Geography Bee

First I had heard of it was last night. Just before bedtime TJ states, "I am in the geography bee tomorrow at 1:30, can you come?" Apparently, TJ finished first for his class in the preliminaries and therefore qualified for the finals which was held in the gym today with all the middle school kiddos watching. He did great but did not win the competition. An eigth grader was declared the winner - he knew more about rivers and countries that I could ever hope to. He will go on to take an exam and if he does well enough will compete in the National Geography Bee. What I learned today is that there is such a competition and my son obviously at some point has spun the dust off that globe in his room! I am one very proud mom!

Finally - Snow

It has been an odd winter thus far. Cold then unusually warm then cold again. However, we finally has some snow. Not much, just flurries but gives us hope of sledding and being pulled behind the 4-wheeler soon!

Happy New Year

We celebrated the new year at a party hosted by friends, Brian and Marisa Walker in thier lovely home. TJ spent the evening with his friend, Mason. They stayed up later than us!!!

Bye Bye Herbst Hello Bottom Brackets

TJ celebrated the end of 2011 with the removal of the herbst appliance from his jaw. This was used instead of headgear and rubber bands with his braces to align his jaw. After 11 months he is free of the restrictive device but they installed bottom brackets. We are definately getting our monies worth and we are in the home strech to a beautiful smile and jaw line! Thanks to Dr. Walker and Dr. Dixon!!!!

Decisions Decisions

New toy or old toy?

Christmas Day

We continued the celebration of Christ's birth with the Mann family Christmas afternoon. We draw names for the gift exchange. This year, we had the Mann family sisters, Tina and Danelle. Next year we have Diana and Todd's mom. I like it when we get to shop for the ladies in the family!

Santa Spoiled TJ Again!

Santa ate the cookie and drank the milk that TJ almost forgot to leave for him. In exchange, Santa left a Kindle for me, a IU Jersey, Skyrim Xbox game, and sled for TJ and not much for Todd (he no longer beleives). The stocking were stuffed with good things and we went overboard again with gifts for our favorite child!