Syracuse Crunch

One thing we've discovered while living so far north is that we LOVE a good hockey game! Katie's dance school preformed before the Syracuse Crunch game and as a bonus we got cheap tickets to the game! I am pretty sure it is the boys favorite thing Katie does with dance! The girls danced to Wild One!

Katie and the girls from her dance class!

Momma & her "Wild One"

The boys cheering as The Crunch scored again!!!

Way to go Crunch!

Dance Xplosion!

 Katie competed in her first team dance competition

to "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now." 

The girls did a great job and received Gold for their performance. 

 

I am thankful that Jen Ulasiewicz was there to take some great pictures of the girls during their dance!  Katie was very disappointed that Donnie had to miss her first big performance because Luke was super sick with the "throw-up" virus. Thankfully with the pictures and video he was able to experience Katie's dance!

 I love these pictures. They capture Katie and Sarah perfectly! Katie says, "Once upon a time I used to dress up Ken." Sarah says, "But now I like bigger men!" and bonks her down....

 It was a super cute routine!

The girls had fun dancing!

It was a learning experince for Katie and I am exctied to see if she wants to keep dancing as she gets older.

Katie and Mia! 

 

...the weekend...

...I have started to type and

have retyped this post multiple times...

 

....the original title was going to be panic stricken...

 

A long story about how I lost/thought my wallet was possibly stolen....and while for about 10 hours I was truly distraught and panicked...that disaster is almost behind me...I should have new credit and debit cards in a few days, and I now have a new military id and drivers license...all that is left will be to update our online services with our new information (such a pain).  And oh by the way, I found my wallet!!  Too late bad it was after I had cancelled everything!

...The highlight of our weekend was getting a Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer book delivered to us by our elf Twinkle.  He flew all the way to Afghanistan to have Donnie record this book for the kids!  We all loved it! It was wonderful to hear his voice reading to the kids! I think they listened to the book 3 times in a row before taking a break to do something else.  What a wonderful Christmas surprise!!!


 ...We continued our holiday fun with Katie's Christmas Dance Recital.  I only managed to snap this one quick picture because I was recording the dance for Donnie.  However, I only managed to record the first 4 seconds of the dance, so that didn't really go as planned... 

 ...Thankfully my friend, Jen Ulasiewicz,

takes beautiful photos...

http://www.jenu-photography.com/

...Christmas is such a joyful time of year! I love that there are so many fun things surrounding the holiday season.  We had a little more holiday fun seeing The Littlest Elf at the Lake Ontario Playhouse.  An adorable little play about the newest elf trying to find a Christmas song to sing for Santa! 

The Christmas Countdown is on...

...and it won't be long until we will be turning these blocks around and counting down the days until Daddy's home! Thank you, Heather for the perfect gift!