The Adventures of Jake and Allie: Brrr...January Fun!

Happy 2014! It took some getting used to but we've adjusted back to school routines and having to wake up in the mornings but we've been having lots of fun in the meantime.

We had a great Saturday out with the O'Driscoll's in Driftwood. It was a glorious day for some BBQ, wine and friends!

Mack, Lisa and Camille

Playground at Salt Lick

The fountain at Duchman Winery

The next weekend was busy with Allie's friend Eli (and his mom and dad, Amy and Ryan) coming for brunch.

We had dinner at our friends, the Loziers, but before that Jake's friend from kindergarten, Ryan, came for a playdate. We had a great time at dinner and the kids played so great it was almost (but not really) like being out.

Sunday was the annual ECP Fundraiser, Family Fun Day! Bubba joined us for the morning fun!

Allie couldn't wait to go in the petting zoo. She liked the bunny the best of all and Bubba did a great job keeping up with her!

Jake and Jacob Riemer took Allie on the bouncy house. She loved it and the boys were so sweet with her.

Allie LOVED the gymnastics course!

Jake won fancy Dracula teeth!

My favorite picture from the whole day! Love these little monkeys or in this case, little bears!

We ended the day with balloons, fake tattoos, cotton candy and a ride on a (mini) fire-truck! It was definitely a fun day!

We met Hailey and her parents for dinner one night and when those two little ones get together cuteness abounds.

We've had a very cold winter, well, cold for Austin. So far we've had 3 snow or ice days so far without snow or ice. They were so excited to go outside that I couldn't even convince them to take off their pajamas!

Allie's first hot chocolate. Not surprisingly, she loved it!

Playing in the "snow"

Apparently, the 100th day of school is a big deal and involves collections of 100 things. However, the 100th day celebrations has been postponed for the snow/ice days. Here's Jake's photo of his 100 things.

One of the best things about January is celebrating Alex's birthday! For good or for bad we all ended (for good or bad) being at home for one of the snow days to celebrate.

We had gone out the weekend before with a few friends to celebrate but we were planning to go out for dinner that night with Bubba and the kids to celebrate but Allie wasn't feeling well so Jake and Daddy had a date at Elevation Burger. We turned his day into a birthday week and celebrated later with Bubba, Jake & Allie and then I got to take him out for another birthday date.

Happy Birthday to Uncle Phillip too!

A few other random shots from January: