A little climbing fun

I decided to take a community education class and try out the climbing wall they installed at my alma mater.  It was a blast!  I made it to the top a few times (click on the panoramic pic.)  I can’t wait to go back and do it again.  I wore my heart rate monitor and never realized that it was a decent workout. (Bonus!)

No school dress-up

It’s about negative six million degrees outside, so the Governor called off school today.  We’ve already thrown boiling water outside to see if it would turn to snow (no, but a majority of it evaporated into a mist before hitting the ground.)  Now, we’re on to dress up.  This time she’s a peacock genie.

The $200.01 penny adventure

December 14th                                                                                       December 31st

I just wish we could have found/kept the penny (along with a photo of the x-ray and a copy of the ER bill, lol!)  Plus, I shouldn’t complain about the $200 E.R. co-pay, I know it could be worse.

The hermit crabs

Santa Claus brought Lauren a pair of Hermit crabs for Christmas this year.  She named them Mr. Crabs and Mrs. Crabs.  Here we are cleaning out their cage, playing with them, and refreshing their water.

Another day at the pond

It was a nice warm day outside, so we couldn’t skate on the pond out of fear of completely ruining the surface.  Instead, we played a little boot hockey and let the kids slide around on the hills.

Thanks to Phil and his expertise, we were able to dig the hole and flood the rink fairly quickly.  Hopefully, we’ll have a beautiful smooth surface soon.

Lazy bones here was able to convince Daddy to tug him home instead of walking.

Here are Jack and Daddy playing with one of Jack’s Christmas gifts.  I suggested that my parents get him some imaginext stuff for a gift (it’s like the new little people for older kids.)  They ended up getting him this huge castle with smaller battering rams, catapults and a giant fire breathing dragon.  What we didn’t know when they bought it was that they all take batteries and are interconnected.  So, when you start to attack the castle with the dragon or battering ram the castle talks back (it’s super cute with thing like “man your battle stations” “dragon!” etc. etc.)  It was definitely a hit.

At “our” pond

Today, Lauren and I went over to “our” little pond to try out the fresh ice.  It was a little bumpy, but it was still a good time.  Here is Lauren in the “penalty box” (which is in reality, is where we will dig the hole to flood the rink later.)

Dress up time

This year, even Jack got in on the awesome dress up clothes as Christmas gifts tradition (thanks 75% off clearance racks!) Who doesn’t love a good game of dress up?

Merry Christmas

Yaaay, nobody was sick (ok I wasn’t feeling great on Christmas, but I rallied.)

Merry Christmas Eve

Here are Jack and Lauren hiding behind the enormous stack of gifts my parents brought with them today.  Good gravy!

Here we are with a new Christmas tradition.  Decorating our own plates.  If it were a contest I’m pretty sure I would have voted for Kevin’s flawless grumpy cat plate.

FLAWLESS!

GaGa and PaPa even made plates.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight!

Ice skating fun

 

Lauren’s a pretty good skater already from the past month of hockey.  Jack, however, had never been on skates before.  He wasn’t a fan, but stuck with it.