X-MAS PARTY

 Every year Mac's work has a Christmas Party for their employees and their families! (Well I guess its more of a kids Christmas party.) Anyway even though our day was very busy with other things going on we still figured out a way to make some time so that the boys could go to the party for a little while! The boys had a great time again this year!

 

So I waited in line so that the boys could see Santa and the boys went off to play games, eat and find their friends! About 10 minutes into being at the party Bry came running out of the game area carrying this matchbox car toy that he had won. He was so excited about winning it!

He left it with me and he was on his way to play more games!

 

 After waiting and hour and a half we finally were able to sit on Santa's lap! Kode was all for telling Santa what he wanted for Christmas. As for Bry he was not. He is so not into this whole Santa thing anymore! He just knew that he had to sit on his lap for a picture then he could get a gift from Santa and be on his way!

 

Santa was giving out pillows! These pillows flip inside out and turn into animals! They are pretty cool! Each year Santa gives out cool things to each of the kids!

 Bry choose a dog and Kode choose a monkey!

 then it was time to go and see the Grinch!

(luckily the line was not near as long as Santa's line)

 

 then we were off to get something to eat! They had pizza, cookies, juice, popcorn, cotton candy and pretzel's! All you can eat!

 

We couldn't stay for long. The boys were invited to a birthday party and we were already late for it but there was just so much to do at the party the boys didn't want to leave! So Bry wanted to go and play one last game to see if he could win anything! Well he was a winner! He won this CAT toy!

(since this was the 2nd prize he had one at this game they told him that he had reached his limit and that he needed to go and play other games. I thought that was kind of funny. I understand why they do this. That way it gives other kids an opportunity to win some toys to) Anyway great job Bry!

 

Another successful Christmas party put on by Mac's work!

Phones

Mac and I got new phones the other day! (our old ones were not holding a charge so we finally decided it was time for a change) Our phone plan was so old that they were making us update it which ment that the monthly $$$ amount was going to change to. Of course it was going to be more money! So Mac said that we should just get smart phones! So thats what we did!

Well the phones are so "smart" that I am having a hard time trying to figure out how the stupid thing works! This is one thing I hate about getting a new phone. Anyway, I asked Mac to help me figure out a few things on my phone! He has more patience in figuring out these phones work!

Basketball!!

 Basketball has keep us very busy the past couple of weeks. Kodes team has made it to the playoffs! We are so excited. Only 8 teams are eligible to make it to the playoffs. So for the past two weeks we have been practicing each night for 2 hours. Its been very time consuming but its getting the boys ready for the playoffs!

 

So let the games begin!

Its been a great season of basketball. All 3 of Kode's coaches were wonderful. We could not have asked for better coaches! They did such a great job coaching each and everyone of the boys. All of the boys have grown and learned so much over the past few weeks. In a lot of ways I hate to see the season end! (now what am I gonna do with all of our nights free. We don't have to worry about 2 hour practices anymore!)

 

 

 The boys played a great game and they ended up taking 3rd place. We are so proud of all of the boys! They worked so hard!

 

Congratulations Lakers!!

 All of the winning teams got a PAL Shirt. So Kode handed them out!

 

  Lakers!

(top row: Coach McKenny, Victor, Garrett, Manuel, Kris, Ronan, Coach Spencer 

bottom row: Payson, Adrian, John, Cooper and Kode)

 

and the trophy that the team gets!

 I just wanted a quick picture of Kode with it before coach took it!

 

All in all its been a great basketball season!

Great job Kode you have learned so much and you have come so far! We are so proud of you!

Gingerbread Houses!

 Its that time again. Time to decorate gingerbread houses. This is something that the boys look forward to doing each year. So the other day we broke open the gingerbread house kits and our large bucket of candy and the boys went to town on decorating their houses!

well first I hot glue them together.

(yes I hot glue them together first that way they can decorate their houses right away. The candy that we have is real old and hard so they cant eat it anyway)

 

Let the decorating begin! 

 A couple of days before the boys were going to decorate their gingerbread houses I told them to be thinking of how they wanted to decorate their houses. They needed to have a good plan in their minds! So when it was time to decorate them they already had a plan!

 

 

So here is how they turned out!

Bry's Gingerbread House!

Kode's Gingerbread House!

Great Job boys! Your houses turned out great!