January Summary

I'm trying to catch-up, so here are the January highlights:

On New Year's Day Lane and the boys went to see the Star Wars movie so Alexee and I went shopping at the bookstore and Target.  We stopped for hot chocolate at Starbucks, too.  It was a fun date.  :)

On January 2nd Crosby and Alexee started basketball season (the girls' team had played in a few tournaments in December, but this was the first of the regular season.)  My parents came up for the day to see the games and have lunch--it was great to have them here!

Crosby loved playing!

We went to Panera Bread for lunch then drove out to the lake again to show Mom, Dad and Lane the floodgates.   

If you look closely you can see a rainbow over the water in the photo below.

 Later that afternoon we all went back to the gym for Alexee's game.  She loved playing, too!

January 3rd--enjoying her new bike on an unusually warm winter's day!

January is dentist and eye-doctor check-up time for the kids, so we had lots of appointments.

(Rhett was in a different room by himself.) 

R went to Springfield for a friend's birthday celebration.  They jumped at SkyZone and had birthday donuts afterward.  He had a blast.  The birthday boy's mom sent me these pictures, and I was reminded again how thankful I am for the great group of friends he found when we moved here.  Huge blessing!

On January 18th we got a thin layer of ice.  It hit right at afternoon carpool time, which made for a crazy afternoon for traffic in town, but thankfully we didn't have any trouble getting home with 4WD.  We brought Rhett's friend E home with us, and the kids all watched The Wizard of Oz.  (Drama Club is doing the Wizard of Oz for their spring play, and R and E had just found out their parts so they wanted to watch the movie again.)  No school the next 2.5 days, so the kids made the most of the small amount of ice that we had and tried out their new sleds.  I wish it had been a nice, fluffy snow instead if we were going to have to miss school, but oh well.  They had fun anyway!

1/19/16

 We've been seeing a lot of deer in the yard lately.  I love to watch them!

We had basketball games every weekend!  It was a lot of fun!

 Bogart tried out a new groomer this month.  He came home looking super cute in his bandana! :)

January 30 was an extra busy day.  I'm so glad Lane wasn't scheduled to work that day!

7:15 E's family (and several other boys riding with them) picked Rhett up to go to the out-of-town math competition.  What a crew!

8:00 Alexee's tournament game #1, Lane took her.

9:00 Crosby's game at a different gym, I took him.

10:00 I took C to the other gym to drop him off with L & A, then I left to drive to the math competition/awards ceremony (about an hour and 15 minutes from here)

11:00 Alexee's tournament game #2

12:00 L, A and C went to pick up A's birthday cake for the her party the next day, then picked up lunch and went home for a little while.

1:45-2:45 Math Awards Ceremony.  The kids from our school did great!!!  Many of them, Rhett included, qualified for the regional competition in March.  Sixth Grade division:  Rhett received the 10th place ribbon in the "number sense" test, 9th place ribbon in "sprint" test and the 3rd place trophy in the "target" category!  We are super proud of him and all the kids from his school!  

3:30 Rhett rode back home with friends to hang out at E's house, and I stopped in Springfield to pick up the birthday party painting supplies at the pottery studio.

4:00 Alexee's third game of the day, Lane and Crosby took her to that.  I was hoping to make it back in time to see it, but made it there right as it ended.  BUT, she had one more game, so I did get to see that one!  We hung out at the gym for an hour visiting with the team which was fun.

6:00 Alexee's last game of the day!  WHEW...long day!

 Math Team

 (That's Rhett in the orange shirt)

 Beautiful colors in a winter sunset