A couple of weeks ago, Jackson received a postcard in the mail announcing the opening of the new Lego store at Stonebriar Mall this weekend. It promised all sorts of exciting activities along with a free collectible R2D2 brick for participating. So we headed out there after school on Friday afternoon, hoping to avoid the weekend crowds.
Well, the crowds were still bonkers, but we were not deterred! First, Jackson worked at a table with a lot of other kids to build a big Lego brick, as seen below.
Then we went over to the Master Builder (the guy in the red jacket) who was busy collecting the bricks to use to build his 8 ft. tall R2D2. That little one you see in the picture is just a tiny sample of what it was going to look like when finished. Jacks traded in the brick he had made for a $5 off coupon for the new store.
Jacks and Cody both picked a Lego set at the store and we waited in line for 30 minutes (the store was packed wall-to-wall, and the AC wasn't worked terribly well so we were very ready to be done by the time we go out) to pay. The boys also got certificates saying they had participated in the Master Builder Lego event. And finally, they each made a guess as to how many Legos had to been used to build the Indiana Jones that Jacks was standing next to in the first picture.
It was a pretty cool afternoon, and Jackson especially loved every second of it. There's going to be a store opening at NorthPark before too long, and maybe we'll try a different time of day to see if we can avoid some of the crowds. Or we might just help the Master Builder there and skip the store visit until another day after opening weekend...seeing the Master Builder and building bricks for him was their favorite part. Now we just have to go back and see that completed R2D2!!
Luke fell asleep at the table during lunch today. Poor little guy was worn out! Of course, if he was THAT worn out, you'd think he'd sleep longer than 30 minutes (#$%@#), but that's one of those mysteries of life, I guess. Awww, isn't he cute?
A couple of weeks ago, Jackson received a postcard in the mail announcing the opening of the new Lego store at Stonebriar Mall this weekend. It promised all sorts of exciting activities along with a free collectible R2D2 brick for participating. So we headed out there after school on Friday afternoon, hoping to avoid the weekend crowds.
Then we went over to the Master Builder (the guy in the red jacket) who was busy collecting the bricks to use to build his 8 ft. tall R2D2. That little one you see in the picture is just a tiny sample of what it was going to look like when finished. Jacks traded in the brick he had made for a $5 off coupon for the new store.
Jacks and Cody both picked a Lego set at the store and we waited in line for 30 minutes (the store was packed wall-to-wall, and the AC wasn't worked terribly well so we were very ready to be done by the time we go out) to pay. The boys also got certificates saying they had participated in the Master Builder Lego event. And finally, they each made a guess as to how many Legos had to been used to build the Indiana Jones that Jacks was standing next to in the first picture.
Luke has always loved when we play Peek-a-Boo with him, but now he plays it with us, too! He gets such a kick out of covering up his little eyes and then doing the big reveal, as seen below. :)
I have been considering a tattoo in honor of my boys for a while now. I knew I wanted 3 suns (because, as a friend pointed out, the boys are my 3 "sonshines") and I wanted to incorporate their initials into the rays somehow.
We headed out to get a few pictures in the bluebonnets this weekend, before they're gone for the season. The boys weren't thrilled about the photo op so much as the big ditch in the middle of the walking trail which Jacks claimed was where a meteor hit Earth. :) But being the cooperative (read: bribed) young men that they are, they indulged their Mama for a minute or two.
One day I will be again be able to get a picture of all 3 of the boys smiling and looking at the camera at the same time...but this was not that day. Still, we had fun and I did get smiles, even if they weren't simulataneous, and Mama was happy. So we followed up the pics with Slurpees.
Here are the rest of the pictures from our family photo shoot last weekend. The boys are getting so comfortable with Chera (our favorite photographer) that she was really able to catch them being THEM, and I love that their personalities really shine through in each of these pictures. :)
Look closely in this next one...all 3 boys are in there somewhere. Can you find them?
