Sunday, February 22, 2009

Thinking Day


Every year the Girl Scouts many areas promote a Thinking Day for their troops. This year Alyssa was involved with the Brownies. Her troop picked Spain to study and learned many facts about Spain as they researched it online. They made a beautiful poster board that told facts about Spain, learned how to do a Flaminco Dance, and tried a chicken and rice dish.


Here is Alyssa dressed up and ready for the afternoon.

And the rest of the girls.

All of the girls dancing their version of the Flaminco Dance.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Surgery for Michael


Michael had surgery to fix his eyes. His eyes were not working together the way they are supposed to, a condition called Strabismus. The eye muscle surgery aligned his eyes so that they will work properly together.


The day of the surgery his eyes looked like this, all red. The doctor said that the redness will fade away in about a month.

A week and a half later, his eyes are beginning to clear and he is seeing double less often. He also says that things are not blurry anymore either.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Jessica, Kelly and Rebekah Visit


This weekend we had a visit from Jessica, Kelly and their friend Rebekah. They stayed for dinner and a movie.


Everyone all piled on the couch.

Kelly and Charlie, he would not look at the camera and smile so Kelly was tickling him.

Rebekah and Michael... he is in love... after I showed them the picture, Rebekah said to him, all of our fingers are my age and one hand of fingers is your age. Mikey says you are 3 hands older than me.

Since Jessica and Jonny share a birthday, they both showed off their gifts.

Jessica and Alyssa.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

PTA Project


This year our PTA made scarves for our wonderful teachers. There was plenty of leftover yarn and I put it to good use making a couple of afghans that the PTA will be able to use to help raise money for our school.


The finished result are a pair of almost matching afghans. The only difference in the two is the beginning and ending colors are different. These afghans are 4'x5', perfect to snuggle under while watching a football game.


Monday, February 9, 2009

Jonny Turns Seven


Jonny celebrated his birthday this year with the family and Grandpa who came over for dinner. He requested pizza for dinner and chocolate cake with chocolate icing as his cake. He got a couple of games for his DS and was quite happy about it.