Category Archives: SuperPizzaBoy

A Fairy Tale in One Minute

Son, SuperPizzaBoy, has been participating in the City of Tulsa’s Clark Theater Yuth Improv Comedy classes for several years. He and his fellow comedians have come a long ways over the years.

Improv is hard. The players have to work off of each other and think fast. There is no memorizing lines or anything as during a performance it goes where the audience and the cast take it.

It has been great watching the kids grow up in the program.

We are so proud of our son. He gives it his all. The following is skit called “One Minute Fairy Tale” where he and a young lady had to act out a Fairy Tale in one minute, then thirty seconds, then 15 seconds, then 7.5 seconds. Then they had to do it in reverse. They didn’t know which fairy tale until they were on stage because the audience shouts out the fairy tale they want to see. The kids did great.

We like to see SPB do well, but we enjoy that he is happy doing this even more.

What is your Joy?

Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Wiggling Cookies!

It’s that time of week for Scavenger Hunt Sunday by Ashley Sisk. I have skipped the past few weeks and I’m back and boy did I pick a tough day to return. I had to cheat even more than I normally do. So let’s see what I got!!

1. #5

#5! What in tarnation does that mean? After much deliberation and thought I think it means the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in nearby Muskogee, Oklahoma. It’s a great little museum. I’ll tell you what though, I don’t want to make anybody mad but reading the story of the brutal forced relocation of the Tribes from the southeast USA to Oklahoma way back when is sobering. Especially after viewing an exhibit at the museum on the many Congressional Medal of Honor honorees from the Five Tribes.

It is a must stop if you are in the area.

2.Word of the Day

That is another one, Word of the Day? Well it is Scavenger Hunt Sunday so the word of the day is Sun. Sorry its a little fuzzy.

3.Sharing

Speaking of fuzzy, this is a fuzzy pic of SuperPizzaBoy sharing his performance of “Pick a Pocket or Two” during a school assembly a few years ago.

4.Wiggle

Wiggling is kind of like dancing right. Here is the world’s greatest nephew, Mr. Beans dancing with the world’s cutest flower girl at my niece Jillian’s wedding a couple years ago.

5.Cookies!

Cookies is easy. These were baked by the world’s greatest MIL Nana. They were incredible. They sure didn’t last long.

Check out Scavenger Hunt Sunday and join the fun.

Our World – The Prom

I’m kind of slow, I graduated from high school in the early 1970’s but this year I finally got to go to the Prom.

(for all you smart alecks out there, I am smiling. I’m very expressive you know.)

Of course it was SuperPizzaBoy’s Prom, but hey a prom is a prom right!

SPB didn’t really want to go but his mother talked him into it. Mother’s know best as a friend of mine put it.

Sweetie went because she was in charge of the food. I went because I didn’t want to spend the night home alone.

SPB started out in good shape, all tucked in and buttoned down. He checked out the chips and dip first.

The other kids started out a little slowly also. The girls looked very nice in their prom dresses.

Things slowly heated up. When Psy’s Gangnam Style started up, SPB couldn’t contain himself any longer. He loves that song. If you have not heard of it, count yourself lucky.

Things heated up rapidly after that.

Until everybody was fully into it. He was totally into it. Totally untucked and wrinkled and I don’t think his mother minded a bit.

Then a little rest while the King and Queen of the Prom were crowned and recognized. SPB and I left soon after that. He and will be back next year!

My advice is to not wait 40 years until after you graduate to go to the Prom. What is your advice?

Our World Tuesday

Ruby Tuesday 2 – Swing Baby

SuperPizzaBoy close to his first birthday. He is still a happy kid and he still likes to swing.

Ruby Tuesday 2

Our World – Oklahoma’s Natural Falls State Park

Saturday, SuperPizzaBoy and I took a road trip about 75 miles east of Tulsa into the Ozarks to Natural Falls State Park. It used to be a private park called Dripping Springs and when Oklahoma took it over they renamed it because we already had a Dripping Springs Park.

We pretty much had the park to ourselves because of the cold and windy weather. One of the things we did was log an Earth Cache named “Dripping Springs.” Earth Caches are part of Geocaching except that you don’t look for a container. They are more educational in nature and lots of fun.

The star of the park is of course the waterfall. You can’t tell it from the photographs but the water falls about 77 feet.

Down in the canyon where the water lands it was much warmer. No wind of course but I would guess the temperature seemed at least five degrees higher than up top.

There is something about falling water that is very peaceful. The park was used in the filming of the 1974 version of “Where the Red Fern Grows” based on the book by Wilson Rawls.

There is a bridge across the chasm. Hey, who’s that kid up there?

SuperPizzaBoy, that’s who. I wondered where he got off to.

There is more to the park than the falls. The creek flows from the falls to a small lake.

You can tell this dam has been here for a while. Full disclosure, to keep the falls falling, they pump water from this lake back up to the falls. We have been having a drought here and the falls would probably be a trickle if anything.

Son and I did a big part of all the trails until we called it quits.

I love the goofiness found in some of the State Parks.

We only went about two and a half miles but it was fun.

The trails vary from easy level hikes through the woods to “where did the trail go?”

You can follow our very slow route on Garmin Connect by clicking on the green tag above. It will take you to another screen. Click on the button that looks like your “play” button on your dvd player.

Anyway a great time was had by all.

Our World

Geocaching 101 Video

Ruby Tuesday 2- First Christmas

It’s Christmas Eve!!

Fourteen Years ago SuperPizzaBoy thought Christmas was pretty cool. (He still does!)

Such balance!!

From our house to yours, Merry Christmas!!

Ruby Tuesday 2

SuperPizzaBoy Road Trip Skywatch

Son, SuperPizzaBoy took this image of the sky while we were coming home from our little roadtrip Sunday.

Skywatch Friday

Sweetie and SuperPizzaBoy on Television

Guess What! SuperPizzaBoy’s school, Town and Country School, here in Tulsa moved into some spacious new digs over the summer. Everybody is under one roof and we have lots of extra room to grow. Town and Country School is a private school that specializes in kids that have learning differences such as ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome. SPB has been there since Third Grade and the school has been a life saver for him and other children.

Channel Eight here in Tulsa showed up last week to do a story on the school. Sweetie (aka Heather Bates) was interviewed. While she is talking there is video of SuperPizzaBoy doing his rarely seen academic act.

KTUL.com – Tulsa, Oklahoma – News, Weather

I’m so proud of everybody. The Head of School has provided a big dose of leadership doing the move and afterward. Of course at small private schools everybody has two or three jobs to do right.

And being the wicked witch at Halloween is one of them. Of course a smile like hers gives it away.

And here are the two stars of the show!

Do I need to get them an agent?

Camera Critters – Sally

SuperPizzaBoy is turning into quite the rider. Here he is with Sally.

He is riding weekly at All Star Therapy in Ramona and they have him riding independently more and more. He is going from being a passenger on the horse to actively controlling and working with the animal. Sally, the name of the horse, takes a lot of working with. She gets irritated by the other horses and likes to bite them so SPB has to take charge and prevent her from doing that.

It is really fun watching him ride these days.

Camera Critters