We throughly enjoyed our day off of school for MLK day. The girls spent Sunday night at Mimi and Papoos. Then I picked them up and took them all to the Compassion Experience, where you walk through the life of a child from a third world country. Next we met Larry for a hike at Warner park. It was a beautiful warm day!!
Elye celebrated the 100th day of kindergarten this week. For homework she had to make a tshirt with 100 items on it. She wanted a dog themed shirt so she stamped 100 dog prints and painted a puppy that I ironed on a
We finally got some snow, but it was just barely enough for play with. Also, unfortunately it was on a Saturday!! As soon as the girls woke up they started getting ready immediately. We spent several hours sledding in our front yard. Grace, Lyla, Piper, and the neighbor kids came down for some sledding and snow ball fights. It was melted by 12:00, but still tons of fun for the girls!
We headed out to the cabin on New Years Eve with the same crew as last year. This year we stopped at Burgess Falls for a hike on
We headed out to the cabin on New Years Eve with the same crew as last year. This year we stopped at Burgess Falls for a hike on
This year for Halloween Reesi was Dorothy from Wizard of Oz, I was the tornado, Larry was the wicked witch, and Elye was the Flying Bat. But then my sister told me there were no flying bats in Wizard of Oz. They were Flying Monkeys!! Fail!!!!
We had fun anyway. We went Jenny's and it was freezing. Piper and Elye couldn't keep up with the big girls so we hit a few streets and then went back to Jenny's to pass out candy. The big girls were gone for hours!! They went all over the neighborhood with Larry and got tons of candy. We had to weigh it when they got back because it was so much! Around 8 pounds a piece!!! That's a lot of candy!!
This year we spent our Thanksgiving in Navarre with Larry's side of the family. We went down on Wednesday and came back Saturday. Unfortunately, Reesi was sick on Thursday and didn't make it to Thanksgiving dinner, but she did make it to the hot tub in the morning. Luckily, the next day she was feeling all better and got to spend some time on the beach. It was a little chilly so I bundled up with my winter coat and boots, but Elye spent about 45 minutes running around in her swimsuit jumping the the water. Then she would come wrap up for a little to warm up and go out again. Austin came down and Reesi helped him build a snowman on the beach. Then the girls went to the heated pool for the rest of the afternoon fun.
On the way home from Florida we found the cutest little Christmas Tree Farm to cut down our Christmas Tree. The Christmas Tree farm we used last year wasn't open this year, so we had to go with a more traditional tree. It doesn't have the same character, but it is beautiful anyway.
This fall Reesi started volleyball with 10 of her friends. She absolutely loves it and I love watching her. She is so aggressive that we laugh because the ball will be coming to the absolute furthest away spot from her on the court and she will run full speed for it thinking she will make it. Her serve has improved so much! She can't quite serve it over hand from the "official" line, but can from the line that her developmental team uses.
