Monday, November 30, 2009

Allicia's 1st Dance Performance of the Year

Yesterday Allicia performed for the first time this year at the Festival of Trees at the Rochester Civic Center. They performed two dances, "Do You Believe in Magic" and "Santa Mambo." Both were great dances, but my favorite was by far "Santa Mambo", it made me want to get up and dance. Below is a picture of her in front of her favorite tree they had on display.


Sunday, November 29, 2009

A Visit from my Dearest Friend Carolyn!

Last week Carolyn visited from Boston. We had a great time just hanging out and it felt OH SO GOOD! We're looking forward to hosting another visit anytime her schedule allows.






Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Wow!

Well I can't believe I am going to say this but for once our life doesn't feel completely out of control and busy. We have actually been able to have supper at home on a consistent basis. Wow! It feels so good to only have 2 nights a week filled with activities for the kids. I guess that is why I haven't posted for awhile...because there isn't much going on to post about.

Ava is going to turn 10 months old in a couple weeks. Below are some of her 9 month pictures. We took these when we had our family pictures taken back at the beginning of October. Not much has changed with Ava. She isn't walking yet, but I don't think it is too far off. She is busy as ever getting into drawers, cupboards, dog dishes, shaking the bird cage, and whatever else she happens to find. She sure is a busy girl.












Allicia is getting ready for her Winter Show in dance. They're going to perform to a song called The Santa Mambo (or something like that). She's really looking forward to it, but we haven't heard the exact date of the performance yet. I'll be sure to let everyone know when we find out.

Kyle is busy doing a whole lot of nothing....no he really is staying busy with school work, but he has decided to take the winter off from wrestling. He really didn't want to go out last year, but decided he would try it for one more year. After trying it again, he has decided it is just not the sport for him. He doesn't enjoy it and would rather find something else to do. For now, we are still trying to figure out what that might be, but we are keeping our eye out for something fun offered by community ed. So for now, he will focus on school work and just enjoy being a kid.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Our busy Sunday....

Sunday we toured Southern Minnesota making our way to a handful of fun events. We started our morning at the Adams Fire Department's Pancake Breakfast . The kids enjoyed seeing their Grandpa Pete and trying on his Fireman's helmet.



















Following the pancake breakfast we made our way back to Rochester to Kyle's End of the Year Football party. The coaches did a great job putting together a very nice speech talking about each of the boys. They also presented them with a trophy for finishing the season with a 6-0 regular season record, making them the American League Champions.








From the Football party we made our way to a friend's house to celebrate his Birthday and watch the Viking/Packer football game . Unfortunately the Birthday Boy is a huge Packer fan....so he was a little depressed considering the outcome of the game. You can just about imagine the amount of heckling that went on during the game. What a victory it was!!! Way to go Vikes!





Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Halloween 2009

On Halloween Kyle dresses up as the Joker, Allicia dressed up as Elphaba the "bad" witch from Wicked, and Ava dressed up as a Bear....only appropriate because we call her our little Ava bear.

Below is a picture of us handing out candy in front of the fire in our driveway.