and Girl Stuff...

First, we took off the training wheels. We were a little surprised, but she did great!





Second, I gave in and she got her ears peirced! Pink flowers,











Then, she had a birthday party--


with a pinata!
And her birthday isn't until Wednesday. Is she spoiled or what.

Boy stuff...

Derek earned his arrow of light in cub scouts. They do quite the production with a Native American theme.


They had them repeat the scout motto and law (Derek's the short one)





They do a great thing with all their pins, badges and belt loops and put them on this banner which is hanging from a homemade arrow. It's a really good idea to keep all their cub scout memorabilia.

Nicholas is playing flag football through the school. They are 5-1 (I think). They have a playoff tournament next week. This keeps him really busy along with scouts, band, and homework. But he likes being busy.

Did we mention it was about 75 degrees!

Here he is playing center (the one currently with the ball)

Coming next week, girl stuff....

HAPPY NEW YEAR

A few years ago we started a new tradition of opening "crackers" for New Year's Eve. I think they are an English thing, but my mom does it on Christmas Eve and we would buy them and forget, so we started doing it for New Year's Eve. They have a joke, a small toy and paper crowns in them. So here we are in our crowns.



Then we got up at 5:30 am (on a Saturday, no less) to watch a meteor shower. Jeff made hot chocolate.

And, it was cold! Like 40 or something. . . What a way to start a new year!