And you can tell from this picture which dog the kids actually remembered to bring inside after playing basketball. Poor Beaux.
But he didn't mind too much. Beaux's a pretty layed back kind of dog. He plays when it's time to play, and chills when it's time to chill. Like right now, apparently.
Yuck! Never on the floor.
No one in his class knew who Brigham Young was. But they got to give their Speeches to their classes prior to the Open House, so they all know who Brigham Young is now.
I can't get this video to turn the right direction. So sorry. But you can still hear his speech amongst the chaos of the evening.
The Texas State Flower is the Blue Bonnet. They made one out of tissue paper. And amongst the leaves in the tree they also made the State Bird, the Magpie.
Aspens class room, though not as bright as Phoenix's, had just as much to look at. Her little group made this life size picture of one of them. With footprints to show how tall they are...or something like that.
In Science Aspen was studying beetles. Here's one of the beetles with one of it's babies. Blech! I think the baby is pretty much a meelworm. Blech!
Sicily thought it was great and egged them on trying to get them to catch up.
Parks are the absolute best place to get your wiggles out. And let me tell you, 2 little 3 year olds have a lot of wiggles. :)
Swing, swing...swing, swing. All day long if I'd let them.
Don't forget the locals. We caught a little Ladybug. Which the girls loved until it started climbing up Sicily's shirt sleeve, then she started freaking out. 
And best of all they both almost fell asleep on the way home and then took a 2 hour nap once we'd gotten home. :)
Don't worry, the water's a good 40 ft across. But 10 ft from the waters edge was as close as Sicily was going to get.
Tickets were 50 cents each and they all got a few from us and bought a few themselves. A friend of Aspens Dad gave us 60 some odd tickets because they had to leave early and didn't want to have to sell them back, we were also given free wrist bands (that got them unlimited bounce house). So the kids had a hay day. Thank you all our wonderful friends out there.
Phoenix and London both had their hair dyed, clear down to the scalp, I might add.
You could buy cans of Silly String and spray your friends as they walked by. Sicily was not too happy when Jared sprayed her on the arm. Notice the pink Silly String that Aspen earlier got on his bottom.
The school has been collecting confetti eggs for weeks. Empty eggs, dyed and filled with confetti. This was the sole purpose of these eggs.
But one good shake still didn't get all that confetti out.
Sicily was more than happy to explore the Bounce Houses. This was a pretty good shot, considering the sun was reflecting off my camera and I wasn't really sure I'd even gotten her in the picture.
Slides are always fun, check out that smile.
There were also little games to play. Spill the milk, Ping Pong toss in the fish bowls, ring on the soda bottles. They won little coins they could then exchange for trinkets at another booth. Phoenix is getting ready to play Minute to Win it.
One minute to tip over all 3 cans with only the yo-yo tied around your neck.
And the favorite of all the boys was the nasty slime. I know some Mom came up with this stuff, but it was absolutely disgusting.
The teacher would push play on the CD and the kids would read the music that was projected behind the parents. Quite a good set up.
Here's a few videos of some of the songs I caught. They all did such an amazing job! Ode to Joy
Amazing Grace
Marching Band
My battery died before the final song, but it was Star Wars. I'll get London to do a private concert for you all and post it on here later.
But everyone is happier. They get more sleep and have more time to play with their friends after school because they're not having to do it all before they can play, because it's already done.
London and Aspen wanted to play Monopoly one Sunday afternoon. I was beat to the world but played anyway because they wanted too so badly. We play a fun way where every time you buy something, or pay taxes or anything you put it in the middle of the board instead of back to the bank. Then if a person lands on "Free Parking" it's like winning the Lottery and they get all the cash in the middle. Well, I won that twice. So every property I owned had a Castle (Hotel in Disney Monopoly) on it. So when they landed on my property they'd owe me something crazy like $1,500. It was awesome, the game was over in about an hour. 
This was the only property on the entire board that I didn't own by the end. London and Aspen both went bankrupt, it was a sad day for them. But they will always be able to say they've actually played a game of Monopoly where somebody won. I'm 31, and this is the first time I've ever seen it happen.
Lucky for me, it was Me! :)
So we had a good time, with 2 little families and lots of cake and ice cream.
He was happy to blow out just 2 candles that said 35!
But then it was time for the real party. I'd been planning a surprise party for weeks, and he had no idea. So 2 parties in a row was a lot of fun. First came the decorations.
Then came all the guests. We had some 30 adults and 75+ kids. 
25 Little Ceasar's Pizzas and an entire sheet cake later, we were ready to get the carpets cleaned.
It was a big important Birthday. And he was officially surprised, had no idea at all. :) YEAH!! Happy 35th Baby, we love you!
Don't worry, Jared, of course, was able to fix it. Just glued the key back on. The 3 white keys were all stuck together for a time but it's all good now. :)
The Ingredients were the Characters and a sentence or two describing them.
The opposite side listed beginning, middle and end of the story. Things to strike your interest in the book.
And of course a game, gotta have a game.
When they all turned in their reports they were displayed in the school library. London was one of the few that was smart enough to do it on the computer. Made it look a little more professional, and it was easier I might add. Just imagine 200 + boxes of cereal on display amongst the books. Such a good idea, and a lot of fun too.
Aren't they all so beautiful. I was sad when I went to the store and realised I had no green apples in this picture. The bright yellow one is my favorite. I only bought it because it was so pretty, so I was happy to see it was tasty too.
