I'll start with where I ended and I believe that was in November right before Thanksgiving and in the thick of the Nutcracker rehearsals. Nutcracker went on without a hitch and my beautiful little dancer did a wonderful job.
I barely remember Christmas...it is always such a blur. I think that I am going to talk with my sisters and see if they can agree that we only buy something for each other if it's on clearance, at a garage sale or we make something. Or the suggestion in the past has been to draw names. I am thinking that we need to slim down the gifts (and a little of the craziness!)
"The Dungeon" is the home of Topeka High basketball and it's a tradition. And starting in December (and through February) we spent a lot of time there. I cannot tell you how excited I am to share in this with her.
Oh, and Lauren went to a couple of Power Lifting competitions...We are so grateful for all of the opportunities our kids are taking advantage of!
Caleb played some B-team basketball. Gotta love this kid!
The winter of 2013 (January-March) was pretty crazy. We had an epic blizzard in which my boss for the first time ever sent the staff home! Some of us (myself and a couple of others) had to catch a ride with the others who happen to have 4-Wheel Drive. Thank goodness for them because it was crazy (I think I said that already-WINK!) On a good note, the kids had a snow day and the hubby was home so we spent the day watching the first 3 seasons of Big Bang Theory...It was a great day!
In February, Lauren auditioned for Ballet Midwest Company (and the spring ballet Coppelia). She was accepted into the company and March and April brought rehearsals as a Mazurka and Spinner. She got a Big Sister in the company and is very excited about that as well.
Don't for get about the boy, it was Caleb's 8th grade year and so there were a lot of lasts for us this year. We had our final middle school band concert, some extracurricular drumming in the Cruzline, and he was the second seed tennis champ for 501 middle schools. (someone even let it slip to the THS tennis coach and he stopped by to make sure that we are going to get him to play in high school too. (Well of course!)
Caleb also had 8th grade promotion in May, many honors and we are blessed with pretty great kids!
Lauren has made the dance team again for her sophomore year (here we go again!) and has a dance team camp coming up in a week or two. Caleb leaves this Sunday for a Church camp for a week. Sometimes I think that the summers are busier than the school year...not really but it seems that there is more structure during the school year.
Lauren and I ran the Warrior dash with my co-workers in May...next year the goal will be all of the family running it!
And just a random picture from Easter!
So, there you have some of it. My hope is to not wait a lifetime to start blogging again, but it's hard to find the time sometimes. I have a couple of full time jobs (work, kids and Pinterest-more on that later).
I will try to make a better effort to get on at least once a week if not more! Until next time!
Renae
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