Hello 2015...

Back into the world of blogging after taking a bit of a break.  The first of the year I always get burnt out from taking pictures, blogging, and scrapbooking... basically all creative outlet is just gone.

Hard to believe we are well into the new year with January just about over!  Ainsley finished up her Basketball season just before Christmas and is glad to have a break for a couple of months before Volleyball and Track season starts.  She had the opportunity to go skiing with her school for 2 days last week. She was really excited and nervous all at the same time because it was her first experience...

I actually didn't know if she was going to make it back the next day because she texted me that her knee hurt so bad while she was trying to get the wedge down to stop.  I asked her how she was able to stop then and she replied, "Falling to the side and also crashing and rolling hard!" She said she took a fall that entailed gloves, hat and skis flying off... she was so embarrassed when the ski patrol ran over to see if she was okay. She was also not thrilled when all the other beginners in her class headed off to the chair lift while she had to stay with the instructor for 2 more hours!  We got her a knee brace to help the next day and it was a much more enjoyable experience for her!

Walker is just now starting his Basketball season and has been really into stop motion animation lately.  So cool to see his hundreds of  pictures turned into a little video.  Currently rocking the stop motion animation is his minecraft figures... imagine that!  Having friends over to play on the minecraft server is also currently high on his priority list lately as well.

Having a hard time wrapping my mind around that in a few months he will be picking out his classes for Jr. High!!

January always has us busy organizing, and purging items... so it was at the beginning of the month I had the thought to rearrange a few rooms.  We moved the TV into the front room and the piano into the family room.  It makes better sense to have more piano practice time and fewer interruptions while homework is being done at the dining room table.  We decided in the new room the doggies wouldn't be able to lounge on the couch... so dog beds for each.  They had their own ideas as to who was getting which bed... ha!