Greg: Happy Birthday last week! Greg is always looking to do a business deal. He and his partner just closed on our Hawaii house and he has flown out there to check it out in between his long hunting trips and helping our awesome (a friend) electritian with the electrical work in our new home. He has been a trooper in the past few months with all that he has gone through.
Melinda: I already updated myself in the first paragraph
Hunter: He started a new school this year and is loving it. He made honor roll his first semester, which is awesome because it is quite a few steps up from the school he transfered from. He has been playing basketball the past few months and his coach has recruited him for "competitive" league basketball. That starts soon. He has been doing choir and cross-county running at his new school (I might add he gives up his recesses to do some of these activities). He has been in piano since January and he seems to like to play. Hopefully he'll stick with it.
Austin: He is also loving his new school. He did cross-country this fall also and ran in the jamboree with Carter Newell. They loved it! He also earned grades high enough to be on honor roll. He is playing basketball through YMCA. He plays hard. He has a soft heart and loves dogs, too bad we don't have one!
Ryder: He has such the sweetest smile that gets him almost anything he wants! The age that they are at now is so much fun, but still so demanding and exhausting. He has a little girlfriend "Abbi". He was so upset the other day in the car and after he had calmed down he put a pretend phone to his ear and talked to Abbi for over 1/2 hour. Ryder and Peyton still have a special language that they use, and I can't understand. Somehow they are both on the same page. Ryder has learned how to houdini himself out of his carseat, so now I use zip-ties, which he has gotten out of a few times. But mostly it keeps him be.
Peyton: Peyton plays dual roles in the twinship. He is very mischievious but also obey's everything I tell him. He never tries to get out of his carseat. He pretends that he is shooting everything. If Ryder is not following the directions that I gave him then he yells out "DYDER" in the highest pitch voice. If I tell Peyton to do something he says "Peytie do it?". He is a parrot and copies the last word of everything you say. I love that for the most part Ryder and Peyton play well together.
