Our Saturday

A quick visual replay of our Saturday.

1. Head out to Hillsboro airport for Blake to skydive (our gift for Father's Day)

2. Blake jumps out of a perfectly good (but tiny) airplane.

3. Due to the snap of the parachute or the too tight straps, somehow blood supply to his brain is cut off, lights go out, then on, then out, then on, then out again.

4. Lands unconscious and scares us half to death, but is fine in the end.

5. While waiting for the CD of pictures and checking on Blake who is still a bit woozy, commotion erupts 10 feet away when Andrew, not wanting to be outdone, passes out, slips beneath the picnic table he was sitting on, and cracks his head on the concrete.

6. A fun-filled trip the the local hospital where we find out he has not done any real damage to his hard head but is definitely part of my "pass-out-prone" family.

7. Boys are all fine. Girls did not pass out.

8. We have decided not to go anywhere south of Waxahachie since anytime we do, it turns out not so good.

Stay tuned for more adventures in the life of the Brannons!

Tournament Baseball

Our Mansfield Red Raiders finished third in the tournament last weekend. The boys played well and qualified for the USSSA World Series. Here of some pictures of "Too Cool" (so named because of the shades that he likes to wear).

Newest Project

Our school is performing a musical next month about the life of Moses. For one of the songs, they needed large numbers for each of the plagues of Egypt. Guess who volunteered to do those. I think they turned out well.

Our trip

I took lots of pictures from San Antonio. Here are a few.

Alamo

Riverwalk on St. Patrick's Day

Seaworld where the trainers weren't allowed in the water with the whales.

Here is the BBQ place that our GPS tried to take us to. It was typical of the trip. "A comedy of errors!"

We did find this wonderful hole in the wall restraunt a few blocks from the Alamo and our hotel.

Bug, bug, bug

Ally is doing a puppet skit for this year's LTC (Leadership Training for Christ) and they decided to be bugs. We managed to find most of the puppets and I made the rock puppet that all the bugs are living under (yes, he has a mouth and can talk). My wonderful sister finished the grasshopper (which she created with no pattern)! I had to post a picture of all of them. We should get a gold just on puppet creation alone.

In case you can't tell, we have an ant, a snake (I know that's not a bug but we couldn't find a worm and this one was cute), a spider, a grasshopper, and, of course, a rock.

Hubby keeps saying that I should just take my blog down since I never use it. Ha. Showed him. Blame it all on the addicting time-sucking universe known as Facebook.

We are the Champions!

Check out the Mansfield Red Raiders! We won the tournament this weekend. Of course it was 95 degrees all weekend and we look like lobsters....but we won! Andrew scored the winning run in the championship game. Way to go, boy. (He wants everyone to know that he sprinted all the way from first to score). Andrew is in the front row with both "guns" up.

My little entrepreneur

I found out today that my son has started his own business during class. I got all the details during our drive home. He has 2 employees whom he pays 2 tickets a month. Anderson is his peeler and Olivia is in charge of advertising. It is a free service and he may end up going in the hole so we will have to address this issue. He is already planning to expand in the near future. So if anyone needs his service, see Andrew at his desk in the 3rd grade classroom during regular school hours. What is this service, you ask? Crayon sharpening. My little entrepreneur has found a needed service in the 3rd grade and has the sharpener to get the job done!

On a completely unrelated note.... a word of advice. Never leave a box of cereal on the kitchen counter when you have a bad kitty in the house. Otherwise, when you return after a long day, you will be sweeping little rolling puffs of corn from your entire kitchen floor. Just an FYI.

Gotta go now. Tonight is Open House and the principal just called and she has cracked her elbow so guess who gets to be in charge. Goodie goodie!

I'm a bad mommy

Remember last time I had to shave my kitty and promised I'd never do it again. Apparently, I lied.

Poor kitty.



And the worst part is Maggie still doesn't recognize him and keeps hissing.

Little League World Series Tournament

What have I been doing since we got back from vacation?.....

(One of the parents gave us a CD of the series so that is why I can post pictures. Can't post vacation yet since I have no idea where the cord is to connect my camera to the computer.)

We were eliminated on Friday morning and I think we are all baseballed out right now. Andrew was EXHAUSTED by the end of the week. We ran by Sharla's on Friday and when we got home, we all fell asleep for a much needed nap.

6th Grade Graduation

Since I've been gone...

Quick update:

1. We are all still breathing, sweating and breathing......and sweating.

2. Computer crashed a few days ago so the whole family has been fighting over the laptop. (guess who usually loses that fight and goes to the end of the line).

3. After much praying over and hitting the computer on the forehead yelling, "Be healed", I have cured the computer and now it is working again (we'll see for how long).

