Last Saturday Adam had his annual Christmas piano recital. It is so fun to see him up in front of people performing. The Christmas recital is always a duet recital, so Adam played a couple of songs with Tammy. They both did really well. Tammy gets more nervous than Adam at those things and I think was more relieved when it was over than Adam was. We had a nice time out for dinner with him afterwards (the other kids were with a babysitter).
On Tuesday we had a big ice storm. You probably heard about it on the news. It didn't turn out to be such a big deal around here. Mostly just rain freezing to trees, but the roads stayed pretty clear. It made the trees and plants and shrubs look beautiful though.
On Wednesday I drove with my work team to Kansas. On the way down we drove through southern Iowa and northern Missouri where the ice storm had done a lot more damage. It was sad to see the hundreds of trees that were split and fallen because of the weight of the ice. It seemed like nearly every tree had some damage.
The time spent in Kansas was enjoyable. Our business partners took us out for a nice night on the town. We got to go to a really nice restaurant in the Country Club Plaza area of Kansas City and to enjoy the Christmas lights there. After some meetings on Thursday we made our way back home just ahead of the next big snowstorm. We were lucky to have good driving conditions both ways.
On Friday our family hosted my work team for our holiday party. There were around 10 adults and 11 kids (including our family). It was fun to finally meet some of the families of the people I work with. There was a lot of work to do around the house to get things ready (especially with me being out of town much of the week), so this added significantly to the busy-ness, but by the time the party time arrived everything around the house looked great. I think everyone had a good time.
Saturday arrived with another snowstorm. We decided to brave the snow and drive to Iowa City to visit Todd and Deanna and their family. The kids made sugar cookies and had a nice time with their cousins. Saturday afternoon I had to go shopping for a new dryer - ours had finally given up after 9 years of hard labor.
Here are some pictures from the week:
Anna and Ben building their first snow fort together.
Lizzy smiling in the snow. It was very cold that day, but the kids had a great time.
Adam built a rather elaborate snow fort only to have it destroyed later by the snow trucks when the plowed after the next big snow.
Lizzy in front of the Christmas tree.
My friend Carl from work at the work party holding baby Jake. We're trying to convince Carl it's time for him to have some kids. If baby Jake can't convince him, no baby can!
In foreground is Bill from work and background is my manager John and his wife.
John's son is in Adam's grade and goes to the same elementary school as Adam. They knew each other a little before, but had a great time playing at the party and I think will be better friends now. By the way, we got a new air hockey table this week as an early Christmas present. We've all had a great time with it so far!
1 comment:
I loved the beautiful Lizzie picture. That is a gorgeous dress for a gorgeous girl. It looks like you have some furniture downstairs. Is that true? Allie has loved playing in the snow this year but we don't have any cool snow forts.
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