Slacker....

It's funny...I've been meaning to post for over a week but every time I sit down at the computer I think about something that's coming up in the next day or so and that I could have new pictures to post. So then I end up putting it off. Oh well! I'm so glad our lives are finally back to near normal now that the snow is gone and the rain has stopped. This was the kids' first full week back at school since before Christmas break. Now that we're back on track...time to catch up.

We celebrated New Years Eve with a group of good friends here in the neighborhood. The party was hosted by the Fowlers. So much fun! Great food and LOTS to drink. Shots of JD on the deck for Quinn, and shots of amazing espresso for me. Ken mixes a mean doppio espresso (he bought his wife Erin a very cool new machine for Christmas). I'm secretly hoping ours breaks now so I can get one. The gallon of JD the boys shared on the deck was a bit much for some of them! Pretty funny. The best part of the night was definitely the Karaoke machine. I have a killer video of our friend Armand doing a niiiiice version of GNR Sweet Child of Mine. So awesome. I've promised not to post it anywhere online! :)


On New Years Day we finally had our Grigg Christmas Eve celebration. Unfortunately we were minus the Southend Griggs (we missed you!). Good food, plenty of beer, wine (and of course COFFEE) and lots of football. We also had a blast playing Rock Band II - even Stuart! When my cousin Aleesha was younger we used to get together on New Years to celebrate her birthday (she's New Years baby) and watch the bowl games. Remember when the major bowl games were all on NY's day? I miss that! But we haven't celebrated that way in a while. Aleesh is 29 now - so it's been a long while. I didn't realize how much I missed it.

The Rebels had another game last weekend. They get better every game. It's been tough though because we keep losing boys to injuries. We've had a knee injury, broken wrist and stitches.

Garrett had his first basketball practice last Monday; and has his first game tomorrow. He's so excited.

Nathan started Cub Chronicle this week. He is a reporter for the Cascade View Elementary School newspaper. His job for this edition is to write a book review. He chose the book Kal and the Amazing Anti-Gravity Machine. I love how excited he is about this. So cool.