Lubbock, Here We Come!

Saturday was a great day for our family! :) Braden's Structure DI team won and Steve and I's Improv DI team won. We are all headed to Lubbock the first weekend in April. Steve can't wait to really show me Lubbock. I have only been once, and I am excited to see the city through his eyes. He went to school at Texas Tech and is looking forward to getting back! If one of our teams wins in Lubbock, we will be headed to Knoxville, TN, over Memorial Day weekend to compete at Global Finals! I have been to Globals twice before and it is a fun time! Here are some pictures from the day...

Steve and I with our team before we competed
The Improv team hearing about the rules and drawing numbers to see what country they would get. The lady who checked them in was awesome and made them feel so at ease.
Emily was the one who drew the numbers. She had to wear special glasses so she wouldn't see.

Crazy Trey during the skit...shaking the "snow globe"

Emily preparing the "Master Prop"

Rebecca: "My mouth is stuck from my peanut butter sandwich"

Trey: "Here, have some jelly"

Solving the "unexpected problem"

Our cute team right before Instant Challenge

Braden: "Take this toothcase and get out of my space."

Meredith and Kennedy as the fairies....they were so cute :)

Braden as Frankenstein getting ready to go on stage

You can see the nervousness written all over his face! He made such a cute Frankenstein!

Braden as Frankenstein

Arielle, the Tooth Fairy and Brandon, Cupid

This little bitty structure (weighs less than 25 grams) held over 400 pounds!!!

Trey

Rebecca

Meredith and Kennedy

Macey

Emily

Braden Ava

Ashlyn

The Mittelstadt Patriots at Awards

Brandon, Mackenzie and Dyllyn holding the Patriot banner
Emily crying tears of joy after finding out she won!

The Structure Team...WINNERS....GOING TO LUBBOCK!

The Improv Team...WINNERS....GOING TO LUBBOCK!

The Triple Take Road Show Team...SECOND PLACE!!!

All in all, it was a terrific day for Mittelstadt! The Improv team had to go first at 8:00 in the morning....we set the stage for all the teams that came after us. We proved that we deserved to win! Next week we will get back to work perfecting our performance so that we all do great in Lubbock....stay tuned and check back in April to see how it all turns out! :)

Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day was so fun this year! :) I love having four Valentines. :) It was fun to make heart shaped things and play fun games. We first decorated heart shaped cookies this weekend. They turned out pretty cute!!

For breakfast on Valentine's day we had these fun heart shaped bagels.

I got beautiful flowers and a very special gift from my most special Valentine. The red roses are from one of my kids at school and the yellow ones (my favorite!) were from Steve. He also made this fabulous sign to hang on our new home together when we get married. He burned it himself. He also put together a scrapbook (knowing how much I love scrapbooking) of all the notes we have written each other over the past year. What a special, handmade, thoughtful Valentine's gift. I sure felt loved. We gave the boys games for Valentine's day and my mom got them each a red heart blanket that they love! It sure is fun to celebrate Valentine's with the one you love!

We had a yummy dinner of heart shaped burgers and curly fries!

While dinner was cooking, we played a fun game. The boys each got 20 conversation hearts and they had to put them one at a time into their mouth and drop them into a cup on the floor. Nolan and Braden were really good...Logan had some trouble. The first time around, Nolan and Braden tied so we had to have a tie breaker...Braden won the tie breaker by one!

After dinner, it was time for dessert. We had chocolate fondue. We had strawberries, bananas, angel food cake, marshmallows and apples to dip in the chocolate. It was a delicious way to end Valentine's Day! :)

We hope you had a great Valentine's Day, too!

It's as Easy as Riding a Bike!

It was a big weekend at the Baird house! Nolan joined the ranks of his big brothers and learned how to ride his bike without training wheels! He caught on pretty quickly. After just a couple of minutes, he was riding up and down the street and even turning around. He hasn't mastered braking yet, but I think he will figure that out pretty quickly!

Look....I am riding it all by myself!! :)