Skating Downtown

We headed downtown tonight for dinner and ice skating.  Meme, Papa, Alison, and Aunt Missy all joined us as well.  We had a great dinner at Hard Rock, and then walked across the street to Campus Martius.

The smallest skates they had were a bit too large for Jake, but for his first time, it was tough to gauge if it really made a difference or not.  He had fun skating between our legs and kept urging us to go faster.  The best setup we found was Mommy supporting Jake under his arms while Daddy pushed and slowed the two of them.  It was the best method for Daddy's back at least.

When our backs couldn't take any more, we let Jake know that we were tired, and he replied, "But I'm not tired at all!"

Alison started off about as shaky as last year during the Motown Winter Blast, but by the end she was able to go around the rink several times by herself without holding onto the wall.

Here are a few of the photos we took tonight.

Merry Christmas!

We had a great time celebrating Christmas with all of our family.  The celebration started early in December when Jake and Mommy went up to the Christmas party at the Moose.  It continued on through a party last weekend at the Herman's house, Christmas Eve at the Husted's last night, and the Christmas Day at home.

Jake was a lot of fun this year.  He knew exactly what to do to get gifts out of bags or wrapping paper.  He kept asking people to not tell him what the gifts were as he got parts of it exposed.  He wanted each gift to be a grand reveal.  Even with splitting up the two sides of the family over two weekends, he still got a bit overwhelmed this morning and told us he just wanted to open the rest of his presents, "next Saturday" since Mommy usually tells him we can do fun stuff on the weekends.

You can find all of the photos we took over the past month in our online photo album.

We hope you enjoyed your time with family and friends and we hope you have a very happy New Year.