Ah, a toothless grin! We love the sweet look Macers has these days with no front teeth. We had a good 2 weeks with just gums, but a new tooth is coming down as we speak.
Here are the Young Singers with Prof Stewart getting close to concert time. These kids love when he is the director. He is strict with them and he means business, but he is funny too and they love to laugh with him and to please him too.
Ryan was also preparing to sing in his own choir. He volunteered to stay after school and be in the 4th and 5th grade honor choir. They performed at morning assembly, a nursing home, and at the Frisco Arts in the Square. Maybe next year he'll join sister at DMCO since it is the ONLY year they would be in the same choir (which means only one rehearsal for mom to sit through/volunteer at!)
We are improving in our Selfie attempts! Jo and I went to Canton, TX for a craft show/swap meet. It is an enormous place with everything crafty and crazy.
Dan said 'no' to the Go Hogs sign, the Arkansas sign...
...unicorn head...
and the street signs. I brought home a small collection of random stuff, but a lot of fun memories with my best-ie. We were glad the husbands were available to let us have the day off from work!
Macey exclaimed, 'I've never had jello before!' I guess we haven't taken her to too many buffets or cafeterias. :)
Slurping was a favorite Jello activity at this meal. Maybe this is why I don't make Jello...
And I quote, "I have a dream to be a super villain." by Macey. Really? Who is sitting next to her in the 1st grade?
Lucy Lou after a much needed grooming. Although maybe she could have used a little more off the face. She is looking a bit top heavy!
Alex's Symphonic Band performed at 2 contests. At one they got 3 trophies including, Best Middle School of the day and Best in Show. They received all 1's at the UIL contest.
Wouldn't ya know, I hosted a fun girls night with 8 great ladies at my house and I didn't a single picture of the event? We had a cookies and coloring night. Dan says were rowdy! Sorry, it took until 11:45pm to finish all our projects! Everyone went home with a framed picture that they had colored. Fun!
Frisco Food Truck Festival.
We had one of our Pringle kids with us!
I thought this cheese fondue dinner looked to yummy to not photograph. This is one of the healthier plates.
Take a look at all those carbs! Thankfully a meal everyone enjoyed!
Concert run through.
I can not wait for the professional pictures from the concert night. The lighting was amazing. It was the perfect backdrop for the awesome music and especially for the special guest violinist.
Felicity and Megan always come to watch sister perform. We are so thankful for these good and loyal friends.
Neighbors always!
Ugh, I was backstage until 10:45pm. I have loved being with these kids every week and watching them progress. They brought me to tears several times singing 'Jesus Loves the Little Chidlren.' But, it is a LONG night for everyone. Especially when we couldn't stay in our own designated room because the A/C made the room (feel like) 45deg!
We happened to have a fence built on Concert Day. They crew showed up at 12:30 and finished at sunset. When no one was home...
I came home at 11:45pm to find a finished fence. It is a beautiful work of art. Love my fence!(although I could have waited a year or two to have it built...)
Dan set up a GoPro to test out the time lapse feature. (we are borrowing this for our vaca- next week)
These kids made some fabulous eggs. Since we waited until the day before Easter to do this activity, we didn't have Dad and Alex with us. They were delivering mulch for Boy Scouts and then off to a soccer game on the other side of town.
Can you see the glitter? Makes for a mess when you go to peel them!
Macey learned to ride her bike in the fall, and on this day I told the kids we were going to ride our bikes a mile to the ward Easter picnic. Macey was nervous, but she did awesome!
Look at all these kids! It is nice to have children in primary. We miss our Plano 8 friends, but it is good to have young families around us.
So, this was the Easter Egg pick up. The grown-ups spread the eggs on the soccer field and the kids picked them up. Macey said, 'That wasn't much of an Easter Egg hunt.' Nah, but it was fun anyway.
Bring on the mulch. I laid the pavers around the front of the house. It took me all week to do it, but I finally finished just in time for the mulch to come.
Just need some plants. And maybe some more mulch to give it some height. Next year, we'll just stack it up on top!
Note 1: Ryan is crazy. Note 2: Yeah, our fence fell down last week. Note 3: this is the Egg Hunt Macey was most excited about. Dad is a great egg hider! No throwing it out in the open for you to pick-up.
Note 4: Macey is awesome at posing for pictures!
With 1:00 pm church, we had a big brunch and regular dinner. I sneaked away after breakfast and went to see my running buddy conduct an awesome Easter performance at Plano 8. Then I trekked back to Frisco for my second Easter service. I really enjoyed the music and spirit of the first meeting. And again, the spirit, simpleness and ease of the second. Do what you can with the talent you've got and be grateful for it!
I've been patching Ryan's pants for years. (Repeatedly this year...) Macey had a major crash at school and came home with her first holey jeans. When I told her I needed to patch these pants she turned and looked at me and said, 'Oh, do you still have the fabric you used on Crawly's shoes? (these are baby shoes I made for Macey that are now in her toy box) I think that fabric would make a really great patch.' Huh, I usually just match the denim to whatever came in my iron on patch kit. But I do have iron-on adhesive, so I guess I could do that. So, here they are. Maybe it needed a little something more. Like matching ribbon on the hem or pockets!
Man, wouldn't it be great if you could sit right here snuggled down for hours while your person is scrubbing, vacuuming, and exercising her morning away?!
On Good Friday, the kids didn't have school so we went on a field trip to the Dallas Arboretum. My children were skeptical that this would be fun, but it turns out it was fun. But tiring!
Macey and Oliver looking at the Fairy Houses.
Pushin' the world around.
Seriously, these kids loved playing at the water table, I mean, weathering and erosion table...
This was really cool. You could move the continents around to show the different phases the continents have been in.
We were glad to find some distinguished Americans around the main park. Abe.
George.
Ben.
Phases of the moon, anyone? Man, I love this Wyatt spirit wear. Why or why did we have to move? ;) (My best girlie Johanna designed this year's goods.)
Kloey went on a field trip too.
There were tulips and azaleas in abundance, and lots of other beautiful flowers.
But my kids were more interested in the albino Koi.
Macey was super, duper into St Patrick's Day. She was bummed we didn't decorate the house or set any leprechaun traps! And I'm glad that she wore LAST year's shirt without complaint!
We are still learning to do selfies!
Blue and Gold banquet preparations. Ryan did everything himself except for put the cupcakes in/out of the oven.
I did put the blue paper down on my old cookie sheet to keep it from looking so ratty. Dan was in Vegas this weekend, so no family photos!
Look how simple this activity was. It was basically just a regular Pack Mtg with dinner and decorations. Nothing fancy. I liked how easy it was, but part of me misses the awesome B&G I decorated for last year. That was so fun! And cool! And memorable...
Ryan did earn another activity badge.
I loved the colors of this sunset. A pretty night in Frisco, TX.
Yeah, this is a poorly taken photo, but I was trying to not be THAT guy, but when you drive at $250,000 car through town, I guess you are used to folks taking pictures of you! This is a McLaren and I had only ever seen one in a video game!
