Davis' first karate class

Davis has just started taking karate and he really got into it! Here are a couple clips from his first class.

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Chocolate!

Cal LOVES chocolate.

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Cal's Adventures

Cal was helping me cook the other day and this is what he brought me. 10 cans of cream of chicken soup.





He then got tired of cooking and got all the pillows in the house and most of the blankets and made a super soft landing area. So he could jump from the 6 step up, crazy kid!




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Double Digits

On January 14th Alycia turned 10. Time has gone by so fast and already my sweet baby is 10. I think the next 10 might be filled with even more excitement and challenges!

We started the day opening a present from Pop and Grannie.




Then we headed out to spend that birthday money. Thanks to Harmony (and Danny) we were able to go without Davis. We went to Charming Charlies and picked out some jewelry.




We then had to wait for dinner for the rest of the surprises. Papa and Mumo came for dinner, home made Mac and cheese (Alycia's favorite).





I think this picture says it all. She got a new electric guitar and loves it!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALYCIA!


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Girls Remodel

The girls have been wanting to repaint their bedroom (since August) I kept telling them over Christmas break... Well Christmas break actually came... Imagine that so...





BEFORE






After. They picked an ocean turquoise a dark and a light.









It was really exciting to let them pick out what colors they wanted. They were inspired from their guitar teachers studio. I loved being able to spend time with them!

5 day weekend

I have enjoyed my 5 day weekend because of the snow days. We played in the snow, went sledding, and pretty much lounged around. Too bad Spencer had to work.

Today we went to McDonalds in the freezing cold just to get us out of the house.


















I am ready for the kids to go back to school. Just for one day then we have another 5 day weekend because of the Martin Luther King holiday.

Snow Day!!

We got the call at 6:00 a.m. That school was closed for the day because of snow. We lounged around all morning and then we cleaned a bit and then we got ready to go play in the snow.



This was Cal's first year going out by himself and he loved it!!!













Alycia even shoveled!





The kids played outside for a while and patiently waited for Spencer to get home to go sledding



We had a great time. Cal even went down and loved it but didn't want to try again.

Bedtime Battles

We have hit the age where Cal has become very independent. He is becoming more difficult to get to go to bed. Here is just a small taste of what we go through every night. He usually comes in multiple times...

Some favorites

Spencer's family had boxing gloves growing and he has always wanted some for our kids. This year Santa fulfilled that wish and Cal loves them the most!

Christmas

December is usually a busy month but for us this year it felt especially busy. It started on the 1st with Cal's surgery (tonsillectomy and tubes) and cotinued from there with Spencer going out of town for work, liberty Nutcracker performances, family coming to town, LS Nutcracker performances with Alycia as Clara, and Alycia's surgery (tonsillectomy) on the 21st.

It was so nice to have a couple of days with just us and have no where we needed to be!






The kids slept in and we didn't even go down until 8:00.

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