Loving Life

I had a great weekend full of all sorts of fun things.  Spent yesterday at my parents house once we got home from church.  We celebrated Father's Day there along with my Grandpa's 89th birthday.  I didn't get a picture of the birthday boy, but I did get a picture of my ever adorable grandma along with my absolutely gorgeous sister.  Table ping pong is back!  We upgraded at the end of last year from using books as paddles to having official ping pong paddles.  However this year, only one paddle can be found.  David lets Ana have that while he uses a book.  Abby decided to help out with a bigger paddle and tried to use the white board to help.  They all thought it was pretty hilarious.  David ran a 5K race on Friday.  He did better than he did in his last one.  He ran the whole way without any walking.  He was happy with himself and even happier to find out he won his age group (not too many 9-13 year olds wan...

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you all had a great celebration last night.  We had a good night, but pretty low key.  We ended up not going anywhere this year as all of our friends seemed to be out of town.  David and Ana were both determined to stay up late to bring in the new year with us.  David made it all the way last year, but Ana dropped out after 10:00.  So this year there was no deterring her from her goal.  They got ready for staying up late by taking a nap in the afternoon, or what they termed, "A sleeping party under Ana's bed".  Yes, it was as successful as it sounds.  No sleeping actually took place, but they were mostly quiet under Ana's bed for the majority of two hours.  Then as I was making supper, I declared that no fun would take place tonight until they helped get the house cleaned up.  So they cheerfully cleaned things up while I finished making supper. Once supper was finished and out of the way, we g...