Since the 11th...

Before potential snow rolls in and I hibernate for a bit, here's some of what's been going on since last I blogged here:

- Noah finished fall semester...and continued his straight A streak of late. :) 

- Micah had two more First Lego League practices and then their state tournament down in Denver on Saturday. Given scheduling and cars and such, I wasn't able to attend most of the competition but made it there in time for the awards ceremony. Our young Toilets of Tomorrow team didn't win any awards but their robot run put them in the top quarter of the 60 teams, and we're just so proud of their efforts (especially given that half the team was sick and feeling crummy that day). Here they were walking across the stage to receive their medals for making it to the state tournament:

- While Nathan and Micah were at the FLL state tournament, Asher and I were at Noah's JOAD tournament in a different part of Denver:

(Noah's second from the left.)

- Earlier that morning, Asher helped out at demo team auditions for karate. They added four new members!

- Speaking of karate, boys had six classes or practices since last blog post. And. The demo team (sans new members since it was planned before that) also had a fun gathering to ice skate and eat lunch and decorate cookies and play ping pong and pool:

- Asher and Micah went in for their follow up eye appointment...just to make sure the contacts were working out well and then to order contacts for the upcoming months. All good!

- We finished up our homeschooling stuff and are now officially on break! :)

- On Sunday, after our full day mostly down in Denver on Saturday, we finally finished our holiday decorations:

- Micah had his last day of Options before a rather long break. (Since they only meet on Mondays and other circumstances, they won't meet again until January 22.)

- I met up with Molly down in Denver on Monday and with Deanna here in Old Town yesterday...so awesome spending time with friends! (Wish there could have been more time!!)

- I've lost count of how many cars Nathan has test driven. We've come close a couple times (even took one to get inspected) but still haven't managed to replace our old car. Ugh. Wish us luck!

- Finally got all of our packages and cards in the mail!

Whew. And now I need to go finish up a number of other things. :) Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season and staying warm!