1st Grade and Collage

This is what Connor had to say about the first day of school as we walked home, "First day of school, one drink of water and too much sun." He was exhausted and it was only a half day. He is growing up so quickly. He has a bike lock with a combination that he does by himself. He asks for a half a sandwich because "its faster that way," I am guessing that is so he can go outside to play.

While Connor embarks on all day school, Rich has embarked on an all day M-F and then studying all day Sat. and Sun. nursing program in Birmingham, Alabama. He was accepted to an accelerated nursing program that will have him out with his bachelors in nursing in 15 months. Yikes, what was I thinking by agreeing to this! A hard sacrifice on both ends, but it will be worth it in the end. He is living with his parents (Masayo packs a lunch and snacks for him), who live just outside of Birmingham. Everything worked out perfectly in the end so he could go.

We talk daily and skype so he can see the boys, who dance around and appear in front of the camera from time to time. We already can't wait to see dad just before Christmas.

Lucky Girl

I am a very lucky girl to have such a great husband. I have had a lot of girl time lately and owe it all to my lovely husband. Saturday afternoon I went skiing with a friend and he watched all the kids, Saturday night I had a freezer cooking party until 12:30 a.m. with friends and he watched all the kids, Monday afternoon I spent time with the horse and he watched the kids, Monday night I was invited to relax in the hot tub with a few friends and he watched all the kids. Needless to say I felt a little guilty for all the "me" time, but enjoyed it thoroughly......thanks my dear!

Bath Time at Work

Andrew comes to work with me on Fridays if I'm not too busy. On this particular day he had a major blow out and required a bath, so we filled up the sink in the kitchen. A new experience for him and I think his face shows it.




Is this not the sweetest face!

My Fohawk

So I looked through the archives and even found a picture of my hair. It is confirmed...the hair comes from the Medrano side.

The Medrano Hair

My sisters little girl Hailee had a great fohawk.

Bradens fohawk. If you look closely he even came with blond tips on the end of his hair.

 

 

This awsome fohawk hair style seems to run on the Medrano side. No really I don't do anything to get his hair to stand up like this, I get asked all the time. Andrew is the latest to inherit the hair. The one thing that seems to come later as a result of the fohawk is a great head of hair.

LIGHTS!!!

 
 
 
 
Rich kept his promise that he would put lights up on the house this year. Yeah!! It is the first time in 9 years that we have had lights. I must add that he says he put lights up one year on a different house, but I recall differently. Either way I am happy to have lights up and so are the boys. Rich and Connor even put up a tree on the front porch and decorated it. Connor decorated the tree in the house all by himself and kindly pulled all the decorations out of the boxes and had them strewn out all over the floor downstair. That called for immediate decorating just to get rid of the mess. He has had lots of questions about Santa and hand wrote his Christmas list this year. We have been trying to help them understand the real reason for Christmas and that it is not just about the gifts....we'll keep trying. They did help pick out some toys to give other kids in need for Toys for Tots and The Salvation Army.

First Snow Day

 

 

 

 

Connor and Andrew had their first snow day with lots of snow. Connor got to stay home from school and we all played outside. Andrew joined in too, but as you can tell he didn't last long before it got too boring.

It seems like growing up we had snow like this all the time and now it is a big treat to get dumped on like this. I love having four seasons for reasons like this.