Justin's birthday, Easter, and random stuff!

We celebrated Justin's birthday with family at Easter! He wanted a golf cake.

Thankfully, the rain ended so they could have the annual money egg hunt.

On Justin's birthday , we had his friend Korbyn come over since it was Spring break. 

He gave Justin a Dick's gift card so went there, then to Sweetfrogs. Justin got baseball cards.

He spent the night, then we went to Topgolf on Saturday morning. Uncle Mike joined us last.

Random pic of Theo, Winnie, and Peebles.

Kiff now stays with Hallie more at night but was a good roomie to Justin.

Hallie did Battle of the Books for her club, which is the first year HHS has had one.

They got 3rd place out of 17 in the regional!

 

Basketball & 2 weeks of Ice/Snow

Justin had over 10 point this season!

He played on the Bulls and had a very good coach (whose son plays in the NBA).

It's the first time I've seen his team play like an actual team and no one really tried to do everything on their own.

The ice storm came on Sunday, January 25th. Thankfully it wasn't as bad as predicted here and the sledding was very fast! Then, we got actual snow on January 31st. 

Videos and pics from the first day of the ice!

Hurricanes game!

We went to the Hurricanes Hockey game on MLK Day!

Our seats were better than we expected- in a place that had its own food area and bathrooms.

Here is when they came out before the game started!

Hallie was excited to say "Let's Go Canes!" with the crowd.

Pics when they were warming up.

 

#20 is Sebastian Aho, one of Justin's favorites.

#11 is Jordan Staal

Both goals were on our side! 

There were also 2 fights (one including Seth Jarvis and lots of bumping into the wall on our side!

Playing!

Celebrating after the game!

New Years!

The Starnes crew came on New Year's Eve.

The kids did a sleepover downstairs.

Hallie ans Isaiah watched the series finale of Stranger Things together.

Lesley took a video at midnight.

Most of us went to see Zootopia 2 on New Year's Day. Then, Justin and Isaiah went to hit golf balls, and the girls walked around the YMCA outdoor track (with Romeo).

On the 2nd, Buffie and Anne were able to come for a lunch visit, then we went over to our house for a little while to play Nintendo Switch games like golf, volleyball  basketball  and bowling.

Plus they got to see the cats.

 

Christmas!

Gingerbread houses at church

Mom Deda, Ellie, the kids and I went on Monday., the 22nd to Asheville, to see the gingerbread houses.

But so many had the same idea that they couldn't  or wouldn't let others in. 

 Instead, we went to Trader Joe's, Mast store, and the mall before heading home. I was thankful the kids seem to always go with the flow and weren't disappointed.

We stayed at Karen's on the 23rd.

These houses didn't work out

 

No pics at Linda and Gary's.

At GG and Grandad.