Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Lion King

Doug and Mary (Grandpa and Grandma) and Grandma Maddex (Great Grandma) went together
on Christmas gifts and bought us 4 tickets to see the Broadway version of The Lion King at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. The story was the same as the movie and most of the songs too so the kids enjoyed it. The costumes were simply amazing. The pics below (except the one with my kids) are borrowed images - in case you've never seen it or anything about it. Amazing!

L to R: Mufasa, Rafiki, Sarabi

The giraffes and the leopard. Some of the coolest costumes. The giraffes were men on stilts with extend arms, their backs must have been SORE by the time the show was over.

And our kids!

And a picture I'm in, weird huh?

Update

- Pastor Lisa came out of surgery very well yesterday! They managed to get the entire tumor out and she was awake and talking last night already. Thank the Lord. They still think its cancerous and will know for sure by Friday so the road ahead is still long and scary but thank the lord for small miracles.

- The kids have 4 and 1/2 days of school left now.

- My work schedule continues to be crazy this week, gets a little better in the next 3 weeks and is awesome by the end of June! Woohoo!

- We decided on a summer trip and will be spending a long weekend at Captiva Island, now we just need to set a date.

- A website I have been working on/dreaming of for a long time is going to go live this week...so stay tuned!

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Bad things Good People

Its an age old question that everyone has some kind of version of answer too...Why do bad things happen to good people?

This morning I just want to send out a prayer request to those that pray. The amazingly talented children's pastor at our church is a young woman - 35 to 40 - with two teenage daughters and a husband. Friday she was taken to the hospital after passing out on the way to a cheerleading competition, apparently following weeks of headaches. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor 4 cm across on her frontal lobe. They are operating this morning. Best case scenario she has a nasty scar and may have to learn to do mundane things like reading a watch again. Worse case scenario she has been handed a death sentence. This woman has impacted hundreds of little lives day after day and year after year, my own children being two of them.

Please pray for her. For good news, for good attitudes, for peach and hope. Pray for comfort for this family facing incredibly scary unknowns!

Thanks friends!

Monday, May 26, 2008

Math

16 + 4 + 4 = 24

That is a 16 hour shift plus 4 hours of sleep plus 4 hours with family = 24 hr day.

Thats what I call bad math.

I know I get holiday pay but the 16 hour shift yesterday from 3p-7a and having to go back tonight while spending the day BBQing with family, not sleeping, was not my best idea ever.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Portfolio Day

Tori's school does end of the year student led conferences. Parents come and the students show you a portfolio they have put together of pictures from trips, writing samples, math samples, projects, etc. This years highlights:

- Tori received 2 "Prestigious Paw" awards and the Character Kid for one month.
- A writing sample about her summer vacation to Orlando for a day and a half, LOL!
- An "all about" book she made all about Max.
- Her Sunshine Math in which she has now learned division as well as prob solving.
- Cursive.
- A lexile score of 797, aka she can read at a level equivalent to the high scoring
3rd graders, average scoring 4th graders and low scoring 5th graders.

Then she got to leave school early (the teacher told us all to take our students out to lunch) and we had a nice lunch at a diner with her best friend Rebecca and mom Karen!

The New Survivor for Men

Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 2 kids
each for six weeks, each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes.

There is no fast food.

Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean,
correct all homework, and complete science projects, cook, do laundry,
and pay a list of 'pretend' bills with not enough money.

Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and
relatives!

Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist
appointment and a haircut appointment.

He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the
Urgent Care.

He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a social function.

Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house
and keeping it presentable at all times.

The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep
and all chores are done.

They must attend weekly school meetings, church, and find time at least
once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting.

They will need to read a book to the kids each night and in the
morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by
7:00 am.

A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will
be required to know all of the following information: each child's
birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size and doctor's name.
Also the child's weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of
labor, each child's favorite color , middle name, favorite snack,
favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they
want to be when they grow up.

The kids vote them off the island based on performance. The last man
wins if and only if...he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse
at a moment's notice.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Yay Cook!

I have been pulling him for weeks now but when his final song was by Collective Soul - an old favorite of mine - I was done for. Yay for David Cook! I love that hes kind of a rocker, sings ballads great and is super cute...now if someone could get him out of those hideous boots.