Griffinator

I had to post this picture because I thought it was hillarious. It is of my nephew Griffin at Disneyland during lunch time. His Mom was planning on staying all day, but after this he ended up going home with Grammy.


Now here's his Mommy at about 10:30 that night.

I'm not sure he has the same Happy Place as his Mom:)

We love you GRIFFEY!!!!

Ki Won, Natalie and Kyler's new addition

Kal 7lbs 9oz 19.25in born 1:11pm

Martin Luther King 3 Day weekend

We had a great three day weekend, starting with John and I heading up to the mtn. on

Thursday. We had an amazing time and did great getting in 11runs for the day. We would have done more but on run #10 my binding broke while I was headed down the mtn. causing me to crash big time. Then on the last run, after fixing my binding, I was so sketched out that I face planted big time. It's been awhile since I had wrecked like that and I've started having 2nd thoughts on Snowboarding.
John and Aleksia went back up Friday after school and had a great time. They made it back just in time for Aleksia's to see Mary and Helen, her cousins from Phx. The twins were here all weekend and they all played in the snow every chance they got. They were over here Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday night, sledding and building an Igloo hotel. They stayed out until they had to come in. Saturday night Grammy and Paps took them to the movie Mall Cop, it must of been good because all I heard on Sunday were comments or quotes from the movie causing bouts of laughter.
On Monday, John took them up snowboarding for the whole day. He ended up putting them all in a Snowboarding School, Aleksia scored and got private lessons for group lesson price. She was the only one in the advanced class and got to hang out with her instructor Brad all day. He said she did awesome and finally got her toe side down and even going down the last two runs edge-to-edge. For those of you who don't know, that is when you head pretty much straight down the mtn. getting down the fastest (and crash the hardest when your binding breaks). He said that we should really put her on the Snowboarding team, hum following them around to different ski resorts and lots of vacations, sounds good to me.
The twins did great to. Helen was able to beat Mary down the mtn. and was really feeling it Today. Mary started to catch up at the end, and they both made some great improvements. They weren't to happy on the last run though when John and Leks took them up to the top. They took quite awhile getting down and made it to the rental shop right as they were locking the door. They did make it down but I'm not sure how soon will get them to go back to the top though.
On Saturday, John and I got up on the roof and shoveled the snow. We were getting Ice Dams and had to get the snow off before we got leaking problems. We ended up getting all of the snow off but couldn't make a dent in the ice. We both only slipped a couple of times but luckily had no falls. John was really thinking about Snowboarding off the roof until the girls convinced him otherwise.
All-in-all it was an amazing weekend spent with great company. I hope everyone else had a great weekend.

San Diego

We had a wonderful time in San Diego enjoying the warmth. We hit the beach, Sea World, some Museums and of course the pool. Looking out the window of the condo we noticed the fog rolling in. We got some pretty cool pictures but in this instance the pictures do not do justice. John had the kids freaking out by telling them pirates were coming to get them and sent them running for cover. It took a lot of convincing but they finally came out to watch. In the morning Aleksia spotted dolphins swimming out in the ocean and came to get everyone to watch.

We had so much fun we didn't want to come home but it was time to come back to real life. Brax had an appointment on Monday and things looked pretty good. They upped his meds and it seems to be helping. Aleksia was disappointed at going back to school but after a week of snow days and 2weeks of Christmas vacation she was pretty excited to see her friends. John got to come home and shovel more snow, we now have way to much to even measure. Luckily our neighbor had snowplowed some of it so John just got in the Rhino and plowed our drive way wider and a path to the front door. I got to look forward to oral surgery on Tuesday Yippee!! I had to have four of my roots taken out through my gums. This required them to cut my gums remove the roots and sew them back up. Needless to say I have had a wonderful week of sleep but my face looks pretty rough. If I get brave I might include a picture:)

I hope your all having a wonderful new year.

Love, Freers