The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause

All three boys tried out for the community theatre's Christmas show.  A friend of mine wrote the script based on the book by L. Frank Baum.  It is an enchanting story about how Santa Claus came to be.  Anthony was cast as one of the leads, Ak.  Ak is the master woodsman of the world.  He finds little Claus in the woods and commands the animals to take care of him.  It was a pretty big role and he had lots of lines to memorize. 

Michael had three smaller roles.  He was Bill Knook, Jack Frost and Bo the Master Mariner of the World.  His Jack Frost costume gave me fits.  Took me forever to figure out what I wanted to do with it.  But for all the work it turned out great.

Jacob had 3 small roles as well.  He was a world villager.  It wasn't a speaking part but it was my favorite costume to make.  He was from Scotland and I made him a kilt!  He was also an Awgwa (Larry)....they were the bad guys of the play.  He says he like to have the evil roles ;)  He was also Kern, Master Gardiner of the World. 

This show was full of sickness :(  But the kids pushed through even though several of them felt really bad during the last performance.  One of the kids was to come on stage and the rest of the kids winged it....don't think anyone really noticed that didn't know what was suppose to happen.

Michael got it the worst at our house.  He slept for 4 days!!  And didn't leave the house for a week!  He really must have had the flu.  Jacob had a pretty mild version of the stomach bug.  He didn't feel great but only threw up once.  Anthony, who hardly ever gets sick came down with a cold too.   I was sneezing and had a runny nose but nothing more.  Think I got lucky. 

Bill Knook

Ak Master Woodsman

Jungle Knook

Jack Frost

 

 

 Ak, fighting the Awgwas

 

 

Kern Master Gardiner

 

Bo Master Mariner

My Scottsman

The "evil" Awgwa

The Knooks

 

 

 The 3 masters of the world  Ak, Bo and Kern.

My Headshot display

My Favorite picture!!!

Halloween 2013

Halloween this year was different.  Jacob and Michael were to old to go trick or treating.  They were a little sad about it but a few weeks before they went to a Dr. Who party at the library.  They both dressed up for that ;)  Michael was William Hartnell the first Dr.  Jacob was Matt Smith, Dr number 11.

Trick or Treat was put off a day in our town because of bad weather.  So on Halloween I made our traditional "creepy" dinner.  The next day all of us sat outside and handed out candy.  The coolest costume that I saw was a kid dressed as Daryl from the Walking Dead.  We dressed Diesel up and he sat outside with us :)

Michael Carved the grim reaper, Jacob carved the Humane Society and I carved Jack Skellington.  Anthony didn't want to carve on this year.

Stress Less With Pets

Jacob and I volunteered with the Humane Society's Stress Less With Pets program at Georgetown College.  They bring in cats and dogs and the students come in and play with the animals during finals week.  They love it, and we love helping out with it.  This time it was smaller because a couple of people couldn't bring the animals they had planned on bringing.  I made an off hand remark that we couldn't bring our dog but we did have a few snakes.  Well one of the students heard me and insisted I go home and get one.  I brought back Rocky Sandboa.  He was a hit, oddly enough with the girls!

Art with Georgia O'Keeffe

I am doing an Art Appreciation class with Jacob and Michael.  Georgia O'Keeffe is the first artist we are learning about.  I am very excited about this class, more excited than the boys ;) 

We haven't dug into our art box yet but I thought we could use another art medium to copy Georgia's style......photography! 

First Michael's homage to Georgia.....

 

Jacob's Pictures

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday to Anthony

Anthony turned the big 17 today.   A few weeks ago David decided to get him a car for his birthday.  He had already researched and decided what he wanted to get.  We went to a dealership first but there was something wrong with the engine.  We found a decent one on Craigs list and bought it.  We hid it at a friends house until yesterday.  We picked it up and parked it across the street. 

We got up this morning and waited for Anthony to get up.  He didn't and David really wanted to give Anthony the Jeep.  So we sent Michael down to wake him up :)  We broke with our tradition of when we give gifts and gave them to him as soon as he came up.  He was really surprised and excited. 

I made him a turkey for his birthday lunch and after that he went out to work on the Jeep.  It needed a few things like new tires and a radiator.  David also got him a small lift kit to make the new tires fit.  Good news the brakes were good.  They got the front lift and new tires on today.  The rest will have to wait till another day.

Anthony put this shirt on this morning with no idea that he was getting a Jeep!

Michael worked hard helping Anthony change the tires.

Civil War Re-enactment....

I took Jacob and Michael to a Civil War re-enactment in Richmond today.  We met Morgan and James there.  I had never been to a re-enactment but have wanted to go for a while.  We got soda in really cool bottles saw the battle and even got to watch Hamlet!