Mother's Day Make Up and Other Happenings

Summer break is just a few days away!  We can't wait, although Jacoby is sad about First Grade ending.  We've had busy days, with a stomach bug mixed in there just for fun.

Morgan handled his second endoscopy like a champ.  You'll notice Puppy also received a bandage.  We were grateful to hear that the biopsies came back normal for this guy.  Now we just need to continue to pack on the pounds!

The board meeting in Santa Fe was mostly a success.  The weather in Denver (i.e., a foot or so of snow) did us no favors and left several board members and speakers stranded.  Not much I could do about that, so we just rolled with it.  Santa Fe was lovely, as it always is.

Jacoby finished the 27th and final book in the Junie B Jones series and has recently decided to read the Fellowship of the Ring.  He had a tummy bug for a few days last week.  Thankfully, it has not spread to the rest of us.  I think I set a record for the number of loads of laundry done in a single day so far in my career as mom.

 

The boys have become reacquainted with dinosaurs lately, which is kind of refreshing.  Although, I do see a Lego creation thrown into this scene.

 Morgan got to meet up with some Pre-K friends for a special project for graduation.  He was over the moon about getting to spend time with these guys on a Saturday morning.

 Our time at preschool will be drawing to a close in just a week or so.  I think we're definitely ready for a summer schedule and the transition to Kindergarten.  Pre-K has prepared them well!

 Jacoby had an awesome time at a Hobbit birthday party for one of his BFFs.  This mom definitely raised the bar for parties!  After Hobbit agility training, Gandalf showed up to take them on their "Unexpected Journey".

 And of course that meant getting attacked by a pack of orcs (i.e., a group of awesome 7th graders).

Thankfully, no Hobbits were harmed.  The elves taught them how to shoot bows and arrows.

 And finally, Smaug had to be demolished.  It was a great party and Jacoby had such a good time!

 

 And, of course, he's is wearing his Hobbit cape every.where.  Even to our favorite garden center.

 Morgan having a quiet moment and thinking deep thoughts

 We did a bunch of racing around the field today

 

Morgan and Mommy racing

 The boys treated me to a make-up Mother's Day today.  We picked out a rose bush (not pictured, but we also got this lovely Japanese maple) for our yard and then they let me have a garden day, so lots of planting was done.  One of my very favorite activities.

Mother's Day 2014

The Start of May

I promise there will be no hissy fit throwing on the blog this week!  I am happy to report we have survived and made it to May, where now week by week we will be dropping things off our plate and heading right to summer.  Whoohoo!  Jacoby has just over two weeks of First Grade left.  I think he's a little sad about this, since it's been such a good year and he's had such a great teacher.  Morgan has three weeks left of preschool, and I am happy to report that I paid childcare/preschool tuition for the last time on May 1!  Talk about a major milestone for us!

On to the latest news:

If you look between the two strangers in this picture you'll see the boys staring down into the orchestra pit.  I took them to see Fiddler on the Roof last weekend at one of the local high schools.  It was wonderful--the kids did such a great job and the music was awesome.  The boys loved it.

 One of our favorite friends turned five and invited us to her Frozen birthday.  Lots of fun games involving snow and marshmallows.  Morgan is trying his hand at a marshmallow shooter.

 The kids made snowmen out of tp

 Ice cream sundaes were the birthday treat, so here we are with our own delicious treats.  That's how we roll at parties!

 I ran the Boulder Spring Half Marathon this morning.  It was a good race, but the course very nearly kicked my rear end by the finish line.  It was much, much hotter than all of the training runs, so I was a little wilted and whipped by the end (I might also take issue with their definition of a "flat" course, but whatever).  But I had a good time and it was a good reconnaissance mission for a certain 26.2 mile race my little sister has talked me into in the fall.

 Post-race paraphernalia

 Our garden is planted!  We're growing pumpkin, peas, zucchini, carrot, kale, and jack-be-littles.

