch up! The end of May is always busy, I'm sure all moms know what I'm talking about! So, I'm just now getting to posting about recognition. I think most of Texas does this, but I'm sure about the rest of the country. The kids are recognized for excelling in school and given award certificates. Here in Lubbock they have done this since Kindergarten. Now, I'm not saying this is good or bad, I just know that with my 25 yr old that by the time he got to HS graduation he didn't want to go to the ceremony! And he was an honor graduate. Chris is graduating from Texas Tech in August and he absolutely will NOT go through a ceremony for me! So, I enjoy these little things while I can! So what do you think? Are we rewarding are kids with mediocrity and getting them use awards, or do they deserve awards for being good citizens in school, and being 'outstanding' in math, science, history, etc? Are we setting them up for failure later in life? I'm just curious on your views! Amelia has dyslexia and central auditory processing hearing loss. She works EXTREMELY hard during the school year. We are very PROUD of her. She maintains A's and usually gets 1 or 2 B's. We think that is exceptional. AJ gets straight A's without much effort. They both have very high IQ's, just like there older brothers. I'm not bragging, just stating facts. Are we setting the kids up to expect rewards for normal behavior that we expect? I'll get off my soapbox and post pictures from the recognition ceremony that our school does to RECOGNIZE the kids for sports, scholarship, citizenship, service to the school, and such.

Irons Cougars

AJ made a haul!  6 awards!

Amelia did well!

Mrs. Christian, Asst. Principal, Amelia, Mr. Caserez Principal

Amelia and her boyfriend Alex

OK, that is a wrap on recognition!! Cozyflier

From This to This!

13 years ago today, a special little package arrived! We were blessed!

Alan Jonathon, after Alan Shepperd and John Glenn, was precious and beautiful. He was a great baby :-)

I can't believe he is 13 years old today!!!! Where has the time gone? I must do a recount, must double check, it just can't be so. My baby just can't be 13! That means a teenager, no more babies, no more little ones, the last milestone is about to be crossed. Today AJ is a teen, before I know it he will be driving, and then off to college. Yikes, time is flying quicker than I can count.

So Happy Birthday, AJ, my wonderful 'baby'. You are turning into a great young man who is very smart, loves Star Wars, Legos, and can recite Pi to 55 digits! You will be going places in the future I have no doubt of that.

We love you very much and are so blessed that you are in our lives.
Mom & Dad

Cozyflier

In A Galaxy Not So Far Away....

Last year my dear friend Sherri e-mailed me a page to this company I'd never heard of. But, they had the coolest Star Wars cookie cutters so I ordered them, and from then on I've become a fan of Williams Sonoma! AJ now has Star Wars pancake molds, 8 different cookie cutters, and a Darth Vader spatula which I'm allowed to use!! But the other cool thing I found for my young Jedi was these cupcake kits, see below.
Here's the link to Williams Sonoma. (not a paid blog)

The kits from Williams Sonoma

If you read Yesterday's post then you know it was AJ's birthday. This is what I did during the day while he was at school! I made Galactic and Rebel cupcakes! Aren't I good Mom?!?

The Rebel Alliance

The Galactic Empire

Luke, use the Force!

And this was his reaction when he came in from school! I just love that smile!! He was a happy boy!

He gets to go to Disney for Spring Break so he asked me to wait and buy Lego sets for his B-day in Florida! Better selection at the Lego store!! So presents are delayed at his request! He knows he'll get Legos, just not sure which Star Wars sets he'll pick out. Hoping for some of the new ones!!

He picked Logan's for his birthday dinner, I was surprised by this. OTB was his 2nd choice! It runs in the family, what can I say! Have a great weekend everyone.

Cozyflier