February Break '16

We started off February vacation with a bang by travelling to Lowville in -25 degree temps to see our favorite people. We brought dinner to Gram and Gramp and enjoyed a night together as a family.

Seth celebrated his first Valentine's Day with an actual "girlfriend". They were so stinking cute exchanging their gifts at the Y. They got all rosy cheeked and then went to play soccer instantly.

Leah scored 3 goals on Valentine's Day also. She was SO excited.

She then went from being a soccer machine to a girlie girl with Grace at our house after the game.

On Valentine's evening Seth's basketball team had a tournament and in between games the Adam's hosted a pizza party for the boys and their little sisters. It was a ton of fun.

On Monday we had round 3 of Parents VS: Kids. I was home sick, but Roland represented for the both of us at both age levels.

Just in time for his soccer clinic with the Syracuse Silver Knights, Seth's new hoodie arrived.

We spent the bulk of our vacation with our wonderful friends at the Great Wolf Lodge. The kids are at such a perfect age for it and all 15 of us had an utter blast. The days flew by.

We missed you Pete.

On the way home we made a pit stop in Rochester at the aunties for an overnight. Seth and Leah were given their birthday gifts and we went to a super yummy Mexican restaurant.

On Saturday Seth had Vincent over to watch the SU game and they had such a great time together.

Leah returned to school on Monday and rocked her spelling test AND was awarded the "Bucket Filler of the Month" award in front of the whole school for February. Yay Bean. We are so proud of you.

A+ for Creativity

Bean came home from school and said she had to come up with a 100 day project, she brainstormed, came up with a fabulous idea and last night we completed it. I'm super proud of her and think it turned out amazing. Love that chick.

Welcome February

Last weekend was a jumble of all sorts of fun activities.

Seth received his birthday package from GE and he was thrilled.

We wore red in support of women's heart health.

I started a four day celebration for my birthday at my favorite restaurant in Clayton.

They even let me order my two favorite pizzas; reuben pizza and pulled pork. Yummo.

Seth took part in a fun little soccer tournament at Indian River and his team won. Yay.

Watertown FC rocks.

The weekend was full of soccer, soccer, soccer and a little basketball. Roland also cooked a delicious and healthy meal and we had a bit of downtime to binge watch the first season of The Goldbergs thanks to a fabulous gift from Sheryl.

Thank you to everyone who called, texted, facebooked, etc. My birthday was super fantastically wonderful this year.

Farewell January

 This weekend was jam packed, but really, what weekend isn't? We headed to Lowville Friday night for a girls sleepover and to get Gram and Gramp out of the house. Winter is tough for them and they feel a bit housebound from time to time. We went out to dinner at Jeb's, watched an old movie and then hit some of our favorite Lewis County stores on Saturday. It was tons of fun.

 MMMMMMM Gramp's popcorn.

 The girls had tons of fun coloring in "adult coloring books".

 When we got home on Saturday afternoon we hit the slopes. We have been so busy that we haven't' been to Dry Hill as much as normal this season. I helped one of Seth's teammates, Stella to become more comfortable skiing. She was a ton of fun to share the lift with and chat with.

 We ran into half of Seth's basketball team up at Dry Hill Saturday night as well and we ended up having a blast with all the parents. The temps were so amazing that night that in between runs we just sat outside and chatted.

 Leah was SO happy for some girl time.

 There are no words.

Such a great group of boys and we are so happy that they can all ski/snowboard together.

(Marcus, Devon, SPC, Nico, Jack, Noah)