Sunday, January 24, 2016

Happening in January

January brought some changes.  These two are growing and changing every day!  I swear Kate grew taller overnight last week!
Over the past couple of weeks, there have been lots of questions from Kate about what exactly "sex" is, so it was time to have the talk....Luckily I also found a great book called "It's not the Stork" so she could read all about it.  She met the news with great curiosity and embarrassment. 

Kate received a sewing machine for Christmas and has been creating lots of fun blankets for Luke and her animals.

Luke and Paul have been playing lots of football.  We have also started to play at the LG football field when we are there.  We like to have football field picnic and then play.

Our first Girl Scout Cookie booth.  We sold an astounding 105 boxes outside of Taco Deli!

Kate deemed "Wild Kratts Live" as the "second best day of my life.  The first is when I was born, obviously, but this is the second."  Luke was also completely overjoyed by the whole experience.  We spent the day in San Antonio starting with the Zoo and a trip to Toys R Us.  Then while we were at Chilis we surprised them with the tickets as an early birthday present for Kate and she could not stop jumping up and down in her seat.  

Meeting her hero/boyfriend Chris Kratt after the show.

Kate's first entry into the Science Fair: "Does diet affect evolutionary traits?"  She won 2nd place!

Friday, January 1, 2016

Our first ski trip!!

The day after Christmas we loaded up Dad's truck and drove to Breckenridge, Colorado where we met the Swaneys, the Matt Vogts, the Kaases, and Unc and Dotty for our first time to ski!  It was soon cold (usually in the single digits with a negative wind chill) but we had a BLAST!  Kate and Luke were naturals!  After two days in ski school, they went down their first blue with us and beat us down the slopes every time.  We stayed for a week and had tons of fun hanging out with our cousins in the mountains.
Fabiola, LB, Amy Dotty, Maria

Heading to Downtown Breck to do a little shopping.

Aunt Amy and Mom.  Cousin love.

New Years Eve at our condo.

Kate and Bailey tubing.




Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo on our road trip.  Halfway there!







Our first blue!!

The whole group




Here is what we did in the truck on the road trip.

Lots of reading for this one.























Oxygen bar fun!