Happy Holidays

I should have written at least one blog post in between the last one and this one, but there was too much going on. Too much happiness and too much sadness.

I first want to mention how saddened we all are by the tragedy at Sandy Hook. One of my teammates in college had a niece, Jessica Rekos that passed away in this tragedy. They have set up a memorial fund in her honor at Wells Fargo. You can go to any Wells Fargo bank and donate to her fund. Please help. We can not ease the pain of this family or the others affected but we can do our best to remember the victims!

OK, deep breath..

We have had a great month of December.

We got our Christmas tree

We went to Busch gardens to see the Christmas lights

Jake had his preschool Christmas show

We had Breakfast with Santa at the firehouse

 

 

 

We had the Station Christmas party at out house where Jake herded all the adult firefighters up into his "firestation"  or playroom and got them to play firehouse!



We celebrated Hanukkah




Gabi started eating solids

We played in the fall leaves on Christmas Eve

We celebrated Christmas

It was a wonderful Christmas with family. Jake has already put out about 50 fires today, I am sure there are more to come.

Merry Christmas and I hope for a happy and healthy New Year to all!

AyyyyYahhhhh

For the sanity of the house we HAD to get Jake involved in something this winter. He has too much energy and is going to wear a track around the house from running the same circle! So we decided to sign him up for Taekwondo! OMG, so cute. Just putting him in the uniform made it all worth it.



 

 

This is just cute!. The kids in the front have been in class for a while and have earned belts. some are VERY serious!

 

Learning his punches

 

Practicing kicking...his partner was a little karate kid. This little guy was totally focused, doing spin kicks and all sorts of fancy moves. Jake thought they were playing a game and was cheesing it up the whole time

 

Ok, not so bad!

 

Jake and this girl thought it was more fun to kick the top pad off than to actually kick, but this was a good one

 

During this drill they jumped over 2 pads then did a somersault at the last one

 

Jake didnt really get the somersault part. He just put his head on the mat

 

And waited...

 

And waited....

Until the instructor helped him!

 

Then he decided he was going to "sneak" over to us

 

Ever so quite so no one will notice

 

Except maybe the girls in the back of the line laughing (not to mention the other parents laughing)

 

I guess he thought if he made himself really small and walk slowly no one would see

 

We found out when he finally made it to us, he had to pee!

 

Getting his white belt

Its official

Mid November fun

We went to a friends birthday party today. They had the party at the local zoo and it was really fun. They brought out different animals for the kids to touch and look at including a SNAKE!

 

 

These kids are really serious

 

 

 

 

OMG Dad! a SNAKE

 

We touched it!

 

 

 

Me: Jake, what was your favorite part about the party

Jake: The sugar!

 

 

 

This was the best shot... hmmmmm

 

 

 

Some other recent pics

 

 

 

 

 

A sick boy and his bear

 

 

 

Sweet girl doing what she does best, blowing bubbles and spitting up