Track 2025

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Track season started last week.  Kaiden's team came in 1st place in the 4X400M relay.  Kaiden was the anchor in the race.

All first place winners received a shirt.  He looks so happy.

100

 Rylan's school has the kindergarten classes dress as a 100 year old on the 100th day of classes.  

Birthdays and Basketball

February was filled with birthdays and basketball.

Kaiden turned 16 at the beginning of the month.  His big present was tickets to the Denver Nuggets.

 I had a birthday at the end of the month.  The kids brought me this cupcake cake.  I had a great birthday celebrated over several days.

We attended most of his home games.  They won everyone that I went to and ended the season with a 12-5 record.

I amazed at how high he can jump.

He started most games and was good at rebounds and assists as well as scoring.

We had a lot of fun cheering him and his team.

2024 Wrap-up

 Holiday Program

Gavin had was in his school's Holiday program in early November.  Such a handsome boy!

Tito's Birthday

Tito turned 80!  We had a big party to celebrate.  His sister, Margie, her husband, Roger, and Tito's brother, Ricky flew in from California and Carrie came in from New York to be with him on his big day.

Tito wanted tapas and desserts for his birthday.  We had friends, family and neighbors.  Rylan and Gavin were so excited that so many people came.  They asked if the entire neighborhood was coming and went out to count how many cars were at our house.  We had a great time.

Basketball

Kaiden started playing basketball in December. 

After 3 games they are undefeated.  Kaiden was named defensive player of this game.

Christmas

We got together with the boys to decorate cookies once again this year.  We had fun and as always more of the decorations were eaten than put on the cookies!

realized I did not have a picture of these two in front of a Christmas tree.  Notice the NOEL letters on the mantle have been changed to read LEON.  Their father taught them well.

This is the only picture I have from Christmas Eve.  We traded gifts, played the left-right game for silly presents, played a hilarious game of I Spy With My Little Eye during dinner.  It was a great day.

Halloween 2024

 

Goofballs

 Tito was in rehab the weekend the boys stayed over.  He was recovering from surgery due to a brain bleed.  I tried to get a picture when we visited but one or more of them looked silly, so I asked everyone to make a funny face.

Sleepover

Nathan and Stacy went to Las Vegas for a combination anniversary birthday trip and I kept the boys for the weekend.  We visited Tito in rehab, went swimming, played games and cooked.  Actually, the boys did most of the cooking. 

Trevin cooked breakfast every day, Kaiden cooked dinner and the younger boys helped make cookies and muffins.  

 Gavin wanted to make a vanilla pound cake - no idea where he got that idea.  I have never made a pound cake, so we improvised with my lemon bread recipe and came up with a satisfactory outcome.