Family and Friends

My parents and Jason and Kelly were in town for fun! Jason and Kelly are expecting Baby Hudson in a few months so it was fun to see Kelly's growing belly! We invited Meredith (and AJ and Emma) over for the Superbowl. We ate lots of yummy food including my mom's football-themed cherry cobbler!

My friend Leslie was in town for Sign Gypsies conference! It was good to see her and her friend Rochelle, who I hadn't seen in years!

We also celebrated Logan's 7th birthday!

100th Day and Valentine's Day

For 100th Day at school, the 3rd graders wore shirts with 100 items on them (I made a Minion shirt for Avery with the help of Pinterest!) and the 5th graders dressed as 100-year-olds so Aidan was a Florida retiree!

For Valentine's Day, Aidan's class took a trip to Yogurtland! They also made cards for a woman who works at the school and the grandmother of one of Aidan's classmates, and invited them to go to Yogurtland with them! Avery's class had a party in the classroom. Both kids had fun and were sufficiently sugared up!

A couple days prior, we split up for date night. Avery and Daniel went to a nice restaurant, and Aidan and I went to see the Lego Batman movie!

This and That

Not much was going on in our world in January! We were BUSY but just didn't take a lot of pictures I guess. Here are some of the highlights. We're in the middle of Cookie Season!

Fun with the neighbors:

Fun with Kaelyn and Tracey on a couple of school holidays:

Fun with reading:

Fun with basketball:

Fun with Aidan's hair:

Happy Birthday Gigi!

After Avery's first basketball game we drove down to Comanche to celebrate Gigi's 90th birthday! It was so fun to see our Waggoner family and celebrate this special grandmother and great-grandmother!

The newest basketball star!

Avery just started playing basketball and had her first game on Saturday! She did GREAT! She didn't handle the ball a lot, but she earned the defense star for staying on her man. Before her game I took a picture of her, and then I realized I had taken a picture of Aidan before his very first Upward game exactly five years ago...and the uniform and pose was nearly identical! It was so much fun watching her (and Sage, who is on her team!) and we can't wait for the rest of the season!

New Year's Eve!

We spent a fun New Year's Eve at our neighbors Mark and Ashley's house with a bunch of families from our block! It was so great to just walk across the street and not have to get baby-sitters! The kids wore their pajamas and played outside and upstairs, while the grown-ups chatted, ate tons of food, and played games. Then after the ball dropped we just walked home. Couldn't have been a more perfect way to ring in 2017!