New Years Eve bowling

Our annual bowling outing this year with the Housers, two Greathouse families and all of us!

Roxy loving the snow

Roxy hasn't had much snow to play in this winter so far, but we did get a little today for her to play in!

Leg Lamp!

I got home from Detroit to see a new Leg Lamp in my room! Our friend Sarah Houser found it at a Goodwill and got it to us. Awesome!

Packers/Lions

For the second time in 4 days I was at Ford Field for a football game. Today was to watch the Lions and Packers play with Emma, Ethan & Garrett Greathouse. The Packers pulled out the win with a last second field goal to win 23-20. After the game we went to Redsmoke BBQ in Greektown for an awesome post-game meal!

My first bowl game

Yesterday I went with Ryan, Tim and Isaac to the Quick Lane Bowl at Ford Field to watch Pitt take on EMU. The Panthers pulled off the late win and we capped it off with Coney dogs at Lafayette Coney at midnight. It was a long but fun night, and record setting for temperature, as it was still 54 degrees at midnight!

Abby gets her hampster

All Abby wanted for Christmas was a hamster, so yesterday we went and got her one. She named him Squirt. He is good at being cute and annoying the dog!

Some pool fun in December

Well, sort of!  One of the fun presents today was a small pool table that we had plenty of fun with playing against each other. The girls whooped me.

Merry Christmas!

We celebrated Christmas today, in the 55 degree weather! It was nice not being bitter cold but we did miss the snow a little. Doesn't quite feel like Christmas without it. But we had a good time and celebrated with family.

Early Christmas and cookie decorating with Grammy

Since Grammy will be gone for Christmas we celebrated with her tonight and decorated Christmas cookies while we were at it. Fun evening!

JV girl Bulldogs win the CAAC Baker tournament!

Today Olivia and her JV girls Bulldogs won the 2019 CAAC Baker tournament! They did so well, they all played an improtant role in taking home the trophy. It was so fun to watch them today. It was also the first ever tournament win for JV girls at Mason! Fun for Olivia to be a part of history at MHS!

Olivia's first JV bowling meet

Today was Olivia's first JV bowling meet. She got off to a rough start, but hopefully with the first one under her belt she can shake the nerves and bowl like I know she can!  Not much time to think about it with a fundraiser tournament Sunday!

Huckleberry Railroad

Tonight was out trip to Huckleberry Railroad & Crossroads Village. We rode the train but didn't do much village time as Izzy had her gymnastics meet most of the day and we barely fir the train ride in. But we had fun and got to have a huge dinner at Cracker Barrel as we always do after the train ride!

Izzy does awesome in her first gymnastics meet!

Today Izzy competed in her first gymnastics competition and did great! She placed in both events she did, bars and beam. Love watching her do this, and how confident she is at it! Makes me nervous but she is a tough little girl!

Emma's Big Screen Debut!

I couldn't post about this in February when it happened, but Emma got the opportunity to be an extra in a Hallmark movie due to our sister-in-law owning a building in North Carolina that they shot some scenes in. So Emma, Barb and her sister got to fly down to Charlotte in a private jet, be on the movie set all day and even got to eat with the director for their lunch break. And even though Emma didn't get a lot of screen time, it was a great experience and we had a blast watching it tonight during the 'premiere' with friends.

Christmas Tree is up!

Tonight we got our Christmas Tree up!  And of course we had to watch the Grinch during the festivities. I got myself a Thunderbird ornament this year, and Roxy wanted to join in on the fun!