Get Out of My Head Lizzie Bennett!!!

I can hear her now.  

Shelves?!  In the closet?!

Yes, Lizzie.  I had my husband build shelves in the closet.  Don't judge me.

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I needed the shelves for toy storage.  

And Husband did a great job.

Awards Ceremonies

I was very surprised to receive a notice that both of my elementary aged boys were to receive awards at school.

I'm fairly certain that Riley has never (or maybe once?) won an award and Spencer is almost as sparse.

They didn't tell us what the awards were for so we went to find out.

Riley got an award for behavior.  Let me say that again.  RILEY, my future dictator, got an award for good behavior. 

I was very proud of him.

And later, Spencer got two academic awards.  Which would normally be expected.  He's rather brilliant.  Except that he has been very ill since we moved and has missed more than three weeks of school.  And yet he still managed a 3.7 gpa and 168 reading counts points, which is even more impressive when you know that we didn't know anything about the program and only figured it out the last couple of weeks.  They needed 40 points to get an A+.  I think he nailed that one pretty well. 

James

This is what happens when you leave your phone unattended and you have teenagers...

Thanks Babe.

Pool Day with Papa

Papa A and C came to visit. 

I enjoyed chilling pool side with C.

Papa and C brought an early birthday gift for Ev.  Which he promptly became obsessed with.   

We finally had to put him to bed with the duplo set and he carried the little people around all the next day.  And every day since.  I think he likes it.

Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Baby was very intent on his laptop the other day.

Special Dinner

It was Monday night.  Husband wasn't going to be home for Family Night and I owed Spencer a special dinner because he aced a really difficult GATE test.  

So off we went...

What a smartypants...

Crazy Hair