...and more Broadway Cafe 2020

These are in no particular order:

 Lennon, Lukas in Hello Dolly

Lukas' 8th grade class getting ready to  serve the guests.

 The Juniors with the choreographer Tiffany Arnold, pianist im Wilson and co youth choir diectors Joe and Jill Nidever

The 7th graders with choreographer, pianist and co choir directors.

All boys performing "Put on your Sunday Clothes" form Hello Dolly

More Broadway Cafe Photos

Here are a few more photos form Broadway Cafe 2020. Three succesful shows are behind us. We will do it again same time next year. 

 Lukas had a little feature in the Middle School song. He has got moves, but don't tell him that! 

 Erik thought it was funy to see Lennon NOT in soccer uniform. He looks quite handsome in a button down shirt and dress pants.

 Not just did Katharine have threee choir performances this weekend, she  also had two shows with the Texas Ballet theater School Dallas Ensemble. the picture above was taken Saturday night, after she ahd already had the two dances shows behind her, and she managed to sing beautifully with a microphone that was not turned on. No clue how she does it all! 

Katharine with her duet partner Samantha. The have known each other since they were 2 years old. They sang "My Own Best Friend" from CHICAGO.

I will probably make another  post filled with group pictures of the different grade levels. Oh yes, I was in charge of table decor this year.

This is it, the Night of Nights..

It was opening night for Broadway Cafe this evening. 

Iria and the older kids have been working really hard on it all week, and it was great to see everybody be able to have a lot of fun and enjoy themselves.

Kassidy's Library Haul

It has been about two years since we have been to the local library.

Here is what Kassidy picked up today:

Happy Birthday, Katharine!

Happy Birthday, Katharine! 

She performs way beyond her 17 years in everything she does, but we are quite happy to keep calling her our little girl for another year.

Fav color - blue
Fav food - cheese pizza
Fav fast food - Starbucks
Fav junk food - Fanta and sour cream and onion chips
Least fav food - squash
Fav artists - Kim Jung Gi, Glen Keane, Norman Rockwell, Max Ginsberg, Dan Cooper, Claire Keane
Fav games - Overwatch and Minecraft
Fav vacation - Germany
Fav book - The Great Gatsby
Fav animated film from last year - Klaus
Fav tv show - His Dark Materials and The Office and Game of Thrones
Looking froward to in 2020 (tv and film) - Netflix animated movies, Onward
Goal for this year - Get into college
Friends - McKenna, Samantha, Barbara, Lauren, Hayden
Fav performer / singer / band - Billie Eilish
Fav memory from the last year - California trip
Fav animal - Cat
Future career - Animation
Future place to live - California
Birthday presents - art books and classic books and Totoro t-shirt (Mom and Dad), Vera Bradley blanket (Grandma and Grandpa), Calendar girl refill (Uncle Peter), gift card (Uncle Craig)
Cat or dog - both
Time travel - The 80's
Fav school Subject - World History
Fav Kassidy toy - shredded lovie
Least fav school subject - Math
Fav thing to do with Mom - talk
Fav thing to do with Dad - talk
Fav thing to do with Keira - dance
Fav thing to do with Lukas - play video games and talk with him
Fav thing to do with Lennon - play video games and talk with him
Fav thing to do with Kassidy - play with cat
Favorite video game character - Tracer
Fav season - Winter
If the house were burning, what 3 (non-living) things would you save - sketchbook, phone, ipad
What scares you - not being successful

Favorite show from last year -Cats

So we got ourselves a new cat..

I don't even know her name yet, but she's cute!

The Great Dusting of 2020

Hey, we'll work with whatever we can get down here.

Board Games

Keira and Kassidy designed some board games for us to play.

Keira's game is based on 'Little Women', and comes with hand crafted game pieces and trivia questions from the book.

 

 Kassidy's game includes a multiplication table, even though there is no multiplication required, and is themed on vehicles (of course). 

Throw in some rock/paper/scissors action and a bunch of weirdo rules and you get a unique Kassidy experience!

Wall Details

Some scenes from Keira's room.

Natahali

Here is the first paragraph of a new book that Keira is working on. It is called "Natahali". 

She also made a really cool diorama of the forest yesterday.

Once upon a time in a faraway world, where no human could ever find, there was a village. This village had no fancy houses or castles, instead it had houses dug into trees and dugouts. On a cold October morning in a little wood house a boy was born. His name was Jesper.  Jesper had no idea that he was going to be important one day so he did what every toadstool boy does, climb trees. Jesper had learned to climb trees at age 5 and he learned the best spots to pick huckleberries. Huckleberries are poisonous to humans but for the toadstool people you can make anything out of them.

Pieces

The work/soccer/dance insanity starts back up again next week, so Iria and I still have some time to finish up some projects. Iria just started a 3000 piece puzzle, and I am finishing up a 4000 piece Lego building set.

B & W

Katharine was playing around on her phone late last night, which resulted in some cool portraits.

Our girl is growing up!

 

 

A Very Frousin New Years Eve

We spent New Year's Eve at the Martels. 

Here are some random pics that I took throughout the evening. 

Some notable events:

1. The 1st Annual Bendy Awards

2. Katharine's first drink of alcohol/champagne

3. More Keira and Kate productions

4. The smell of nail polish

And the usual fun and games :)