Non-Stop Sky Zone

We have been so grateful to have SkyZone as an outlet during winter break.  We went at least once a day from the 26th to the 5th.  Esme is bummed we can't go every day now that school is back in session.

Parker is really getting good at the foam pit rope ladder.

It's gonna be a fun month of jumping!

Happy New Year!

Another low-key holiday for us.  We made an afternoon trip to SkyZone

Then we all got in our jammies and made some New Year's snacks.  Jimmy even tried on Parker's pizza union suits.  Here was the variety of chese we had on our charcuterie board.

Shrimp cocktail and a chicken pizza with gorgonzola cream sauce.

Esme decided she wanted to stay up until midnight so there were lots of activities to keep her going.

She did her final countdown with Animal Crossing on the switch. She was so excited to make it!

Happy New Year!

The last of 2024

We had a quiet Christmas morning with a single gift for each kid.  Parker got a toy dishwasher and Esme got a gymnastics bar.  THey played for a bit before we drove up to Two Harbors to visit the Schottenbauers.

We only got pictures of the dessert! It was a fun, relaxing way to spend the day.

Parker was gifted a SkyZone membership for Christmas and Esme chose to use some of her Christmas money to get her own!  I was back at work the day after Christmas, but Jimmy took the kids for their first session.

They ran in to our niece, Emma, and her boyfriend, Asher.  We also took a family trip to Mall of America!  Esme got a gift card to Build-a-Bear and was excited to use it.

Esme picked out Isabelle from Animal Crossing. They were having a sale so Parker got a chameleon too.  He did so good listening to the instructions they were giving.

We squeezed in a couple rides while we were there too.

We broke out our Seinfeld Trivia cards and Esme loved reading them to us, it was hilarious.

We closed out the weekend with cheddar brats, kraut, and mustard for our 27-25 win over Green Bay in the penultimate game of the regular season.

Christmas Eve

We did Christmas Eve with my family this year.  We started with chicken and shrimp fettuccini alfredo for lunch.

Then we opened presents!  The boys really got in to it this year which was fun to watch.

I made them some new Husker shirts, GO BIG RED!

Esme's big gift started with a scavenger hunt created by Nana.  It led her to the basement where she found a custom balance beam made by grandpa and Nana!

We followed this with our church's Christmas Eve service.  Esme and I did the final Advent candle lighting and reading.  There were some technical difficulties and Jimmy caught my face perfectly as I tried to get the lighter to work.

Esme was itching to get the beam set up when we finally got home.  She also got a new leotard and got them both broke in.

Merry Christmas!

Countdown to Christmas

Parker had strep and missed his second floor hockey game, but was back at it for game 3.  He gets pretty distracted by us being there, but I want him to get used to it.

They also got their first win of the season!  Go Robins!

I had an employee appreciation lunch on Thursday at work. We got some stockings filled with goodies and I won the raffle for a Stanley cup and some gift cards.  I do pretty good drinking water at my desk, but not elsewhere so I dubbed this my "upstairs cup." Jimmy found it pretty humorous.

Parker is not letting the snow keep him off the trampoline and I love it!

He sported one of his new t-shirts and looked too cute not to take a picture.  You don't choose the nug life, the nug life chooses you!

We had our final week of advent gifts.

Then went sledding after church.  Esme was so excited we could finally go and it was much earlier than last year.  Hopefully more to come!

This week's dog had cream cheese and grilled onions for our victory over Seattle.  We also borrowed some floor hockey sticks to practice some skills at home with Parker.

Winter break is officially here, bring on Christmas!