2nd week of April - lots of pics!

I got out the calendar this week to do my yearly final countdown. We have exactly 6 more weeks of school. Soon I can start counting the DAYS.



Last weekend band practice went well again, but was kinda short compared to usual. We are accomplishing SO much more and SO much faster than we had been in that other arrangement. It's kinda fast-paced, but I'm actually enjoying it that way better. It's quite possible our first time to play will be May 12, so things are about to get MUCH faster I believe. And I heard word today that the class of '87 has requested us to play for their 20 year reunion this summer.

Saturday night Terri and Donnie and the kids came for a visit, and some other friends of all of ours - James, Norma, and daughter ended up visiting also for Rusty to set up their daughter's guitar. I had gone out and bought a bunch of hair products to see if it is possible for me to achieve "BIG HAIR" like I used to could. So we ALL ended up having a "BIG HAIR" night, like a bunch of crazy folks lol. Our friends' 18 year old daughter had a blast trying to 80's up my hair, she did pretty good too. We had a lot of fun, even got Donnie and Tyler to be good sports! Rusty didn't much like what I did to his, but I thought it was awesome lol. Here are some pics of our "artwork":



















































Boy oh boy!


So........the next day was Easter. The Easter bunny came. And Tanner hid eggs around the house for US to find. He got a kick out of that. They got lots of candy, but Tyler got mostly low carb candy and beef jerky and stuff. He's been doing darn good on his diet, he's lost 10 pounds in the last couple of weeks. He has more willpower than I do for sure. He opted out of our Pizza Hut night and he also resisted our cookie binge we all had a couple of Thursdays ago. He's determined to tone his whole body up. We went to Rusty's Dad's house for a short Easter egg hunt. Tanner didn't want to hunt eggs there, all he wanted to do was play with a little puppy someone had brought. So he just wagged the puppy around for a couple of hours. Then we went to my mom's house for Easter there. Chris and his kids were there, was so great to see them and hang out with them! We miss seeing them. Seems like we used to see them every other weekend at least. The big boys had fun hiding the eggs for Brooke and Tanner to find.

















































Thursday our family portraits that we had made at Ernest's church were in. I intended to get just a few. I didn't buy them ALL, but bought more than I expected I would. They turned out pretty decent, in spite of all that trouble I had making everybody go up there and do it. And here they are:












































Today (Friday) was Field Day at my school. The good thing was I had no classes. BUT - I had to spend the whole day outside helping the coach run everything which was fun but tiring. Tanner was afraid his teacher was not going to let him participate because he's been talking too much in class. But she had pity on him and let him participate. He was SO happy. They all LOVE the tug-of-war part the most, it's the highlight event. So once the 4th grade tug-of-war began, Tanner's teacher couldnt' stand it - she had to jump in there herself and help lol. The other class yelled cheating! So they went again, and she STILL jumped in, so the teacher in the other class jumped in with her class. Then the nurse jumped in on the side of Tanner's class. Then some big parent jumped in for the other class. So, well, then I just jumped in on Tanner's class too, what the heck. Tanner's class ended up winning the 4th grade tug-of-war, but the other class is still hollering "cheaters!" They did have a good time though, most of all. Tonight Tanner is spending the night with his cousin Connor so he should have a good time.



































I guess that's about it for this week. Next week I hope to get some rest. lol.