Winter Break 2021

 Our winter break is almost over.  The boys and I go back to school on Wednesday.

During the break we drove to San Diego for an anniversary party/ family reunion for one of Papa/Dad's cousins.   We stopped in Phoenix for 2 nights on the way there.  On the way home, we drove straight to Austin with a few stops for food, gas, and restroom breaks.   We had a nice time.

Fran and Scott came to visit for a few days.   We enjoyed hanging out with them and celebrating New Year's together.  For New Year's Eve, we set up the projector in the backyard and watched Back to the Future.

Here are a few pictures from our trip and New Years.

Happy New Year!

Yesterday, we met the Williams and went downtown for barbecue.  We had lunch at Coopers and then walked around the lake and Auditorium Shores.  The city was setting up for the New Year's party, so we were able to hear some music of a band rehearsing.  It was a nice day.

At night, we met the Edwards at Alamo Drafthouse to see the movie, The Passengers.  We enjoyed that.  We got home around 11pm and Grandma and Papa came over to celebrate New Years.  They stayed until a little after midnight.

Today, we went to the Polar Bear Splash at Barton Springs.  We all jumped into the cold (68 degree) water.

In the afternoon, Aunt Sandy and Uncle Marvin had us all over for lunch.

We had a light dinner.

Now, the kids are getting ready for bed.

Here are some pictures.

Happy New Year!

Yesterday Aaron's family came over in the afternoon for a little bit.

At night, we went to Wade's house.  They had a nice family friendly New Year's Eve party.  We stayed until a little after midnight.

Today, was filled with family.  We went to Uncle Marvin and Aunt Sandy's house around 10:30 and stayed there until mid afternoon.  Trent's family, Grandma and Papa, Jay and Holis, Jacob, JT and Helen, Lisa's boys, Joel, and Jimmy's kids were there with their significant others.  We had a nice time with everyone.

We took it easy tonight.  We ordered pizza and picked up a Redbox movie.  We just watched Inside Out with the kids.  We all liked it.

Soon the boys will get ready for bed.

Here are a few pictures from today.

Recovering

Last night we took it easy at home since we are all recovering from whatever flu or cold hit us.  We watched movies and had a fondue dinner. The boys stayed up until midnight to watch the ball drop.

Today we took it easy at home.

Aunt Sandy and Uncle Marvin invited us over for dinner.   We had a nice time there.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

New Year's Eve

The boys were kind of cranky this morning. We had planned on taking a walk to the school playground, but Noah especially was not in a good mood. The boys did play outside in the backyard. The weather was very nice today.

This afternoon we started getting ready for our party. I baked the cookies while Morry ran out to Salt Lick to pick up the food.

We had a nice party. Everyone left around 11pm. Evan and Noah stayed up until midnight. They wanted to sleep in their sleeping bags in the game room tonight so we let them. Noah is already asleep on the couch and Evan will probably be asleep soon.

Here are some pics and a video.

Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve

Happy New Year's Eve!

This morning the Circle C Moms group was meeting at Going Bananas, an indoor play area for kids. Marilyn/Grandmom, Evan, Noah, and I got there around 11am. Going Bananas has lots of those inflatable moon bouncers. Evan wanted nothing to do with them. I’m not sure why. I went with him on a Nemo one and I held his hand and jumped a little, but when I stopped he was ready to get off. He went one time on the slide one. He climbed up the ladder, but whined at the top for a while. I don’t think adults were allowed on that one, so there wasn’t much I could do. Eventually, he slid down and seemed to like it, but didn’t want to go again. They had some play houses and other things that weren’t inflated, so Evan spent most of his time with those. They also had a little baby area that Noah enjoyed. At 12 noon we met the other moms for a New Year’s countdown with party blowers and everything. Since most of the kids wouldn’t be up at midnight, they did a 12:00 noon countdown.

After Going Bananas we picked Morry up at work and ate lunch at Wendy’s.

Morry and I are going out tonight for dinner and Marilyn will babysit the boys. Depending on how the night is going we might try and stop by Mike and Melissa’s party also.

Have a Happy New Year!