Christmas Decorations

Here are some decorations from our home.

Christmas stockings.

Hockey Tree

I like to collect snowmen.

Boys ornaments from when they were younger (Zach on top, Ahren in Middle, Brandon on bottom)

Monday morning musings

This weekend was rough for me because I have been really sick. Even so, I couldn't let that stop me from going to the boys games. Zachary had a lacrosse game. The first period was harsh and they were losing 8 - 0. The second period them came back and tied 8-8, but ended up losing 11- 9. Zachary go to try out the center position where the ref drops the ball and the two opponets fight for it (similar to dropping the puck in hockey). He also got a shot on net and an assist. Not bad for his 4th game. / Brandon had two games. The first one they lost 3 - 0 against Chester County Cougars. This team was actually a higher level, but we accepted to play to have an extra game in the schedule. The Cougars are not normally in our hockey league. The second game they played against NJ Princeton and won 4 - 0. Bradon is gaining more confidence on defense and skating the puck up. Before he would just dump it. He really was checking hard in this game too. I was so proud of both boys.
Yesterday we got our tree but didn't have time to put it up. Hopefully tonight we will decorate. Usually I have everything done Thanksgiving weekend. This years hockey tournament put me behind. And being sick - I didn't have any extra energy to even try. I'm starting to feel a little bit better now. Just a dry cough and headache.

Borders Book Store

One of Todd's friends gave me a gift card for the book store because he knows I love to read. Wednesday evening I took Ahren and Brandon to the book store. We picked out $60.00 worth of reading materials. - I went up to the register to pay and the cashier said she couldn't take the card. Duh! The gift card was for Barnes and Noble and we were at Borders! Boy did I feel like an idiot! It didn't help that Brandon was next to me saying "Way to go Mom." I was too embarrassed to put the books back, so I paid.

Science Project

Brandon had to make a science project out of recyclable materials. He used wood, plastic, tin can and a cardboard pizza box. If you can't guess: it is a target practice for his air soft gun.

Very Ghetto Christmas House

Ahren and his girlfriend, Ashley built a gingerbread house over Thanksgiving weekend. Ashley's mom has a contest every year. Ahren and Ashley won this year. If you look closely you can see a police car, basketball net, ghetto people, a drug dealer and an outline of a dead butterfinger candy bar.

Pepper Spray

Over the weekend while we were at one of Brandon's hockey games, Ahren had a few friends over. No big party or anything like that. But one friend had gotten pepper sprayed (not in our house and I didn't ask how it happened! I really didn't want to know!) and the scent was on his jacket. The scent rubbed off on a blanket we had on our couch. - At this point I knew nothing about the pepper spray. - Brandon's friend Jack spent the day with us while his mom worked. (No school for the boys today). Jack sat on the blanket and ended up with pepper spray in his eye. We spent about 20 minutes using cold water trying to get the stinging to stop. Jack and Brandon both had irritation to their eyes and arms. Luckily they are both fine now!

HOCKEY CHAMPIONS

Brandons team played in a Thanksgiving tournament. The played against five different teams and won first place! Congratulations!