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My 1st Silent Auction

Cole's school had its Spring Fling today. It's basically a Fall Festival, but in the spring! His class was in charge of the cake walk so Brice and I did our duty working the station. It was definitely the best place to be! Fun music, always a crowd, and air conditioned!

The gymnasium held tables filled with various goodies for the Silent Auction. Individual items and certificates lined a few of the tables while themed baskets filled the others. Cole's class was in charge of a "Gift Card Mania" basket with various restaurants represented. We did such a good job soliciting donations that we actually made two "baskets" for the auction. The room mother got cute bulletin boards to display the certificates. I definitely wanted to bid on one of those!

Brice and I scoped out the merchandise and narrowed our picks down to 6-7 items of interest. We made some bids and then left to take Cole to soccer. An hour later, just before the auction was scheduled to end, Brice went back to the school to check the status of our bids. We had been outbid on all of them so he made one more round and upped our bid on the top 5 that we wanted.

We won them all.

This represents 4 tickets to see "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" performed by a local theater group, 4 tickets to the Coca Cola museum (we are going to Atlanta in June), and the e-mail is referencing a free week of basketball camp for Cole this summer!


Plus we won two of the themed baskets. This one is called, "Parents' Night Out."




It's hard to see what all is represented there, so here's the list:

We are so psyched!

The other item was one of the restaurant bulletin boards I helped create. Oh yeah!

"How much was all that?" you ask. Not cheap, but trust me, we are saving so much date money over the next several months! Plus the ticket stuff for the summer is much less than we would have paid retail. And it's all for the school anyway!! :-)

Did you know

that there are enough letters in the game Bananagrams to spell one of the longest words in the dictionary?

The things you learn when your nine-year-old spends a day at work with you!

Transformations

Generally speaking, where is the first place people go when they wake up in the morning? Probably the same place they were just before getting into bed the night before. The bathroom. If our bedroom is our oasis, then our bathroom is the canteen.

In a small shared bathroom, parties involved must time their usage of the bathroom carefully so as not to interfere with other said party. For example, why does Brice want to brush his teeth while I'm washing my face?

We have a small bathroom. We have a really tiny bathroom. And it's old. The tile is crumbling in the floor, the caulk in the shower is multi-colored and uncleanable, and the sliding shower doors are foggy-type glass and always look dirty. Well, change that "is" to "was" folks cuz look what we got now!

New shower, new shower doors, new toilet, new floor!! It's so exciting! And get this, when they got to ripping the old out, they found a foot of extra space in the back and above the shower!

See the extra space? And notice the doors - they are clear. This makes the room feel bigger because it looks open and not cut in half. The picture below is just to give you an idea of the dimensions of the room:

Yep, small. But now, every night before we go to bed and every morning when we wake up, we enter our bathroom with joy and gratefulness. It's amazing how a bigger, nicer shower can change your perspective! And it's so pretty.

What's Your Blues Name?

Recently, our family ate at a fun, tasty restaurant. On the table was the following card:

We laughed so hard coming up with various combinations! Try it out and leave your blues name in the comments.

-- Fat Harp Washington

My Fortune

Brice and I had a date night last weekend. He did the planning, I was to just go along for the ride. The afternoon before we went out, I was banished from the kitchen and confined to the bedroom while Brice cooked up something that required the timer to go off every 5 minutes! What could he possibly be making? He did tell me that his mom and sister-in-law had warned him it was hard to make. I waited. Eventually, he came to tell me to get ready to go out to eat. Out? Hadn't he been cooking?

We headed out to get dinner. Now, months ago we purchased a couple of $25 gift certificates at restaurant.com for $2. My economical husband decided to use one, so we ate at:

We love some Chinese food! Brice brought a bag of something in with us - so mysterious! The food was average, but what came next was the best! Brice pulled out the bag and revealed a bowl full of fortune cookies - homemade fortune cookies!

That's what he had been making all afternoon! Yes, he made fortune cookies from scratch all by himself! What a guy! The fun came in opening them each up. They all had some kind of quote, memory, or sentiment in them. He's so stinkin' creative!

Fun times! Good conversation! Lots of laughs! I think I'll keep dating him!

Wicked

Brice and I love musical theater. We love to be

in the shows, but we love to see them as well. Last

year we had season tickets to the Broadway

series in town. This year, only one of the

shows looked appealing: Wicked. I've been

wanting to see this show for a while and it

was worth the wait. The story is based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, though there are several dramatic differences. It tells of Oz's witches - Glinda the Good and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West - before Dorothy came along.

The talent was amazing! The two leads were Marcie Dodd as Elphaba and Helene Yorke as Glinda. Their blend was incredible. The power in their voices wasn't too much. And they could sustain long clear notes without jumping right into vibrato! We thoroughly enjoyed it.

Marcie Dodd as Elphaba

Oh, and remember this guy?

He's been on several TV shows but is most known for his role on Frazier. He is playing the Wizard!


The show is here for several more days and then touring around the country. Check for your city and get info on the show here!