Weekend Wrap-Up

It’s Sunday night already...and NOVEMBER! We had a really fun weekend.  On Saturday morning the girls and I took Luna out to run around and there was definitely snowy frost on the ground.

The big event of the weekend was Nana’s 90th birthday party!! It was so fun to see so many Gosselin cousins and their kids. We got a picture of about half of all Nana and Papa’s great-grandkids. We also got to meet Emma- the newest great-grandbaby (until Dan and Hanna’s baby arrives!!).

Happy birthday Nana! We love you and hope you have an amazing day tomorrow on your actual day! 

This morning we got an “extra hour” and so we were busy. The girls did a great job making blueberry muffins with minimal help.

And a bit later it was chaos with an inflatable unicorn. ‘Tis the season for colds and coughs so we nebulized Maya since she started with a bit of a cough last night. Fingers crossed it doesn’t turn into a weeks-long saga like it has in years past.


This afternoon there was crafting and a very needy dog...

...and then Auntie Yoda and Lucy came over. Cal came with Laura and I to get pedicures while Chris and the little girls stayed at our house to play. Then we headed to Punch for a pizza dinner.



Have a great week!

A Picture Update

HOLY MOLY HALLOWEEN WEEK.

I didn't take many pictures the first half, so here's what I got from Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday:

Monday: Kitchen basketball (clothing optional, apparently)
Tuesday: Trick-or-treating at Lund's with G-ma and Pa
Wednesday: A pretty sunset sky

Thursday: Halloween!  Great Margie was in town so we had dinner and then she and Boom, Auntie Yoda, Uncle Craigles and Lucy came over for trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.

Between the dark and the girls running around, it was hard to get a good picture.

But overall it was very successful and the girls all got a nice haul.  Thankfully, their school asked for candy donations for the food shelf, so we are sending all our extra candy and some of the girls' stash to school with them on Monday!

Lucy LOVED that pumpkin mask!

There was no school in Bloomington today, so I took the morning off and we went to get flu shots at 7:45 am!  Hooray!  Then we played outside with Luna and they played all crazy inside too.  Thanks, Halloween.

They spent the afternoon with Pa, where they played games, went shopping, and got paid to do a couple chores (they are ALL ABOUT THAT these days).



Tonight we watched Dancing With the Stars and snuggled...



...and then played a family game of Upwords and Luna was NO help.



Have a great weekend!

Happy Halloween!

I love holidays like there when I get to go back in time on Timehop. I’ll start way back and zoom forward and the go WAY BACK and then end up with TODAY! 

I can’t believe this is our 9th Halloween with little people to dress up. Well...maybe kind of the 10th.

Before that we had Kona, who celebrated at least a couple Halloweens as a MAD BEE.

And then, when we could coordinate with a baby, she was either a MAD BEE or a MAD BULL.

And then we could coordinate two little people and she was a MAD COW. 

She really was a trooper.

We did a great job of coordinating the girls (and then Luna) up through last year.

Pirates and mermaids go together, right?

I have such fun memories of Halloween as a kid, because our family always went to a church Halloween party and dressed up as a unit.

Let me give you a bigger version of the bottom right (the ALIEN family) because it was EPIC.

This year wasn’t so coordinated between all three little beings, but at least Maya and Luna matched (well there was a happy unicorn and a MAD UNICORN).

Happy Halloween!

Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! First up, GOOFY 1ST GRADERS:

And then, Maya and Lucy!

Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday!

Yesterday morning the girls and I were out the door by 7am to head to Target so we had breakfast there.  When we got home, Maya and Luna had some snuggle time.

It was Halloween costume day at dance class yesterday, so here's a preview of 2019 Halloween!  Callie is a "Mizzou Tiger" an Maya is...what else?...a UNICORN.



Yesterday afternoon we met Dan and Hanna at Centennial Lakes to take in the fall colors and take some family pictures.  There were A LOT OF PICTURES TAKEN in order to get one or two good ones.  So it goes with children and a dog!



Here is the best one from this round:



We tried again on a quilt near a walkway of trees.



And here's the best one from this set!



And there were a couple cute ones of the girls too...

And the dogs!

Later Dan and Hanna ended up coming over for an impromptu pizza dinner (and before dinner BINGO).  The girls are getting excited for a Gosselin cousin!



Today we went to downtown to hang out with Boom, Iris, Auntie Yoda, Uncle Craigles and Lucy!



Click here for some cute videos!

Later we took Luna on a run and then Spookified our house.

Have a great week!

A Picture Update

Happy Friday! This was a busy week for us- Chris or I or the girls had something every night after school. So the few pics I managed to capture were random at home activities.

Have a great weekend!

Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! I have some of the girls and some of the sisters. Love them all!