Saturday, April 5, 2025

The start of 2025!

As usual, I have some catching up to do!  The highlight of recent times has been the arrival of our newest family member!  Kjersten and Josh had Miss Sofia Therese on December 18th and she is PERFECT!
It also meant that we got to spend several days with Lauren just before the holidays, which was so fun!

We had lot of fun while mom and dad got settled with the new little one!
Lauren did a great job at hour house and started to make some gains in her quest to be friends with the cats!
And in her quest to eat all the snacks!
Christmas Eve was the usual shenanigans with pre-teens and teens!

Dad gave some pool tips at Aunty Kim's house!
Christmas Day wake up is a little later these days, but still fun!
Isaac got to go on a adventure with Stan and Hattie to a cat arcade!

And we did our usual winter break movie marathon - this year was the hunger games series!

Noah helped out at the activities fair, representing DnD club.
More baby cousin time!
Isaac tested out the new electric scooter that he and Sam got for Christmas!

In February we got to celebrate Lauren's 3rd birthday!  It was a wild time at Main Event!


Happy Birthday little lady, we love you so much!

Isaac turned 12!

We celebrated the March birthdays together!
Cat snuggles!
Ridiculous Costco finds!

Band concerts for Isaac and Sam!

And Noah turned 17!
The boys and I had different spring breaks this year, but we spent the overlapping weekend at a super cool Air BnB in Wisconsin.  It had a ton of arcade games!

The Worsts joined us for an afternoon of gaming and swimming!

Poor Mike threw out his back and spent most of the weekend laid up on the couch, at least it was a larger couch I guess!
The hunting game was a fan favorite.
There were a few scrabble games.
Isaac spent a lot of time in the huge pool, it was a fun weekend!
And now we wait for our German exchange student to arrive!  Always some new excitement around here!