LEGO Jurassic World

Max had an awesome 5th birthday party at Ijams! I do love party planning, but I also love when parties are over. 

He wanted "Lego Jurassic World" so we went with $ store Lego/Wal Mart .98 decorations. It was a pretty nice win. 

We had a SpongeBob pinata which had nothing to do with the theme, but it was only $4 on clearance and I stuffed it with leftover goodies from parties from the last year. 

I actually had pencil bags that were from Jurassic World (the first one from 3 years ago) that I bought for .10 each so it was a win! 

I love making these suckers for parties. It is my one crafty thing I do, if you can call one ingredient and a microwave "crafty." Also, the Lego candy was from Amazon. 

I bought cheap dinosaur valentines for table activities. Hoarding is real, y'all. 

GG came out to celebrate. 

Our parenting team for the win at the party. 

He was so happy. Also, I had a Jurassic World shirt for him to wear but he, of course, went with camo. 

Anderson & Jack

The dino dig part was hot and close to posion ivy (??) but really fun. 

Max, of course, chose the snake for his animal visit. He was so excited to talk about how it smells with it's tongue and other various snake facts. 

I was there. 

Thank goodness for Brandon with this pinata business. Also, they are not allowed inside so we had to sneak outside to do it. 

Lots of lizard hunting after the party. 

We had such a fun time!

Anderson: some 2nd grade highlights

During every year I think, next year I am going to start a school year post in August and just add to it and it will be so thematic and efficient and then it never actually happens. 

I did go back in my previous posts and steal this one from August.

Random work....

I ate lunch with him one day and we got this book out of the "Little Free Library" and spent entirely too much time trying to find Waldo. 

He just has never loved dress up days but I stuck his Harry robe and book in his bag on "Book character day" and I am glad I did since most of the class particiapted in some fashion. 

Noni chaperoned his field trip to see a play. 

Fun on the bus...hopefully he likes the bus this much next year when I make him start riding it. 

I love that the ditch has made the school work. He also did a pretty great job of laying out the way the concrete looks. 

I LOVE all of his work!!!

Anderson brought Finley the dolphin home for a weekend and he was actually really excited. He wrote the journal entry and we took a bunch of pics. 

We have spent so much time in this car line over the past 3 years. I am really going to miss our time together, actually. 

Cowboy Day! He borrowed Bop's real hat and was pumped that he had an actual one that was not plastic. 

Noni& Bop took lunch to Anderson one day, which he always loves!

Once we moved, he rode the bus for the last 4 days of school and it was all of the emotions-I was sad but it was also nice to see him able to be independent. Definitely one of the most grown-up moments that we have had so far. 

Picture from Field Day!

I saved my last half day off and went to Anderson's "End of Year Party" where I basically sat in the shade and waved at Anderson while he played. He had SO much fun!

Super sweaty with his friends. 

Anderson singing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the talent show.

He had an awesome year!

Lakers

Remember when I thought football would never end because it went on 5 months? Well I now realize that was actually nothing as basketball went into the 7 month long realm. I already did one post on the regular season, but this sums up the postseason/tournaments side of things. 

I am really, really glad that we signed Anderson up for this because he learned a lot about teamwork, hard work, going harder even when you're tired and, of course, basketball. The trade off was a really, really long couple of months of multiple nights a week practice/games. He had practice Monday from 7-9, Tuesday from 7-9 and Wednesday from 6:30-8. They had 3 games a week-some combination of Friday, Saturday, Sunday. 

The City tournament was the last time that this team played together and they placed 2nd overall! You know that 2nd place is just not in Anderson's acceptance in life, so it was not life-changing, but they really did well and improved SO much from their beginning days.  Also, I am ok with his focus on 1st as long as he is a good sport about it. Life actually is a competition.

We love any sport that allows Noah back into our lives. 

The AAU team switched out a few kids but they were still the Lakers. 

Most places had concession stands which allowed for many ring pops to be bought. 

Some weekends we spent about 8 hours in gyms, just waiting for the next game so we spent quite a bit of time eating on the floor. 

Always a fun time!

It is rare that we play another kid with rec specs. 

They won first place at the Rockwood Tournament!

They also won the "Midway Madness" tournament with a HUGE come back! 

Anderson was PUMPED!

Max fell asleep in the car on the way to one game and we spent the entire game in the car just like this! It was pretty amazing. 

One weekend they all rode around in a van thing between games. It was hilarious. They really spent a lot of time together over the course of this season. 

The team. 

They won 1st place in 2 tournaments and 2nd place in a few which was pretty awesome for a mostly 2nd grade team playing against all 3rd graders. 

I am actually going to miss the kids and their families and watching Anderson play but it is also really, really nice to be at home occasionally. 

A scoring

Lakers winning tournament

A scoring at flag football

A scoring bball

Lakers coming back to win