Sunday, January 27, 2013

I'm back again....I think.

This is proof that I am still blogging.  Been having lots and lots of trouble with blogger.  But have recently discovered it is trouble with my work laptop, not blogger!  So I shall resume!  Matt is at church this morning with Collin and Katie and I am home with a sick Jackson, 102 fever but breathing just fine!!  :)  This is a photo of him in November eating a WHEAT THIN!!!  Did you know that we have incorporated wheat and soy (when mixed with other ingredients) into his diet?  It's not all the time and it's not much, but we are excited. Although he is not officially free of the allergy to those two - some food items seem to be ok for him.  He will be tested again in March!  :)
 
So now I will blog from Matt's work laptop.  I know he will be thrilled!  :)
 
I'm back.  Again.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Blogger and I are done!

So friends, after my restart of blogging, blogger has decided to not let me ever upload a picture.  So we are through.  I'm moving over to wordpress because my dear friend at Let's Go Carrolling does wordpress.  I'll keep you posted on the new blog.  I have the cutest snaggle tooth picture of Katie that I have to upload soon!
Alyssa

Friday, January 4, 2013

Ice Skating

Today I laughed so hard I cried. 
 
I was nervous to take all 3 kids ice skating without Matt as my helper.  But I did it anyway.  Collin and Katie went ice skating last winter and loved it.
 
And this year Jackson joined them!!  My phone pictures are pretty horrible of them and I can't get them to upload right now anyway.
 
Today was fun!
Today was hilarious!
 
Collin has greatly improved since last year.  This year he moved away from the wall.  He fell a few times, but he was doing it!
 
Katie still is not a strong skater and has her dad's feet.  But she decided after today that she wanted to take ice skating lessons after basketball was over.
 
Jackson was awesome!!!  I was so nervous to let him on the ice without me right beside him.  The owner said he could push a chair around the rink.  And he did.  And he looked like a bulldozer.  He would get going so fast and then turn and kind of slide to the side, like he planned it!
 
The owner took Jackson on the rink by himself and had Jackson skate to him a bit.  He could do it!  Without a chair!!  I was shocked!  The owner is a professional ice skater from Russia.  He has an OC connection and he told me that Jackson needs to play hockey!
 
This news just shocked me and made me laugh!  Hockey?  What will a sports-loving-football-playing-every-male-is-a-quarterback-and-number-11-for-that-matter family do with an actor and a hockey player for grandsons?  Cheer them on I'm sure!  :)
 
Today was glorious!  Just what I needed to start this year.  A year of no "owie places" for Jackson.  A year of good health and breathing deeply and praying and not taking things for granted.
 
This is what I hope for you in 2013 as well.


Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Happy New Year

I am back to blogging!  I'm excited about it and I've got lots of stories to tell!  And you know what I've discovered?  That I scrapbook much faster if I've already blogged about an event.  I remember way more detail and cute things the kiddos said. 

Happy New Year blog friends.
Alyssa