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Expressions Art Contest

February 11, 2020

Maxwell and Spencer entered the Expressions Art Contest up at school this year by making a video with their friend, Frank. They did a great job – wrote the script, made a set and everything! It was a sports broadcast type show called “Sports Stuff with the Whiz Kids!” Maxwell and Frank were the anchors and Spencer was the field reporter. They had a lot of fun doing it…and they even won the blue ribbon!!

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Woohoo! They got first place in the video category for 3rd and 4th grades! Impressive! ESPN watch out – here come the Whiz Kids!

They were also Blue Ribbon winners last year!

Expressions Art Contest

February 13, 2019

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, both boys entered a photograph in the school Expression Art Contest this year. I have mixed feelings about the contest after what happened to Maxwell in Kindergarten (really, how hard would it have been to call me to come up there and trim 2 inches off?!) but, I definitely wanted to encourage them to participate. We had time to kill with an underwater camera and my iPhone in Naples so I printed out some of the photos they took and we entered them. I’m glad we did! Both of these boys won first place in their age division!

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Spencer’s winning photo…

and Maxwell’s!

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So proud of my artists!

Weekend part 1

April 19, 2021

What a weekend we had with our favorite person!! GJ came into town Friday night and everyone had something fun to do! Maxwell got to go to a fun gaming truck birthday party…

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Robert went out of town to see a show with his buddies…

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and Spencer, Samantha and I got to have “stand on one foot” contests with GJ!

Doesn’t get better than that!

My artiste!

February 12, 2018

Like last year, Maxwell’s art was selected to be displayed up at the library for the month! They do a nice little reception and we all enjoyed getting to celebrate our artist…

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He was pretty proud and we were proud of him!

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He also entered the school art contest again this year. I’ll be honest, he wasn’t super motivated to do it and, frankly, I didn’t blame him after what happened last year. Still, he’s a great artist so I “encouraged” him to make something to enter.

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I thought his two pieces were fantastic – they both took a lot of time and thought and were creative.

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Unfortunately, the judge didn’t agree. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. (and you get disqualified for some! ha!)

I’m still proud of my super creative, master drawer Maxwell and will always think he’s a winner despite what any silly judge says!

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I Heart Faces

January 10, 2011

Happy Monday everyone! I’ve got some fun pictures coming up this week but today I’m doing something a little different. There’s a photography website called I Heart Faces and every week they post a photography challenge. Anyone can submit a photograph to the contest and a winner is chosen on Saturday. Now, I am obviously not doing this to win (there are some real pros on there!) but I think it might be a fun way to try new things with my pictures. We’ve all got to be getting a little bored of photos of Maxwell sitting on the couch, right? Ok, me neither…BUT…I do think it will be fun and challenging to try some new things. I likely won’t do it every week but hope to from time to time.

This week’s challenge is “Smiles” and is all about “the joy they bring to each of us.” You guys have seen this picture before. It’s not a photo of a big, broad smile that follows a belly laugh…but a little grin that sure does bring me joy. I hope Maxwell’s little smile with his tongue peeking out makes you smile too!

Check out all the impressive entries at I Heart Faces!

In other news, we had a great weekend. Robert and I went out on our first date since Maxwell was born! Our FANTASTIC nanny, Susan, insisted on coming over for a few hours on Saturday night so we could go out to dinner. We went to Bottega and thoroughly enjoyed some grown-up conversation. It was so nice to be out and not worry one bit about our sweet little guy at home because Susan was in control! She’s the BEST!