Fairy Tale Ball

At the boys’ school, in 1st grade, they do a big Fairy Tale Ball.  The boys were super excited and both wanted to be knights.

I was a little surprised to see how big of a deal the school made it… it was kind of neat!

All the classes trooped in with their coat of arms flag.  Even their teachers dressed like fairy tale characters.

Here is Mason’s class. 

Next Hagen’s class:

They did a dance, I have video… I’ll have to post it.

At the end, they invited the parents up to dance with them.  I got to dance with Mason.

Gran got to dance with Hagen:

Class pictures:

Another water heater bites the dust…

We replaced our attic water heater 2 years ago before anything happened – we were actually lucky we discovered it leaking before anything happened.  We weren’t as lucky with the garage water heater.  Jeremy woke up to go to work early one morning and the kitchen was filled with about 2 inches of water.   It flooded the neighbor’s front yard, too.  I couldn’t believe how much water came out of that thing! 

Our insurance company was great (and Paucci – who immediately calmed me down and told me the first 2 things to do).

A water damage restoration company came out and began trying to dry everything up.  The boys’ playroom, the kitchen, hallway, and breakfast nook were the affected areas.  I didn’t think much of it, until they started pulling up pieces of the wood flooring. 

And they continued ripping it up.

And continued ripping it up.

Oh, and there goes some tile.

When it was all said and done – the kitchen tile and bathroom tile were damaged.  The wood floor was damaged.  The boys’ playroom carpet was a wet soggy mess.  They ripped up a huge portion of wood flooring.

I could not believe a water heater, a garage water heater at that, could do this much damage.

They brought in these extremely loud fans and put them throughout the affected areas.  I had 5 in the kitchen alone.  Along with this huge dehumidifier.  They were here for 4 days.  I was very excited to see them go!

We are currently trying to order new flooring and get the boys’ playroom carpet cleaned.  It’s been a mess.  But, I keep trying to remember the attic water heater we replaced 2 years ago.  It could have been SO much worse.  But, at any rate, if you live in my area, we have an excellent plumber contact!!

Happy New Years Eve Party

Because of Jeremy’s job, sometimes holidays don’t really matter.  He usually ends up working on New Year’s Eve, 4th of July, etc.  But, this year, he ended up being off.  I figured we would celebrate ~ 6 year old style. 

I’m so glad we did!  I was amazed at all the great ideas there are out there… again, I love Pinterest!!  It is the best resource I could ever imagine!

So, after a trip to the party store, I started my first project.  I picked 8 activities and blew up 8 balloons.

I put an activity in each balloon.  Then I labeled the balloons with the various hours leading up to midnight.

 

Each hour, the boys would pop a balloon and see what the activity was for the hour. 

They LOVED it!!

We started at 5 o’clock.  The nice thing was if we didn’t last until midnight, they could pop the balloons and do the activities on New Year’s Day.  Since we were celebrating every hour, I figured we were having so much fun – it wouldn’t be SO major if we went to bed before midnight.

Here is Hagen with the 5 PM balloon.

Yep, always a teacher.  We made clocks so we could change them every hour

Yeah!  Party Hats!!!!

Mason’s 6 PM (changing his clock to 6 PM before he popped his balloon)

Playing a game – Tenzi!  Great game, check it out!

Dizzios, another great game to check out!!

I love Hagen’s card playing glasses!

Fading a little (I think this was around 10 PM).

Daddy bought sparklers… this brightened us up!

After the sparklers, everyone was fading… so, we threw in the towel and put the boys to bed.  They fell asleep fast.  But, I think our party was a HUGE success!!!

Happy New Year!