A Picture Update

Happy Friday!  WE MADE IT TO SPRING BREAK.

It was another long week...Chris got hit with some sort of bug so he was down for the count most of the week.  Thankfully he is good at masking up and washing his hands, so SO far, the girls and I are all fine.  And he's better today!  So that's good.

On Monday Callie and Luna snuggled and we Facetimed Mitchell and Isla. Adorable.

And for the rest of the week... a pretty sunrise, shopping with a teen always takes awhile (says Maya), Callie wished for spring by not wearing a coat when it was like 17 degrees one morning, and I made red coconut vegetable curry last night because I was just SO READY FOR BREAK.

This afternoon the girls and I battled the gross weather for dinner and a haircut.

And then popcorn and women’s basketball during a thunderstorm! 


Have a lovely weekend!  Looks like we may be getting another round of SNOW tonight...we are OVER IT.

Timehop Tuesday

Hello! Happy Tuesday! Here are some sweet Timehops…

Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday!  It was a very ALADDIN weekend, with a little side of puke and fevers.

As I mentioned in my Friday post, Maya got taken out by a cold throughout the day on Thursday, so she and I couldn't go to Callie's show on Friday night.  Then she puked twice throughout the night Friday night and had a fever on Saturday morning...so Chris and I had to tag team the two Saturday shows.  It was a bummer to only see 2 out of the 4 performances, but that's just how it goes!

Anyway...yesterday morning was my last of 4 days in a row of doing Callie's hair curling for the show.  It is lovely, but VERY time consuming!  She has a lot of hair.

I met up with Boom, Auntie Yoda, Lucy, G-ma, Auntie Cat and Auntie Hanna for the afternoon show!  I snuck a few quick pics and a couple quick videos (CLICK HERE!) of the end of the show. It was SO FUN.

Then I went home for sick kiddo duty...she snuggled on the couch with Luna and watched a movie.

Chris headed back for the last show, and met up with Pa and the Dahlen's!

Callie had a cast party until 11pm last night, and was up bright and early (thankfully not early enough for my sunrise walk with Luna) by 8am this morning to show me the Aladdin Raffle Basket we won.

The rest of the day was all about rest and recovery!

Have a good week. We have ONE MORE WEEK until spring break. 

A Picture Update

Ohmygoodness I don't know how we made it to Friday. This week has been EXHAUSTING.  

Here are the pics: dinner with Pa, a new leash for Luna (she's mad about it), and some time in the quasi-spring weather...

And the big event of the week is Callie's musical performances...Aladdin Jr!  Opening night was last night.  It was ADORABLE, but Maya has a terrible cold so she was a mess, Callie was also just so tired after the first show that she was crabby, so there weren't too many good photo-ops.  But here's what I got...

An Edible Arrangement platter for opening night, Maya’s goofiness before the head cold took her out, and a bit of the play…

More shows this weekend, so hopefully I’ll get better pictures tomorrow!

Timehop Tuesday + Happy Birthday Uncle Josh!

The March birthdays continue…it’s Uncle Josh’s birthday today! So here’s a hilarious throwback of his and Mari’s wedding photo with their super happy flower girls!

And here are a couple Timehops for this Tuesday. 

Our family TV time started three years ago at the start of COVID… and we have continued to watch multitudes of competition reality shows ever since!

And then we have the Henderson cousins:

Weekend Wrap-Up: Happy Birthday Chris, Uncle Dan and Auntie Yoda!

March 19th is a big day in our family!!! Lots of birthday people: Chris, Uncle Dan AND Auntie Yoda!

We spent the weekend celebrating the birthday people. :)

On Friday night the girls and I went out to dinner and to see "Hello, Dolly!" with Boom and Auntie Yoda. 

It was an AMAZING production at an adorable little theater.  It has always been one of my top favorite musicals.

On Saturday night, Chris and I went on a double (birthday) date with Dan and Hanna! We did an escape room and went out to dinner.  It was awesome (though we did not in fact escape the room in the allotted hour we were given...). Dinner was delicious and the boys got free birthday dessert!

The girls slept over at Boom’s house and had a lot of fun, as per usual.  She taught them how to knit!

This morning I planned a birthday brunch for Chris at our fave brunch place with a few friends. 

And then we celebrated Chris and Auntie Yoda at Boom’s house for playtime and dinner (and an Avery FaceTime).

The girls played with all of Maya's JellyCat animals and built a fort.

And Boom made delicious chocolate cupcakes.

And then to finish out the day, G-ma came over for birthday brownies!

WHEW.  I am EXHAUSTED from all the fun festivities, as are the rest of them.  And to add to the madness...this upcoming week is Callie's show week...she has 5 performances of Aladdin Jr, starting on Wednesday!  

Spring break is 2 weeks away...can't wait!

A Picture Update

Happy St. Patty’s Day! As usual, we wore green (or tried to) for Nana!

And our usual travel back through time:

On to the week…

I had the day off on Monday, so I enjoyed the sunrise before going in to the DMV and met the Johnsons for Amy’s birthday breakfast! Also Luna was cuddly and clingy when I was back home.

On Tuesday there was a Snuffy’s fundraiser for Callie’s theater group so we ate dinner out and, as you can see, they complied super well for a photo. 

Then there was chaos in the basement last night…

…and family breakfast at Maya’s school this morning!

We have a super busy and fun weekend planned (lots of birthdays ahead!), so stay tuned on Sunday for the wrap-up.

Have a good one. 

Timehop Tuesday

Today we have open-mouthed and closed-mouthed smiles!

Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday everybody!

After I posted on Friday, I ended up taking a couple more pictures.  The past couple months I have been trying different "non-alcoholic social tonics" to cut down on my wine drinking.  I usually like to put them in wine glasses, but the one I tried on Friday night just made me giggle.  The green color was funky (and it tasted kinda funky too)...and then Maya lost another tooth!

On Saturday, while the girls were with Boom and G-ma at a middle school production of Beauty and the Beast Junior, Chris and I went to test drive and ultimately buy a NEW CAR!!!  It's a beautiful blue Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid, and it is SO MUCH FANCIER than my 2012 red GMC.  

Last night Hanna, Mitchell and Isla came over for dinner and playtime...and G-ma stopped by too! 

Today Maya and Luna were being silly, we took the new car out for our first family ride, and Maya continued to enjoy the big snow mounds behind our house.

Also, Pa came over to hang out and watch Lego Masters with us.  Highly recommend that show!  It is a fun Lego building competition show, and it is also hilarious.

Anyway...have a lovely week!

A Picture Update

TGIF everyone!

My photos this week are few, cute and ridiculous…

…and of the only creature on the house who will let me snap a pic without too much sass.

Have a god weekend!

Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! First up…the goofy girls.

And then…I had to recreate my headstand. Because thanks to yoga, I can do it even better at almost 41 than I did at 30!

Weekend Wrap-Up

Here we are on Sunday night. Our weekend was relatively calm.

I cannot WAIT for those ugly dirty snowbanks to disappear and stop blocking the pretty sunrise. 

We had dinner at Uncle Dan, Auntie Hanna, Mitchell and Isla’s house last night and it was pure kitchen-rolling, wall-standing, pillow-fighting chaos! 

For a few videos of the madness,  click here!

Today the only pics I got were these…

…and these…

As you can see, I made another soup, it started snowing again (UGGGHHHHHH), and Maya is a totally goofball!

Have a good week!