Starting out in 2009...

We we started the year out and our first purchase of the year was a bag of dog food for Gingersnap. Then we took Zac to dinner at Texas Roadhouse where we played Yahtzee and Golf (it is a card game that one of the supervisor's here at work taught me). I have to say I actually won Yahtzee playing with Zac and anyone who has played against Zac will know that this is a big feat. Zac had earned a free kids meal for being responsible at school. Then Friday we went to Cafe Mexicali for lunch and we went shopping and swimming. Zac is getting better and better each time we take him swimming. The rest of the evening was spent playing pool and grocery shopping. Saturday we were able to spend most of the day at home the boys went and picked up pizza as Zac had earned a free pizza for reading. Then Zac and I had planned a surprise birthday party for Jeff. We had the Christensen's and Sander's families over. Jeff was in the basement working and I had turned on the Journey CD and had it quite loud to cover the kids voices... Then I had Zac invent a reason to bring Jeff upstairs to find a living room of full of friends. It was great. We got the kids started on building train tracks for the Thomas the Train and cars and pulled out the kid wood blocks. These are the only kid toys that I have kept. Then in the TV room we put on the Thomas the Train videos for the younger kids. The guys played a game of pool and then all the adults played Snorta and Apples to Apples. There were chips and cookies galore to munch on and everyone had a great time. Of course I forgot to pull out the camera so no pictures of this one. But it was a fun time for all. Thanks for coming and for the gifts!