First Goal!

All smiles after his great game!

Snowball fight!

Katherine putting her mark on the new house

Testing out his gift from Santa!

Luke wrote this without any prompting from us

We had a very busy day!  It started with Luke's second basketball game of the season.  He did a great job today -- he scored four goals!  Not only was this his first ever goal, we think it might have been his first point ever scored in any sport he has played.  We know he  never scored a soccer goal or touchdown in flag football.  We do not think he ever scored a run in baseball last year, but he might have scored in t-ball two years ago.  At any rate he was excited and so were we!  After the game the kids were excited to see that there was still some snow left.  We had a dusting this morning when we woke up, but didn't have time to play in it.  Paul and the kids had an impromptu snowball fight.

After the game Luke had a birthday party at new indoor trampoline place.  He had a great time!  It was a lot of boys from his grade.  He has had a loose tooth for a long time now and we have been hoping it would come out before we go to the dentist next week.  Well, we got our wish.  While he was on the dodgeball court he lost it.  He didn't really realize it until he got out to go have birthday cake.  We had them clear everyone off the court so we could look for it.  It was kind of difficult because it was a bouncy dodgeball court. I am sure we were quite the spectacle up there crawling around looking for a tooth, but we found it!  Luke was relieved to find it so the tooth fairy can come.

While we were at the party Paul and Katherine went to Gallatin to do some things at the house.  Mom had been wanting to come up and see the hardwood floors so Luke and I stopped to get her on our way.  It was good to have her up there.  We were able to take some measurements and talk about furniture placement.  Mom also had the idea to write on the old exterior that we are going to cover up with the new cement siding. The kids had fun doing it and Mom and I added our thoughts, too.  We stayed up there for a few hours and "helped" Paul install some lighting.  The kids, Mom and I went home while Paul stayed up there and worked for a while longer.

Our next event for our already jam packed day was going to the circus!  We met our friends, the Cowans, at Chuy's and went to the circus with them.  Somehow we managed to not take any pictures. The kids loved it!  This is our third year to go and it honestly doesn't really repeat.  We will probably go again!  It made for a very late night and we were all worn out!