Ballerinas and Bananas

A week or so ago we got to celebrate Haileys very first birthday 

with her and her family.

We threw out the norm and made banana boats instead of birthday cake.

They are easy and there is something for everyone.

Here we are stuffing the bananas.

So many choices!

Definitely stuffed!

 

And wrapped to be heated.

Okay so the peel doesnt look great but you dont eat the peel!

Here is Haileys birthday treat.

Hailey is sporting a brand new birthday tutu and complimenting shirt.

The birthday ballerina

Ta Da!

All photos were taken by the ballerinas mommy. :)

Broken Hearts

So a little over a week ago, we took a trip back to Missouri.   A big reason, but definitely not the only reason, for the trip was to see our oldest grandson wrestle.  

We also got to see other family and the guys did some work while they were there too.  

I was very excited to see the wrestling matches, but I quickly learned that I really had no idea of the heartbreak that losing a match could cause.

Grampa Juan was trying to get him to watch what was going on on the mats.

Here was the only girl we saw wrestling.  She kicked butt.

 He thought he would take a picture of me and Papa.  He needs a little more practice with the camera huh.

Sittin' on Papa's lap

Coaching from Daddy

And now, out to the mat for his first match.

Look out!

Uh oh. Adrians on the bottom.

Hey, get off him!

Dont let him flip you Bubba!

HEY! Dont push my babys head down like that!

You want this Gramma to come out there!

Aww Match over.  Heart Broken.  Mine and His

I dont want to lose Mommy

Encouragement from Daddy on the second match

Here we go.  I'm holding my breath

Down to the mat

There ya go!

Roll him back over Adrian!

Flatten and pin him!

Aww the other little guy lost.  I was so sad for him.

Third place.  

He said, "I dont know why I got third place.  I only lost twice"

All is good,  Pizza and Angry Birds

Things Change

This is my "Cross Wall" that I started in April of last year.

This is my "Cross Wall" today.

A Winter Weekend

We haven't done much lately because the weather has not been very cooperative here in Wisconsin.  The temps have been very low with wind chills in the negatives for many many days.  BUT, on Saturday we got lucky and it was kind of misty all day but  in the upper 20's with very little wind 

so we decided to layer up and hit the slopes.

I'm not talking about ski slopes. Oh no.  Much better.  The tube sledding slopes.

Preston and Raquel are bundled up and ready to go.

So is Hailey

  Here we are headed down from the parking lot.

 

 And there are the slopes.  

It doesnt look very big 

but if you look at the people standing in line at the bottom

you can get a better perspective

While we were inside getting our tickets, Preston and AJ were outside waiting.

 Then we were heading to the top.  A few crazy people took the stairs.  Not us though.

We laid on our tubes and grabbed on to the rope that pulled us to the top.

 Here was my bunch of family, waiting to come down.  See that nice man waving at me? 

People are sooo friendly here.  Okay, okay really he was telling me to get out of the darn way!

 Here comes AJ and Preston sideways.

 And backwards

 And sideways again at the bottom.

 And Kelly, Lisa and Raquel.  Raquellllll!

 There you are.

 Then we headed into the lodge. 

Close to the warm fire and the food.

 Ugg foggy lenses.

 

 Preston having some pretzel with nacho sauce

 And some blue taffy

 Then we headed back home.  The kids just couldnt get enough so 

Rocky pulled them in a sled we bought last week.

Then we went in, had dinner and celebrated Raquels Birthday.

She's six now.