...+154...

Friday, the boys went to baseball practice and I met my sister and her friends at Kaylin's choir performance.

Since she's a senior, this is her last show at Mt Carmel.  They sang and danced to a bunch of Broadway show tunes.

The choir and band obviously spent a LOT of time and effort preparing for the concert.  They did a great job!

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Thursday, Connor had his first playoff game.  I got to go to the first 30 minutes of it, but then had to leave to attend First Aid class.

The Cardinals won and  are guaranteed 2 more games :)

I picked up Laura who is taking the CPR and First Aid classes with me and we headed off to Pomerado Hospital.

Everything was going along smoothly until the crazy lady next to us shushed us ...she'd already talked about how she uses paper bags to stop bleeding and told a story about how when her mother broke her femur she forced the poor woman to stand up and walk...so I guess she REALLY needed the class and to hear the info repeated MuLtiPLE times...but being shushed in a class full of adults was a little ridiculous...especially when we were whispering about first aid related things...

When we left the class, I just bust out laughing as soon as we hit the door!  We got into the elevator with two other ladies who were also convinced that out "shusher" was a nut ball!  At least she made the evening memorable!! :)

...+152...

Wednesday night was the Great Gatsby party at Laura's house.  

We were all meeting for drinks, appetizers and cupcakes and then going to see the movie.

I made Lemon cupcakes with Limoncello Lemon Curd filling and Lemon whipped cream cream cheese frosting dusted with crushed lemon drop candy.  

I spent the morning beating the tar out of the lemon drops with a hammer :)

The cupcakes turned out yummy...another make again :)

I remembered the book being depressing...but I'd forgotten what a CoMPLeTE downer it is...drunks, fornicators, liars, phonies, and dead bodies...not exactly warm and fuzzy.  It did lead to good discussion later though...not all movies have to be fun and happy...that's just the kind we usually go to.  It was a beautiful movie and Leo certainly isn't hard on the eyes...plus it was a lot of fun to see a movie with a big group of women...a completely different experience from seeing one with the family...a lot rowdier... and no one gave me a hard time for needing a bathroom break! :)

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When I walked the boys out to the car on Tuesday morning...we saw this as we loaded Sanford's trunk...

...not pretty...and really NOT how I want to spend $500...sigh...



I had to renew both my CPR and First Aid cards this week...which is horrible timing since Connor has a band concert AND playoff game that correspond with the two days I'm stuck in the classroom :(

It was nice that there were plenty of dummies and everyone got their own...class went by pretty quickly...

Sanford had arranged for the Orchestra performance (that I was missing while blowing air into the  plastic bag lungs of Fred my CPR dummy) to be in the GorGEouS Mt. Carmel Theater.

He was also sweet enough to video it for me and had it all set up when I got home from class.  I just had to come upstairs and hit the space bar and the concert played for me.  It wasn't as good as being there, but a whole lot better that what I expected.  That hubby of mine sure is a keeper :)

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On Monday, I made Limoncello Lemon Curd for the filling of the cupcakes I was planning for the Great Gatsby party at Laura's house on Wednesday.

Sanford picked up Connor from school early for an appointment with Dr. Koumaris.

Afterwards, they went bowling again for Sanford to get in a little more practice for the BiG BoWLinG ConTeST at the end of the month :)

...+149...

Sometimes the boy just SLaYS me!!!!!

What BoY you ask....

...why that perfectly camouflaged one of course! :)   BwaHaHHaAhaHa!!!!!

...+148...

Saturday after baseball, we went over to the Troop fund raiser.

 One of Sanford's ASB students was nice enough to make some signs for the Troop! :)

The boy's pre-sold tickets.  Part of the money went into their scout account and the rest of the money is to sponsor a family in need this Christmas.

Some of the boys were washing and a few were standing on the corner being live advertisers :)

They all did a great job and had a lot of fun.  The car wash raised over $400 towards helping the family this holiday season!

After the car wash, we dropped Connor off over at Grammie and Grandad's house and headed out to my current FaV place for dinner...

...Hacienda de Vega...the VeGGie RoLLeD tacos are soooo YuMMY!!!

After that we went to check out a couple of potential prom venues...the flower fields in Carlsbad and the Marine base.

At Westview's prom, we were wandering through right as the green screen photo booth guy needed someone to pose and make sure everything was working...Sanford pulled us right up and volunteered :)

...nothing like CraSHinG someone else's prom and making off with a souvenir :)  how CaRVaJaL!!!