The busy boys

We are finding it harder and harder to keep up our blogging with sports, school, and the active social life of the brothers.  Lots of fun stuff and not enough pictures.  

 Mr. Smooth

 Loving big brother hug

Aunt Claire-the Good Witch in The Wiz

LEGOS

Legos...we've got plenty of 'em, we play with them, we aren't fanatics about them but we did love our visit to Legoland in Dallas.  Then Lego Kidfest came to town...WOW.  Those Lego folks know their audience and they made our four hour timed ticket worth every penny.

Year of the Snake

We enjoyed a fun New Years celebration today complete with lion parade, red envelopes, Chinese fans and friends.  What a great start to the year of the snake!

Jeremy Lin...watch out?

The brothers decided to give basketball a try this winter...interesting choice I thought...what the heck.  Zak is a 76er and Van is a Laker.  With the lowest of expectations for our first "games", we were pleasantly surprised and impressed.  Both boys actually actively (panting included) participated.  They both scored baskets and maybe kinda, sorta dribbled the ball once or twice.  Defense seems to be their strong suit so far.  Zak even faked out the other team with an offensive rebound and then mistakenly headed to the wrong basket with everyone in tow.  He managed to double back and score.  And yes they do keep score.  Van's team won and boy were they excited.  Zak's team did not and I don't even think they knew there was a score.  Oh the fun these two find!

Technology slowing me down

New computer for Christmas has meant big learning curve for mom on the photo storage/conversion process...hence the lack of fun bloggy posts lately. 
The brothers are still crazy and happy as ever and keeping me too busy to learn how to document and file their latest antics.  Lots of Skylander Giants, snow day fun, basketball season and just plain comedy.  
Promise to keep plugging at it and get it going soon. 
Happy 2013 to all and here's to some more snowy wintry cheeks coming your way!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year...

...and don't these brothers know it!  They are truly in the spirit of Christmas this year.  Really understanding the concept of giving much more and excited to make and buy presents for one another and friends.  But of course furiously counting down the days till Santa arrives with presents for them too.  Our elf, Blue has been busy finding new spots to appear every day and keeping the behavior mostly in check.   With barely one week left, we'll see which one breaks down first to reveal their gift to each other.  Keeping secrets is a lot harder than you'd think around for these two.

Catching Up

Zak's birthday celebration concluding with his first airplane ride since the trip home from China.  We surprised the boys with a trip to Texas for Thanksgiving.  And what amazing travelers they were...they actually got invited into all four cockpits and chatted with the pilots and tried to push all the buttons...it was great fun.  Texas was a giant funfest thanks to Fairy Godmother Beth and Uncle Dan and all their Texas hospitality, fun planning and goodies.  Legoland, Turkey Day, Redskins football at the incredible new Dallas stadium, a zipline ride, a Chinese Lantern festival.  Zak has proclaimed that when he grows up he will be living in Texas and since he's already declared himself a Cowboys fan that should work out fine.  Next up Christmas...gonna be hard to beat after all that fun.