Laura Swimming and warming the butter sticks

      Laura had regionals today and last night...she's a beast.

     Here, Laura is competing in the relay and getting ready to jump in.  Unfortunately, she lost her goggles once she got in the water so it slowed her down a little bit, but she recovered, just didn't finish in first. 

 

And of course, after the swim meet we went for a celebratory meal at the lovely restaurant nearby.  Laura and Emily ate their weight, we actually shared a lot of appetizers and pizza.  But the bread was fantastic.  The only problem, the butter cubes were very cold and frozen.  So, like a teaching parent that I am, I showed the girls how to warm the butter....under your armpit of course.  Everything went well, until we got home and Fenway kept jumping up on them trying to sniff their armpits.   It was a very nice time and I had a lot of laughs with the swimming gals. 



Jim's Basketball

     Jimmy had a basketball tourney this weekend.  His team did pretty good with Jimmy scoring 10 points and getting fouled in the eye pretty hard.  So hard he went into his bag and texted me during the game about it.....I was across the court !!

Heritage night at school

Jackie and Catherine had Heritage night at school the other night.  Jack did Ireland and Catherine did a four cheese lasgna for her Italian heritage.  They both stood beside Catherine Q's Irish cake picture.

And it snowed and snowed, then snowed some more...Blizzard of 2015

     Okay, I'll say it straight out....I am not the greatest fan of the cold and the white stuff....BUT, these guys make it soooo fun it leaves you with no choice.  They absolutely love the snow and prancing around , throwing it in the air, climbing around in it, making forts and of course, sledding. 

                           Baby Erin came over for a little bit of snow fun.  I knew she would.  Oh and by the way, I can only call her Baby Erin in front of select people so its a habit I have to break....rrr