The Brown Brick Road

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Longest long weekend ever

California pics to come but have to document our 3 day weekend turned 7 day weekend! School was cancelled last Friday because of a thunderstorm that never materialized, they then had Monday off for MLK day, then Tuesday was cancelled because we were covered in ice, and then Wednesday cancelled as well after all that ice melted and refroze! The kids were loving it and I was too. I love having all my babies at home.

ice

ice

long weekend

long weekend

home

(Yes, our tree is still up. I’m not mad at my procrastination this year as I loved having it up while stuck at home!)

What’s been even nicer is that Robert has been working from home too. No one I’d rather be stuck with in an ice storm – and stuck with for 16 years!

wedding

Happy anniversary Robert. I love you and our busy, crazy, awesome life!

Christmas fun

Lots of Christmas fun around here!

Samantha went to a Christmas craft camp and made some great creations…

xmas

Spencer got to go caroling in the village with the 5th grade…

village

Samantha was looking super swiftie for holiday sweater day at school…

swift

She had fun at her class party…

class

and then I had fun watching her class during the teacher luncheon! We “elf’d” ourselves, played stick the nose on rudolph, and made it through a few exciting rounds on bingo!

class

xmas

xmas

And can’t beat a Christmas PJ day!

pj day

Finally I had some fun holiday lunches with friends!

xmas

xmas

Holiday fun all around!

MBB

What’s up with Maxwell these days? Well, he got a haircut!

mob

exams

Know what else is up with Maxwell? He ended his first semester at the JH with all As! He rocked all of his exams – he got a 94% on his advanced math exam, a 100% (!) on his advanced english exam, a 97% on his science exam,  a 98% on his civics exam, and we’re still waiting on his spanish exam grade but know it will be muy bueno! Amazing! Proud doesn’t even come close to describing it! Way to go, Maxwell!

holiday program

Samantha performed in her final MBE holiday program this week. It was cute – mostly songs with a little bit of “acting”. I just love to watch her on stage. She shines! I went to the first performance on Tuesday and she looked adorable, obviously.

holiday

She smiled and sang and nailed it!

program

I also couldn’t figure out why her skirt was sticking out like this…until I realize they throw “snowballs” at one point and she was hiding two snowballs in that skirt! ha!

program

Program day 2 and another cute outfit!

program

These two got to see her perform in the morning!

program

susan

Samantha, once again, nailed it!

xmas program

I then went up to watch the afternoon performance. Maxwell was out of exams and promised Samantha he would come. I then agreed to pull Spencer out of class so he could see it. They somehow recruited Henry to sit with them. Trouble on the front row!

performance

show

They (mostly) behaved and Samantha did enjoy throwing her snowballs directly at them!

snowballs

snowballs

A cute holiday program – complete with a song about a piñata! ha! Merry merry!

Spelling Bee

Spencer made it to the school spelling bee and I am so proud of him! He was really nervous to stand up in front of all of the people. His face has a tendency to get red when he’s in front of a large crowd and he was not looking forward to the spelling bee. But, he got up there and spoke slowly and clearly for his practice word and his first round word and I was super impressed with his confidence up there!! Go Spencer Go!!

superior

superior

bee

He got out on the word superior – I think nerves got him and he left out the “er” in the middle. No worries though, I still think he’s superior for getting up there at all!!