Life As We Know It: Happy Holidays!!

Can you believe Thanksgiving is TOMORROW?!!! This year has flown by, and we have been blessed beyond words. One of our many blessings is that we get to spend this entire week with Ryann! I picked her up Friday after work. Surprisingly we had an easy drive home, like seriously easy - we made it home in about 50 minutes!! Saturday we had a cleaning day - now the house shines from top to bottom - I just LOVE a clean house!! We also did some clothes shopping. We HAD to get Aiden a new snow jacket. That kid grows so stinking fast! His hands and feet are already bigger than Ryann's! Sunday Aiden had his first indoor game of the season. Some things have changed with soccer.... with the end of the fall season came the end of Aiden's req team. The coach needed a break. So, for now Aiden is only playing with his club team, (I'm SUPER excited about this development - more time at home!!) So, back to Sunday's game. The coach had to be out of town with the '94 boys for a tournament, so Adam stepped in as coach again. The team we played was tough, and our boys only had one sub. They ended up tying the game 3-3. They had about 15 shots on goal, but the other teams keeper was really good. All in all they had a pretty good game. Sunday night the kids went home with Gamma and Papa for a sleep over. Papa dropped them off with me at work Monday afternoon. Ryann and Aiden popped in to say "hi" to my co-workers, and then we were off to Toys R Us to make their Christmas lists. Unfortunately, we'll only have Ryann one weekend in December before Christmas, so we've gotten a jump start on some of our Christmas traditions. We're usually one of those families that refuses to do anything Christmassy until after Thanksgiving, but when you have a blended family sometimes that is difficult - so we just have to roll with the punches. At Toys R Us I learned that Aiden wants pretty much anything LEGO, his list wound up being 25 items long. Ryann was much more selective, she didn't want anything on her list that she just liked. She only added something that she REALLY wanted. She ended up with just 12 items on her list. When we got home each kid had to take their list and put their top 5 picks in order. Obviously this was a much easier task for Ryann - because she was doing that in her head as we looked around. When Daddy got home from work we headed out to pick our new Christmas ornament. We do this every year, it's a tradition the kids really look forward to. The kids took FOREVER picking their ornaments this year, but they both were really happy with their final selections, (Aiden's was really surprising to Adam and I)........I'll post pictures of them with their ornaments when I post about getting the tree up on Friday.

Yesterday we headed out to the Gaylord Texan to see ICE! and ride the snow hills. We had a wonderful time!!!

Pictures in ICE!