Oma's House

We spent the weekend at Oma's house. The kids enjoyed their ritual of making spaetzle and eating Aufschnitt. We even got a little snow. Will this winter ever go away?!?

Oma taught me how to crack eggs

We talked about making Spaetzle with Oma for days

Puzzle time

Oma is an avid boardgame player

Big brother Alex reading to little sister Sophie

I like the Little Critter stories

Teaching uncle Vern how cars crash in the staircase

Sophie's first friend's birthday party

Sophie got invited to a preschool friend's birthday party for the first time. They had fun at Pump it Up!

Slides rock!

I was initially scared but once I tried, I didn't want to stop!

My friend Drake didn't want us to sing him happy birthday...

It's a wild party here!

Drake, do you think you got enough presents here?!?

I went to a church concert and bid on this dog. I called him Ragioli! Go Dubbey Brothers "You're still the one"

Last Basketball Game

Alex had his last basketball game of the season. He has made a lot of progress over the past 2 months. When the game was over, he asked what his next sport is going to be. Soccer! Coming up this spring.

Dragons vs. Lions - no score recorded for 1st graders

Good pass, Alex!

Go Dragons!

Team Dragons with Coaches Joe Orrick and Dan Bilbrey

Is it spring yet?

Looks like this snow is not going anywhere... So let's try to enjoy it!

Going down the hill at my school

This stuff is cold!

Here I come!

Snowman!

And of course snow balls!

I would rather play inside at the mall

Riding the caroussel is more my thing!

Snow Days

With 10" (25 cm) of snow for Maman's birthday, school got cancelled for the remaining of the week. What is there to do with all this snow?

We can watch Papa clear the driveway for us

Is it spring yet?!?

Poor mailman!

Can't make a snowman with this kind of snow. Bummer!

So we visited Maman's office

When we're in school, she plays with trucks, hide and seek, tag,

and computer games in the office!

Give me some glue and I'm decorating for hours

Special crafts for the year of the horse

We go watch Alex play basketball on Saturdays

He's enjoying the offense time more than defense

Go, Alex, go!

Winter Wonderland Birthday

Who ordered all of this snow for maman's birthday? Schools were closed today because of the snow storm. Maman decided that she'd better work from home, as cleaning snow off her car at the office shouldn't be part of the birthday package this year.

Making gingerbread cookies for mom's birthday

I'm the icing master

Chocolate ganache cake. Yum!

Maman is still 25. Can you believe this?!?

Thanks for all the flowers, cards, calls and emails!

Tet

Cung Chuc Tân Xuân ! Happy New Year! Bonne année !

After the year of the Snake, here comes the year of the Horse. While Alex is fascinated by snakes, Sophie much prefers horses, so it's going to be a fun year again.

We celebrated this special time of the year at the Families Blessed event gathering about 200 kids, parents and grandparents. Sophie was a little scared of the lion and dragon dances, but keeps talking about them pretty much all year round. Alex had a blast making crafts, watching the show and running around with his friends.

Decorating horses with glitter glue is my thing!

Cool crafts!

Magician time. Don't do this at home!

Uh oh, the lion is coming!

You don't scare me, Mr. Lion!

Lion dance

Dragon dance

Check out this dragon!

That's my kind of party!

Goofy pics