2025

Various Winter Adventures

The post-holiday winter season brought a number of local adventures and activities this year. Huxley celebrated her 7th birthday at Jungle Joes with a bunch of her besties. The kids had lots of fun running and jumping around, fueled with sugar and pizza. Unfortunately we also had to say goodbye to the Cherokee. Turns out the phrase Jeep - Just Empty Every Pocket - was correct in our case. The engine blew one day after Dani drove into a gas station and it never started again. However, we did welcome a brand new Subaru Forester into the garage family on a sleet filled day in early February. We got to test the purported all-weather capability of the Subaru right off the bat. Relatedly, who could forget about getting some sledding in?! Although this winter once again left something to desired in terms of snowfall amount, the girls did have fun getting some runs in the neighborhood drainage ditch turned sledding race course.

Dad and Huxley attended her first family dance right around Valentine's day. They both had a blast hanging out with friends, singing, and dancing. Huxley and her friends even got to hold the DJ's microphone for a Taylor Swift song and sing their little hearts out. Another big milestone came the day that Knowles got his ear tubes placed. After what seemed like a 3 month long ear infection with no medicine seemingly able to clear it up, Knowles (and Mom and Dad) got some relief. Since tube placement Knowles has been ear infection free! Let's hope that continues for everyone's sake. Tubes are truly one of medicines' greatest triumphs. Liesl also turned 5! She is looking more and more like a kindergartner every week. Queue the sad/happy/proud emotion that parents know well.

Spring Break!!!