Reconciliation

So proud of Oliver for making his first reconciliation!!! Love this boy to pieces!!!

Wedding Bells

On February 9th my brother John got married! It was a gorgeous wedding and fun was had by all!

The Komo girls!

Two of my sistas!!! Love these ladies!!!

The bride and groom!!!

Traditional family wedding selfie!

We even managed to get a nice picture of me and Mark!

Claire and Emma did a beautiful ballet dance for the newly married couple!

I love these two!!!

It was a beautiful ceremony!!

Claire and Oliver were in the wedding! They loved being a part of the special day!!!

The kids all looked so adorable!!!

Congratulations John and Tiffany!!! It was a beautiful evening!!!

Seussical Kids

Claire had her last musical in elementary school!  Although I am so sad that this is her last Windom performance, I am so very proud of how great the show was and how hard Claire worked!

Claire with Mr. Clark.  Mr. Clark is always a "surprise guest" in every musical.  The kids just love him and us parents think he is pretty great too!

Claire and Kathleen!  They wanted to match for the big show!

We had a blast shopping for their costumes!

I was so proud of my baby girl!  She did an amazing solo!!!  During the show a little girl behind me told her mother, "Mom, that is the ballerina!  I love this part!" 

And Oliver loved supporting his big sister!  He came home from school the day that they watched the show at school and told me, "Mom, Claire did an amazing job doing her solo!!"

Here is my baby girl dancing her little heart out! 

Family Skate Night

Last night was Family Skate Night at the kids’ school. We always have so much fun at this event but this year was a little sad because it is Claire’s last one 😔

Claire goes to school with such a great group of kids! 

Love these faces!!!

Oliver won at Four Corners and wanted me to post his picture online 😜

Hopefully Claire will still want to go to Family Skate Night next year and help out with Oliver and his friends 😬

High Five

So proud of my best girl! She won the “High Five Award” today for demonstrating a positive attitude, working hard, and being a great role model! ❤️😍🤩🤗

Dinner At Grandma and Grandpa’s

We love having dinner over at Grandma and Grandpa’s House!!!

Claire and Grandma love playing games or doing puzzles!

And Grandpa and Oliver love playing hockey in the basement!!!

And Mark and I love having a nice meal that we don’t cook or clean up 😀

World Juniors Gold Medal Game

Oliver won a suite to the World Juniors Gold Medal game! He was able to invite 18 people to the game and we had so much fun!!!

We started out with a delicious dinner at Ninos!

Then we headed to the game got our seats!

Oliver invited some of his hockey buddies and I have to say, I had more fun watching these boys then I did watching the game!

Although Canada won, we were rooting for Sweden!

Even the girls got into it!

Marc bought everyone popcorn! And made sure we all ate it!!!

The kids were glued to the game the entire time!! They even enjoyed the end ceremonies!

The adults had a good time too! It was so much fun!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Last night we rang in the new year with some of my favorite people!  If last night is any indication of how 2018 is going to be I must say...it is going to be a BLAST!!!!

 The boys had a great time mixing up drinks and dancing!

 Love my ladies!!!

 The kids had a blast celebrating!

 I love these two dudes!

 I cannot even believe how big all of the kids are getting!

 Celebrating the Bills making it to the playoffs!!!

 The boys did a great job cooking and cleaning up!

 I love these faces!

The girls loved playing with our new addition this year!!!!  Baby Sammie had a blast!

Love these people!!!

Even if they fight me on the group picture every year!

My resolution for 2018 is to listen more and talk less (we will see how that goes LOL) and to do things that scare me. I am looking forward to new year with new adventures and more laughs!

Annual Date Night

Every year over Christmas break we have a family date night. We go to dinner and a movie! We have been doing it for the last few years and this year was no exception! 

We had a delicious dinner at PF Chang’s!

Followed by the Greatest Showman (even though I keep calling it The Greatest Showman On Earth to annoy the kids).

We all LOVED the movie!!! 

It was yet another fun Christmas tradition! I love Christmas break! It is so fun to all be off together and do all this fun stuff together!!!

Christmas Day!!!

 HE CAME!  HE CAME!! Santa came!!!!

 The kids were PUMPED to see that Santa came!

 Claire and Daddy ready to open some gifts.  Claire likes to pile up all of her gifts and then slowly open them and play with each one before moving on to the next gift.

 She loved her stuffed unicorn!

 This guy just rips through every gift and then goes back to play with each one!

 His hockey and football cards were a hit this year!

 The kids and I got Daddy coal for his stocking this year!!

After we opened all of our gifts Nana and Papa came over for breakfast.  Oliver loved showing Papa all of his hockey and football cards.

I didn't get a lot of pictures of Christmas day because we were very busy playing with all of our new toys but it was a perfect day!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!