December 2014 - Christmas and New Year's

Hello. We began our holiday season with a white Thanksgiving.  This gave us the opportunity to get out and play in the snow early....

Andrew and I had the opportunity to attend a Hershey Bears hockey game the night before Thanksgiving with a friend who offered us to come along to use his season seats.  They were great seats.  The game went into overtime and then Hershey won on penalty shots....a good time....

The snow also allowed us to head to Ski Liberty Thanksgiving weekend.  Madi and Andrew took a snowboard lesson and were doing well on the small hill by the end of the afternoon.  Abby and I skiied together.  It was fairly warm and not crowded so it made for a nice first outing.

Andrew began his middle school basketball season.  He is having a good experience and able to get a few shots off...here are a few pics from his first home game in December....

Madi has been playing indoor field hockey with her school team and enjoying it.  It was curtailed by Mono diagnosed in mid December.  Dad didn't want to feel left out, so contracted it as well....we both expect to be back to full strength to begin the new year.

Abby had her last Christmas program as a pre-schooler.  She will be 5 next month and entering Kindergarten next year of course.  She was Mary.  Here are a few pictures from the pre-program slide show.

Here are some pictures from the program.  Abby was not too happy about the hat...but, she did good and it was nice to be there.

We had a great Christmas.  We were able to visit with all of our family to include Trevor, Lori, and and Stephanie Overcash from Georgia.  

Abby got alot of presents.  Hi-lighted by a Barbie House with Van and Yacht, an easy bake oven, and an animated dog.  

Andrew's main gifts were a new ipod, some Beats, and a Call of Duty Xbox game.

Madi's gifts were focused around clothes, to include a pair of UGG's.  

For New Year's, we did our traditional meal of shrimp and crab legs for New Year's Eve at Grammy's house in Greencastle.  My nieces, Madi, and I attended the New Year's Eve on the square in Gettysburg.  We finished with lunch with Grandma on New Year's Day.

We got some family pictures this fall.  They were delayed in processing a bit, but here are some of the pictures and the Christmas card we made from them.

Due to processing delays, here is the link to pictures....eventually pics that we bought will be posted.

http://www.debhurdphotography.com/p78058335 

We had a good December and a good Holiday.  We trust that you did as well.  Best wishes for 2015.

Abby will turn 5 in January...hard to believe.  Expect another post then....

Fall 2014

Hello.  We had a good fall of 2014.  School started off well for all the kids.

Madi had a very exciting field hockey season.  She was able to earn a starting role as a forward and the team went undefeated in their league and ended up 16-1 prior to entering district playoffs.  They won the regular season league division title, and then won the league (YAIAA) tournament.  She was blessed with great teammates and great coaches.  We also feel blessed that her eye injury did not impact her very much for this season.  Here are some pics of her in action.

  

This was a clip from the paper representing a big win against a local rival. That's Madi with her hands raised.

This clip was after they won their first league tournament game vs Dallastown.  Madi is #3.

 

Here is a team picture after winning the League Championship

Abby attended her share of field hockey games.  Here is a picture of her after Madi's field hockey team won the league title.

I found this picture of Madi during the District game vs Greenwood on the York Daily Record Newspaper site...pretty good picture.

Madi also earned her second varsity letter ( first one in track last spring ) and received it at her banquet.

Andrew ran middle school cross country this season as a 7th grader.  They raced on 2 mile courses.  He ran well and finished well.  I think it was enough to keep him interested enough to try track and cross country again next year. It was great to get a chance to see him run.



Abby had a good fall.  She had a great start to  pre-school. Here is her school picture.

Here are some pictures of her at an explore museum with Grammy.

Here is a picture of Abby with some crazy hair that I just had to include....

We did still do Trick or Treating....Andrew left with the neighborhood boys before we were able to get a picture.  Here are pics of Abby and Madi.  Abby dressed in Anna's Coronation Dress (in case you are not a Frozen fan) and made it to many houses and got a lot of candy.  Madi made her own Peter Pan costume to wear to the home football game as part of a student organized effort to dress up to sit in the student section...

The winter seasons will have Andrew playing Middle School Basketball, Madi playing indoor field hockey and continuing with her violin, and Abby will continue to attend school, AWANA, and her siblings sporting events, of course.

Hopefully you had a great fall.  Wishing you a good start to the winter season....