The Other Stuff We've Been Doing

You would think that with all of Nola's sickness and junk, we wouldn't have anything else going on. Well, of course that's not the way life works, is it?

Thursday night, we celebrated Westside's 45th anniversary at school. Rudy was worn out, so he kept the kids at home, but I had to stay at school to get ready for the big event. Every grade level had a different decade to represent and I joined up with the 80's group. Here is a picture of my friend, Jamie and me:

I went with the preppy look from the 80's: plaid shorts, pearls, popped collar, white keds, 2 different colored socks, blue eyeshadow, pink lipstick and BIG HAIR. I went to the beauty supply store to buy a ponytail wrap made of hair and bobbypinned it to my head to make those bangs. Let's just say that we were so totally rad, but the amount of hair product required to make my hair even bigger than usually nearly gagged me with a spoon. :)

Friday, everyone went to school and stayed there all day long. That was a first for us in over a week! After school, I brought the kids home and Rudy brought home 9 lbs of crawfish. We had the Pratchards over for dinner and combined the crawfish with some shrimp, potatoes and corn. It was a feast and it was wonderful!

Caleb found a toad in the yard Friday afternoon and tortured the poor thing for over 2 hours before we made him let it go. He was trying to torture it, he just wanted to love it and hold it and be best friends with it. That poor toad probably needed therapy when he got back to where he belonged.

The conversation turned to my outfit from Thursday night, so I brought out my bangs and the thought struck me that I needed to try them on Nola. This was the product of that thought and I think it's FUNNY. Very, very funny. She'll hate me for it someday, but come on - this is funny. (and you can see the roseola rash on her cheeks)