Soccer

Here are some pictures from Max's soccer game on Saturday.

Did you notice the beautiful weather in the pictures? I do enjoy the beautiful 70 degree temps we are having while our family and friends are toughing it out in the polar vortex.

Poor Max has a bad cough and now an ear infection. He just can't seem to catch a break during this cold and flu season.

On a positive note, here is an updated picture of Zoe. We can't wait to bring her home!

Soccer and Zoe

This past weekend Max had the first soccer game for the winter season. He has a new coach, but he has two teammates on his team from before. Max got out there and gave it his all.




Soooo...we got a puppy! A week after Izzy past we realized how quiet it is in our house. Way too quiet. We were really missing Izzy. Andy found a breeder down in Tucson and asked her to put our name on the list for a fawn boxer. He also explained to her that we just lost ours and we are not ready for a puppy anytime soon, but we will want one in 2019. She sent Andy a picture of a fawn boxer that was born on December 26th and would be ready to take home mid-February. Eeek! Andy initially told her we were going to pass because we are not ready, but after another day she sent the picture again. We discussed it and looked at the timeline of the calendar to see when a good time to get a dog would be and it really is February or March considering we have a lot planned this year. Andy told her that we want the puppy. Well, we were allowed to go visit on Sunday. After a long car ride down to Tucson we got to see our baby girl.




Max named her Zoe. I was reading off the 100 top female dog names one night and nobody was listening to me...or so I thought. A couple days later I was trying to convince Max that we should name our new puppy Rosie and he said "I already named her." I asked him what he named her and he said Zoe. I actually really like that name and asked him where he got it from. He said from your phone the other night. Huh, so someone was listening to me. He discussed it with daddy and we all got on board with the name Zoe. We will go and pick up Zoe after Valentine's day.

Birthday Party and Cars

On Saturday we went to Owen's birthday party at KTR. This is a great place for kids to run, jump on trampolines and just get their energy out. Max had a blast and was tired afterward. He had a lot of fun playing at KTR. So much fun that I told him I would take him back there one weekend so he can ride his scooter on the indoor skate park.






Following Owen's party we took Max to family day at the Barrett Jackson car show. We didn't take Max last year, but knew he would love to go so it was a must that we took him this year. He was wide-eyed the moment we want through the entrance. He was just wowed by all the super cool cars. He had to stop and look at all the cool cars and HAD to see the engine. He said "Mommy, the engine is the best part." I was surprised that a 5 year old would be so into cars and engines.


He also had to sit in a couple race cars and pretend to drive.




The best part about the car show was meeting Bumblebee. Max LOVES transformers and his favorite transformer is Bumblebee so he thought it was pretty neat that he got to see Bumblebee as a race car and a robot.

Xmas in Wisconsin: Part III

We started NYE over at Grandma S and Grandpa T's house. Before we opened presents Tayler and Christian stopped by for an hour to say hi and play shuffleboard. Max LOVES Tee-Tee.


Once we said goodbye to Tayler and Christian, Max was ready to open presents.








Grandma S made all of Max's presents into a snowman.


Then it started to snow and Max was anxious to get outside and play.






Then it was time for the annual NYE piñata. Max was excited that it was Chase from Paw Patrol.






New Year's day began with Max playing outside in the snow. This Arizona kid LOVED playing in the snow. Of course it was cold outside, but he didn't let that bother him. He just wanted to play outside in the snow.







To warm up Max took a bath in grandma and grandpa's Jacuzzi tub...which he loved.



Presents with Aunt Mackenzie.


It was then time to say goodbye and head to the airport.


We had one tired kid from the week. He fell asleep two minutes into the car ride to the Madison airport.


Wasting time in the airport while our flight kept getting delayed. We ended up missing our connecting flight in Chicago and had to stay overnight at the Hilton and catch the 5am flight first thing in the morning.

Xmas in Wisconsin: Part II

The second part of our trip took us to grandma L's house where Max was excited to open presents.






And play the didgeridoo with uncle Ryan. Max had been talking about this for a couple weeks because he remembers playing the didgeridoo last year with uncle Ryan.







Max also had a blast playing with Barb...uncle Ryan and Emily's dog.


Max got snuggle time with grandma L and he convinced her to take him to Dave & Buster's for a few hours while Andy was recovering from a stomach bug and I caught up on Netflix.




It was time to say goodbye to grandma L and head down the road to see grandpa T and grandma S.

Xmas in Wisconsin: Part I

The first three days of our WI Christmas were spent at my parents' house in Sun Prairie. We opened gifts and had Christmas breakfast.












Max then helped grandma V make monkey bread for the morning.



It wouldn't be a holiday in WI without bowling.







Grandpa J teaching Max how to play checkers.


They also enjoyed playing the card game Red Light Green Light.


We took Max ice skating for the first time. That was a treat! The first time around the rink took forever, but then Max started to get the hang of it and slowly got better. He was trying to walk on the ice versus sliding his feet. Grandpa J and I were trying to teach him.







Andy and I got out for a date night with friends on Friday night in downtown Madison.


Saturday morning it was time to say goodbye and head to the Westside to see the rest of Max's grandparents.