Hockey season

On Saturday, Aaron had his last ice hockey game of the season. Even though he's a little disappointed that it is over it had a very happy ending - his team won and Aaron scored a goal! So, in honor of his first ice hockey season I thought it was appropriate to share some photos.

Favorite Photo Friday

This picture is from our trip to Disney in the spring of last year. I like this picture because this trip was a complete surprise to the kids. We did not tell them we were going to Florida until we were getting ready to get in the car and drive to the airport!!! At that point, we only told them we were going to the beach for a week. Then on Tuesday of that week we woke them up bright and early and drove to Orlando to spend the day at Magic Kingdom. This was Sarah's first trip to Disney World and oh my goodness, she was excited!! Aaron rode his first roller coaster (finally) and we had a character dinner that night. I remember Sarah falling asleep, sitting up, waiting for the characters to come to our table! We've never surprised them like that before and I hope we can do it again soon.

Just gotta brag!

As most of you know, Kelsey is a Girl Scout and this is cookie season. We found out this week that she was top seller in her troop! She was so excited. But what is so funny to me is that we definitely weren't aiming for that and I didn't think she had sold a huge amount of cookies. But she was thrilled with it and so I had to brag! :)

Also, Aaron made his first appearance in the local newspaper - and it was on the front page of Sunday's paper!!! Long story short, he went to the Predators game Sat. night with a friend. They were standing at the glass watching the team warm up and the press is always taking pictures. Anyway, the picture is of the newly aquired player, Peter Forsberg, and Aaron and his friend are right behind him. So, he thought that was pretty cool! (If anyone would like to see it, email me and I can send it to you).

So far Sarah is the only kid in our family who hasn't been in the newspaper. But, hey, she had her own billboard!!!!

Favorite Photo Friday (a day late!)

This is my all time favorite photo of the kids together. This was taken on the last day of our fall camping trip '05 at Tims Ford and they were having a blast! Each time I look at this photo it makes me smile. It reminds me that it is possible for all four of them to be happy at the same time! :)

My 1st slideshow

Favorite Photo Friday

Favorite Photo Friday is an idea I got from a friend of mine (thanks Pam!). And since we don't get much snow in TN I thought this would be an appropriate picture. This was taken last Friday when the kids were surprised with a snow day. Poor Sarah - the snow here must be such a disappointment compared to the snow she's use to in Russia!! Jared is not in this pic because he was busy "snowboarding" down our neighbors driveway. Unfortunately, this snow was gone that afternoon and the kids are hoping and praying for another snow day soon!

Trying this once again

I decided to give this blogging thing a try - again! I didn't do very well with it the first time but thought it would be a good way to keep family updated (especially grandparents!). Here we go!!!