Ryan's Book Box for School

Ryan was given an assignment on Friday to turn a cereal box into a personalized book box for school. We started with a Rice Krispies box. Ryan wanted to paint the box white. Then he put on all the decorations where he wanted them and made a great looking box! He is so very proud! His comment was "You can tell I like Ohio State!"

More Fun in February!

We had an extended President's Day weekend with another snow day! It was nice to have 5 days off - a mini Winter Break! Ryan had fun with Caden and Connor! They even earned money shoveling our back deck!
Ryan had fun bowling with the Gems Hockey Team! He bowled with Matt Auffrey and Mike Olynyk. He also bowled with one of the goalies, that happened to stop bowling after Ryan beat him in a game! Hmmm... (Sorry for the blurry pictures but Ryan liked them anyway!) We are looking forward to the coming of Spring and warmer weather!

Ryan Skating with the Gems!

On Sunday's after the Dayton Gems games, fans are allowed to go on the ice and skate with the team! Ryan enjoys going up to the players and talking to them!
We are doing a scrapbook for one of the Gems players as members of the Gems Booster Club. The first player we were doing left for another league. This is Cory Couturier with Ryan. We are doing his scrapbook now. We are hoping he stays with the team!

We had a Snowy February

Ryan has enjoyed the snow we have had in February! We had our first round on Feb. 5th. Ryan's basketball game was cancelled. We enjoyed having fun in the snow on Saturday! Then on Feb. 9th and 10th we had more snow! We have close to a foot of snow outside! Ryan and Diane had a nice 2 day snow vacation before going back on Thursday, Feb. 11th for our Valentine's Day Parties! Now we are enjoying a nice extended President's Day Vacation!

Do Go Karts Go In The Snow?

Ryan loved riding his go kart he was given from Santa in the snow! He was doing pretty good but need quite a few pushes from Jeremy! This is definitely an Ohio kid -nothing - not even snow - stops him from doing what he wants to do.

Happy New Year!

Ryan has become a big hockey fan! We are fortunate to be able to see the Dayton Gems play at Hara Arena! Since the season started, Ryan has won a signed jersey from John Snowden and was given a hockey stick from Matt Auffrey. Jeremy and Ryan took the stick and cut it down and reattached the top, so Ryan would have a real hockey stick his size! He is planning on playing in an Instructional Program this fall to see how he likes it!