Oh my look who's 11

He's now 11

This picture was taken when we brought Ronan home

Ronan turned 11 on April 28. I don't know where the time has gone. He will be having a party at the pool later this month but we celebrated with a chocolate pudding pie. His favorite.

Baseball Season has begun

Both kids are playing baseball this spring. It should be interesting getting the kids to practice and games on time by myself. Dad is gone for the next 6 months.

Emma is playing on a coach pitch team. This is her first year and so far she is having fun. Ronan is playing kid pitch. This is his second year playing but the last time he played he was four years old. So we'll see how it all goes. He has been playing catcher at practices.

Last weekend opening ceremonies and all games we cancelled because of rain. So the official season begins this weekend.

Wish us luck and I will keep you posted.

Basketball Season

Basketball season has officially ended. The kids had a great time and we had super coaches. Our end of the season party was at the skating rink. Even the coaches (who are really Big kids) skated with the team. Ronan skate was bothering him because his sock had something on it so being the great Mom that I am I gave him my sock so that is why I couldn't skate. Yea right I would've skated any how. :-) Next up is baseball season for both kids. Wish us luck.

So for some funny reason the school had a teacher in service day on a Tuesday. We decided that we would take the kids out of school for that Monday and head down to Garmisch for a long weekend. We woke up on Saturday morning and got out on the road by 9:15. What was supposed to be a 4 1/2 hour drive turned into 9 hours. We drove on some "roads" we were sure were not actual roads. We were convinced that our new GPS had led us astray. We realized later that it was trying to take us around the traffic. There was a lot of snow and I guess everyone decided to take a long weekend and go skiing. We had a great time. We went sledding and swimming. The resort has an outdoor hot tub so we sat in it while the snow was falling. Talk about beautiful. Ronan decided it would be so cool to roll in the snow and then jump back into the hot tub. He takes after his father. :-) We drove around on Monday, did a little sight seeing and we were back at the resort around 3. By the time we left the next morning (around 9) there was at least 1 foot of snow covering our car. We drove home in sometimes whiteout conditions but made it home in less that 5 hours. We learned how to work the GPS so that it would take us straight home with no detours.

BRRRRRRR!!!

It snowed again last night. We got about 2 inches maybe a bit more. The kids wanted to build a snowman but we did not have enough snow in the backyard. So Daddy being the nice guy that he is shoveled our driveway and the neighbors and dumped the snow in the backyard. Poor Emma got "too cold" she said and had to come in. I really need to get theses kids back to Alaska to toughen them up!!

Birthday Celebration

On Friday the 13th was Kelly's 37th b-day. It was a low key day because we were not all feeling very well. But we surprised him with a cake and although he is not always excited about celebrations he humored us an let us sing to him as he blew out his candles. After cake we all bundled together and watched a few Star trek Voyagers and headed off to bed. Like I said pretty low key.

Honor Roll

Ronan got 4 A's and 1 B so he was on the Silver Honor roll again this semester. We couldn't be more proud of him. Of all the complaining he does he still does really well. Yes, he needs a haircut badly!!