I spent the entire week spreading irish cheer through my spin classes.... and today was the final one for 2013!

we were waiting to drop the girls (Angela, Elyse, Leah, and Sarah) at Poquessing to catch their bus to St. Joes... Elyse at the cheer comp...

It is hard to believe that my parents have made it to the 40 year mark.  They have conquered so many challenges and I give them alot of cred...

Elyse and Leah watching the varsity cheerleaders for LSAA awards time... first place for the pee wees (Angela and Sarah's team) a...

but this is what it looked like by early afternoon! Leah and Elyse had a blast making a snowman... actually several of them!

this is the mini-peewee team (Elyse's) and this is Angela's team (the peewees)

Angela and Sarah were having a great time boxing at Bouncing off the walls.

The girls are loving cheering for LSAA.  This was right before heading out to their first competition!

I stopped over at the BOX with the girls to see one of my friends, and Angela says "mom, I want to hold that big hammer and stand on th...

I have been doing crossfit for a few months and finally got the hang of the rope...

all I could say was wow...

you don't need much snow to go sledding

We welcomed Miss Emily to our family and she fit in nicely.  She quickly made friends with Ollie and the cats are totally fine with her.  Sh...

get them while they last!

On January 19th, we flew to florida and boarded the Norweigan Epic for an eight day cruise of the eastern carribean!  We were soo excited ab...

not too bad considering we are going away for 8 days and have 4 people!

I dug out my "old school legos" from my parents' house and the girls were shocked to see there were "no step by step dire...

amazingly we had nearly a full class on new years day....