What An Honor

Today was the last awards ceremony that we had to attend. This time Reese got her award for Honorable Mention at the state level. She was one of 6,000 entries so it is a pretty huge accomplishment for her to have made it this far. She was the only one from her school. We had to wait what felt like forever for the to finally call her up. All the while Talan was screaming "I have boogers in my nose" and "Give me a cookie now" and racing down the aisle of chairs to the mirror on the wall to make crazy faces followed by hysterical laughter. They finally did call her up and she got her ribbon, certificate and "prize". Prize meaning a buy-one-get one ticket coupon for Legoland. Congrats Reese, your parents now have to fork up who-knows-how-much in cash so that you can get your prize....the one you really couldn't care less about but that you'll still insist on getting. Okay, back to being proud of her. I really, really am. The sky is the limit with this kid.









Talan was excited to meet Lego Man when he finally broke out of the ceremony.









Back at home I got started on Reese's birthday gift bags. Her party is next week and came out of nowhere. This week will be really busy for me so I just felt the urge to get it out of the way now as opposed to rushing through it next weekend. Reese has a birthday party on Friday (we had to turn down a Daisy's trip that conflicted). She got 2 birthday invites for Saturday night but can only make it to one. And then Sunday is her big day. I spent hours burning CDs for the kids. We dubbed it "Reese's Rock -n- Roller Remix".









The fillers were just silly straws, bouncy balls, and glo bracelets.














Never really understood the whole gift bag deal and why anyone ever started it. Is it not enough that the kids' parents pay per head to get them in wherever the party is(and we're at the age where parents just drop-off....they don't stick around....so it's almost like free babysitting, too!), and we feed and entertain them for 2-3 hours. Nope, not enough. We are also expected to give them gifts for coming. Makes very little sense. I think we should come together as parents and nix the gift bag deal. Less crap to sneak into the garbage can when they come home from parties with said gift bags, too. Not to say that I don't like putting them together....I just don't get it. Hopefully the kids like them.