Cheer Days …. Ninja Warrior Class and Singing Carols

Nana December 10, 2018 0Comments

Dear Guillianna and Elijah-

We hope you’re doing great.  We wonder how your classes at school are doing, and then we say to each other, that we are sure you’re doing great.   You both were such awesome students and all the teachers always were so happy to have you in class.   We can only imagine that has continued.

We think about the gymnastics, and how Eli was progressing, and wonder what activity he must be in with baseball season over for a bit now.   Maybe more karate, who knows,  but oh boy, how he love Ninja Warrior Training at Stars and Stripes.   The other day I posted a memory that popped up in our photos of a Guillianna Frozen Birthday cake from a few years ago, but today I found Elijah’s American Ninja Warrior Cake!

The other memories on this date, several years ago, Guillianna lost a front tooth and could literally sing, all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.   Cheer photos also on this day since it is the middle of cheer season.   A few years earlier your Liberty Cheer team was really having a lot of fun together, it was a definite favorite of all the extracurriculars for Guillianna.  Above jazz, tap, ballet, and hip hop was cheer for sure.   All the cheer meets, and practices were like heaven for Guillianna, minus the running lol.   Eli was a huge fan of the cheer meets, it was lots of Eli Nana time and I am pretty sure he rooted for Gugu and her team mates with more excitement than any of the fans in the stands.   One thing for sure, between all the varied activities, the one on one Nana, Eli or Nana Gugu time was always spent laughing and having fun.   So grateful for the memories.   Hopeful one day soon we will get photos, or hear of the new activities and see you enjoying them.

Best support ever, a brother who loved watching how happy his sister was at competitions.

Then there were photos where on this day, two years ago, you were caroling at Fox Run for all the residents.   So much fun.  I do have video of the two of you singing, and the people around you so very happy, however the video and pixellating faces is very hard with the equipment I have, I continue to work on this.   Just know the copy of the regular video is available on a non public page for you when you are older if I cannot get the graphics to be pixellated properly.   These videos and the many others we have are so worth preserving – for you’re both so adorable and the memories so precious.

We are so proud of you both, and enjoyed watching you in all your activities and academic accolades, like the awards from NDPMA for international baccalaureate, caring.  Or the brag tags, and honor roll.    The two of you are both so smart and so outgoing, love participating and the combination of all these things will lead you each to an amazing journey for sure.   Stories we cannot wait to see unfold and hear all about some day.

All our love, to the moon and back,

Forever and always,

XOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Nana and Poppy❤️?

Cookie Dough Bar

Nana December 9, 2018 0Comments

Dear Guillianna and Elijah,

Today we went into downtown Rochester, and there is a new place, it is called Dino’s Cookie Dough Bar… and yes they sell “cookie dough”.   It is a place we hope you will get to go to.  You would love it.    All different kinds of edible cookie dough.   Peanut butter, double chocolate, or chocolate chip, funfetti, or Monster, that has peanut butter chocolate and chocolate chips just to name a few.   After baking with you two, I am telling you, YOU WOULD LOVE THIS PLACE.

The evening was quiet and stayed in, watched a little television which is highly unusual for us, and started making a list of holiday shopping stops we will need to make this week.   We had seen Uncle David in the hospital and he is doing okay, healing from his surgery.    We had lunch with great Grandma Sally and then did a little grocery shopping.   All in all it was a quiet day.    We always remember spending Sunday’s at our children’s activities be it hockey, or cheer, and then more recently your activities.    We miss Elijah gymnastics, or Gugu cheer, and the breakfasts we would have …. when thought of, it makes us happy to remember and we hope you have new Sunday plans with mom and dad that bring you the same smiles.

We love you to the Moon and Back,

Forever and For Always,

XOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Nana and Poppy❤️?

Old friends talking all about Grandkids !

Nana December 8, 2018 2Comments

Dear Guillianna and Elijah,

It is Saturday, December 8.   Today Poppy and I will see some friends from when we were just kids.   We will eat dinner with classmates that we may not have seen for many years.   Life has a way of bringing back good friends and good memories, and so tonight we will go into the town, the city of lights and share a meal with old friends.

We hope you two will have a wonderful weekend.   We hope that you have lots of fun planned, maybe a birthday party?  Maybe a movie, or dinner with the family.   What every you do we hope you smile an enjoy it.   We will share photos with these friends of ours,  all of us grandparents now.    We will tell stories of you and all the other cousins, and we will be so grateful for our memories.   We will surely hope to build more memories with you both, trips to the Mitten or during school breaks, but for now we will tell stories of the many years and happy times spent.

We know that Aunt Kiki and family came to see you both to say happy birthday.  We hope you know that EVERYONE loves and misses you both very much.   We hope that you have had a great week, and we imagine your decorations for the holiday have begun.     Christmas tree trimming was a specialty of yours.   Love,  love,  love, the decorations you have made in the past and the post it notes you left in the tree!  This is an older video, (video credit goes to Alex Boge and his link from FB) –  of downtown, we hope the link works for you   – it is absoultely still as beautiful and  just how you remember it !

Hugs and kisses to you both we love you to the moon and back,

forever and for always,

XOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Nana and Poppy❤️?