Red Robin Rocks

The guys and the Deffenbaughs exchanged Christmas gifts and realized they’d gotten each other the same thing......Red Robin gift cards! Tonight they all went out to enjoy their meal. The boys love the bottomless fries and bottomless root beer floats! Chad enjoyed a bottomless cream soda. They all left stuffed! It was a good time for everyone. 

New Years Birthday!

We made it to another year! Year 2020!! That means Chance has also made it to another birthday! Can’t believe how fast these 14 years have gone by. Such a great kid. So happy to celebrate him as we start a new year. We love you Chance!  We spent New Year’s Eve with salad, homemade pizza, playing games, and watching Netflix. Ate an early birthday lunch at China King yesterday as well. Afraid they’d be closed for New Year’s Day. Had a big birthday breakfast to start out the New Year.  He got a poster with some basketball pictures on it. 

Christmas Day

Don’t have many pictures from Christmas morning but the boys had a great day. They all got new sports attire. There were legos, Xbox games, controllers, Rubix cubes, etc. Chance got a hoverboard and Cade got a CAR!!! Well he was handed down Chad’s car but still very exciting for him. He turns 16 soon so he’ll be ready to burn up the roads 😉. 

Christmas Time

The boys spent Christmas Eve sleeping late and waking up to a brunch of pancakes, sausage and omelets. Cooper and I made coffee filter snowflakes for the tree. We baked and decorated cookies. After the cookie decorating contest we opened presents. They got some new games, socks, shorts, playing cards with their favorite teams on them, and plenty of goodies in their stockings. 

Christmas Cookie Contest

The boys wanted to have a cookie decorating contest. We’ve been watching lots of fun baking shows lately and they decided they wanted to bake something. We settled on sugar cookies. They had to roll the dough, use cookie cutters, make royal icing, separate into bowls, add different colors, and decorate! I tried to let them do as much of it on their own as possible! They impressed me. I offered some verbal suggestions and helped them spoon icing into bags for piping. Otherwise they did it all! They exceeded my expectations. I was very impressed. We had Papa and CR vote for a winner. They chose cookie number 5 as the winner. Second place went to cookie 3, and third was cookie 8. Cooper had the winning cookie this year. Way to go guys! Way to impress your mom with your decorating skills! 

Christmas with Papa and CR

We celebrated Christmas with Papa and CR yesterday. We had a great lunch and some really good White Christmas pie! It was so good! We did some Christmas trivia and enjoyed visiting for a while. Boys got some new pullovers/hoodies.....seen in picture! Thank you Papa and CR! 

Homecoming/8th grade night

The Jr. high homecoming was tonight. We were supposed to play Selmer but they cancelled on us. Instead of calling the whole night off they decided to go forward with the homecoming events and play some blue/white games with each team. It turned out to be a very fun way to end the regular season. I think they played more aggressively playing against their own team mates. The band played, cheerleaders cheered, lots of ball was played and the 8th graders were recognized. Can’t believe Chance is in his last year of jr. high. He sure has made the most of his time there. On another note he got his braces off today also!! Big day for him!!