Skating Passion

One of Lexi's school classmates had her birthday party at the skating rink today.  Lexi has had minimal experience with skating.  I think her dad took her to a skating party once last year and she basically held his hand or the wall the whole time.  

This year was a completely different experience.  I laced her skates up and explained the basics to her.  A few of her friends took her out there and before I knew it she was loving it.  She even wants skates for Christmas.

Lunch with the Star of the Week

Star of the Week brings with it a task each day.  The week started with posters, another day was kind of show & tell, and another day Lexi had to bring in a book to read to the class.  Today, she needed a guest to have lunch with her.  I picked-up food from Subway and had the honor of being her lunch date.  

Outside of the cafeteria there is a board with various photos pinned.  I saw that Lexi was featured in a few pictures.  I remembered that she & Jordan had told me all about these famous football players that came to their school one day.  They were convinced that one of the football players was JJ Watt from the Houston Texans.  Neither of these guys look like him though.  He is definitely white.  

Anyway, the school had an assembly and Lexi was called on stage to help demonstrate.  She is the blonde girl wearing pink pants.  I am not sure what the point of the assembly was, probably anti-bullying or something.  The kids came away with their idea of what it was about - getting your grandma to pray for the Dallas Cowboys because they are awful this year.  I guess that was a joke, but my kids didn't catch the humor in it.  They said we needed to call Grandma Margie right away.  I found it amusing that it is still ok to talk about prayers in school in Texas as long as sports are involved.  

Star of the Week

Last Friday, Lexi brought home a note from her teacher announcing that she was selected to be Star of the Week for this week.  Despite her enthusiasm, I was less than thrilled about all of the additional tasks that we had to do to make this week great.  I agreed to it and tried my best to put on a happy face for her.  I know it is great for kids to get special attention.

Yesterday, we had to bring in a poster that we made about Lexi.   Instead of one big poster board with pictures attached, I decided to do 3 (11"x17") print-outs.  Even with three, I found it really hard to narrow down the photos and hit major points in her life.  Here is what we settled on:

Gang Together

This evening, our stake (group of church congregations) had a marriage fireside (conference speaker).  I am not married and I have already heard Brother Brinley speak on this topic, so I offered to watch our friends' kids. It was a fun evening.  We made snowflakes, watched several Christmas movies, ate popcorn, and played hide-and-go-seek.  Before their parents came to pick them up, I took a couple of pictures.  They asked me to send the bottom one to their parents to trick them into thinking they were all asleep.  I didn't believe they would be fooled, but we gave it a shot.  Their acting skills are impressive.

Fall Leaves?

We went on a walk today.  Lexi asked me what happened to the leaves on this tree.  It took me a minute to realize that she was asking why they aren't green.  I guess Fall has official come to Katy.  That little cold front this week must have made a difference.

Fuzzy Pink Cold Front

We had a cold front come through.  It was only 36 degrees on our walk to school this morning.  Lexi asked if she could wear this hat.  She looked so cute, I just had to snap a few pictures.  

Dream Cottage

My mom has been talking about how fun it would be if the whole family lived in a little village with cottages.  I mentioned the idea to Lexi and Jordan.  Lexi got to work drawing the rooms for our cottage.  Apparently, she is going to share a bunk bed with Jordan.

It is a fun idea, but I'm waiting for the others to decide that the location will be Texas rather than Montana.... burrr....

Twin's Birthday Party

Today, we celebrated Kacy's and Cole's 8th birthday at Pump It Up.  The kids all had a great time and managed to wear themselves out. 

Grandparents

Cakes made by their mom's cousin

Breaking the rules (yes - I didn't try to stop them. I just video tapped it)

Singing for Santa

The age group Lexi is in for choir got selected to do a special Christmas performance at Outdoor World this evening.  Santa was going to be arriving and they wanted 30 kids to be performing for it.  The choir quickly learned a few Christmas songs and we all showed up.   

Here he is

Singing to Santa

With Rudolph & Heather

Eating at Fuddruckers

Hot Air Balloon

The temperatures have been up and down here.  We caught a little break in the heat, which usually means hot air balloon sightings.  This balloon in the picture was very close to us this morning on our walk to school.  It was actually closer than it looks.  We could see that the guy in it had gray hair and was wearing a white shirt.

Wear Orange Day

Today is wear orange day at the elementary school where Lexi & Jordan go.  I took pictures of them on the way to school and then again on our evening walk.

Striking poses

Skinny Jean Fashion

Some days, Lexi feels that she needs to be at the height of fashion.  On those days, she changes her clothes way too many times.  This was one of those days.  She is all about skinny jeans, because she believes that it is important for jeans to be snug around the thighs.  I sure love her, but girls can be such a pain.  :)

Red Ribbon Week

In our area, the schools aren't allowed to celebrate "holidays," but they find ways around it.  Some school lets the kids dress up as characters from a book on the day of Halloween.  Lexi & Jordan's school isn't quite that exciting, but they do have fun things all week with the theme of "red ribbon say no to drugs."  Monday, they had wear red day.  

Tuesday was wear slippers day.

Wednesday was hat day.

I didn't take a picture on Thursday or Friday.  Thursday was silly sock day.  Friday was school spirit day.