2008 has in fact made me a worse blogger...

So I haven't blogged for over a ever!

We had the Medieval Faire on February 17th. Tati's Stretch class had to make things from Medieval times. Tati's guild was the toy guild.

She made rag dolls.

She was also an entertainer. She played the flute with a few other musicians.

It was interesting. But I did get to meet Tati's friend Paige's mother. Chris is cool. Sometimes at my kids' school the parents are stuffy and snobbish. So it was good to meet some one "normal." Ok so I am not normal but I'm not stuffy and Chris and I get along really well. Since Tati and Paige are good friends and they are in stretch together it's likely that we will be spending alot more time together. So it's nice to have another hoosier like me. LOL

Then February 28 Adrianne and Eddie came to town. Oh I was so happy. It was so nice to not have to talk to her via email and actually get to sit in the same room. I wish so badly that they would all move down here. I'm working on that. :)

So Thursday night Adrianne and Eddie were super tired from flying all day. We ordered pizza and called it a night.

Friday we went to the Arch and to the Old Courthouse. I've lived in St. Louis my whole life and never been to the Old Courthouse. It was really cool.

Adrianne and Eddie in front of the Arch. Adrianne and Eddie went up, Karl wouldn't go up because the one tram got stuck this summer. So he refused. lol

Karl and Adrianne. Doesn't Adrianne look like a 15 year old? She's so tiny.

It's so nice to see them together. Karl and Adrianne haven't seen each other in at least 19 years. I am so glad they have reconnected.

The Old Courthouse was so amazing. The history there is amazing. I didn't even know the Dred Scott case was held in that building. We are going back and taking the girls.

Saturday I took Bree to her basketball game. And then Cianah and Tati were in the Academic Olympics.

Tati competed in the Scholar Quiz. It's like Jeopardy. Ok so Chris (Paige's mom mentioned above) played along during the game. During a 5 minute round Chris and I knew 3 answers. Ummm are you smarter than a 6th grader? The answer to that is NO. Apparently not. lol

Cianah competed in the Spelling Bee. She took 3rd place.

Saturday Night we went to Cicero's Pizza in Ucity

The oldest 3 Hobdy's.

Adrianne was sick on Friday night so she was just starting to come back to life.

The boys drank lots of LaChouffe.

After Cicero's we headed to Laclede's Landing...The Big Bang. OMG! The boys were so DRUNK. Adrianne and I enjoyed laughing at them.

Eddie singing along to the best the 1980's has to offer. lol

I know this surprises most people....but Karl was drunk too.

Adrianne celebrated her birthday with us so we HAD to get her on stage. As you can tell...she was very excited about that.

Sunday we went to play mini-golf.

It was gorgeous!. 70 degrees and sunny.

Then Karl cooked up a steak and fish meal. Mallory, Sean and Susana joined us for dinner.

Monday morning Adrianne and Eddie left (on her birthday.)

So after They left us the 70 degree weather went with them. We got 10+ inches of snow.

Tati's stretch class competed in a Rube Goldberg contest. Rube Goldberg is a process to take the simplest task and make it as complex as possible. They had to "raise a flag."

So the dominoes fall and hit a plastic fork. The fork hits a spool, the spool rolls down a "lane"

and hits a ball. The ball rolls down the "slide" and hits a matchbox car.

The matchbox car goes down the 2nd part of the slide and falls into a cup that has a string attached to the flag. As the cup goes down with the weight of the car...the flags comes up.

That completes February and most of March. Some pretty major events happened at the end of March and I'll blog about those separately.