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Yeah for piano!

Be there or be square! Even with the time change we dragged our butts to the mall. Sadly we missed getting the Jirachi pokemon for my daughters DS. I have no idea what that is but why isn’t it available when the game comes out? How complicated is this whole launch? Who is this game for? I thought it was for kids but they must be super organized kids to keep all these deadlines straight… and hmmm… people in line looked a little older than 11. Who knew everyone loved Pokemon so much!

Agh…. I’m up way too late messing with video! But I did whip up the highlights from my daughters school play last night. Watch out… tomorrow is the piano recital and I think I have finally figured out my new video editing software. There are just too many format choices… I’m so confused.

Today I walked with the second graders (in the rain of course) over to the art museum. We had a fine time. We got to see lots of photos from the Amazon rain forest which inspired the kids to create their own animals. My youngest made an Arctic Rainbow Mustache Monkey which of course I thought was too cute!

This year my youngest made a Maui display. She made a paper-mache model of the island and she researched lots of cool facts about Maui and made drawings for all of her information. She has Maui on her mind since we are heading on a fun family trip pretty soon…

My oldest did her project fair display on how images change depending on how they are saved on your computer. Just ask her about JPEG, PING, or GIF files and she has the scoop. She is apparently turning into a little web mistress! Woohoo!

Overall it was another successful project fair!

So I dragged DH to see Valentine’s Day tonight. It was mostly entertaining and certainly forgettable. It would have been a great movie to watch while doing something else. All the cute guys in it helped out, and the Taylors, Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner were the best part. Taylor Swift was quite funny! Anyway, we got out… that was great! I really wanted to see Shutter Island (and by IMDB reviews I guess we should have!) but I was worried it would scare me too much! I’m a sissy when it comes to movies, I get an image in my head and I won’t sleep for weeks. I might have to rent that one, have DH watch it, tell me all the scary parts, and then watch it on some sunny afternoon! Ha! Okay… beads on Tuesday so check back!

So we saw this gorgeous rainbow on the way to piano lessons today. I wish I had my real camera because I probably could have taken a much better photo with it. Oh well, the girls would not have appreciated me pulling over to snap the shot. They suffered enough, it was another day of snoring during piano lessons. Ha! Who knew I’d become such a napper! Old age I guess…