Out With the Old

Lego guys are out, hockey stickers are in. The boys discovered this hockey magazine that has all the teams in it with spots for stickers of the players. Jacob is obsessed with getting sticker packs that he keeps going through my car and the top of the dryer to find loose change to add up.

I am pleasantly surprised though at the cost. The magazine was only $2. and the sticker packs are a buck for 7. They have spent all their remaining Christmas money on sticker packs and traded their Target gift cards for cash to buy some :) Jacob has even gotten a couple of his friends hooked. He looks forward to going to school to get their extras too.

Thanks for visiting ♥ Michelle

Would You Rather...?

Being a boy Santa really thought Jacob would like this book. What boy doesn't like gross things? Auntie thought it was pretty cool and started asking some questions. Jacob was not a fan. He had a funny reaction to the book. It was like the questions made him uncomfortable particularly when both choices sucked and he had to pick one. She pretty much had to stop reading because he was getting so mad, to which we, being the compassion Mommy and Auntie that we are, couldn't stop laughing.



So I ask you...

Would you rather have a steady slow dripping bloody nose or persistant runs?

Would you rather slide down a slip and slide covered with horse manure or dive into a pool of tuna juice and swim for 30 min?

Would you rather eat cookies with flies for chocolate chips or an ice cream cone with ants for sprinkles?

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Continuing with the theme

With the boys loving hockey and playing inside and out Jim wanted to take them ice skating to shoot some pucks around. We found a very shallow pond that was frozen and headed out with the two pairs of skates we had for the boys. An old pair someone had given Jeffrey, a size too big for Jacob and my dad's skates, a size or so too big for Joshua. Jeffrey exchanged his rollerblades we got him for Christmas since he already had bought some and got ice skates instead. It was a gorgeous day, almost 50...Jan. 7th.

Jim took the opportunity to remind Jeffrey he's never too old for his dad to put him over his knee shoulder :) Can't walk with skates in the dirt now, it will dull the blade :)

 No skates for daddy (the mice got to his) but that didn't keep him down.

 Daddy makes a good goalie...who doesn't want to shoot hard objects quickly at their dad?

 Owweee, "Didn't anyone see me fall?"

 Peeps before us had dug several holes out on to the ice to make sure it was frozen through. Funny enough though the water in the hole wasn't??

 Practice fights. "You wanna go?"

 Oops, daddy fell and I was prepared.

 The expression oh this face is a bit different than the last tummy plant on the ice.

 Skating and texting...isn't there a law against that???

 Me and my cute shoes stayed on the side. My feet kept freezing to the ice though since it was melting a little, hence the wet pant legs. I'm not really a fan of falling and I wasn't quite confident in the ice thickness. I can rollerblade a lot better than ice skate...but this winter I'm sure.

 This boys loves skating and playing hockey.

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New Year's Eve tradition continues

Each New Year's Eve we go to the Monarch AHL hockey game with a group of people. And I might start a new tradition of being the New Year's Eve princess. It has a ring to it. For some reason I wanted to wear a crown since Joshua wanted to wear a hat, and hats aren't my thing.

 Now Joshua, he can rock a hat. Jacob wanted no part of one.

 Noah was game.

 Joshua and Noah had displayed some moves.

 And Brady had a few of his own as well. For some reason the crowd was into taking off their shirts to get on the jumbotron. They boys were happy to oblige (minus Joshua) but I didn't take the camera out for that. Didn't want to be investigated by authorities for that :)

 Someone from our group actually caught a prize that was dropped from the blimp. It turned out to be a ski lift ticket. Not bad.

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Christmas 2011

 Each year we video tape our Christmas morning. This year we did not, so even though these have been posted on Facebook I need to blog about them because when I print our the blog it will be our memory since the video will not exist.

Jacob is opening his gift from Joshua...who better to know what he likes than his very best play pal.

 Jeffrey is still a good sport. Even though Santa doesn't bring gifts for grown ups (which he is now-He gets them from us though) he still gets up hours before his norm when the boys get up Christmas morning. And mind you....Joshua was pretty much up since 1:30 am a mere 45 minutes after I had gone to bed. "Did Santa come yet mom?" "I don't know Joshua, I haven't been down yet." He held off going downstairs til 5:45.

 Our not-so-gentle giant.

 Mommy's pretty in pink pile. Socks, riding gloves, work out outfit and mp3 player.

 Jacob modeling his new riding pants. Both boys got the same pair. I can't wait to see them riding in them. I'm sure they will be white but once :)

 Goalie pads and knee hockey set...a big hit with both boys. It was a theme this year as it is a big interest. Goalie pads, knee hockey, table top hockey and NHL 12 video game.

 Jeffrey got one of these games one year for Christmas too. We had many games of this...I'm actually not too bad! I can even beat Jim once in a while.

 They certainly don't make them like they used to (I find myself saying that year after year with toys and appliances). But on the positive, they do make them with regional team colors.

 Cool dude sporting his new hat, shirt and skinny black jeans.

 "Skates", whose name was found to be "Blades", a pillow pet Joshua has been really wanting. I like Skates better myself.

 Jacob likes Mini Coopers and always mentions it when we drive by it so Auntie happened to come across a Mini Cooper model.

I pressured the boys to give me their top four favorites and even though they struggled because they loved so many this was their lists.

Joshua (in no particular order) 1. clothes (he made me keep them separate from his 'old' clothes on his dresser until he wore them) 2. goalie pads 3. four wheeler sets 4. knee hockey

Jacob 1. goal pads 2. basketball hoop (which hangs over their bedroom door and makes such a racket everytime they go up there to do something and get distracted and start playing) 3. knee hockey 4. mp3 player


Thanks for visiting ♥ Michelle

A Year in Review Picture Edition

January-In his first year playing Joshua made the Merrimack Rec All Star Team.

 February-Yay! My hubby finally made me some new cabinet doors. I love them!

 March- A lovely trip to the beach mid-winter.

 April-The boys and I took a night away to go see Baileigh in her school play. Joshua really loved watching the kids perform.

 May-It's never too early for them to start swimming...brrr!

 June- June gets too pictures because both are monumental events. First the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

 And second, Jeffrey graduated.

 July-Our Tennessee Girls came for a visit. We just love visits from them!!!!

 August-Jacob gave us all a scare we hope to never experience again.

 September-This was the first yeat the boys attended different schools. Joshua moved up to the Upper Elementary School this year. 5th grade and 3rd grade in case you are trying to figure out their hand gestures :)

 October- An enjoyable family Columbus Day weekend. No arguing, no fighting, just plain fun!

 November-We celebrated Halloween a week late due to our rare October blizzard and extended power outages.

 December-Jim and I went away for our 10+1 year anniversary.

Happy 2011 and Welcome to 2012, let's see what it has in store for us...stay tuned.

Thanks for visiting ♥ Michelle