Monster Truck Weekend

Jace and I had a fun day on Saturday - starting with "kung fu" gymnastics and then Monster Truck Jam at the Tacoma Dome. It was hilarious and a lot of fun. The pictures tell the story for Jace - the sound of the Monster Trucks FREAKED him out initially (me, too) and the ear plugs I brought were not going to do the trick. So I hustled out to the nearest merchandise stand and bought him these adorable ear phone-things.

After the initial shock of it all Jace and I really enjoyed ourselves in our own little private area - its the Press Box in the Tacoma Dome. Thank you Jocelyn for the tickets. It was nice having an entire area to just roam around and not have people right next to you.

He did enjoy himself - he was screaming and yelling by the end - who won? Why is that one broken? Two of the Monster Trucks broke during the freestyle competition...honestly, it was crazy to watch.
Look how high this truck got? I went to a Monster Truck show once when I was a kid and I didn't remember all that much, mostly smashing cars. I didn't realize they jumped so high. All in all, Jace had a blast and so did I. It was nice to have some one on one time with Jace. He is growing up so fast.

Happy New Year (uh, a few weeks late)

Jace loves his new SpiderMan bike he got for his Birthday.

I am getting worse and worse at posting these days. Here are some fun things the family has been up to.

We rang in the New Year with our friends the Kowalchuk's and Cypher's. Some how I only got pictures of my family right before midnight and after...yes, the kids made it to midnight. It was a lot of fun.
(Jamin looks a little pained in this picture:-)

Then it rained and it rained and it rained...to say the least its been a tough couple of weeks around the Marecle home. Water is not our friend on our property (I will leave it at that). Anyway, it is back to school and basketball games for Kara, gymnastics for Jace (we call it Kung Fu gymnastics) because all he wants to do is Kung Fu (thanks Santa for bringing Kung Fu Panda), work for me and Jamin and of course all the normal stuff that we try to get accomplished. Jace totally cutting a rug - I love when he dances:-)

Bryce is completely crawling - everywhere - very quickly. Not just the "caterpillar" crawl. He also pulls himself up onto EVERYTHING and he thinks he is so cool:-) Where does all the time go? Happy New Year to all. Here is to a happy and healthy 2009.