Colonial Fair

The 5th grade at Ryan's school hosts a school-wide Colonial Fair every year. His was two weeks ago but I haven't had time to post the pics until today. Here he is getting "money" from the "bank".

Here is his booth and his partner/friend Keith.

The Boys "posing."

Ryan helping younger kids at his booth. They could play nine pins (a colonial table top bowling game), buy jerky or guess how many gummy bears were in a pint jar.

Helping another kid.

Visiting other students' booths.

Mrs. Wolford - Ryan's Language Arts teacher - 0ne of his favorites.

Mrs. Stewart - his history teacher and very favorite teacher. He is trying really hard to get an A in her class because he wants to take AP History next year.

Ry next to his Colonial poster in the school hallway.

Vroom Vroom!

Ryan had a blast at his dad's house during Christmas break. He definitely loved his new toy.

Extreme Make-Over: Bedroom Edition part 1

While Ryan was gone this week, I stayed busy with a project. An Extreme Bedroom Make-Over. At the risk of jeopardizing my homemaker image, I show you the before photos:



The view from the doorway.



To the right of the doorway.



And to the left of the doorway.

Just keeping it real folks!

Extreme Make-Over: Bedroom Edition part 2

And the After photos:
I had told Ryan I was working on a surprise for him and that I couldn't wrap it. He didn't have any idea.

This is vinyl on his door that my good friend Kim at Love Lettering did for me. At first, Ryan thought that was the surprise. Cool, but there was more!

The new view from his doorway. (we took this pic after wrestling on his new bed because the other one was blurry.)



The new view to the left of the doorway.


Ryan's reaction when he saw it all.

Blogger will only let me post a couple of pics at a time so this will take a few posts. Sorry!

Extreme Make-Over: Bedroom Edition

And this is the view to the right of the doorway.

The view from the head of the bed. The dart board was a huge hit. Who knew?

And the view from the computer table.

Ryan in his "awesome" room.

Credits:
A huge thank you to the following for providing the following:
Grandpa & Grandma Mills - Bedding & MP3 dock
Uncle Ray & Aunt Sonya - Clocks & dart board
Uncle Pat - paint supplies
Grandma Parris - Curtains
Kim - Lettering
Howard - paint
Leo - paint delivery
Mom - Sweat

So much fun!!!!