December Already?

How can it be December already?!  November was a blur.  Zack finished up with his fall travel baseball season.  Jacob finished up with his weekly baseball camps....14 weeks long.  He loved it.  Then Jacob made the middle school basketball team.  Zack is done with organized basketball...did not want to play on a team anymore.  In his defense, he is not super tall like Jacob is.  He is way better at baseball.  None of my boys played soccer this fall.  First time since Zack was 4 that my car hasn't driven to the soccer field every Saturday during the fall!  Gotta admit...it was kinda nice.  ;)
Joshua did swimming lessons.  Cambria does swimming lessons and dance class.  Zack and Jake are doing guitar lessons.  Zack goes to middle school youth group at our church.  Joshua is going to Catholic catechism classes.  He is making his 1st Reconciliation this year.  He is also in the chess club at school.  ;)

Thanksgiving was fun.  The kids had Wednesday through Friday and the following Monday off of school.  We went to California and had Thanksgiving dinner with my parents, brother, and new SIL.  They are pregnant and due with my niece of nephew in January!!  It is killing me that they are waiting until the delivery to find out!  I am so impatient!  I mean, it helps that my hubby is a radiologist and could tell the gender the minute the ultrasound tech scanned over that area!  But anyways.  I am going to take a guess and make a prediction and say the baby is a boy.   My SIL told me they are only going to have one baby.  I don't know how true that is, but if this baby is a boy then my parents will have all biological grandsons and no biological granddaughters.  I don't think this matters to them.  I'm just making a statement.  They love my daughter exactly the same as my sons.  Anyways, we went to Legoland (Cambria wanted to go as part of her birthday present!), Sea World, then to Dave & Buster's with my BFF from med school and her kids are similar ages to my kids, and then to Disneyland and California Adventure for 2 days.  Busy!  Whirlwind trip, but fun.

This blog is so lame because I can't seem to post pictures.  If you could see a picture of my daughter, oh my goodness she is so beautiful.  She is spunky and funny.  My boys are getting so tall!  My oldest has braces and they are already working their magic...his teeth look so good already and he still has like 15 months more to go!  My dog Sophie who had her leg amputated for osteosarcoma bone cancer and had chemo is doing well.  One year cancer free!  I love that dog.

Life is fun and hard at the same time.  My to-do list is a million miles long every day, but the kids are busy doing fun things and I manage to squeeze in some time with my hubby and family and friends.  What more could I ask for?  (Besides good health for everyone I know and love.)

If I don't get a chance to blog again before Christmas (which is a good possibility), here's wishing everyone a blessed holiday season full of laughter and love and good health and a splendid new year 2016.