THANKSGIVING!

Thanksgiving weekend was great as usual. The day before Thanksgiving I was all set to go to the twins class and help with their Thanksgiving feast, but my car broke and it had to get towed. I will go into all the yelling I had to do on the phone, but needless to say I missed most of the activities, but at least I was there for a little bit and got to see them!



Eli's class finished reading the BFG and so they enjoyed a fizzy frobscottle drink together!


We got up and we all went and did the Turkey Trot. We were so proud of the kids this year. Eli finished in around 20 minutes, Tyson finished in 21:45, Tyler was a few seconds after him and then Emma came in a minute or two later! Tyson is the only one with an official time because he really wanted the shirt and running bib! These kids all ran the 2 miles without stopping and by themselves! They all kicked butt! We were especially proud of Tyler because he hates running long distance and especially proud of Emma - man cheer has done so much for her - she never has been able to do this but running miles and bleachers each week has made a huge difference!  Jared and I both did the 10k. Jared beat the turkey this year! While we were running, Emma and Maddie were in charge of the boys and they went around to all the booths and got all the free loot they could and got themselves some massages - funny kids!

After the Turkey Trot, we went home and made pies and cranberry sauce and then we headed over to my parents house to have Thanksgiving with everyone. It was a great day filled with family, food and fun!

This was my first year not doing ANY black Friday shopping - well at least not in the middle of the night or early in the morning (Jared and I did go out that night around dinner time to a couple of stores for the boys) but the boys have been bugging me to take them to Sports Clips to get their haircuts like Tyson did so we hit that up first thing in the morning - they loved it!

Then we had Conner and Caleb's birthday party so all the cousins could get together and play for a bit! 

TYLER STUDENT OF THE MONTH!

Tyler was chosen Student of the Month! We were so excited for him. He is so deserving of this. He is the quiet, hard worker. He talked all about it between when he got the award and when his actual rootbeer float lunch was with the principal. He needed to make sure he had a very special lunch packed that day!   Tyler was also Student of the Week in his classroom. The kids all had to do a page about him in a book. Tyson knows his twin very very good!! He drew his favorite animal, drink, vehicle, vacation and I believe that is the AZ Cardinals mascot. Love it!

PHS ADVANCED DANCE CONCERT!

(since I am back dating this post and really writing it 6 months later...) Emma danced in her one and only Perry High School Dance Concert! Going into it, Jared and I honestly thought it would be a joke, but we have to admit - they were a lot better than we thought. She never ceases to amaze us on stage.  She ended up dropping advance dance at school because between juggling her heavy school load, studio dance, school dance and cheer...it was way too much for her. Plus - her big end of the year dance concert that would have been worth a ton of points, fell on the same weekend as a big studio competition and we didn't need that stress too! So, she dropped it and is now in photography and loves it. Dance will always be a part of her and it was great to sit and back and enjoy her one time dancing as a Puma! (in hind sight - I probably should have taken more pictures - oops!)

2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS!

Here are a few of my presidental election stories with my children:

After just watching an anti-Hillary commerical on tv, Tyler asks, "mom, are you voting for Hillary Clinton or Trump? Cause Hillary Clinton only care about herself and money! And she is going to take away our guns and our Pokemon cards! But Trump is going to take away math from schools and math is my favorite!"
#decisionsaretheworst #eletion2016 #wellinformedvoter

Yesterday when I picked the boys up from baseball practice, they were telling me how in class they had their own class voting for the President. Tyler voted for Trump and Tyson voted for Hillary Clinton. We don't really talk politics with our kids at this age, but I couldn't take it anymore and I had to explain to Tyson that the info he had received from his friends wasn't all accurate. I did explain how we wanted to vote for Trump in hopes of protecting the Constitution and hoping to keep our 2nd amendment rights and the rights of freedom of religion. I think my talk went over pretty well...the boys now think that we need Trump as a president because if Hillary is elected the military will no longer have guns and they will have to fight in wars with knives and sticks! Oh boy!

Last night after sports and showers, we decided to turn on the tv and check to see who was winning the election. Never in my life did I find watching the election to be such a sporting event - I guess with 3 boys in the house - what else would it be. Every time the numbers changed at the bottom of the screen showing a new state's voting complete and then how many electoral votes each candidate was getting - the boys would jump up and down and get super excited or super sad if it went the other way. They were so into it - we might have let them stay up till 11pm watching it. When it was looking as though it was going to be many hours before a president was determined we sent them to bed. It was quite an exciting night!

STIXX FARM A BASEBALL PICTURES!

Here is the twins team the Stixx Farm A Fall baseball season pictures....

This was the boys first year in kid pitch. It was interesting, fun and tough. The boys went out at the first couple of games and had great hits, then something happened in the middle of the season and they got nervous up at bat and did a lot of striking out. They played a lot in the out field. They are probably the best outfielders on the team, but they don't realize it. They are burned out right now on baseball, tis the season, but we are still looking forward to what spring will bring them!