Catch Up

Wow. What a whirlwind break! We were with family every single day, I think. Here are the haps since Christmas.

Soren Turned 11!

December 30th my sweet girl celebrated her 11th birthday. I had to work, so we had family down the day before to go eat hibachi and have cake. On her birthday she got to be with Pete all day, so it was double the birthday fun.




The Lakeview Circle New Year's Eve Progressive Dinner

This is the best tradition ever. Our street has a progressive dinner to ring in the new year. We put the kids at one house with a sitter and the adults enjoy an evening of celebration without having to be out on the roads with all of the crazy people. We have such a good time together. We are blessed to have such great friends!

this marked the 3rd year in a row that Pete and Tom dove into the icy pool to celebrate the new year. Then it is into the hot tub to warm up.

this is how we found the girls when we came in from the party. pretty sweet.

New Year's Day Games

Traditionally, we invade Pops and Nana's house on new year's day to play games, but this time everyone made the trip down to our house. I just realized that we did not have black eyed peas! Sorry, guys!



Six Flags

As Kara and her family were leaving our house after our day of games, Kara suggested that we make one more trip to Six Flags. Grandma Charlotte gave us season passes for '09 and the passes were good through this weekend, so we met up the next morning (braving the cold!) for a day of rides. Reese rode the shock wave! Go Reese!

Avery is not so sure she likes the mexican hat ride, but Ashton is in heaven

turns out, Avery liked it!

Great Wolf Lodge

For Christmas, Papaw and Mamaw gave Reese and Soren a trip to Great Wolf lodge (a local indoor water park). Soren wanted to go for her birthday celebration, so she invited two friends to come along. We arrived Sunday at 1pm and stayed until 3pm Monday, leaving the water only to sleep (a little) and eat. What a fun place. Thank you, Papaw and Mamaw for an awesome trip!

soren and her friend, rachel
reese and soren's friend, jarrah

reese fell asleep in my lap and I tried to snap a picture, but the flash woke her up and she wanted me to take one of her smiling instead, so here it is.