Sushi Night!

Christmas Eve Dinner was disrupted by sickness so we were unable to have our traditional Sushi dinner.  So we decided to put it on the calendar of our Family Meetup Group.  It was a fun night with some new and old friends. 

Brain got all dressed up for the occasion, bow-tie, sports jacket and shocker pen! 

Darin and Nick wanted to see if you could feel the shock current if they all held hands.  Poor Kristen was in the middle.

We had a TON of food.  Everyone brought 2 things to share.  Darin and I made crab wantons (thanks Becky for the recipe), Tonkatsu and rice.

I made a trip to the dollar store (I love that place!) picked up some decorations and printed out our names in Japanese.

This is the night before our weight-loss challenge weigh in so I needed to take a picture of why I was going to be heavier the next day! :)  Oh but it was so worth it....YUM YUM!

After dinner we chatted and played a terrible game of "battle of the sexes." Honestly who makes up these dumb questions, the girls lost terribly!

Maybe it was because Darin was reading the questions?!?
Nick and Kristen

Jenae and Brian

It was a fun and successful night.  I am so happy we put it on the meet-up calendar.  It is great meeting new people, and eating yummy food!  Not to mention, Nash was sound asleep upstairs.  Sooo we were free to enjoy our company that much more.

Jacobsburg State Park

I mentioned before that Nash and I belong to a meet-up club called Club Mom. This has been a great blessing for us in meeting people as well as getting to know the area. This month one of my friends Jenae from Club Mom started a new meet-up club for families called South Mountain Family Adventures. We are always looking for fun things to do as a family, especially on the weekends so we decided to join, and invited some of our church friends to join as well. This past weekend Darin had to work so Nash and I joined the group at Jacobsburg State Park for nice little walk.

My friend Jenae took all of these pictures.

Yes, we did get rid of the Binky but Nash still has some sensory processing issues with certain movements. He is not a fan of the backpack so I needed to give him something to distract him. He did so good. He does not like hats so I solved that problem with the headband...haha...at least his ears stayed warm!
Nash was happy to see his friends riding in backpacks too. Although, I was the only mom who was packing a child. It was great exercise.

It was a bit cold but a very GORGEOUS day!

The kids found a patch of ice to ice-skate on.

We are really excited about this group. I think what I like most about it is the majority of our good friends from Club Mom and church are all in it together, so we get to hang out more with such fun friends, as well as meet new families in the area.

Bounce U

Today we joined our mom's club at a bouncing play land called Bounce U. Darin got off work from the night shift at 9am, instead of taking advantage of the quiet house where he could sleep with out Nash knocking on the door and screaming. He JOINED US! I don't know who had more fun Nash or Darin. I think the lack of sleep and gallons of Monster drinks contributed...

My friend Melissia is 8 months pregnant and couldn't take little Sophia down the slide so we all volunteered to do the FUN job!

Melissia also took all of these photos. I just got my D300 back last night from being in the shop for 3 months. Somehow the band that flips the shutter up got stuck and became bent, which scratched my sensor....ahhhhh. It was sent to Nikon because it was 2 weeks off of its warranty and they could not figure out how it did this. Especially when I wasn't cleaning it at the time. I am happy to have it back but my functions are all messed up now and my pictures didn't turn out as well as I would have liked them today. OH DARN I guess I will have to do some practicing :)! Poor Nash....there will be some fun times ahead.