Blackham Update (April 2015)

April 19, 2015

Monday at the elementary school, as are part of a reward for a fundraiser they did all sorts of things to the teachers (made them into a human sundae, had snakes crawl on them, dunked them in a dunk tank, had them kiss a pig). The little boys thought that was fun. Monday night we all went to the Jazz game in Scott's suite. Nice to have a bathroom right there, and dinner and decadent dessert. I do struggle with the drive downtown though. 

Tuesday that was quite the storm that rolled in. It was one of those weird windy days. It kicked up so much dust in the air that the skies were yellow. The recycling blew over several times, I gave up trying to pick it back up. I was worried about Cooper, so I went to the school early so I'd be there waiting when he got out. He actually didn't seem too badly affected by the storm, although he did retreat downstairs for a while. It finally started to rain, but with all the dust in the air, it was like it was raining mud here. Very messy on cars and windows! Gray had a derby, he's happy he has a closed in trailer, although he was a bit worried about that with the wind. 

Wednesday we were greeted with snow! Monday had been warm and sunny! Poor Callahan isn't used to having to scrape his car off. He didn't really start early enough, and then we couldn't even find a scraper in his truck or my car. We were trying to get the ice and snow off with a snow shovel, a rag, and finally a kitchen scraper. The snow wasn't that bad when Callahan drove to school, and when I took Keaton, but when I took the little boys it was a blizzard! It snowed all day. It melted pretty quickly the next day when the sun came back out. Gray took Keaton to the Apple store so they could try on the new Apple Watch. I can't believe they didn't take a picture!

I finally took Cooper and Colton in for haircuts on Friday. Colton's hair could still be combed, but it was SO long. Cooper's hair just sticks out straight, and he'd wake up with bad "bed head". I wish I could master cutting their hair myself. Save money and time. Olivia will be home soon, and with Maga's house closer, that should help.

We had a bit of a complicated moment yesterday ... Keaton had a bunch of friends over, and they were watching a movie when one of the playoff games came on. Cooper wanted to watch the game. What to do. I had a vague memory of the boys watching ESPN via the Xbox ... I looked into it and there was an app available for the Roku, so I was able to save the day and get Cooper set up watching in the master bedroom. Ah technology ...

Callahan had his first Spring game on Thursday. It was out at Highland, which is a little further than I like to travel (and I have my evening Zumba that night). He'll play again on Tuesday at Copper Hills, which is nice and close. I'll have to run straight from that game to our Pinewood derby. Colton and Daddy have been working on his car. Colton has been playing basketball on Saturdays. I posted a couple cute clips to my Facebook page.

Many years ago, our home was the "go to" place for neighborhood kids and such. We always had a ton of kids around. But then so many families moved away, and as the older boys went to school further away, we were always out of the way and the house has been pretty much just Blackham boys. But starting last week, Callahan's friends have been coming over almost every day (they've been working out in our gym after school). We hosted a playdate with one of Colton's little friends who had moved away, and Keaton had a bunch of friends over Saturday (as mentioned above). The house has been busy. 

That's what's been up with the Blackhams.