Mary Poppins!

Look what we saw last night.

If you get the chance, go see this show. 

It was fabulous.  The sets, the "special effects",  the music, everything was fantastic!



The whole family went...even the "boys" and we all liked it. 

My son is rather anti-Mary Poppins so if he says its a good show you know it was awesome!!

Postcard Friendship Friday #84

So glad to be back linking up with postcard friendship Friday hosted by Beth.  We've been so busy with all the usual spring activities that I haven't had much time to blog.  The kids are finishing up school though and I finally have a little free time.  Just in time to post a wildflower postcard!  The wildflowers are blooming everywhere right now.  I took some pics at a local park yesterday.  You can see them here.

Speaking of springtime, our local paper holds a Peeps diorama contest every year.  My daughter and I entered and ours was selected as one of the top 10.  Voting is going on right now, so if you wouldn't mind clicking on this link and voting for us, we'd really appreciate it.  Claire is so excited and really wants to win!  Ours is the 2012 London Olympeeps one. 
  http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/28/3842413/vote-now-for-your-favorite-peeps.html#tvg

If you want to see more pictures of our diorama you can just scroll down.  There's a couple of posts about it below.

Exciting News!!!

We got some exciting news today.   The Peeps diorama that Claire and I made was selected as one of the top ten!!   There is online voting until Sunday at 5 pm.

We'd really appreciate anyone who clicks on the following link and votes for us.

Ours is the 2012 London Olympeeps.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/28/3842413/vote-now-for-your-favorite-peeps.html#tvg

Claire is so excited...the whole olympic theme was her idea! :)

Wildflowers!

The kids are starting to finish up with some of their subjects now.  That left us with some time today so we went to the park.  Spring is wild flower season in Texas so I took lots of pictures!

You can't speak of wildflowers and Texas without showing pictures of bluebonnets...

Even though we are quite proud of our bluebonnets, we do have other flowers here!

I made my kids pose for a picture in the bluebonnets.  They weren't happy about it!

But I made them do it anyway because this is the last picture I have of them in the bluebonnets!!

(Same park, same patch too!)

 

I guess I never got around to taking them back out for pictures in the last 9 years!!  That falls into the category of "meant to do, but never did."  That list just keeps growing!

I linked up with Deb Duty Photography today.

Peeps!!

It's that time of year again! Time for our local paper's Peep's Diorama contest. Claire and I have entered for the last two years. Last year we made it to the finals and came in 9th in the online voting. We turn in our entry today so wish us luck on making it to the finals again!  Our theme this year is "Olym-peeps."  Claire picked it out.  She actually came up with it almost 2 years ago, but I talked her into waiting until the year of the summer Olympics.

Here's the complete diorama...

  

The Peep on the beam and the judges...



The weight lifting Peeps!

The medal winners...yes, they are all from the USA!



The rythmic gymnast...



The swimmers getting ready to dive into the pool...

The Crowd...

Claire has her heart set on winning so I sure hope we make the final ten again this year!! 



Backyard Fun!

We've really been enjoying the nice weather here in Texas. 

The kids have been spending a lot of time outside.  We have a great backyard at this house.

The kids aren't the only ones who spend a lot of time outside!



How's the weather where you live?



Spring!

We are crazy busy around here with baseball season and gymnastic meets and finishing up school and so on.  I'm trying to keep up with my blog, but I never seem to have enough hours in my day anymore!

I did find the time to go out to the backyard and snap a couple pictures of our blooming flowers this morning though.  They are so pretty.  The wisteria is all along our fence and its very pretty to look at.