Region,State and Broken Records

Thomas competed in Region in January and the State Championships in February. He swam the 200 IM and the 100 back in both meets. He was Region champ in both events and at  State he came in 4th in the IM and 2nd in the backstroke, breaking a school record that was set way back in the 80s. He also broke the record in the 2 IM in an earlier meet. His relay team also broke a record so he is now on the record board at our Rec Center 3 times. Since I am helping with the high school team this year I was the lucky one to get to go and redo the record board. How fun it was for Kevin and I to put his name up on that board! Hard to believe he is down to only one more year swimming high school.
Oh ya, he got a mohawk, aaaaaand he still has it!

2 weeks after State he went to California to compete in a huge meet where he swam against an Olympian and swam his best times in 4 events and making the finals in 3 events. He dropped a ton of time  and is super close to making a Sectional time in a couple of events. So you would think that he would take a few days off but he was back in the pool today!

Junior Prom

Tonight was Junior Prom. Thomas had a blast and looked so handsome in his tux! Yes the hair is getting pretty bad again but he has big plans for it next week so he wouldn't cut it. They went to a place called Get Air for their day activity and jumped around on trampolines for a while. Then they dropped their dates off to get in their fancy clothes and later they went to The Mandarin for dinner and then to the dance at the U ballroom. After the dance they came back to our house for brownie sundays. It took a little convincing to get him to go to Prom but now he is glad he went.

Snow Day!!!

 Snow cave!!!

 Mitch wouldn't come outside for a picture in the snow

 Once there was a mailbox

 We had to dig a path in the grass so Thomas could get to his car in the other driveway

Thursday we got hit with one of the biggest snow storms I have seen in years! It started Thursday afternoon and didn't stop until Saturday late morning. Friday morning we got a phone call saying all schools were closed in our district. Needless to say the boys were very excited, I think Jacob was more excited than Christmas. I was excited too because it meant I didn't have to drive in the snow. The college students in the house didn't go either but their schools didn't actually close until later in the day. I was glad they didn't go because then I didn't have to worry about them. So here are some pictures of all the snow. Jacob has had a blast playing in it and actually built a snow cave in the front yard. I haven't seen this much snow in a very long time. I am scared it is going to be one of those winters that lasts until June. I finally understand today why all of our parents live in warm places!

Christmas

All I can say is this was an awesome Christmas having our family back together again. Our family is so blessed to have such wonderful family and freinds!

Santa Loki

Our good friends the Jenkins, gave Loki an awesome Santa suit for Christmas. I must admit we had a blast dressing him up as Santa. He was a good sport and actually wore it all day even tough he looks like he wanted us all to die in the top picture! we have found a new Christmas tradition!

Family Christmas Party

Santa is coming!!!!!


 

Tanner can hardly stand the excitement!

 Some of the cuz's

 How cute is my dad!

 Thomas photo bombing Tanners Santa shot

 Even Mema got to sit on Santa's lap!

 Mitch mopping the floor after the party

 Seems like yesterday these three were the little ones running around. Now they have adorable little ones of their own.

Love these girls!


We held our annual family Christmas party last week. It is so fun to see the family and my cute aunt and awesome cousins. We played fun games, ate yummy food and had an ugly sweater competition. Mitch was sad he didn't win and Maddi Thomas and Jake worked hard on theirs but 2 of my cute nieces topped them all and Britt's won in the end. It is such a fun night for the cousins young and old to get together for the evening. We will start getting the ugly sweaters ready for next year!