Spring is Here!

Yesterday was the first official day of spring but today was even better than yesterday.  The girls worked outside from about 1:00-5:00.  They stayed in the drainage ditch in the front of our yard making onion soup for the rabbits. Lilly and Robert spent now of the day down there working with them.  Coach Kelly and his family came over around 4:00 and his two oldest joined in the onion soup making party.  Jackson and Carly came over to grill and Lilly and Robert stayed for dinner.  After dinner Jackson hit a record of about 26 pogo stick jumps.  Then all the adults and kids played four square until dark.  It was a great way to celebrate spring!

Spring break

Larry took off to Florida with a bus full of baseball players for spring break so Jenny and I took the girls to Louisville for a short trip. We went to the Louisville Slugger Museum, Glassworks Factory, the Science Museum, and Schimph's Confectionary Store.  Our favorites were the Glassworks place where we got to watch glass artists at work.  Then we created our own art with cut glass.  The hotel pool was also a favorite. We would end each night at the pool and with a good dinner.  We spent the last day shopping at the outlets before heading home.  

Snow Days!!

We finally got our snow days!  We woke up Monday morning to ice.  There was a little snow on the ground but it was covered in ice too!  Let the sledding begin!  We went out twice that day and then Reesi and Larry went night sledding until 10:00 with the neighborhood kids.   

Tuesday we woke up and did it all over again. Our neighborhood has the best hills for sledding.  It's so fast that Reesi wears her softball helmet going down!  Around dinner Jenny, Eric, and the girls came to sled.  They couldn't make it up our neighborhood hill so they parked at the bottom and walked all the way to our house.  Lyla and Larry had a pretty bad wipeout into the ditch about halfway down the big hill.  After they headed home we went to the neighbors for a bonfire and more sledding.  The kids all headed to our house for a movie around 9:00 while the we stayed and Larry and Robert took a scary night ride.  

Wednesday was another inch of snow and we went out two more times but it was much colder.  That afternoon Larry went to school and got his radar gun.  They waxed up the sleds and tested them out.  Top speed was 22.1!  No school again tomorrow so I guess we will do it all over again.

Friends

Celebrating Emma's birthday with the girls.  They went to "The Escape Game."

Late Christmas

After our trip to the cabin we had a quick Xmas with Angie, Tom, Sophia, and Jack.  They are living in Belgium right now so it was a treat for them to be in town.  After   yummy meal at Meemaws Sophia came over for a slumber party.  Those girls have so much fun together! 

Day off!!

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!!

100th Day of School

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 after she painted it.  She was so proud of her shirt and excited for the 100th day.

Snow!!

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!