Soccer

I recently signed up Cregan for soccer with 3 of my other friends that I go to church with. And it feels great to have this huge cheering section at every game, all of us cheering for each others kids and bundling up against the frigid dropping temperatures.... They are the Crew and now I wanna take him and the boys to a soccer game in to see the Columbus Crew.... we shall see about that.

But I'm pretty lucky to have such great friends that are there for me while Josh is gone and ask if I need help with getting the chairs outta the back of the van, or ask if Cregan needs a ride to practice. I should have done sports like this years ago.... live and learn

Snow Trails

Josh decided to take a few days off of work for the Holidays, and we decided to take the boys somewhere fun. At first we thought of going to the indoor water park, but at the last minute we found Snow Trails. This place is AWESOME, they have skiing and snow tubing. We took the boys tubing with Tanya (Josh's sister) and her family.

The hill is 1100 feet, you take a ramp up to the top of the hill, with you tube, and slid all the way, either by yourself or holding onto each others tube (which makes your trip down even faster). It was SO, so, so much fun, and only about an hour away, so we will go back soon!

Turkey Trot update

Well, Thanksgiving was a cold, wet day and to be truthful I thought more than once of just rolling over in bed and pushing the snooze button. The boys wouldn't of allowed that though, they were SO pumped for the race. We got to the race and were all bundled up, me with my lightweight jacket, Sophie with 2 pairs of exercise pants and 4 shirts, plus gloves, hat and a jacket.... and we were all Benjayed (is that a word) up too, knees, and back were good to go..

The kids ran there race and then we ran (um, walked mostly) ours. We did pretty good time, Sophie came in right over 1 hour, and I was 1 hour 7 minutes. We both think we should take time off of that for the delayed starting that happens when you are in the back...

After the race, we went to Josh's mom and dad and had a fat laden, calorie extravagent meal with dessert's galore! It was a really fun day...

Because I am thrifty... some say cheap, but I say thrifty. I decided this year to run in the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot downtown instead of the Flying Feathers Four Miler that I ran in last year. Why you may ask?? Well let me tell you, the 4 miler is $40 per person, you get a shirt and a medal BUT in the Turkey trot you get the same for $35 PLUS your kids get to run for free and they get shirts and medals! Not isn't that a better deal, the only flaw with this plan was that I am going to have to run (let's face it walk) 5 miles.... YES, it's a 5 miler!!! I.am.going.to.DIE!!!

The pain will be worth it because I saved $35 - $5 for the difference of me, and the $10 registration per child for the 100 yard dash... again, I am so cheap, I mean thrifty!

Hockey Game

We took Clay and Collin to their 1st Hockey game! They absolutely loved it. It was an OSU Hockey game and Clay kept screaming O.H.... and waiting for anyone to scream I.O... not one did, but he kept trying over and over and over... :)

The band was there and they had a little league hockey team go on the field during half time, they were so little, they had Brutus there as well.

The best part (well besides the game ofcourse) was watching Clay's eyes light up when he saw himself on the Dance Cam. When I pointed out where the camera man was, it was all over, he was hamming it up for the camera every chance he got, and was on the Dance Cam for about 3 more times as well as Collin ofcourse.