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Lawrence Pete

I am so so proud of my 3rd Grader Ryan! He was selected to be a part of a research group that teaches the kids how to write a research paper and give a power point presentation to a large group of family and friends at the end of the year! Ryan selected his topic on The History of the NFL and Jim Brown. We visited the library often and Ryan was able to interview a former Nebraska Husker and former NFL Detroit Lion player. A big thanks to Uncle Dave for setting that up for us.

Ryan's SA Bball

Ryan had a great year playing basketball with his classmates in the Omaha CYO league. They lost one game in the regular season. They learned alot from each other and great coaches!!

Birtday Party at the Wise House

Mother / Son Bookclub

Ryan & I are able to enjoy some great time with other classmates in the 3rd grade at SA. Our bookclub meets about every 6 weeks after reading a new book and enjoying a great activity!

Dinner

Enjoying a few belly laughs with great friends in midtown crossings with our hubbies!

Pump It Up!!

The kids were able to have an awesome birthday party with family & friends. With all the crazy holiday schedules we combined the 3 parties into 1!!

Washington DC in December

Washington DC Trip

Bowling

Henry Dorly Zoo

Never in a million years do the kids sit this good for a nice picture.

The little blonde kid laughed and said "YEAH!!" when Joseph said "I'm gonna catch one of those birds"

Joseph puts the train ride at the top of his list for activites at the zoo.

Another fun Mom and Joseph day. I am really enjoying the one on one time with the kids and am trying to make special time for each of them with activites they love.

FAVRE

Can you guess Joe's favorite player? We are thankful SA is having such a great season to balance out the emotions of 2 boys after watching the Vikings games this year.

Midnight

This is how poor Midnight spent her summer. Running away from Joseph on a daily basis actually put Joe in some cardio training. He is a little quicker and she is now perching herself up on unreachable heights to stay away from him.

First day of School

Ryan is in the 3rd grade at St. Alberts and Ava Grace is in the 1st grade. They are both loving their teachers and I am loving getting back to a routine after a fun and busy summer. Joseph is in the 3yr old program at Saint Alberts also. Ava cracked a smile in the 2nd picture when Midnight (our new kitty) peeked down from the tree to get in the picture.

Peek a boo

Joe mastering the camera from the back seat

Relaxing Evenings

Our summer has been so crazy that it has been nice to unwind outside with the kids in the evenings. The kids have mastered knock-out with the basketball hoop. Joe's still too little that he will ride his tractor around like a crazy man while we are frantically trying to get each other out. I am usually the one taking pictures, but instead of relaxing Joseph shot me picking up toys at the end of the evening.