April 9th weekend

Another Saturday run for Tim and Miranda, another Saturday lacrosse game for Gabe.

I like that most of the upcoming games are scheduled right down a street from us, only about a 5 min drive.

This year Gabe has a pretty strong team. And, again, they won the Saturday game by a large margin.  Gabe is getting better about trying to get in the middle of a fight for the ball too.

I finally got a chance to work on the fleece blankets.  Had the fabric for a while...  Larissa was more then happy to help.  End result = three more warm blankets.

On Sunday I had to go pick up a cord keeper, which I ordered a while back and intend to use for Larissa's Insulin Pump's tubing, so Larissa and I decided to make a lunch date out of it.  We stopped by a Vietnamese noodle place, Pho Tango.  I ordered a chef's special and Larissa got chicken with rice.  Her meal looked delish.  Mine was a bit much to handle, for me.  I kept thinking back to all the episodes of Bizarre Food show...

Other than expected cuts of meat I had some jello like pieces and some "bumpy noodle" looking parts.  I tried most of it, but could not get myself to try the jello meat...

This Spring had been unseasonably cold and I can not wait till it actually gets warm and sunny!  I am SO ready for the Summer and my vacation!

Oh, and if you were ever curious of what a teenager girl's closet looks like, here is a pick. And yes, there are plenty of shelves and hangers...

April 2nd weekend

Our April started off with a first Lacrosse (HALO) game on Saturday.

It was probably the worst conditions for any outdoor sports, but the game must go on!
They played two games.  First game started with cold temps, wind and a pouring down rain!

After lunch he had a second game, and by that time it got much better.  The sun was out, and it stopped raining.

Gabe has a really strong team this year.  He is still the shortest kid on the team, and not the fastest one either, but he sure tries!  This was just a practice game, so there was no official score keeping, but I am certain, our team bet the opponent by a very large margin (both games)!

Spring Break 2011

Kids are always only too happy to be on vacation, sleeping in, no homework...

For the week of Spring Break Tim took a week long vacation.  I don't have too much vacation time saved at work, so I only too the Thursday and Friday off.

 We decided that even though Spring is here, the skiing and snowboarding season is not done.  We booked two nights at the hotel near the slopes and spend all day Thursday and most of the Friday snowboarding.  By the time it was Saturday, there was little energy left to go again.  Instead we headed home.

Here is what Jon looked like after a long first day on the slopes and getting hit by a big whiteout:

...and here he is on the way to the hotel, that evening:

Let just say, food tasted SO much better that night, and bed was SO much more comfortable!

On Saturday morning view from our hotel window changed quite a bit, there was no snow on the ground.  Everything looked peaceful!
On the way back, we made a few stops.  One of them was at the store we passed by many times before, but always too early for it to be open, Babushka.  I was curious to see what they had.  As expected, it was just Russian food, nothing fancy, but we did buy a whole selection of foods and decided to have a Russian Food weekend!

Great times we had!