Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts

Monday, May 25, 2015

March Birthday Boys

The Patriot and Right Hand Man enjoying a drink in the hot tub.

The youngest boys turned six and three in March and we had a special celebration at Disney. This was the first time without a pregnancy, nursing, diapers or some combination of all three! A much more pleasant way to experience the magic of the mouse kingdom. 

Decorating little birthday cakes at Kidani Village

The whole gang!


Kid fun at the pool
Parent fun at the Luau



Happy belated birthday, boys!



Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Great at Eight


                                           

Crockett turned eight today. His current loves are Pokemon cards, Skylanders Trap Force figures, art sets, and Legos. 

We had family fun today with breakfast in bed, presents, all sorts of games the bigger kids put on in the playroom, and a "private" showing of Alexander and the No Good Very Bad Horrible Day (it's good to be home schoolers and have many things all to yourselves during the day). 

Party to come this weekend. 

Monday, February 9, 2015

Confirmed in Christ




Bobo had a beautiful confirmation ceremony on January 18, 2014. She's always been a spiritually minded child (preaching to the children in the ball pit of the Fargo McDonald's as a preschooler is more than enough proof), but it was obvious in her Statement of Faith that she truly has come so far in her walk with the Lord.



    


Saturday, November 22, 2014

Fall Highlights

The holidays are already upon us and I'm still feeling like the school year has just begun. Here are some of the highlights of the year so far:

Halloween!

The kids managed to collect 40 pounds of candy. Ugh. Most has been hidden/given away (Shhh!)





Football!

Toddzilla had a great season as QB, leading his team to the championship game and making the All Star Team. Go #75!

Breaking free from the pack...

Touchdown!

Ready to cheer for the Bears in the Championship!


The biggest and littlest of the boys cheering for the Buckeyes.

Soccer!

The Patriot loved his first season of soccer.


Cross Country!

Bobo also loved her first year running cross country. She made some great friends and is already excited to run track with them in the Spring.


Science!

Our science group is having fun studying swimming creatures. Most recently we studied primeval reptiles and had fun with fossils:





A fun field trip with Dad to the natural history museum in Cleveland. More fossils!


Gymnastics!

After six months of training, the competitive season has begun. Elbow had a good meet near Cleveland last weekend. First on beam!




 Music!

 Hubby is attempting to teach the girls to sing 3 part harmony. This may take awhile :)


Just moved up to the full size violin this Fall


 Baking!

Some friends from church taught the girls how to make cheesecake this week: chocolate chip cookie dough and peanut butter cup. Calories anyone?



 Next up: Thanksgiving Prep!


Monday, April 21, 2014

It's Been A Blur

Bobo and Crockett had their piano recital tonight, which also functions as "warm up" for their National Piano Playing Auditions in just under two weeks.  It was Crockett's first recital and he handled it well.  He played all five of his songs from memory and sat dutifully as his teacher scribbled notes in his music between songs.  Bobo's an old pro by now but her program is eleven songs long - a Herculean feat just to get through, let alone to have by memory. I remember sitting at the piano and drawing a complete blank with my one recital piece many years back. Not a good memory.





We're finally on Spring Break around here - it felt like it would never come! It's been a long winter; I think I've mentioned that more than a few times. We spent the day at COSI: the big three going through the Sherlock Holmes exhibit with Hubby, me and the little people running around KidSpace.  All three were mesmerized by the bugs and critter program:



We finished our art class, "Face, Spaces, and Places" a few weeks ago, leaving a big hole in our Thursday afternoons. Everyone loves Mrs. Ness (not to mention hanging out in her amazing basement play space while waiting for siblings' classes to be over).




The late winter/early spring birthdays were celebrated with nary a mention here.  Better late than never.

Crockett turned 7

Right Hand Man turned 2

The Patriot turned 5

A sweet note and gift from our oldest for Hubby on his birthday

The current Power Ranger fanatic. 

That's a little bit of everything that's been going on around here. I can't keep up with it all anymore but it feels good just to save a few moments for posterity.


Monday, December 30, 2013

Holiday Marathon

So much to celebrate and say but not enough time in the day...

Instead, a glimpse into a special season when we celebrated not only the birth of Christ but the 70th birthday of my dad.  All with the help of my brother's family in town for the festivities. And we haven't even gotten to New Year's yet!
























Happy Birthday, Dad (and Papa) and Happy New Year everyone!