Friday, January 07, 2011

2009 Ends...2010 Begins

Nothing real exciting...just our events ending December and beginning January...

First, a soccer skills clinic with Lori Chalupny.  She's a member of the Women's National team and she's from here in St. Louis.  At the time she was playing for St. Louis Athletica (which has since folded due to no $ for the team...shame because they were really good and exciting to watch!).  She was in our area doing a skills clinic so Taytum and some of her teammates attended.  Lori was awesome to all the kids...
 shooting
 agility drills (funny)


 playing
 friends
 and check it out...Lori helping Taytum one on one!!!




 She shoots!  She scores!
 Being plain ol' fast...
 Dad and his tigers dressed for game day...
 And some after Christmas fun playing in all the wrapping paper.  The plan was to make some sort of thank you note...  in the end, it DID work out!!






And sporting the new slippers from Aunt Cori..
Happy New Year, everyone!!!

2009 December Rob's Birthday and Christmas

December is always filled with tons of stuff to do...

On Rob's birthday his girls made him a cake...
 Check out Kirby eyeing the cake!  ha ha ha ha
Then on Christmas Eve the girls put out cookies and milk for Santa...


 ...careful...
 ...and special made reindeer food...
 ...with some carrots added in...
 You can sense the excitement, can't ya?
 We left the bowl outside for the reindeer...
 And what did Christmas day bring?...  drums...
 ...a happy baby...
 ...Polly Pockets...
...naps...
 ...and lounging!
And in the next few days we had Christmas with my family (aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents...)

Kirby spread the love a bit...
 Cousin Alyson
 and Cousin Ashleigh...two cousins we hardly see!!!
With Uncle Derf...
 and Uncle Chris and Aunt Cori...
Taytum and her cousin, Connor
 And Regan had a shot at everything...ping pong with Aunt Cori...
 ...drums with Cousin Derek...
 ...a solo act...
 ...and her and her sister sitting with their most-"fancied" cousin...Mitchell...they ADORE him!!!
 Here's MOST of the crew hanging out.  Still a few missing, but I can't remember what they were watching...
 Oh, except for Kirby who was busy playing "floor hockey!"


2009 December Daddy's Tigers

Kinda self-explanatory...



These pictures were taken as a surprise to Rob.  They were part of his Christmas.  Now a year later...Mom still hasn't gotten it all together in a frame for him!  Ugh!  Such is life!