Its Tee Ball Time!

It has been a busy week for our little boy. He had his last ice skating lesson and started tee ball all in two days. I've gotta play with my camera in order to get some better pictures from here on out, but Maddie and I were freezing and didn't do much with the cameras.

Here is a couple of Alex and Ashton throwing to each other on the field with the other dads and little boys just before practice got started.

Ashton was so excited! Even freezing to death he had a big smile on his face!

For his first night of practice, the coach put him on first base and he did really good. There were some that went past him, but for the most part he did pretty good keeping up with the ball, tagging the base and tossing it back to a dad at home plate. I was very proud of him! He even hit his first time and it went out of the infield. He's big stuff! :-)

Ashton passed!!

Ashton ice skating lessons are over. He passed all the fundamentals for this level of lessons!! He even got a pin to prove it. LOL He was excited, but I am curious to see if he misses going each week. However, he is starting tee ball, so that should pass his time. I've got a few pictures from his last lesson to share.

He looks so big out there!

Here is one of Alex and Ashton during the open skate time after practice.

Special thanks to Miss Tiffany for coming to a couple of Ashton's lessons to cheer him on! He loved it! :-)

Visit to Casey's

Friday, the kids and I hit the road and went to visit Casey and Addison for the day. It was a nice visit and break from home. The kids had a great time playing and Ashton came home telling Alex that he and Tank were "kind of" friends now. LOL. Tank is their new dog and as most of you know, Ashton isn't a fan of dogs, so this is a big deal. We are already looking forward to our next visit. :-)

Ice lessons are almost over

Ashton had another lesson this past Thursday. He was so excited that his best bud, Kaleb, came to watch. I, myself, have been so impressed with how well he has done and how quickly he has grown in his ability. It is amazing.

I wish you could see how quickly he moves for just having had about 5 lessons. It just goes to show that when you learn something at a young age, you do so much better with it.

Here is Alex and Maddie out there with him during his open skate time of practice.

Kaleb even got out there to give it a try.

I thought it was cute that Ashton wanted to try and go hold Kaleb's hand to see if he could help him.

And we can't leave Kaleigh out! She hung out on the sidelines sucking on that thumb. Isn't that cute?!

Family Night at the Preds Game

Saturday night we took the kids and went to the Predators Game. Ashton and Maddie were super excited and couldn't wait to get their jerseys on. As you can see above, they were showing each other some love. That doesn't happen real often. LOL

Maddie is being silly here in the corner of the picture and Ashton is posing for a picture!

Maddie talked Daddy in to some cotton candy and as you can tell she was enjoying it.

Ashton didn't like it, but had some popcorn instead.

It was a good night and we had a great time!

Another FUN DAY in the snow!

Unfortunately, Alex and I are both guilty of letting our busy lives get in the way of not having more "family time" just having fun together. The last few days of being "snowed in" has given us TONS of time to play together and we've all really enjoyed it. Today was no different. We got out of the house for a bit this morning and then came back to play in the snow.

First, we thought we'd TRY to do some sledding. Alex realized quickly it wasn't going to happen, so he pulled the kids to the end of our road and back instead. As you can see, Ashton wanted to push Maddie on it and then decided he was so STRONG he could pull it all the way back up the hill all by himself. :)

Once we got back up the hill, we decided we'd try a snowman. Yesterday the snow was just too packed down and almost ice to really do anything. With a little bit of melting, we had a chance. Alex and I did most of the work, bu the kids tried to help. They loved it!! Grammy (Alex's mom) gave them a "snowman kit" about a month ago and I put it up in the closet thinking that we'd probably never get to use it. Well, I was wrong and Ashton and Maddie couldn't wait for me to get it out. They really enjoyed "dressing" the snowman once Alex and I got done putting him together.

As you can tell, Ashton and Maddie opted out of the traditional black top hat that came in the kit and instead had Dad do a mowhawk. I'll have to admit... you probably won't see too many snowmen with mowhawks.

We finished off the day with another snowball fight boys against girls and then had pictures in the igloo. It has been a great few days and I'm kind of sad to see it starting to melt! :(

MAJOR IGLOO

So Alex built an igloo yesterday morning, which resembles more of a fort. He decided later in the day that it wasn't quite good enough, so he went back out and built another one. This one resembles more of an igloo and it is super tall. I couldn't resist posting a picture. He worked so hard and the kids were excited about both of them. Our neighbors even came over and took their granddaughter's picture next to it. :)