Monday, January 10, 2011

A Buckeye Victory..a Snow Day... and Basketball

Well it is only the 11th of January and it has been an eventful year so far. We have had lots of football, snow, basketball and apparently, 2011 is going to be the year of the illness. We have had a stomach bug and strep throat...but the kids do not seem to let that get them down. Now it is wearing us adults out...but oh well:) We had our first legitimate snowfall this past weekend. The kids were so excited- they got all dressed up in their "Texas Snow Gear" which amounts to layers of clothes and the warmest coat we can find. They did not seem to be bothered at all by the lack of waterproof apparel.

Jeanne and Will had a ball playing outside together..there was not even any fighting, just lots of laughing and screaming. I guess we need snow more often.
Jeanne was very happy to ride around in the back of the "sleigh" as she called it.

I had to dress her in some old pants of Will's which she was not pleased about. She kept complaining that they were falling off...I guess she was right.

Will was enjoying himself too.

We are very into football these days...hence the punting in the snow. I keep telling Brian...train him to be a kicker:)

All bundled up...in as much pink as we could find.

Hanging together in the snow

So happy to be out in the snow!

Ready for something....

Will's latest sport of interest is basketball..he has not played until now, but seems to really enjoy it. He is quite the scrappy little player. He is on a team with several friends from Tadlock, so they have been having a lot of fun together!

What did I do?
Will and his friend Henry...boxing each other out???

Who is going to get it???

The day after the Buckeye Sugar Bowl win! He wanted to wear his jersey to school. Ahhh..daddy was so proud:)












Happy New Year!

It would not be a New Year without a visit from our cousins, a few too many Mai Tais, and some hot tub time. The kids had a blast in the hot tub with CC and Dave..we eventually had to kick them out on account of pruning. They absolutely love their cousins and ask about them every day. They miss them terribly.

Gigi- what a wonderful hostess for this year's Mai Tai Fest. She even made her own entry..which was quite good.
Jillian and Matty were sporting their Uncle Jeff original Mai Tai Fest 2011 T-Shirts...and playing house.

Uncle Mike and Jeanne were entertaining the crowd with a rousing rendition of "Raise your Glass" while Aunt Julie and Mamie passed out their "white trash" Mai Tai. You can always count on Uncle Mike for some kind of performance....he now has back up dancers.

Teaching her all of his moves!

Jillian loved having Aunt Julie here! They spent lots of quality time together playing Zhu Zhu pets.