Allyson's Veteran's Day Performance

The 3rd grade at Allyson's school put on a performance for Veteran's Day that the parents were invited to. She had one of the longest parts of the entire grade. She did a great job memorizing it but was a little nervous as you can see in the video. But she did a great job!

It's been awhile

I was going for a year of not blogging but since our families don't get to see the kids too often I thought I better put some pictures on the blog for them!




Bryce was really enjoying his book!


When we were in North Carolina we visited Duke's campus. This was at the chapel.

Evanie's cast

I've been meaning to post these pictures for awhile now. Evanie got her cast off about a week ago. She fractured it on New Year's Eve and I took her to see her pediatrician, He did x-rays but didn't see anything so thought it was a sprain. He sent her home with an ace bandage. But after another day of her not putting pressure on it a friend who is an orthopedic resident suggested that we take her to the ER and have it casted. So we spent 4 hours of our New Year's Day in the hospital. It only took Evanie about 2 days to figure out that she could walk with her cast and then it wasn't long before she was jumping. The hardest thing for her was trying to sleep with the cast. She loves to pull her legs up to her chest and it was so hard to get comfortable at night. We were so excited to get it off because then we could finally sleep at night. She was thrilled to have it off and she gets a huge smile when I ask her where her cast is.

Christmas

Every Christmas Eve we make hot chocolate and put everything we can think of in it. The kids add so much that they usually can't even finish it.




Makin' cookies for Santa


I put this picture in just in case anyone was wondering if Evanie had hair yet.




I made pajama pants for the kids this year. I don't really sew so I was pretty proud of myself. That was until Allyson's pants ripped within 3 minutes.

Catching Up

Back in November we went to the Cross Country National Championships in Slippery Rock, about an hour out or Pittsburg. Adams State was running and both the girls and boys won 1st place. It was awesome! We didn't know anyone who was running but it was just awesome because Dave ran for Adams back in the day.


We happened to run into this bunch of crazy guys. They drove all the way from Colorado for the meet in that van behind them. They we a little embarrased to be posing in their underwear with our kids but I don't feel too sorry for them. Dave claims that crazy fans didn't start running around in their underwear/running shorts all painted up until he and a bunch of guys from Adams started doing it.


This was ASC's top runner. I think he got second place. It was an insanely cold day!



We met up with Shawn, Cass, Dane and Josie later that day in Pittsburg and had a ton of fun. Here are the kids on the Duquesne Incline that we took up and down the mountain. Then we went on a carraige ride around part of the city. Later we hit Primanti Brothers where they serve hamburgers with the meat, tomato, french fries and coleslaw all inside the bun. It was suprisingly good.



The next day we went to a couple of museums for the kids. The Pittsburg Children's Museum is the most awesome one we've been to. There were so many fun things to do. In the art room they painted, made silk-screen prints, made their own paper and Shawn and Dave even made some interesting things with the play doh. There was a garage/workshop where they made rockets and dropped parachutes off a huge platform.






The gravity room was the coolest. It was tilted at an angle and totally hard to stand up in.

Our Very Merry Halloween

You can stick your hand up the cow's *** or you can take the butcher's word for it! (Dave's contribution to this post)




Evanie finally got hair. We wish, that's her cousin Mariah


Bryce picked the hardest pattern and said "I can do it! I can do it!" Well, guess who ended up doing it? I must say I did a pretty good job!




Evanie's wondering why she doesn't get such a big basket






Check out all the loot! I should have no problem eating all of this.

random pictures

The kids are playing soccer this year. It's their first time and they are both doing great. Most of the kids on their teams and the other teams have been playing soccer for one or two years. Bryce scored goals in both of his first two games and has played really well in the other ones. Allyson's games are on Sundays so she just goes to the practices. But it's good because she gets to learn the game and how to play with a team. The last half of practices they always have a scrimmage and last week she scored 4 out of the 4 goals for her team.

We keep getting coupons for free bowling games and different events that the kids go to. We got some from the summer reading program at the library so we all went a few weeks ago. The side bumpers go up for the kids so they actually do pretty good. The quality of pictures is terrible. We still need to get our digital camera fixed - hopefully before the holidays.