A great Day for Ryan

Ryan had a really exciting day yesterday. Please forgive me for being obnoxious. I'm very happy for Ryan. He received several awards yesterday. He won first place in the Word Masters challenge ( a vocabulary competition using analogies here is a link if you'd like to know more about it. http://www.wordmasterschallenge.com/elem.htm)

He also won first place in the Mathematics Olympiad. Having the highest individual score, he helped his team place 3rd in the Nation.

He also got 2nd place in the National online science League, and 3rd place in the National Language Arts League. Great job Ryan!

Inflatable day

Ryan's school had "Inflatable Day" on Monday. The PTO provided several inflatable activities, as well as 2 rock walls and extreme jumpers. I volunteered at the event and it was a lot of fun. Here are a couple of pictures or Ryan climbing the rock wall (yes, he made it to the top), and doing th extreme jumper.

We had a little more fun for Wes' birthday, on Saturday. A few friends came over to celebrate with us, at Jimmy and Virginia's house.

Ryan is having an exciting day today. He got something like 300 accelerated reader points, and so he gets to ride in a limo to lunch at Cici's pizza with the principal and vice principal. I didn't get to go, so I don't have pictures. Bummer. Here are a few pix from Wes' party on Saturday.

Happy 40th Birhtday Wes!

Today is Wes' 40th birthday. We went out for a lovely dinner at The Steamboat House. The food was delicious, but it is also an impressive museum of Texas History.

Happy Mother's Day!

Today we went out to Martha's Bloomers, in Navasota, TX, to celebrate Mother's Day with my mom. We really enjoyed lunch in the cafe, which was very delicious and elegant (girlie). The shops and gardens were very nice too. We took the opportunity to snap a few pictures.

Actually, the first picture is in Mom's front yard, but the rest are at Martha's Bloomers.

an exciting night at the Astro's game

We had a blast Saturday night! We enjoyed walking through the plaza on the way to the ballpark. Brendan especially liked the water, and really would have liked to join the kids playing in it. I thought that colorful wall was really cool. The Astros played well and beat the Brewers. Wes played well too. He got picked to play one of the trivia games they do between innings. He answered correctly, and won a fancy, new cel phone. Here's a picture of Wes and Brendan on the Jumbotron.

Spotlight on Brendan

Brendan was the star of the week in his class last week. His classmates all got to interview him and then made a book about him. Here are a few pix of Brendan doing what Brendan likes to do.