I SAID GOOD-BYE TO MY SISTER

Steph left early this morning to move to Hawaii, for two years, to go to school.  I'm so happy and excited for her.

Me and Stephanie - 1980

Skyping, phone calls, blogging and facebook will keep her up to date on the happenings in our lair and us up to date with her paradise adventures and schooling.

We had a fun goodbye party for her this weekend.  The theme was Avatar Party.  We had a backyard bbq with lots of side dishes, avatar tribe representation, laughter, games and shenanigans.

Here are the particulars:
Fire Nation - bbq station
Earth Kingdom - muddy buddies and rock candy
Water Tribe - drink station
Air Nomads - popcorn

The funniest game was Pin the Crazy on Azula.  Hilarious.

PS - It wasn't until the next day that I realized I didn't get one photo of Stephanie.  Not one.
Bad sister, am I.

OUR AVATAR GOT HIS BLUE ARROW

When Landon got his avatar haircut, he really, really, REALLY wanted his arrow to be blue.  We told him that if he still liked his Aang haircut in a few weeks, we'd dye it for him for the last week of school.

Tonight was the night.

The first step was to bleach his hair.  He was so excited when he saw it blonde, he asked, "Since I have golden hair, does that mean I'm the golden child of the family?"

 It's blue now and the arrow has been reshaped.  He is ecstatic!

He wanted his eyelids blue also, so that when he closed his eyes it would look like he was in the avatar state.  I love his imagination and creativity but we had to draw the line somewhere....