Winter Fun

We took the kids up to my parent's place last weekend.  It has taken me a while to post the pictures, it has been a very busy week.  The kids wanted to go to the cabin and ice skate and ice fish.  Grandpa Mike bought each of them a pair of double-bladed skates and he and Brian shoveled off an area of ice on the lake.  The kids had a blast ice skating.  As you can see from the not so great picture above, Mackenzie was pretty much off and running on her own from the get-go.  Lexie and Grandma and Grandpa helped Isaac.  He had some difficulties at first keeping his feet together, but he eventually figured it out.

They both liked the ice fishing as well and they got to see Uncle Mike and his friend Corey catch a pike.  Unfortunately it was not big enough to keep (24 inches), but it was still quite big to them.

Finally at the end of the day we took Lexie to a Japanese steakhouse called Genji's in Midland with us and everyone had a great time watching our chef cook dinner and almost everyone ate their food enthusiastically.

Unfortunately we only had one night with Grandma and Grandpa, but I am loving the fact that we are close enough to visit for only one night!



The Kids First Trip to ONU

The Freed Center, the performing arts center at Ohio Northern University, where Brian is now the Technical Director, hosted ImaginOcean today.  It is essentially a play whose characters are fish puppets that tells the story of 3 fish friends going on an adventure together to find treasure.  The fish are neon and the whole show is performed under black lights.  Well at least that is the best description this non-theatre person can come up with for the show.  This was the first show that we have gone to as a family and we had a lot of fun.  The show was well timed for the short attention spans of our 2 and 5 year-old kids and, since we know an in-sider, we got to see the fish after the show and get our picture taken with them.  Well, Brian and Isaac and I did, Mackenzie wasn't too keen on actually getting close to the fish and their pupeteers.  So she watched from a distance.

You may have noticed that Isaac has a cool hockey shirt on.  I got it for him because I thinkit looks a lot like the Chicago Wolves (only a little less scary), and Isaac is quite fond of it.  Brian and I went out with another couple last night to go watch the Notre Dame hockey team beat the Bowling Green hockey team at BGSU and we had a lot of fun.  I haven't been to a hockey game in a long time, but I am thinking I may have to pick up that habit again.  I think we may even have to get the kids some skating lessons.  Mackenzie has already asked Grandpa Mike if she can go ice skating at his lake house.