So here is the debut of the Team Hefner Family blog! Hopefully, I'll find the time and motivation to keep it up!



It's been a busy winter for us...Gregg was gone for 4 weeks in January/February in Oklahoma for Army Reserves. It's always tough for all of us when he's gone for long periods of time, but we're not complaining...4 weeks in Oklahoma is nothing compared to the 13 months in Iraq we all endured! We spent the time having fun; we had a family Wii tournament/slumber party with Aunt Laurie, Katelyn & Kayla. Tom is a Wii tennis star, and Jake is a Wii champion bowler (and Mommy ROCKS at Guitar Hero III!). And Tom almost won his Cub Scout Pinewood Derby (second out of what seemed like 200 cars)!



We also spent a lot of fun time skiing at Bachelor this winter. This is Tom's third winter skiing and he's getting very good...and fearless of course! I've been skiing for more years than I'd care to admit and on the last day of President's Day weekend I had the perfectly humiliating experience of being left in the dust...punked by a 7 year old! He's quite certain he's ready for double black diamonds but we're trying to keep him on the blue squares for now! We'll start Jakey skiing next year (he says "On Team Hefner we start skiing when we're 5 yrs old!") and he's really excited to get going. So watch out for Team Hefner in the 2018 Winter Olympics!

The boys are doing great in school...Tom loves Science, Math, Religion & Social Studies and does not like handwriting...practicing cursive is akin to a communist plot as far as he's concerned ("Mommy, No One writes like this!!!"). Jake is getting ready to start Kindergarten in Fall and is excited to join Tom at the 'big boy school'. He's the Mr. Social of the 4 year old preschool room. We've heard the term "Class Clown" more than once from his teachers - so his next couple of years of school should be good fun.

We'll try to keep this up and keep in touch! Best Wishes to you all!

Gregg, Dee, Tom & Jake