January 31, 2014

Fun Times Call for a Post

 

Last weekend, Hank finally received his trophy for his first Football Season as a Raider!  His season ended in late October, so it definitely was a long time coming.  The Banquet was originally scheduled for early December, but due to weather, it was cancelled & rescheduled at a much later date.  It was held at Dixie High School & they had pizza, drinks & desserts.  It was a fun experience, especially to see the older players get their last trophy as a Raider.  It'll be fun to be a part of the organization for many years, up until Hank moves onto Middle School Football!

 

 

 Brayden, one of Hank's friends came home with us to spend the night, Creag was out of town and Wyatt went to bed early so Sky & I had a girls night.  We watched a movie & had popcorn.  It was definitely nice to spend that time with her.  She's growing up way too fast!!

 

 

 Saturday we had plans with some friends to do a Pub Crawl.  First stop was the Skating Rink.  Creag was super jealous of my Skating skills.  We were really dreading skating, but ended up having a really good time.

 

 

We made a few other stops & ended up cutting out early to get back home to the kiddos.  We're really too old to close the bars down anyway!

 

Tonight, Creag's cooking up a German Dinner & tomorrow we're throwing Skylar her 11th Birthday Party! 



 

January 24, 2014

Bouncing Back & Forth

 

Well I've decided that too much has happened for me to just post from here on out, so I'm gonna bounce around for a bit.  It's ok that yesterday I posted about December & today I'm bouncing back to September/Octoberish right?  Good.  Rainbow Looms were all the rage for quite awhile with Skylar.  She self taught herself from You Tube & make quite a few of really cute bracelets!

 

 

We spent another Reds Game in a Suite & this time my BFF & her Boyfriend Scott came along.  We went out afterwards & I actually ended up drunk girl crying in the cab on the way home.  I miss my Bestie sooooo much and wish I could see her more often :*(



 

I found this Banana Fluffer Nutter Recipe somewhere online & had to  make it!  Tortilla's, Peanut Butter, Bananas, Marshmallows & Chocolate Chips!  Place it in a skillet until it gets warm & then fold it over like a quesadilla.  You really can't go wrong with all of that.  So, so good!  We also had a few visits for Fro Yo.  We all love our Frozen Yogurt.  Who doesn't?

 

 

We also went to the Monday Night Football Game against Pittsburgh & WON!

 

 

Skylar finished off another great Soccer Season & we, or should I say I, started slowly decorating for Fall.

 

 

Tonight is Hank's Football Banquet, and tomorrow we have fun things planned, so hopefully I'll be back Monday with a recap. 

 

 

 

 

 

 



January 23, 2014

We're Raising a Bunch of Runners!

 

Excuse me while I jump back to when it was actually warm outside...

 

 

Year #2 of Cross Country through Hinsdale went really well. 

Instead of having 2 kiddos in the program, we had 3.  Skylar, Hank & Sam!

All 3 of them really enjoyed it and all but Skylar plan to do it again next year.

Skylar will be moving up to Middle School & will probably run there. 

Since Wyatt has the special talent of "running really fast", he should probably

sign up next year...if they'll take Kindergartners!!

 

 

 

Hank's speed was great.  He finished 2nd in just about every race.

Sammie did great for her first time & finished strong in every race.

Skylar stayed with an 8 minute mile, every week.

 

 

We're proud of every one of them, for getting out there & giving it their all!!



 

January 20, 2014

December Snippets

 

We had a lot of fun, festive things going on the entire month.

The night we put up our tree, Creag came home with all kinds of goodies!

 

 

Buddy joined our family.

 

 

& St. Nick visited the kiddos.

 

We made a few trips to Starbucks

 



And I couldn't get enough of the view of our tree.

 

We made our annual trip Downtown to see

Santa propel off of the Macys building.

 



The kids & I made Christmas cookies for our neighbors.

 

 

And I finally got the names put on our new stockings.

 

 

We went to Silverlake to see Santa.



 

 

 Wyatt & his class put on a Christmas performance

for the Senior citizens @ Silverlake.

 

 

We went Ice Skating w/ Sam @ Fountain Square.

 

 

And attended our first Ugly Sweater Party at my parents!