Back in Business

It has been a long month but here we are everyone! We've got a lot of catching up to do... First of all, as most of you know, Grandpa T passed away before Christmas, hence the delay in posting. We were all very saddened by his loss and we will miss him terribly. The boys and I have some great memories and on New Years Eve we honored Grandpa T by eating some Suzie Qs!

Wait--that's your tribute, you ask? Yes and to make a long story short, when I was in middle school and I would stay at my dad's house, he would let me have a Suzy Q after dinner as long as I had a "healthy" glass of skim milk with it! Well, I let the boys have them without skim milk... Before the holidays, we had several fun things going on. Christopher had his first band concert! He's been playing the clarinet and he did a great job. Here he is with his friend Cameron after the show...

And here is a song from the concert...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9b5B-V3nwY&feature=youtu.be

That following weekend, we ended up with about 7 inches of snow. We made a great snowman named Frank!

Jonathan went sledding with his friends Evelyn, Oscar and Pera...

The boys got really cleaned up for Christmas Eve services with Grammy...

Also, Ric Flair, along with his trusty sidekick Shaun the Sheep, kept an eye out for Santa...

Christmas morning was fun in Kansas but then it was off to New York for the real fun! Here are pictures from our travels while we were home. To keep it simple, we saw family and friends, had a great trip to the city, revisited Hoboken and just had a wonderful time!

The boys were back to school this week and I got to go on Jonathan's field trip today! Their class project this year is about Recycling and we went to this amazing place called Scraps KC. It is a warehouse in midtown that collects recycled materials, organizes them, sells them way cheap and uses the money to provide meals for the homeless. It was such a great place and the kids enjoyed their visits! Here is a video from the trip...

https://youtu.be/SQSRJT9vqMQ

In Old Kentuck, They Go Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck

I'm pretty sure right now that Grammy gets the title of this post, Chris is rolling his eyes and I now cannot get the song out of my head! We spent Thanksgiving weekend in Kentucky once again for Christopher to dance in the Mid America Oireachtas, our regional Irish dance competition. We thought our boy danced beautifully and he did as well. He got up there, showed confidence, did everything his teacher asked him to do and was happy with his performance. Here are some pictures from the day (Sunday)...

The weekend was not all about dance, however. We had a nice family road trip with a stop in St. Louis to stay at the Curio Union Station Hotel. It was decorated beautifully for Christmas and we had a fun evening there!

We arrived in Louisville on Friday in time to see Phillip dance his set dance and then, in typical feis fashion, ate lunch at 3:30. Saturday was chill day for Chris so Jonathan and I went out to the Kentucky Science Museum just down the block from our hotel. It was fabulous and we spent nearly 5 hours there! While there, I also discovered Jonathan's new favorite food--ham and cheese sandwiches. We had a great time together and here are some pictures...

 

One of Jonathan's favorite things is the "Weather News" and he and I got to actually be meteorologists! We did several more of these reports and with each weather condition, Jonathan advised viewers to "seek higher ground!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvEdanbeBqk&feature=youtu.be

There was also some down time when the boys chose to practice their dance moves...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5hp4CK3vZ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVFciYOomA

Recently

Hello everyone! Here are some updates in the life of the Wogloms since Halloween...

First, Christopher is at that age where he is starting to care about his haircut and wants to have a little style. Looks like no more Great Clips for us! I took them to this "guy" barbershop and they got fantastic cuts (along with pomade that they are both styling their hair with daily! 😂😂😂)...

This past weekend, Brian took the boys to Arkansas for a double feis. Chris placed 5th on Sunday and walked away with yet another crystal bowl!

Jonathan loved eating bacon in Arkansas...

While Mommy and Daddy enjoyed some amazing vegan nachos yesterday in KC, compliments of (well, we had to pay for them) Mattie's Vegan Food Truck...

The boys went to Arkansas without me because I had to go up to Cooperstown to visit my dad, who was in the hospital. Long story short, he is doing a lot better now. While I was there, I woke up to a beautiful sunrise in the mountains and a visitor having breakfast...

I also was reminded of the proper pronunciation of coffee (not that I needed the reminder!)...

And I found a few photo gems from my childhood!

Including this shot with Claude Lemieux, my favorite NJ Devil in the nineties!

This week has been back to normal and Chris has taken it upon himself to teach Jonathan how to read 💕...

More Halloween

Above is pictured our two superhero boys--Bumblebee and Keith, the paladin from Voltron. On Halloween evening, we had a crew of friends over to eat pizza and set out to go trick-or-treating. Despite the cold and snow, the kids made out like bandits and collected more than enough candy!

Later, after returning from their outing, the kids sat around eating and trading and eating some more candy...

It was a fun night and Chris and his friends slept over (not here!!!) at Cameron's house and had a great time. After getting about four hours of sleep, Chris slept well last night and we are having a somewhat chill Saturday morning. So are the dogs...