Saturday, May 31, 2008

Riley finishes 1st grade

Riley wanted a picture of his friends that are girls!!!
Riley and Jesse
Jesse was cracking me up....she was all up on her tippy toes trying to be even with the rest of the gang!






It really is hard to believe that this school year is already over! Of course that means end of the year awards ceremony. Riley walked away with four awards....A honor roll all year, Outstanding Conduct All Year, Student Government Representative and National Fitness Award. Of course I'm proud of him!



My Crazy Boyz!!!




I got a new camera this week and the boys were eager to pose for me to check it out! Look at Taylor's new haircut!!! He called me Friday nite and told me he was shaving his head! All those gorgeous curls are gone! He said "mom...Whitney said she would sit in my lap while they shaved it if I would do it....how could I resist". He is too easy!!! ha ha!! Oh well, it will be nice and cool for football training this summer and be grown back in before school starts in the fall.


Great Friends at Adventureland

Riley with two of his best friends (Levi and Seth) at Adventureland in Dothan.

They loved the bumper boats. They even thought this was better than the go-karts!!!!

Soccer

Dylan just finished his spring season of club soccer. He loves playing on this team as it is definitely more competitive than rec league soccer. Plus....we travel all around lower Alabama and Florida for his game. His team placed 3rd for the spring season.....so we had a pretty good season. He has a few weeks break and then will start right back in with training for the fall.

Easter

Coloring Eggs and being cheesy

oops...4got 2 flip this pic!

What a cutie!



Each boy made eggs that really showed their personalities. Riley made a football and a baseball egg.

Taylor made a football and a Wildcat egg with his football number on it.


Dylan made a soccer ball egg and a Wildcat egg with his soccer number on it.



We have started a tradition of a neighborhood easter egg hunt. The kids would rather hunt eggs at our house than attend the local community egg hunt.

Riley and Colby counting their eggs and looking for the prize eggs.




The Easter Bunny left Dylan some braces and new teeth!

Dirty Boys





They are building a new house up the street from us and this involves clearing the land....which created a HUGE red dirt pile. All of the neighborhood boys are hanging out on the hill and becoming red dirt monsters. I have cleaned up so much red dirt from my floors and thrown away so many shirts/shorts by now.....even though the boys are having a blast, I will be SO glad when the dirt pile is gone.

Volcanos












In 4th grade they always have a science project that involves making an erupting volcano. Dylan decided to make his volcano and edible volcano. We baked chocolate cake and drizzeled it with chocolate frosting. For the lava we used cherry jello and lemon juice. It really erupted and the class loved it....they loved eating it afterwards also. His teacher gives out one 110 grade in each class for the best volcano and Dylan received that grade out of his science class. We had many request to make this cake again for upcoming birthday parties.

Read Across America Week

Klaus

Riley as a pirate! It almost looks like a witch's hat, but is is just the way he was standing in front of the window that made the point on his head!!!!








As part of Read Across America they boys had to dress up as their favorite book character for school. Riley dressed as a pirate from "Do Pirates take a Bath?" and Dylan dressed up as Klaus from his favorite books...A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. I just love the name of that author. It is ironic because this series was also one of Taylor's favorite books when he was in the 4th grade.

Taylor and Kevin's Birthday











Taylor and his good friend Kevin's birthday are just one week apart. They wanted to celebrate their 16th birthdays together....which worked out great since they have the same friends. We took the boys down to Hot Shots in Dothan. HotShots has dedicated 45,000 Sq. Ft. of the facility for 2 Indoor Karting tracks. With speeds over 40 MPH, and a timing system that times each racer to the 1/1000th of a second, you are in for an experience that is found no where else in the region. They use Rimo Karts for your the driving experience. These karts are found in many top tracks around the country and through out Europe. They also have The Slick Track, which is a polished miniature road course that will give anyone the excitement of racing on a slick ice. They have unlimited paintball and video game rooms that are something that has never been seen before anywhere that we know of. The Video Game Rooms utilize "State-of-Art" audio & visual equipment. The 'Game Rooms' use High-Definition Panasonic 1080i, 100ft screen- projectors. With the state of the art Dolby Digital Surround Sound System, and these projectors connected to Xbox 360's and a Nintendo Wii video game console. They ended the evening with a sleepover at Kevin's house that consisted of Rockband and Guitar Hero all evening long. It definitely was a party that was talked about for a long time.