JSB 2010 and Greg's birthday

This year it just happened that Greg's birthday and JSB were on the same date. It was also a half day of school for us (which means curriculum work in the afternoon). Needless to say the day's busy-ness kind of overshadowed Greg's special day. He didn't seem to mind much (and he had many students wish him happy birthday was well as "they" had a cake for him and his friend, Karl (who also shares the same birthday) for staff in the afternoon. So although I feel like I failed him on his birthday this year, he said he got enough attention and that I shouldn't worry about it! I guess when you start getting older it's easier to just let the day go by and pretend you aren't a year older! lol!

This was the first year that any of our kids have been able to attend JSB so it was fun to see how much care KB took when it came to getting ready for the evening (he had even asked a girl as a date for the evening. If you have followed my blog you will recognize her as a good friend of his-her family is good friends with ours). She just happens to be the junior class president this year so that meant she was a little busy and preoccupied for the evening, which was kind of a bummer, but to be expected all things considered. The theme for the night was "A Night of Marvel" and the kids came up with a very humorous skit dealing with super heroes that they had filmed in advance. Greg even had a small part in it! Very fun. Here are few pictures of the evening:

The birthday boys:

One of the spouses together...it's tradition :-)
A group of lady friends:
KB and his date for the evening:
Look how big our oldest is getting...and oh so handsome too!
The three of us together...I sure feel short these days! lol!
Just a fun one:

Happy Easter!!

Okay, I am trying this again...now that it's been almost two months since I posted last I wonder if I have anyone at all who is still checking this site... I do know that grandparents will, if I update it, so maybe I am writing only to them, but even if that's the case, then that's okay!!

Easter is almost over for us, while it's just beginning for those of you who are in the U.S. I hope and pray you have a great day reflecting on the resurrection of our Lord and what that means for all of us. We started the day at school with a sunrise service where seven students gave their testimonies and were baptized in the ocean. What a wonderful way to start the day!!

Afterwards there was a complimentary breakfast at the cafeteria then it was back home to get ready for church and take quick (yeah, right!) pictures of the kids dressed in their finest Easter clothes (ha! ha!...at least us girls were dressed up for the occasion!)

Traffic was horrible (and we were already late getting started because of the pictures) due to the fact that this is the time of year the Chinese go to their cemeteries and clean them and offer incense and food to remember their ancestors. In the end we were almost 20 minutes late for church! But we did get there in time to hear a couple of special numbers and sing some worships songs before the message.

We at lunch at Chili's and it seemed that many other families from church had the same idea! Next year we are looking forward to a nice ham for our Easter dinner! lol!

In the afternoon we had a (pathetic) easter egg hunt in the house as it was so hot and sunny outside. For some reason I couldn't find most of my plastic eggs so the boys got to find three eggs (one had money inside) and the girls only got to find two eggs (and were given a small stuff webkinz as a side present). The kids were real troopers though, and didn't complain...maybe they are getting too old to hunt eggs anyway?? At least maybe the boys are???

Then the rest of the afternoon was spent resting and redoing KJ's hair, which took the better part of three hours to do. Hopefully I won't have to do much with it for a couple of weeks now. I threw a batch of healthy muffins into the oven tonight and now it's time for bed! What a full but blessed day! I hope yours in the same!!