Happy Easter!

Hope everyone had a great Easter. Here are some pics of me with Bobby, Haley and Connie (Bobby's mom). Love and miss you all!

Xoxo

M

Frozen in Central Park

This was cool enough I wanted to put it on the blog. This link is to a video this group made of a pretty elaborate practical joke. Except this joke doesn't make anyone feel bad or silly or embarrassed. Over 200 people went to Grand Central Station and froze at the same time for the same amount of time. It's funny to see how people reacted to them, and really cool to see how some people froze. They were really good!

Here's the link:
Frozen in GCS

Ashley & OM

So this year Ashley was part of the Odyssey of the Mind chapter at Shivela school. The idea of "OM" is to teach kids creative thinking. During the year they do various activities to stretch their mind, work together and develop teamwork skills, step outside the box and come up with something unique and new. It is soo hard to understand what in the world they do, so I'm going to put a couple pictures here, and give you the web site so you can find out what it's all about. Ashley really enjoyed OM this year and will likely join the High School group of OM next year.

Last weekend, Ashley's OM team went to Palm Springs to the area competition at Palm Springs High School. It was a full day long. The entire campus looked like Halloween - so many kids and so many unique and interesting costumes, props and crazyness.

Each team competed in their own age group - there were little kids in Elementary school on up to High School. Each team solved a "problem" with a creative skit complete with characters and a full script with music and performing arts weaved into the skit. They were required to make all the props they used in the skit, and they had to do all of this with a budget!




See more pictures in our Photo Album

Learn more about Odyssey of the Mind

August 07...



Jared's Birthday, 4-16-07...

Hi guys,

Your mom is scheduled for cataract surgery on March 24th. Dr Pettit (SP?) in LG is doing it, he has done almost everybody in the valley. When he examined her, he was amazed that she had been driving in southern California. He told her she was legally blind in the left eye, and the right one not a lot better! They are scheduling to do the other eye April 14.

It's an outpatient procedure, and they apparently don't even use an anaesthetic. I'm not sure if it is laser surgery or what. Your mom's been wanting to get this done for a long time, so she's excited that she'll soon be able to see again.

Grandma Younce is doing a little better, though she seems pretty non-responsive to me--hardly says anything. Grandma Gray doing well. A Podiatrist came the other day and manicured everyone. Grandma Gray kept saying "We had to soak our feet!"

Love to all,

Dad

Funny for today :)

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