It's teacher appreciation week, so the boys and I decided to make hanging terrariums for our teachers.  They're turning out great, and there just might be enough leftover for Mommy to have one too.  (:

Other things coming up this week include Morgan's endoscopy tomorrow morning.  We expect to hear that there's still a problem, since the little man isn't gaining weight and has a pretty rotten time eating right now.  Sigh.  I'm looking forward to really drilling down into the diet this summer and spending more time investigating.  He also has Kindergarten orientation tomorrow afternoon.  Can you believe it?!  I would be sort of sad about this (and I'll be a total mess on the first day of school) except the kid is sooo ready for school and we are sooo ready for the boys to be on the same schedule.

I leave for Santa Fe on Saturday, and yes, I have to work on Mother's Day this year.  That's all I'll say about that, lest I say something unprofessional and inappropriate.  I'm promised a celebration the next weekend, and Jacoby has given me a special rock he found that he wants me to take on my trip so I won't be sad on Mother's Day.  He's the best.  (:

Have a great week everyone!

The Week That Can End

Well, my friends, we are in the midst of one of those weeks.  Whew--it's been a doozy!  Sick kid, sick kid towed into work, broken printer at work with looming deadline, field trip, teaching in Denver multiple days and hence multiple days of juggling poor sick kid, broken sprinklers, not enough hours in the day, etc., etc., etc.  Friday can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned!

So, now that I've got that off my chest, let's talk about at all the wonderful things that are going on in the midst of our chaos:

Jacoby made it to 100 miles in the 100-Mile Club!!  We're so, so proud of him.  He's had a great time and has done such a good job with setting weekly running/walking goals for himself.  He continues to earn miles each week, so we're excited to see what the total comes to by the end of the school year.

This one has been sick and is stuck with me most of the week while Justin teaches his course in Denver.  Most of the class is online except for the days this week.

We had a lovely Easter.  Our Easter eggs were filled with Lego pieces this year.  Each boy got a mini set and had to find all of the eggs in order to put them together.

Scrabble Junior is one of our favorite games right now.  I found it for $2 at the thrift store and it had all of the pieces!

Morgan loves Candy Land.  And because Candy Land has a peanut card and peanuts on the board, anytime one of the boys draws the card we say "Grab the Epi-Pen and don't eat anything!".  Wierd for most, but perfectly normal for us.  (:

I finished my rain barrel this weekend.

Jacoby and Justin ran in a school 5k race that was dedicated to a little girl badly hurt in a skiing accident over spring break.

Justin was the lucky winner of a bus ride and all-day field trip with 50 first graders this week.  They went to the Butterfly Pavilion and had a great time.

Jacoby and one of his BFFs...love this little guy.

Finally, I got to see this wonderful, spontaneous show while I was volunteering at preschool last week:  http://youtu.be/wJBHy5UN86E

Hope your week is going better than ours! (:

Happy Easter

Happy Easter from our family to yours!

Spring Break

We hope you all are doing well and are enjoying signs of spring!  We are just about at the end of two very busy spring breaks (Morgan's last week, and Jacoby's this past week)--lots of schedule juggling and I had a boy at work with me several days.  The boys got a fair amount of skiing in.  Jacoby logged tons of miles this week to get closer to his goal of getting to 100 miles by the end of the school year.  I think he should have 75 - 80 miles now!  We also made the big decision to have Morgan finish up at preschool at the end of May.  We will definitely enjoy a tuition-free summer!

Here are a few pics:

  

We've been spending time at our favorite garden center, making plans for our own garden and just relishing all of the green growing things.  The very nice employees let the kids feed the fish.

 

 The boys love the nursery--they smell everything and point out interesting things they think we should add to our garden.

 Jacoby running around the track at school.  We've spent a lot of time here this week logging miles.

Eating a snack at the park...something we do best!

 We enjoyed an awesome day on the slopes this week.  The boys had a great time "racing" each other and put in around 8 runs over 4 hours...quite a lot of skiing for their little legs!  They slept the entire way home.  Morgan has come a long way but still prefers to keep his skis straight and shoot right down the hill.

 Jacoby is doing turns and really enjoys being on skis.  He's developed a lot of stamina since joining the 100-mile club this year!

 A nice little spot for a lunch break

 Here we come!
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Speedy Morgan!
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