Corvin started playing the upright bass at the start of this school year. He has been getting better with practice. Here he is at a concert. Its amazing how many students participate at the different grade levels. This concert is at Webster Groves High School and the students take up the whole basketball court! You … Continue reading “Corvin’s Orchestra Concert – 1/13/2016”
Corvin got his braces off today. He’s quite pleased to have his mouth back to normal! Mom was quite excited to see him back to normal too. We had to celebrate, so we went to Burger King on the way home and had a bit of fun… And some more fun in animated format… Hogan … Continue reading “Corvin’s Braces Off”
Danelle and Sonora took Hannah to her first NHL blues game. The girls were lucky enough to be at a game where there were not as many people in attendance. They came down to the first level from the top to see the game from close up! Quite the experience. Rumor has it that Hannah … Continue reading “A New Hockey Fan – 1/4/2016”
Hannah came to visit us during her winter break from school. We didn’t waste any time, from the moment we picked her up, we headed out to Waterfall. 141 ramp from I-44 was still closed as they were cleaning up debris from the flooding. You can see extra water where there normally isn’t any. The … Continue reading “Hannah in STL – 1/2/2016”
Sonora had some leg warmers out and we decided to have some fun with the cats. So Tiko and Petra got a treatment. They were tolerant but quite happy to be free of them! Hogan Haake
The family is sandbagging for the second time this year. You may remember back in June when we sandbagged in Kimmswick. Now there was a call out along the River Des Peres during heavy winter rain. So with the kids off school, Danelle took Corvin and Sonora out for a few hours in the morning. … Continue reading “Sandbagging again – 12/29/2015”
We were in the midst of several days of hard rain. I took some photos out of the window, then decided to go exploring. At the creek near the house, it was running high and violent. Large waves would come and go and large debris was pushed downstream. Lots of flooding on streets and several … Continue reading “Crazy Rain – 12/26/2015”
Christmas day had great weather and we decided to take advantage of it. We headed out to Rockwoods Reservation to hike the Lime Kiln trail. The trail head for this hike is hard to miss. The start has a large lime kiln. The weather was perfect, and we had a good time exploring and goofing … Continue reading “Christmas Hike – 12/25/2015”
This is the aftermath of Ingrid’s annual cookie party. With cookies made, the group comes 1 block over to our house to eat pizza and relax. Of course, the boys have been here all day during the party hanging out. Ryan sat on the floor doing his best to get Rori and Maddie to warm … Continue reading “Cookie Party Aftermath – 12/13/2015”
Sonora was invited to Maggie’s birthday party at Bounce U. The girls had a great time jumping and being together. Then after the jumping came the cake and presents. Mason tends to eat like his dad, making a huge mess. The girls took turns beating up on each other and Jeff. And I decorated the … Continue reading “Maggie’s Birthday Parth – 12/9/2015”