Snow Much Fun

Good evening everyone. First week of school of 2018 is in the books. Well, part of the week since the kids were off on Monday. Mia wasn't thrilled to go back, but had an easy week homework-wise and survived. The temps were pretty chilly so she had indoor recess all week. Not a bad thing since her good friend Cecilia taught her how to play checkers. Cool! Mia may have beat her one or two times. They didn't really keep score and just had fun, which is always really nice. The two wanted to hang out/do a sleepover on Saturday but Jill wasn't feeling good so that wasn't going to happen. We'll get back to that later.

Wednesday, I watched the exciting CFC/Arsenal game. Just really crazy end-to-end football the whole game. I had to split to go and get Mia and we ran back to see the last few minutes only to find out that two more goals happened and in the end, it was a draw 2-2. Wow. Morata blew a few major chances and it's too bad because we really need the win and many more to try and attempt to catch City and beat Man U. Oh well. We picked up Jill at the studio and had dinner before Mia crashed for the night.

Saturday I watched some of the FA Cup match Chelsea vs Norwich. An uninspiring draw 0-0 was the final score sadly. Mia did some science experiments with Jill while I watched some of the game and did some designing. Later, we went snow tubing. Mia's been looking forward to snow tubing at The Rock Snowpark all week so despite the cold temp, we did it. Jill watched as Mia and I tubed for 2 hours. Such a good time. I brought my GoPro and new stick to capture the first adventure of 2018. Love going there and Mia enjoyed watching the snowboarders and skiers perform jumps while we'd take the conveyor back up to the top. Next time we go, she'd like to go with friends. We tried to get a group or a couple kids together, but it just didn't happen. Later, we went home and made some dinner. Mia had planned to stay at my parents house for a sleepover, but it was just to cold for Jill and I to take her back out so she was content crashing at home for the night. The kid really really likes sleeping over at places these days and hopes to plan a sleepover at Cecilia's or have her come over here in the near future. The girls talk about it ALL the time at school. It's too funny.

Sunday, Mia and I hung out while Jill and her parents went to church. We went out to Panera before I went in to work.

This week, not much going on that's noteworthy. I have to send in my drone that doesn't work back to Amazon. I'm going to have to do some heavy research to find a better one that has little problems. This one was having issues connecting to the phone to shoot video/photos so tomorrow, I'll send back the faulty drone. Hopefully they won't give me any issues. That's all for now, thanks for reading!

Beyond The Music

Good evening everyone. Hope you all got to enjoy the weekend. I know some are upset today about the Packers losing, but hopefully you can move on. The week was a pretty busy but mostly enjoyable one.  I've been really stepping up my lunch notes for Mia this week. I had sort of a misfire with the Alice and Cheshire Cat, but overall it turned out okay. The ones I'm most proud of were Mr. Big from Zootopia and Naveen in frog form from The Princess and the Frog.  Both images, I used a single color pencil on and was able to create the images close enough to the real thing. I'm very stoked about it and hope to keep up the good work. My GoPro Hero 4Silver came in over the week as well. I have yet to really dive into what it can do but I can't wait to explore it. I've basically put a battery in it and make sure I've got all the parts and SD card. I looked online for a good camera for months and after some dead ends, I decided with some Christmas money to look into a GoPro. We're planning a trip to Hawai'i in a year or two and it would be nice to have a camera that can be used in water, but still have good solid quality. I also want to use this for Torrent games, videos and Flood Supporters Group images as well.

Last week my all-time favorite band Less Than Jake performed a live "practice set" on Facebook. I don't always listen to them, but they are and have been my favorite band for so many years. Mia even likes them as well. It was great to watch them perform even a short set. Wednesday, I picked up Mia from school and her friend Noelle and Mia walked home together. It was nice and fun for the girls to walk home and talk on their way. It's fun having a friend from school in the neighborhood that sometimes gets to walk with Mia. Noelle typically takes the bus but since the weather wasn't that bad, the kids walked home. Mia got her homework done and we relaxed before dinner with Jill. My tattoo artist Marcus had given me two stencils he hand-drew for Mia of foxes and I tried to put one on her and messed it up. I'll try it again another time.
Friday was inauguration day. I completely avoided watching the circus show of Trump getting sworn into office. It totally proved that even a lying celebrity with zero political experience can some how get to rule the free world. Our country is indeed, in some serious trouble. On a better note, the weekend was pretty enjoyable. Saturday, Mia had dance and loved it. She loves to tell us that she's doing better each time. Later, her and I went ice skating while Jill went into her new studio space to do some work. They had free skating day at Eble Ice Arena so you can imagine how busy they were. Mia had a blast and always loves going skating with me. She only fell once but it was because the diva kept jumping while holding my hand and when we went around a turn, she jumped and she let go of me. Silly kid.

Later, we met up with Jill and went to my brother's hockey game. His wife, kids, mother in law AND my parents all joined. Even though they lost, it was a fun outing. After wards, Jill, Mia and I got pizza and a movie.

Sunday I watched the Chelsea vs Hull City match. Great game and well-deserved 3 points. They were struggling at times trying to break through the back line but they got the win they needed. Mia unfortunately got a fever Sunday and was laying around most of the day. Jill said she would wake up from time to time to eat some apples but that was about it. When I got home from work, she was asleep but woke up to change into something cooler before going back to bed. I'm pretty sure she's staying home tomorrow, but I hope she can bounce back and make it.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading!