Spring is here and so is BASEBALL...

Baseball season officially started this weekend with opening ceremonies and the first game. This is the only picture I have of Drew before his game as I managed to acquire the official scorebook keeper job for our team! Hopefully... I will manage to get some pictures at some point! Drew had a great first game... getting on base for both of his hits and batting in a run! Yay Drew! So for now GO GIANTS (the RRYBL ones -- not the other ones)!!!!

Let it SNOW...

Let it SNOW... I can say this since I don't live in Wisconsin anymore!!!So once a year when we go up there we are silently requesting snow to play in! :) We were not let down again this year as we arrived to a nice new snow -- it was still all pretty and white! So the first morning I headed out to Target to get snow pants... well I bought Drew snow bibs that were immediately returned for snow pants due to his refusal to wear "bibs"! The second round Grandpa went and bought a sled for them to use too! A couple of days later, we all put on our snow gear again and went sledding at the big hill that I used to sled at when I grew up there! Oh my... I forgot how intimidating that hill is(especially to walk down... NO comments Michaela) and how crazy busy it is. It was so fun to watch Drew going down the littler hill all by himself then grabbing his sled and marching his way back up. I did finally do the big hill with Madi a couple of times and it definitely brought back the fun memories. No pictures of sledding the hill was too crazy and too wet to have the camera out!

Christmas Morning...

We had a fun Christmas Day at the house! Madi and Drew decided on Christmas Eve that they wanted to both sleep in Drew's room. Needless to say Drew may not let Madi do that again. Madi woke up at 4 in the morning and went to see if Santa came! She went and woke Drew up so he could go see too! She waited until 4:45 a.m. to come and get me to which she was told she needed to go back to bed it was TOO early to wake Drew up -- well me too! We made it until almost 8 a.m. When Drew came down he was dragging and we couldn't figure out why he had no interest in anything under the tree as it wasn't until later that Madi uncovered her above doings... Crazy girl!!! Once Drew woke himself up they both found a small intriguing present. Santa left them iTouches! Madi tore through the rest of her gifts managing to give thanks and hugs at superspeed in between each one. Drew on the other hand only needed his iTouch. We had to ask him to open his other presents. Oh how different our two kiddos are! :)Unfortunately all the excitement and lack of sleep thanks to his sweet big sister... Drew was passed out by 6:30 p.m. He missed Christmas dinner and everything!
Sweet Drew all snuggled up!

Ice Skating

The awesome lights and the cozy fireplace made it really feel like Christmas at the ice skating rink! Coming from Wisconsin this 80 degrees in December just doesn't cut it! :) Here was a view in at the ice skating rink when they were clearing the ice.Drew wasn't so sure about going at first. As soon as we got in by the rink he said he changed his mind. We figured we were in for a long couple of hours if we even lasted anywhere near that long. After seeing Madi and I laughing hysterically on the ice from the girl who can dance but could barely remain upright for more than 5 seconds... he decided to give it a shot! He did awesome! By the end of the night, the two of them could let go and Drew was picking up some speed! :) Madi and Drew took their fair share of spills and not many were very graceful... Marty went down a couple of times too... the kids pulled him down he claims! :)
Madi after the first round of slipping around the ice...

Drew holding on until he felt comfortable...

Daddy with both in tow...

Drew venturing off on his own...

Madi on her own...

My two sweet kiddos... well they were sweet today anyhow! :)

The property had a ton of Christmas lights all over so we walked around and finished our hot cocoa after we were done skating!

Bowling with Santa

The kiddos were so excited to go bowl with Santa! We ended up getting in 2 full games of bowling which was pretty good considering their were 5 children bowling in the lane. Drew was pleasantly friendly to the big guy much to my surprise. I figured that his excitement would die as soon as he came face to face but he was excited from the minute Santa walked in the door. He ran up and gave him a high five right away!He even let Santa bowl his turn for him...

What a fun time... we hope to make this a yearly tradition! :)

Ummmm... Ridiculous!

Ummmm... Ridiculous is about all you can sum this picture up to. I walked into the family room from cleaning the kitchen and this is what I stumble upon -- the three of them all on laptops. I guess my guiltiness comes into play since 2 out of the 3 of these are mine. It was quite an entertaining sight but at least Madi and Drew were playing on Starfall -- there was some educational value to the event. :)

Drew's Christmas Performance

It only took 3 years for Drew to actually go up front and participate. He was still shy but he did so much! Here are 2 of Drew's favorite songs they did...