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"Too bad there hasn't been an #nba season. I kinda miss cheering for the #mavs!"

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Happy Birthday

Today was an unusual day. mr. mil10 had the day off from school while mrs. mil10 and EK had school as usual.

Since EK's birthday takes place during the upcoming school holiday, today was the day for mr. mil10 to take a Harry Potter cupcake-cake to EK's school for an afternoon snack for EK and his classmates.

EK stood in a chair at the front of the room while the class sang happy birthday. He then had the job of separating each cupcake from the cupcake-cake and passing out a cupcake to each classmate. After passing out the first one, EK realized how messy his job would be. His fingers were covered in icing! If you were responsible for passing out cupcakes to everyone in your class and had messy fingers, what would you do? EK's solution was to lick the extra icing right off of his fingers! As gross as it seemed to me, it didn't seem to bother anyone else.

Happy birthday, EK--germs and all!

If you look closely you can see Harry Potter catching the golden snitch!

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"243 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes packed and ready to ship! #SamaratinsPurse"

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Tuesday Night Lights

It is Tuesday tennis practice at Hometown High School. EK wasn't too excited when he found out that his team would be wearing purple shirts.

Firefighter Night

Tonight the local Chick-fil-A was having it's weekly children's night. There is always the "buy an adult and the kid's meal is free" promotion. Sometimes there is a craft, snack, or other activity for the kids.

Tonight was firefighter night. The hometown fire department was there to show off the truck. It was fun to look over the truck and see all of the supplies they use when fighting fires. Somehow mr. mil10 managed to manage to hold his to-go cup with one hand and the cell phone in order to capture a few photos. He passed the opportunity to take a picture of the package of Marlboros that were under the driver's seat.

Pictures from the County Fair

More to come later...

Time in Tyler

Today we celebrated the first weekday of Spring Break by driving to Tyler, Texas to visit Kara.    We started the day together at Caldwell Zoo.  It was a cold morning, but we braved the temperatures in order to beat the crowds.  Naturally, we were at the front of the line to get into the zoo!

This truck was in the children's play area.  They loaded in like a bunch of hillbillies.

It seems that we always find an unusual animal at the zoo.  This penguin was molting.

I can't remember if this was an anaconda or a boa.  Either way, I am glad we were separated by a layer of glass.

Cheetahs resting.

People resting.

After the zoo, Kara directed us to Jucys for hamburgers.  We learned that the junior burger is plenty of burger for one person.  While you are waiting for your food to cook, try the complimentary beans.  They were very good.  For those familiar with hometown's very own CB's, the hamburger meat was comparable, but the buns were not nearly as greasy.  While we were there we spied another Jucys patron that was eating a large bowl of bacon cheese fries.  Perhaps those will have to be ordered if we make a return trip.  No one in our group was disappointed with their meal. 

I am not sure why my burger was upside-down for this picture.

How do you finish a trip to Tyler?  After a quick trip to the mall to walk off some of our lunch, we had to make one last stop at Andy's Frozen Custard.  We have never ordered anything that disappointed us.  Today's treats were a thin mint concrete (thin mint cookies mixed into vanilla frozen custard) and a concrete almonds concrete (almonds and coconut mixed into vanilla frozen custard).

Clouds

Blogging has not been happening lately. I thought blogging everyday during the shortest month of the year seemed like a really attainable goal, but it didn't happen.

Tonight I was browsing the Android marketplace and found a new-to-me Blogger app. Woo hoo! I think I will give it a test drive for a few posts and see if I find it any easier than blogging from my computer desktop. However, I can already say that downside number one has to be the lack of a reliable spellcheck.  Goodness knows I need one!

Now on to this post's topic. I am not sure why am compelled to take pictures of clouds. It is kind of a sad hobby. My phone is full of sunrises, sunsets, storm clouds, and more. Let's see how easily this new Blogger app will let me share them with you.

Enjoy.

Artist's Corner: The Bunny in the Flowers

EK has been busy at art lessons. The students took a break from portraits and EK came up with this watercolor painting. It is just another sign that spring is almost here!

We are the Champions

EK's team won the championship game this morning!

Egyptian Art

EK's piece of work from today's art lesson.

Golden Santas

Trophies from a community Christmas parade...

Hometown Traffic

From a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Happy birthday, EK! The Jedis wish you a happy birthday, too.