The forecast for St. Louis today? COLD!
Since September, Adam has been enjoying gymnastics. His coed class splits time between the boy and girl apparatuses. It appears, however, that his class now has a male coach so the boys can now focus on their apparatuses. Paul and I enjoyed watching him on the rings when we picked him up and were able to take some shots of him with our new Nikon lens. Enjoy!
Inspired, I was, yesterday to clean out my "unmentionables" drawer. As it turns out, I own 25 bras and 45 pairs of underwear, none of which look like the pictures above!
I probably own slightly more, but refused to fold three baskets of laundry to get a final count!
1. Not one, but TWO, snow days this week for a storm that for the most part was a dud in St. Louis. Kids were awesome though. Very well behaved and only at the end of the 2nd day did they start to pick on each other.
2. Emily had a basketball game last Sunday. She played awesome! She scored quite a bit (at least for her), had some rebounds, and even a blocked shot. We're proud of that girl! The team looked great and that game reinforced our decision to stick with Coach Julie and not play in the Kirkwood Junior Basketball League with Emily's previous team. 
3. Today, Adam and I, along with our neighbor friend, went to the Science Center for a quick visit. The kids enjoyed the overpass over Hwy 40/I-64 more than anything but building the Arch a close second. 
4. Relaxing weekend for the Kreidlers - no activities other than the Kids Lego Club at the County Library and our long runs. Both Paul and I have longish runs tomorrow (7 and 8 miles, respectively).
5. Registration opened for the Chicago Marathon this week. The Kreidlers are taking a pass on Chicago this year in favor of the St. Louis Rock and Roll full marathon and possibly the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon.
That's all for now! Happy Weekend!
Emily's school is requesting parents send a baby picture of their 5th grader for use in a yearbook spread. Back when Emily was born (2000), digital cameras weren't really all the rage. We had one, but since everyone had dial up modems, we cropped all digital pictures so so our relatives and friends could could actually download the pictures. So, when the call went out for a baby picture, I wasn't sure what to submit since the picture quality of the cropped pictures is pretty much crap. (Can't think of a nicer way to say it other than "crap"!)
So, I went back in our picture files, starting when Emily was born. I found this picture - from Emily's baptism when she was almost 4 months old. And guess what? We actually had it in the original BIG file.
Enjoy Emily from July 2, 2000!
Looks like we'll escape the brunt of the ice and will settle for sleet and snow. So far, it's just been sleeting. Some pictures:
Emily checking out the coating on the bushes:
On Manchester Road, on the way to the gym. This is NOT snow, this is just sleet accumulation.
Since we'll be at home the rest of the day, we'll be eating well! Cinnamon Rolls, cupcakes, chili and cornbread. yum!! 
