Ok recap well besides the notion that my kids school possibly thinks that i do no value education given the amount of school my kids have missed this last couple of months. I pulled them out to go to Nebraska at Thanksgiving for 2 days, they returned for a week and then I pulled them yet again to go to Disney and Universal and all things Califorina for another 5 days, and then back to school for 4 days and again yanked them as Duke had a company party in San Antonio, that we both felt I needed to attend, since it was Thursday night that meant missing friday. So we made good use of it and went to Kerrville to celebrate my moms birthday, and finally returned for the day and a half before the break. Oddly enough all 3 are totally caught up and doing great grade wise but none the less next semester we will be in school more I promise.
Disney was great we met up with Mama Sam in Orange Califorina in a rented house with an AMAZING view up in the hill and a hot tub that was utilized by the kiddos and us as well. We determined that Theme parks in the West are more of a lite version of the full version if you will, of the east coast particurally florida. It was great and uncrowded, but not as many eatery options, rides nd attractions from our perspective. We hit Legoland and it was great but he building place was closed for a n educational deal which I think the kids would have loved.... but we have tons of legos here so we can do that here too. Disney we had Macy made over into a princess at the bibbity bobbity botique, she went with minnie mouse this time and looked like a doll. While we did that the boys were content to hit as many ride in the park as possible and they did. This year all my kids were tall enough to ride just about all the rides and I have some thrill junkies. Macy and Dale LOVE it and Reid enjoys it once it is done but spent a bunch of rides inside the hoodie of his jacket. Also funny thing Macy insisted on pictures with any and all characters, Dale did some with who he thought were cool and Reid only when forced... so it appears that I have 2 kids in all my pics since reid was hiding behind me still leary of characters....I guess Mrs. Tracy in the mouse costume that frightend him soo terribly that he scalled a half door to cling to his teacher and she had to spray "bad mousy spray" (air freshener) to ease Reids fears has held on, there are no tears or climbing things to get away but he is not going to choose to go stand by one either. We also went to venice beach and Medeviele times as well. They really liked the show and the horses and came home and watched the goofy dvd they gave us and then went to the web site for more info.... so I guess they really did like it. We finished up the week at Universal, it was a good pretty uneventful trip minus Mama Sam who cooked some biscuits on a plastic tray resulting in an oven fire but other than a little plastic smell and an oven to clean it was a great trip.
On the trip Dale turned 10... yep double digits, both hands... can't believe it hardly. He is growing up and is no longer a little kid. We had to have the intro birds and bees speech....sparked by "mom how is it possible for me to have your dna AND dads dna" Kid is smart ... too smart sometimes but still so goofy and lacking common sense too. He took a reading test and scored 9.1- 10.6 for his reading level that means ninth grade month one to 10th month 6 as his reading level....the next closest to him in his grade is 5.6 ....yes we all know he gets this from Duke, as I was a horrible reader.
Christmas has also just passed and it was wonderful. Sam came down leaving a snow storm to arrive in Mcallen at 78 degrees so she was loving the warmth. She got to meet Bevo, who by the way behaved very well. We went to Hildalgo to see the lights and they were impressive and very wide spread. Gifts were abundant all the kids got itouches, and money to spend on them, video games, remote conrol vehicels, clothes, toys, guns...both real and fake, dolls....well macy got dolls, I got a purse I have been wanting, some yellow box shoes I LOVE, pandora beads, knives .... ceramic ones that I LOVE, a photo calandar, Duke go his burnt orange shirt with a outline of Oklahoma that states WORST STATE EVER... he also got a large chunk of money and he said the shirt was better than the money... so I took it...just kidding, we also fixed the jeep for him and got him a UT signed photo of Mack Brown and Vince Young. Bevo even got hooked up with a new crate that he fits in better, some new toys that he has allready destroyed one of but hey its his, and supposedly he played with Blitzen on the trampoline. We are very very blessed and I thank God every day for all my blessings, even when they seem more like trials.
So I have all the decorations packed up and it is not even 24 hours post Christmas, but hey it needed to happen. Now I can enjoy the next week and relax.
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