Thursday, April 21, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Awana Grand Prix
This was the first year NONE of the Wenigers won a trophy in the AWANA Grand Prix! Maybe I colored the judges' opinion of us when I offered them a bribe. Who knows. Jud just saw me typing this and added, "You did too?" No wonder. Those crooked Wenigers. It's like they've formed a union or something.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Trying out the new blog....ah, the learning curve
Ok. I've been avoiding it long enough. I'm such a creature of habit, that once I get used to something, I hate to change. I had the same purse for 3 years and only got rid of it because the strap was being held on by a safety pin. I had the same tennis shoes for six years and only bought new ones because there was absolutely no padding left in the old ones. My husband bought me new boots. I think he was embarrassed to be seen with my ancient ones. :)
So, you can imagine my angst every time Judson gets me a new phone or like now, when I have to learn to use a new blogger. Ugh.
But my fear of falling behind in my scrapbook is worse than my fear of new things, so I'm doing it.
To catch up:
November: We took Mackenzie to Uruguay for her missions trip. I've already done a whole book on that, so no need to say more here.
December: After Missouri in August, Florida in September and Uruguay in November, we decided to stay home for Christmas. Missed seeing my folks, but just did not want to go anywhere else for awhile. We did not do our annual trip out to cut our own Christmas tree. The weather got bad fast after Thanksgiving, and we ended up getting one from a local Boy Scout troop. Not as cool, but it was just too cold to go out into the wilderness.
We went to the Wenigers for Christmas Eve, enjoyed Christmas morning at home, and then went back to the Wenigers in the evening for leftovers. Had a very relaxing time.
January: I turned 42 with very little fanfare. The Wenigers invited us over to celebrate, so I brought along my scrapbooks and made them play a treasure hunt with them. Not sure about them, but I had a blast!
January was busy for the Weniger family. Jud's grandma died, so the immediate family flew out to California for a whirlwind week of packing up her house and her memories and having a funeral. They learned of her death the same day Jared and Meghan had their first baby, Brody Maxwell. The labor went agonizingly long, so he had to be taken by C-section. Also, Carson had a seizure, which is still unexplained.
School is frustrating this year. The girls' specialist schedule covers the morning and afternoon, leaving very little options for field trips. I'm afraid we're not even going to come close to our record-breaking 30 trips last year. Sigh. The extra curricular schedule looks something like this: Monday, piano lessons; Tuesday, gymnastics; Wednesday, MIT and Awana; Thursday, violin lessons. Just wait till sports kick in again.
Duncan is doing well at Paideia. Made the gold and silver honor rolls so far. Complains all the time though about not having any best friends.
February: Mackenzie turns 11! She had such a great time at her swimming party last year, she wanted to do it again. Fine with me. It's the easiest birthday party in the world. No cooking, no cleaning, no games to plan. They just come, swim, eat cake and go home. She had a few girls stay overnight in the hotel, but they didn't stay up too late, on account of all that vigorous swimming! Her cake had frogs on lilly pads this year. Too cute!
March Madness: It's the time of year when Science Fair, Easter dress making and Awana Grand Prix all collide. Mackenzie made a Hair Hygrometer to measure the humidity in the air and Lauren is working on a foxhole radio. The radio is NOT WORKING yet and Jud is pulling out his hair trying to figure out why. Just one week left! Thanks to some extra snowy weather (we've had, what, three blizzards this year!) we were stuck at home on a weekend and managed to get the girls' Easter dresses almost done. We were so ahead of schedule, what with Easter being the very last Sunday in April, I decided to make one for myself! Very psyched about that.
So, you can imagine my angst every time Judson gets me a new phone or like now, when I have to learn to use a new blogger. Ugh.
But my fear of falling behind in my scrapbook is worse than my fear of new things, so I'm doing it.
To catch up:
November: We took Mackenzie to Uruguay for her missions trip. I've already done a whole book on that, so no need to say more here.
December: After Missouri in August, Florida in September and Uruguay in November, we decided to stay home for Christmas. Missed seeing my folks, but just did not want to go anywhere else for awhile. We did not do our annual trip out to cut our own Christmas tree. The weather got bad fast after Thanksgiving, and we ended up getting one from a local Boy Scout troop. Not as cool, but it was just too cold to go out into the wilderness.
We went to the Wenigers for Christmas Eve, enjoyed Christmas morning at home, and then went back to the Wenigers in the evening for leftovers. Had a very relaxing time.
January: I turned 42 with very little fanfare. The Wenigers invited us over to celebrate, so I brought along my scrapbooks and made them play a treasure hunt with them. Not sure about them, but I had a blast!
January was busy for the Weniger family. Jud's grandma died, so the immediate family flew out to California for a whirlwind week of packing up her house and her memories and having a funeral. They learned of her death the same day Jared and Meghan had their first baby, Brody Maxwell. The labor went agonizingly long, so he had to be taken by C-section. Also, Carson had a seizure, which is still unexplained.
School is frustrating this year. The girls' specialist schedule covers the morning and afternoon, leaving very little options for field trips. I'm afraid we're not even going to come close to our record-breaking 30 trips last year. Sigh. The extra curricular schedule looks something like this: Monday, piano lessons; Tuesday, gymnastics; Wednesday, MIT and Awana; Thursday, violin lessons. Just wait till sports kick in again.
Duncan is doing well at Paideia. Made the gold and silver honor rolls so far. Complains all the time though about not having any best friends.
February: Mackenzie turns 11! She had such a great time at her swimming party last year, she wanted to do it again. Fine with me. It's the easiest birthday party in the world. No cooking, no cleaning, no games to plan. They just come, swim, eat cake and go home. She had a few girls stay overnight in the hotel, but they didn't stay up too late, on account of all that vigorous swimming! Her cake had frogs on lilly pads this year. Too cute!
March Madness: It's the time of year when Science Fair, Easter dress making and Awana Grand Prix all collide. Mackenzie made a Hair Hygrometer to measure the humidity in the air and Lauren is working on a foxhole radio. The radio is NOT WORKING yet and Jud is pulling out his hair trying to figure out why. Just one week left! Thanks to some extra snowy weather (we've had, what, three blizzards this year!) we were stuck at home on a weekend and managed to get the girls' Easter dresses almost done. We were so ahead of schedule, what with Easter being the very last Sunday in April, I decided to make one for myself! Very psyched about that.
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