Swim Lessons

Winter is a great time to take swim lessons - its way easier to manage our schedule during the winter and the kids are bored anyways! I am falling in love with all the opportunities that the YMCA offers including swim lessons. Ellie hopped right to it and made some great advances in her comfort level in the water and Ryan took his lessons sans parent for the first time. His first lesson was really hard on him, but after that you'd never have known that day one was a bust. So proud of these water babies.

This was Ryan before his lesson

Ellie floating on her back day one!

So happy she can touch the bottom of the pool this year

Ryan during his lesson on day one - poor baby

Ellie the ballerina

Ellie's Christmas present from us was to take a couple ballet lessons at the YMCA. It was the perfect amount to trial run ballet for her and she loved it! We aren't quite ready to commit to it long term which is what most studios run (quarterly or semi year), so we are holding of just a little bit longer, but filling in with other stuff too!

Happy Birthday & Eric Church

For my 30th last year, I ended up traveling to Seattle on my birthday. This year ended up the exact same! However, I was welcomed home with a big surprise - dinner and tickets to Eric Church. Jared surprised me with dinner at a new local restaurant with a bunch of our friends and then we had amazing tickets to the concert!

This was without zoom from our seats! Amazing!

Welcome 2015

With no plans for the new year celebration, we managed to host a fun night at the last minute! We have such a great group of friends! Our kids both passed out on the couch around 9 and 10, while the Simmons kids managed to keep it together until midnight!

Midnight Groupie Pic

The boys