Rock Climbing!!

Well, hello there!!! We hope you all had a magical Christmas! We sure did!! I'll have a post up soon to recap ours. But, I wanted to take this time and post a few pictures. Adam and I took the kids to a rock climbing gym Tuesday. Aiden was really excited to go back, and Ryann was dealing with a mixture of excitement and uncertainty. On our last trip to the rock gym Aiden really struggled to make it all the way to the top. By the end of our visit he had conquered one wall, (several times). This trip however, he was a like Spiderman. He scaled every wall with no problems at all. 

Ryann had a bit harder time. Mostly because of her slight fear of heights, and what would happen if she fell. Her first time up she made it about 5 feet off the group before turning around and saying she was scared. So I told her to just jump away from the wall - so she would see that she wasn't just going to plummet to the group. That seemed to ease her fears. After that she had several attempts where she would make it about 3 feet from the top and decide she was scared......... so we took her over to the wall Aiden made it up his last trip... Ryann went straight up - no problems. After that her confidence was high and she was really enjoying herself. I don't think she made it to the top of any other walls, but she was much more willing to try.  

Both kids were kinda bummed to leave, but were beyond exhausted, and they are really looking forward to going back again!

December Happenings... so far

We’ve got less than one week until Christmas, and we’ve got one little boy that CAN NOT WAIT! Aiden is beyond excited! Last we saw Ryann she was really excited too, but that was almost two weeks ago.

So much has happened since our last post, I know I won't remember it all - but I'll hit the high points. First Ryann when to the orthodontist and learned she’ll be getting her braces taken off January 9th, and she is SO EXCITED!!! She has been such a champ dealing with her braces we’ve heard very little complaining this past year! It’s amazing what a difference a year has made. Do you remember what her teeth looked like before?! Her under-bite was so severe that when she bit down her bottom teeth would touch her top gums... she is no longer dealing with that problem!! There is a very good chance she’ll have braces again once all her permanent teeth come in. However, if she will wear her retainer like she is supposed to we MAY get away with not having them put back on… fingers crossed!!

Aiden has lost so many teeth, he is beginning to look like a little old man…He lost one of his top front teeth and the other is loose. The bottom ones are not in all the way – so if he looses that other top tooth before the others come in we’re really going to have to consider a liquid diet for him for a while!

Both kids were dismissed for Christmas break Friday. I was able to take off half the day and go to Aiden’s class Christmas party.

School dismissed at noon, and we spent the reminder of the day hanging out. Adam, Aiden and I spent the weekend playing, watching movies and just enjoying our time together. Saturday night we met Gamma and Papa for dinner. Sunday we made and decorated our Christmas cookies. Both my guys were so much help making the cookies and the royal icing. It was a lot of fun spending that time together.

We each picked our favorite cookie that we decorated to leave out for Santa…

The snowflake is mine, the snowman is Aiden’s and the stocking is Adam’s

The rest of these guys are for us when we drive around and look at Christmas lights later this week!

Jacob the elf has been a busy little guy spying on the kids…..

Riding the dinosaurs, playing Wii



Making "snow" angels, drinking the syrup 

                            And even reading a book!

Aiden has had so much fun finding Jacob every morning! I'm so glad we added this fun, new tradition this year!

We hope you are all enjoying this holiday season. We'll update again soon.

Cookies With Santa

Well, Aiden’s game went really well Monday night. Odyssey won, 7 to 1!!! Aiden made it through the game with out reinjuring his hockey cut. However, he was not able to make out of the game unscathed. In fact he was hurt three times that game…. None of which were terrible, but dude! Needless to say, Monday was a tough day for our little man.

Last night the PTA hosted “Cookies with Santa”. I was at the school from 3 to 7:30, setting up and taking pictures. Adam brought Aiden up after soccer practice to have his pictures made, have a cookie and then get a few books from book fair.

(Check out how well he is healing!)

When we got home Aiden got his first gift out of the advent calendar. Finger soccer. He loved it. Then we started a new tradition when we welcomed Jacob, our new Elf on the Shelf… I’ll update on that more as the month passes; I think it’s something Ryann and Aiden are really going to love!

We don’t have ONE SINGLE THING planned this weekend! I am SO VERY EXCITED!! We haven’t had a completely open weekend in, well; I don’t know how long!  We hope you enjoy your weekend!