Award Ceremony

 Kaiden at his Academic Awards Ceremony.  He got awards for being on the Principal's Honor Roll as well as an Academic letter.  We are so proud of him.

Easter

We had our annual Easter egg hunt and lunch but without Tito this year.  After lunch we did all go to see him at the nursing home.  He was very happy to see all of us.

Kaiden looking very happy as the first to find all his eggs and basket.

 

Trevin opening his basket which was a pillow this year.  The older boys got a pillow with pockets for their remote and gaming controller along with snacks and bubbles.  The younger boys got temporary tattoos, a joke book, drawing pad as well as snacks and bubbles.

Stacy got sticky notes, pink kitchen towels and dishcloth, pink spatulas as well as snacks and bubbles.  Kaiden got meat seasonings for his BBQ and smoking endeavors, B's for his collection as well as snacks and bubbles.

The bubbles were a big hit.

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