Happy Valentines Day

Love these evenings when we are all together. Today I overslept, had car trouble, helped with 3rd grade swim lessons with Luke tagging along, cooked a last minute dinner that was thrown together when going out to dinner fell through......couldn't be happier. Happy valentines!

Henry where are you?

Sugar buster!

I've started to notice a direct correlation between Luke's bad behavior and eating sugar. Nate and Henry never really seem affected by sugar (that I noticed) but Luke is a different kid. I realized that he eats very little protein. oatmeal with brown sugar for breakfast (i am not eliminating that!), jelly sandwich for lunch. maybe a granola bar some goldfish. he drinks apple juice, sweet tea.....you get the picture. Pretty much whatever they wanted short of dark colas.
Saturday evening I vowed to give my best shot at eliminating sugar in his diet. I am not giving up fruit or bread. We are starting with drinks. No more juice or tea. Water and milk only and no more empty calories like pop tarts, doughnuts, granola bars.
The big news is, he was like a different boy today. He's been wonderful! We shopped for groceries in ingles for an hour and he walked beside the cart the whole time munching on pistachios. He ate his dinner without begging!
This is going to be tough for all of us, but nobody needs cocoa pebbles for breakfast anyway!

Henry's field trip

It was a beautiful day for a field trip to Walhalla Civic Auditorium! Here we are on the bus (Stryder on left) headed to see "The Wonderful World of Tales"

The auditorium was packed with classes from several schools.

The second grade teachers were brilliant when they decided to have Chick-fil-a delivered for a picnic at Sertoma Field.  Unseasonably warm day, probably 70 degrees! I love field trips!

Spring break

After weeks of discussion, we finally committed! Grand Canyon, Moab, Sedona, Zion for spring break. Boys are so excited!

Zipline/birthday Pictures

Thank you Carrie for taking these pictures at Nate's birthday party. 

More Kuk Sool Won with Luke

Luke's martial arts

Luke had his first Kuk Sool Won class tonight and he loved it!

World of energy

4 th grade field trip was a hit today! I was just glad to get out of the house after a week at home...virus hit the boys 1 by 1. Seem to be better now. Love this group of kids!

Charleston continued

On our way, so excited to meet Silas & Merritt for lunch.  Everything was going great until...

WE RAN OUT OF GAS!!!  Who does that anymore?? Bryan was on a conference call and didn't notice gas gauge.  This was a first (and hopefully a last) for me.  Needless to say, we were late for our lunch date. 

Back on the road! But wait, here comes a rock off the road, hits our windshield and cracks it! Hope I have better race for the half marathon the next day!

Getting settled into Charleston Resort & Marina, next time we're getting the suite.

Our hotel has a sandy beach area and bikes to borrow

Nate 2013 predictions

Charleston half marathon

This past weekend, we went to Charleston for the 3rd annual Charleston Marathon/Half Marathon.  Christy Burrell and I have been training since September for this exciting day.  We had a great time, finished the race with PR's and enjoyed beautiful Charleston every step of the way.  We also had a great time visiting with Mark, Denise, Silas & Merritt.  Pictures to come!

It was an awesome race, one I would highly recommend to anyone considering a half, completely flat! That's what I like!

Love these guys!

Nate at subway

Don't worry, Luke didn't fall!

Zip

It won't be long

Elf on the Shelft

An elf showed up at our house this year and he was delightful! He toilet papered the Christmas tree

The boys just loved finding him each morning.  This day he replaced our Christmas stockings with our underwear! Naughty elf!

It was a race every morning to see who could spot him first. 

The catch is, if you touch him, he will lose some of his magic.

The morning after Luke touched him, he couldn't get back in the house!

If Henry ever mentioned eating poop, well not worries, it was elf poop!

He hung around until Christmas eve, then headed to the North Pole with Santa. We all hope he will return next Christmas!

Happy New Year!

We had lots of fun last night with our 2nd Annual Kid-Friendly New Year's Eve Party!  Our ball dropped at 7:30pm, just in time for the Clemson/LSU kickoff! Happy New Year!

Happy new year!