4. Alyssa graduated from school and I only cried a little bit. Junior high here we come!

5. Summer has been here for almost two weeks and it feels like forever. I guess that's good, but I know once July hits, the summer will fly by.

6. Andrew was playing on an All-star team but we were knocked out of the tournament tonight. Oh, rats. I love watching baseball in 100 degree weather. But, another tournament starts next week so.....YIPPEE!

7. Colorado trip. Who's ready? Not me. I still have time though.

8. Oh, Blake bought a new van. The conversation went something like this....
Ring ring (phone rings at work) "Hi, dear wife, remember when I told you I was going to work at home today well instead, I'm going to work at home only half the day and this afternoon I'm going to buy you a new van. Okay? Bye." No, I'm not kidding. But he got a good deal and I like my new van. We still can find it in the parking lot though.

That's about it. Boring but sweaty.

Daily Chuckle

Warning: You must be at least 18 years old and female to continue reading this post!

This cartoon is totally inappropriate and offensive....and it makes me laugh.

Hello. I'm old.

Yes, it's true. I'm old. And birthdays are no fun anymore. But at least my friends at work made me laugh. This is what greeted me in the morning in my office.

All the windows covered with black and things from my desk all wrapped (like my computer, printer, stapler, phone, kleenex box, all individual pens.....) Then they got the parents and teachers to drop off Luby's senior citizen coupons to me all during the day. But the best moment had to be when one of the two year old classes walked up to me very solemnly and each handed me a coupon saying, "I sorwy you old." Thank you kids.

But my sister brought me some lovely flowers and a wonderful gift certificate to a spa from both sisters and my brother. It was great. I spent the rest of the day figuring out how I'm going to use it. I think I'm going for the big package with a massage, facial, manicure, pedicure. (If I can stand someone touching me for 3 hours!)

(Kitty liked the flowers too!)

I have a sick little girl. We ended up going home today at about 1:30. I think she just has a bad cold but you know how that is, not really sick enough to stay home but feeling lousy at school and then feeling worse as the day goes on. She is also going to miss LTC practice tonight. But it was nice in one way. I sent her to her room to take a nap (and she is still asleep 3 1/2 hours later) and then I layed down on the couch for an hour. Nothing better than an unplanned nap...during a thunderstorm!

We finally got rain (I'm just glad it waited until Mom and Dad left). As we were leaving the school today, the sky looked like this....

I have never seen clouds like that before. The pictures don't do them justice. They looked like draped fabric. Very cool.

PRCA Talent Show Pt.1

I have now officially given up on trying to add the talent show video. So instead, you get a couple of still shots.

Andrew and his best friend sang ZZ Top's Sharp Dressed Man.

Ally and her friends did a skit to All the Single Ladies.

And the finale of the night was the sixth grade dancing to Thriller. They did a great job! My friend Rene and I did the hair and makeup. And Dawn was the director. It was really good! Of course now the 5th grade is wanting to know what they are going to do next year.

Now that the talent show and Ally's science project is over, I am feeling a lot less stressed. And only two more weeks until Spring Break!

How to Recognize Stress....

This is registration week at work. On top of that, it's the final talent show practices and I still need to get costumes finished. Plus, Ally has a huge project to complete and is totally confused. Then lets add a field trip on Friday and all the paperwork and details that need to be worked out. And then, there are daily tours of the school (yesterday I had three back to back). Not to mention the pre-school's circus and the program, decorations, etc. that go with that. Added on top, we have no food in the house so I need to go shopping, the library books are due, my house is a mess and the only way to get through the kid's rooms is by jungle vine, LTC practices twice a week, basketball practice and games each week, baseball practice starting, children and pets that think they need my attention, a husband who needs the same....

All this to say. Something was bound to break and today I believe that it did......

Not only do my shoes not match but they look nothing alike; one is blue and one is brown and even the heels are different. I didn't even notice until I got into the office. Can I just go home now?

Monsters, Candy and Songs

Hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day. The kids decided to make valentines for their classes this year instead of just buying a box. Thank you Family Fun magazine.

Andrew made monsters attached to a heart full of candy (the sign says "I have my eye on you")....

Ally made I-pods out of a box of conversation hearts (since she is never without hers)....

And they made these for their teachers....

I had told Blake not to buy me flowers since I was feeling "over-commercialized" this year. So instead I was surprised at work by a singing telegram. It was very sweet and a total suprise! Of course I was in such shock that I didn't video them or even take a single picture. And through the whole first song, I kept thinking, "Did they really say this was for me? Am I stealing someone else's telegram?" He done good. I think I'll keep him.

The sun is shining. The birds are singing. And I am not tempted to rip anyone's head off today. It's amazing what a good night's sleep, lunch with your sister and venting will do for a person's attitude.