Fun at the Amerks game!

On Friday December 11th, we went to the Amerks game! But first, Ryan's hockey played. They played at the Blue Cross Arena at 4, and then we got to go to The Rochester Police Dept. for some pizza. Ryan brought his friend Ryan, and even Andruw met us at the Police Dept. and got to watch the Amerks game with us. Not to mention Uncle "E" came along too. It was a long, but fun afternoon for all. We all had a BLAST!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This past Saturday, we got our Christmas tree! Derrick was soooo excited he could have burst! We decided to cut it down ourselves and had a tough time deciding on one. We finally got it decorated Sunday night after a weekend full of hockey. Ryan's team won their game and are now 3-1. They are having a great season and have more drive now for their coach who was shot last week. For those of you that don't know, he is a Rochester Police Officer and was responding to a call. The team went out and won that game for him. They played very hard and were determined!! The blog is now dedicated to Santa Claus..the most popular and talked about person in our house. The boys are VERY excited and actually, Chris and I are too!!! Hopefully this weekend we can get to some cookie baking!!

 

 

 

 

 

Halloween

This year for Halloween, we had a Gangsta and a rapper. Neither Ryan or Derrick really had anything in mind that they wanted to be for Halloween. So, Chris and I took them to Party City and wandered around aimlessly trying to figure out what they wanted to dress up as. Ryan and I had been sick, and went to the Dr. on Friday before Halloween. We did end up hitting a street in town and that was more than enough for the kids. They aren't big candy eaters so Halloween really isn't their favorite holiday. Because we all were sick the week before Halloween, we didn't even get pumpkins carved..:(. On a funny note, first thing the morning after Halloween, Derrick woke me up to ask me when we are getting our Christmas tree...

 

 

 

 

Outing with the ladies...

A few weeks ago my aunt was here from Delaware. We decided to take a little road trip while she was here and went to East Aurora. We actually ended up at the Buffalo Bills stadium as well! It was my grandmother, mother, aunt and myself. We had a lot of fun! Our initial destination was Vidler's Five and Dime store. My grandmother was a little disappointed. She is 95 and thought it was going to be more of a Wal-Mart type store. She was very cute though as she told me there was nothing in there that she wanted!! We continued on to look for a restaurant to have lunch. After ending up in Orchard Park at the Bills stadium, we turned around and ended up back in Warsaw for lunch. The apple shape bushes were at a little farm market on 20A. And of course we saw lots and lots of windmills....It was just nice to spend the day with those great ladies!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our crazy Saturday!

Well, we survived our extremely busy Saturday! First, Derrick had his first beginner hockey practice at 8 am in Geneseo. Then, Ryan and Chris went to the field to meet up with the rest of the football team to walk down to the parade at 11:30. Parade at noon. Came home, dressed Ryan for his hockey practice from 2-3:20. Came home for another quick change to go to the football field at school at 4:30 for our 6:00 game! We didn't win our game, but our team fought very hard. Below are some pictures from Derrick's day and of the football team at homecoming. Thankfully that is the only day like that. And I also have to comment that Homecoming is very different than it was when I was in school. The band was not in uniform, there are no floats, and there really wasn't many spectators. Very disappointing!!!! But our kids and parents did have fun!!!

 

 

Our Football Player!!

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get many pictures at the game on Saturday, as it rained pretty hard the entire game. Neither Chris nor Ryan wanted to be photographed that night! But we won 32-6! Just a quick update on their season so far...they are 2-2. Tied for second place in their division right now, but we have a tough team this week...Leroy! Here is Ryan's football picture. He looks so grown up here compared to his flag football picture from last year. He really is trying hard out on the field and paying attention. He knows the plays pretty well. We are very proud of him!! And this week is the start to Ryan's hockey season and Derrick will start beginners on Saturday. Oh Boy.....

 

The pictures below are from Derrick's first full day of school. He said it was fun, and that it was a very long day...:)

 

 

 

 

On September 8th, Chris and I were excited to ride the bus with Derrick. We got to go to school with him for his Kindergarten Orientation, where he met his teacher, had a snack, listened to a story, and even played on the playground! We were only at school for an hour, so really Wednesday September 9th was his first "REAL" day of school..The pictures below are from his orientation day....