Charlotte's Web

In home-preschool on Wednesdays, the kids just learned about putting on a play, set, costumes, lines....things like that.  They even did a play for the mom's last week.  Today, we went to see Charlotte's Web at the Magic Theater.  The kids loved it and had fun.  The actors did a great job.  We had watched the movie last week so Molly would know what it was about.  She keeps comparing how they were the same and different. 

Getting ready for the show to start

The whole group

Molly and Charlotte

Molly and Wilbur

Molly and Fern

Check the blog by the beginning of next week.  I hope to write about our camping trip almost 2 weeks ago and mine & Scott's Austin trip.

Valero Texas Open

A week and a half ago, San Antonio had the Valero Texas Open.  The last 3 years, Scott has taken Tyler on Wednesday to the Pro-Am.  This year, Molly and I also went with.  The Pro-Am is more relaxed and a lot of the players will sign autographs, take pictures, and chat a little bit.  We were out there for 4 hours and had a pretty good time.  By the end, the kids were hot and tired, but they were glad they went.  Molly got a flag for autographs and Tyler got a hat for autographs.  

This was right when we got there.  Notice the empty flag.  Wait till you see it at the end.

This is Bryson Dechambeau.  He was the low amateur at the Masters.  He went Pro the week after.  You'll be hearing lot of him in the future.  He's very good and was super nice to us.

This is Ryan Palmer.  He was also super nice and talked to the kids.  He placed 4th in the tournament.

Billy Horschel signing Tyler's hat

Brendon deJonge was the first to autograph Molly's flag

Chesson Hadley stopping for a quick picture

Hunter Mahan signing Tyler's hat

Matt Kuchar

Padraig Harrington signed Molly's flag and Tyler's hat.  Unfortunately he was on the phone the whole time.  We were hoping he'd hang up so we could tell him that Tyler was born the day he won the British Open.  It's on early because of the time difference, so Scott watched it while I was in labor.

 

Tom and Brittany's Visit

The last week in March, my brother, Tom and his girlfriend, Brittany came for a visit.  I'm a little late in posting since the next week, I had surgery, and then we were in Molly's birthday mode. We had a great visit and I'm so glad they came.  I had met Brittany twice before this visit, but I was glad to get to know her better and hang out.  She is so much fun and we all got along great.

On Tuesday, we took her to What-a-Burger and did a little shopping.  Back home, the kids had fun playing with Uncle Tom and Brittany.  We cooked on the fire pit that night.

 

 

Wednesday was Brittany's birthday.  We went to the Wildlife Safari.  It was a lot of fun.  Molly had been before, but didn't remember it.

 

 

 

We went out to dinner that night at La Gloria.  It was a yummy Mexican restaurant down on the River Walk. 

 

Thursday night was a big night.  My brother proposed to Brittany and she said Yes!!  They were down on the Riverwalk with Brittany's best friend, Courtnie, who lives here.  He had told us Tuesday night he was going to and we were as surprised as Brittany was.  They've talked about getting married, but we all thought Tom was going to wait till after graduation.  I'm so glad he did it here in Texas.  We're so happy to have her join our family!  The wedding date is set for May 13, 2017.

 

 

 

This was Brittany's picture on Facebook to announce their engagement.

Friday we just relaxed and hung out more when they were here.  We played outside and watched movies.  Saturday, they flew back home.  It was a great visit!

Molly's Art Show

Friday, April 15th, the day after Molly's birthday and the day before her birthday party, she had an art show at school.  It was a crazy, busy three days.  The 15th was also mine and Scott's 16th wedding anniversary.  We're celebrating by going to Austin this weekend, just the two of us.  Back to the art show.  Molly has been learning about many different artists at school and how they painted.  She's told me how Georgia O'Keeffe painted big subjects and Jackson Pollock was an action painter.  Molly was excited to show us her artwork. It was a lot of fun.

Molly's is the top right.  The next picture shows it more

This was three pieces of wood glued together.  The child would squirt paint onto the top, then count to 5 while it dripped down, then add another color, count to 5 again and continue until it looked how they wanted it to.

This is how they made this picture and the one above.  She made this one while I was there for her birthday.  The paper is on a bike wheel.  She squirts on paint and the teacher spins it.  She adds as many colors as she wants till it's how she likes it.

This was the paper sculpture all the kids worked on.  It started as the kids just rolling up newspaper and gluing it wherever they wanted.  Once it was how they liked it, they painted it.

This was our family project.  They sent a bag home with a few different pieces and that's all we could use other than markers or paint and glue or tape.  Molly named ours, The Feathery, Glittery Snow Girl

This was Molly's " Meet the Artist"

This is Molly's best friend, Kaelyn

I have just loved Molly's school this year.  She's had so much fun there.  It's a Montessori School, so even though there are no desk and worksheets, she learned a lot.  This Thursday is Pajama Day and in May they have Mud Day and then she's finished on May 25.  It was a splurge to send her there, but I'm so glad we did. 

Molly's Unicorn Party

Saturday was the big day-Molly's Unicorn 5th birthday party.  It went well even though it rained and we had to stay inside.  We had a few games, a pinata that Scott had to rig up inside, lunch, cake, and present time.  I think everyone had a good time.  Molly loved it!

When the guest arrived, Molly gave them a unicorn headband.  My wonderful mom made them and they turned out so cute.  The party favors were these cute jars with a unicorn on top and with glitter play-doh inside. We spray painted the unicorns white, then Molly painted their horns with glitter silver paint and we hot glued them to the tops; we made the glitter play-doh, and then Molly cut out the circles to put in the jars.

The unicorn pictures says: Always be yourself unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn.

The kids played two games plus had the pinata.  We had a Skittle Relay. There were two teams.  Each child would draw a number, run down to a bowl of skittles, eat the number of skittles that they drew, then run back and the next player would go.  The kids enjoyed it.  We also had Pin the Horn on the Unicorn.  Molly painted the unicorn and did a great job. The game was fun too.

 

For lunch, we had pb&j, rolls with lunch meat and cheese, fruit, and chips. The next picture shows the cute center pieces we made.

Molly with her best friend, Kaelyn from preschool and her friend, Ayla on the right.

 Friends having lunch!  At least the kids were able to eat outside on the porch.

Uncle Brett, Aunt Carman, and Vienne came over for the party.  

 

We had cake, cupcakes with mini ice cream cones on top to look like unicorn horns, chocolate covered pirouettes, and cupcake chex mix

A few more pictures of the birthday girl! In the second one, she shows how she really feels about taking pictures.  She had a special unicorn headband that Grandma made her.