3D Dance Teams

We're almost to dance competition season. The first is the last weekend of the month in San Antonio at Kels' old stomping grounds - Trinity University. Here is a picture of all of the teams taken at the Lock-in last month. That's a lot of dancers and they actually do a production dance that all of these kids are in together. Madalyn is in the second row - second from the left. Go team!

Bristol's Green Thumb

Bristol's birthday present turned around a lot more quickly than Madalyn's did. Elmo's Green Thumb was in Austin for the weekend and we caught the last show this afternoon. It was the first time that we had taken him to something like this and he did a great job. He loved his Elmo spinner and his favorite part of the show was the confetti at the end that they sprayed out over the crowd. He also liked Sunny the Sunflower, the ladybugs and the beetles. My favorite parts were getting to sing the Sesame Street song and that they decided to plant Sunny next to the magical mushrooms. LOL! Sorry, maybe I was the only one who thought that was funny or even noticed. Bristol did a great job and was a total angel until we pulled in the driveway to come home - he must have realized that his time as an only child was over. Poor thing!

Spiderbeck

Spiderbeck, Spiderbeck does whatever Spiderbeck does. Does he swing from his web, no he can't because he's a Beck. Alright, for anyone that hasn't seen The Simpson's movie that may not make sense. Anyway, Beck got invited to Sydnee's birthday party (from school-see other pics) which was a fairy tale tea party theme. The invitations were GREAT, very cool scrolls with toole. I had talked him into going as a Jedi - his Halloween costume from this year - thinking that it would kind of gog with the theme. Well, he decided that he needed to be Spiderman and couldn't be talked out of it. Needless to say, he was a hit at the party even though there was one other boy. Jeff got a huge kick out of watching him with the other kids and has confirmed that he is going to 'slay' the girls. Apparently his muscles were a huge hit.

Bristol's 3rd Birthday

After all of the games on Saturday we headed to Chuck E Cheese to have dinner and let the kids run amuck. Bristol loved it and got lots of cool stuff from my parents and Cody - who scored with the Hot Wheels haul again. Bristol got tickets to see Elmo's Green Thumb from Jeff and me and most importantly new underwear from my parents! The pizza was great and I love going there because it makes me think of all of the times that Grandma Beckham took us when we were kids. The only down side was that Cody actually beat me 2 out of 3 games on the basketball game. Totally lame! My NBA and WNBA shirt didn't even help me win. But that's fine because then Jeff broke the game right afer that. A good time was had by all and our baby is officially 3.
We also want to wish Bristol's birthday buddies - Aimee and Louis - a very happy birthday as well!

Bristol's Pancake Birthday Breakfast

Madalyn had a sleepover on Friday night, so we had a pancake breakfast to kickoff Bristol's birthday. The kids enjoyed it and really like the hazard cones in their pancakes with the Cars decorations. Bristol sported the new outfit he got from Jessie and added one of Madalyn's hairbands and some safety shades. Ali G anyone?!

Valentine's Party

The boys had a party at the Kid Ranch for Valentine's Day on Friday. I'm not sure if you remember parties at school from when you were kids, but they haven't changed much. Seriously. Shoe boxes that have been painted with bright colors with hearts and glitter and a hole cut out of the top. Mostly Valentines from the store with popular characters and some type of candy attached because certainly these small children need large quantities of sugar in addition to the party goodies to eat on the way home. I tend to take the 'blow it all out' approach and just let them eat everything at once. A bold move with three kids, but at least the sugar rush is over in one blaze of glory and doesn't drag out for days.
The whole class sang Happy Birthday to Bristol and Sydnee who both have Valentine's birthdays. Bristol really liked all of the attention and all of the sugar!
Madalyn also had a party at her school which I didn't attend because they had a dance after school that I was banned from attending. (Parents are SOOO embarrassing!) Second dance in one year, but she didn't come home with any special Valentine's from boys so we're safe for another year. No pics to share, but she wore the same shirt and matched her friends Hannah and Willow- ah, the days when matching was the best thing ever and you planned it.

Legally Blonde

Yesterday, Madalyn's birthday present finally paid off when we went to see Legally Blonde and the newly re-done Bass Concert Hall. We (Mom, Madalyn, Julie, Susan and I) went to Cantina Laredo for brunch- which was amazing by the way. I think that place is one of my favorite restaurants for sure. After brunch we went to the show and really enjoyed it. The lead was out, but her understudy was one of the girls from the MTV Reality Show the Search for Elle Woods. Madalyn was excited that one of the girls from the show was there. She's wearing her pink shirt and new backpack to school today (of course) and I think we all have Omigod! stuck in our heads. It's a great adaptation of the movie and the FedEx guy was a definite highlight!

Basketball Week 3

Bristol doesn't quite get how to put the tattoo on

Crazy faces-again!

I've still been horrible about taking pictures at the basketball games. During my girl's games I'm either out on the court (with Ella's team) or too busy yelling from the bench (with Madalyn's team) to take pictures. For Beck's team, the T-Wolves, I'm designated bench wrangler so I have some more time. I took some funny pictures of Bristol and then the other pics were too dark to really see anything. I am lucky enough to have Trina (we're on the PTA together) as a team mom - she's a professional photographer and took the team pic of the boys after the game. Aren't they a mess?! It's hard to believe the season is already half over. It always goes too fast.