Happy Birthday David!

Hard to believe, but today was David's 9th birthday. Both boys enjoyed playing with the Tinkertoys he got.

David's Basketball Debut

David participated in the youth basketball clinic offered at school in November/December. As part of that program he got to play in short little games during the 1/2 times of a couple of the "big kid's" games recently. Thought we'd share some pictures (sorry, they aren't the best quality -- my camera doesn't take very good pictures in the gymnasium ...) These were taken at his first game which was during 1/2 time of a girls jv game. He also got to play last night at 1/2 time of the boys varsity. He really enjoyed playing!

~Kati

A Spur of the Moment Outing!

This morning Julie Davidson called and asked what we were doing today because she was thinking of taking an outing to the MI Historical Museum, and wondered if we would like to go along. She had been checking some things out online a few days back and found out that today they were celebrating Michigan's 172nd birthday with costumed interpreters showing how things were and have changed throughout last 172 years. The only thing on our agenda was grocery shopping, which we decided could easily be done another day, so off we went. It was a very fun and interesting trip. Click on the link to the right to see some of our pictures from today. After touring the museum, we went out to dinner and got to eat in a real train car!
~Kati

Are you keeping warm?

We are glad that the last couple of days have been a bit warmer --
relatively speaking of course. It's still very cold outside, but at least in the afternoons the temperature is getting up above zero so the boys can go outside for short amounts of time. They really like to push the snow on the deck around with their toy trucks. Jonathan was getting frustrated this afternoon because Callie kept plopping down in front of him. He didn't seem to understand that she wanted him to pet her. I went out and sledded with the boys for a few minutes this afternoon, but it's too cold for this girl -- I much prefer to stay inside and curl up with a good book! Keep warm everyone ...

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everybody! We hope your first couple of days of 2009 have been good. We started off the new year by hanging out with our friends the Keillors. Mom and dad even let us stay up until midnight (although Jonathan didn't make it ... he fell asleep about 11:15). Mom and Aunt Shannon were glad for once that we were playing our video games -- that meant we were quiet and not running around for at least a little while. :-)
Have a great weekend!
~David

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays everyone -- we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Did Santa bring you what you wanted? The boys were very happy with what Santa brought this year. They both received new Build-A-Bear bears -- David's is dressed in a Green Bay Packers uniform and Jonathan's is wearing UofM attire -- just like they asked for. Jonathan was also very pleased that Santa heard his pleas for a new backpack for school, his was getting rather worn. The boys were also excited to receive Nintendo DS game systems from mom & dad! It seems like our Christmas vacation is flying by. We got the tree and decorations down and put away, just a few more gifts need to find their homes and we can finish cleaning up the house, and hopefully start the new year off on an organized foot. We spent yesterday being very thankful that we had a generator. We lost our power in the early morning hours (we think it was between 2-3 am) and didn't get it back until about 8:30 last night. We were thrilled to get it back when we did -- when we called Consumer's the recording said we wouldn't have it back until the middle of Tuesday. Having the generator definitly made the power outage much more tolerable. Heat, running water and TV are nice things to have. We have lots of limbs down in the yard -- seems like everytime we get wind our yard looks like this, it never ceases to amaze me that we even have any trees left. Have a safe and Happy New Year!

Love, Us

Oh, the weather outside is frightful ...

Well, it's a little less frightful today than it has been, the temperature is a bit warmer, although they are saying it's going to get colder tonight and rain -- that could make for some interesting driving, in the morning. We've already had 2 snow days this year, so we are hoping we don't have anymore before Christmas break. This past week the boys both participated in the elementary school music program. Here are the links to the sections of the video that show their classes singing. I don't know how well they will look or if they will take a long time to load, I've never tried uploading video before. We hope all is well with everyone out there ... keep warm!
~ Kati
David's Class
Jonathan's Class