Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! These Timehops are all about Cal!

First up: Callie’s lovely bridge at dance class.

Then: Callie’s first preschool picture and her 2nd grade school picture.

Lastly, the sweet goofy face.

Weekend Wrap-Up

Hello! We had a pretty chill weekend. Yesterday was spent at Target, home, dance, a little bit at G-ma and Pa’s and outside in the snow.

Today was spent at Boom’s with Lucy.

Today Luna earned herself a new crate by managing to break out of her old one while we were away this morning. Thankfully our bedroom door had been shut so she didn’t get to the rest of the house. She did a number on our room. Stinker!

And then Jenna and her girls came over for dinner.

None of the children followed the direction to smile... we even tried “don’t smile!” And they are all too smart  for us.

I’ll leave you with some video clips from the weekend. They consist of: training Luna, playing outside, Callie working on the 50 states song that I learned in 4th grade (she’s more than halfway to knowing all the states in ABC order!) and Baby Lucy’s new milestone!

A Picture Update

Hello! What a weird week! As I mentioned yesterday, we started the week with snow days. I took pictures every couple hours on Monday once the snow started and it was pretty fast and furious!

Maya still got to go to Boom’s house on Monday for part of the day.

By 5am Tuesday snow days were called for everyone PLUS Lucy! Since we were home, it worked out great to add Lucy to the mix at our house. We had so much fun!

By Wednesday we were back to our regular schedule and Maya hung out with Luna at G-ma and P’s house on Wednesday and Thursday.

Tonight I went out to a lovely Italian dinner with my mom and sisters.

Have a great weekend!!

Timehop Tuesday (On Thursday)

Hello! On Tuesday I was on snow day #2! I picked Callie up early Monday and both girls also had a snow day Tuesday. And we got a bonus baby that day, who also had a snow day!

I have 2 Timehops for you. First off, Callie has had some fun birthday parties the past couple years!

And the girls introduced Lucy to the “laptop” that my dad got Callie when she was around 2.

Timehop Tuesday Technical Difficulties

I can’t get pictures to upload today! I’ll have to try again later this week.

Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday!

We had a busy weekend.

The girls had dance yesterday. Callie has class at 11:00 and Maya has class at 1:00, so our usual routine is to get lunch in between.

After dance Chris to Luna over to Dan and Hanna’s to meet their dog Shambles. A couple weeks ago we tried having Luna meet Iris and it was a total failure. Chris gave Luna a solid D- for this encounter. 

She has non-existent doggie social skills. But we’ll keep working on training and it can only get better...right? She has already learned so much by working with G-ma the last couple weeks!

The big event of the weekend was Callie finally got to have her friend birthday party yesterday afternoon (A BOWLING PARTY). Along with a few friends she has had since being a baby, this was the first year she invited a number of friends from school. It was pretty adorable to watch her navigate this fun social situation with so many different peers. 

We let her bring along my old phone to take pictures and videos to document the occasion. The videos she and her friends took were pretty cute. Lots of recording bowling balls rolling slllooowwwwllllyyy to hit the pins.  Here are the highlights:

It was quite the afternoon/evening and we were all exhausted at the end. But a good and happy exhausted.

This morning I headed to the cemetery before church. It had been awhile. I had to do some digging to uncover Dad’s plaque, and there was some solid ice stuck to his name. But at least I was able to clear off the “gratitude.”

After church we headed to Boom’s house for lunch and to see everybody.

At one point Maya and I were doing Snapchat with Iris getting her teeth brushed behind us. At one point, Iris joined in on Snapchat!

Maya and I had one cute pizza-themed picture together, and one slightly horrifying face swap.

When we got home, the girls asked if we could play in the snow, so of course we had to! It was a moderate temperature and the snow was perfect for snowmen.

Tonight while Chris went to watch the Vikings game with buddies, the girls and I watched a bit of it at home.  Callie multi-tasked by writing the states out in alphabetical order. I have been teaching her a states song I learned in 4th grade and she is intent on learning it too. 

I’ll leave you with a few more videos from today.

Have a great week!

A Picture Update

Sorry I don’t have much for you this week.

Monday (which seems so long ago) was MLK Jr day, so the girls and I hung out with Boom, Lucy and Iris.

And Maya hung out with her new best buddy Luna.

I’ll leave you with some Lucy and Luna videos- both of which can do “tricks” these days!

Have a great weekend!

Timehop Tuesday

Today I just have baby pictures next to their current faces.

Callie:

Maya:

Weekend Wrap-Up: The Whoa Vikings! Edition

You guys, I have never been a Vikings fan. But I half paid attention to the game, and actually watched the last couple minutes tonight. I think the fact that the Super Bowl is going to be here makes the idea of the hometown team winning that much more interesting. So even though I don’t understand football at all...the ending of that game was crazy. Anyways. 

This was a fun weekend! Cat, Hanna and I spent the morning together yesterday for a big shopping trip (see G-ma’s birthday surprise below).

I love those girls! I don’t know how I got so lucky to be born into a family with two amazing sisters and also MARRY into a family and get two more amazing sisters (and brother)!

Later the girls helped G-ma and Pa put together a cute little tool bench.

I got some Luna snuggles last night.

Today we went with G-ma’s brother Rich and his family for to celebrate G-ma’s birthday with a lunch and bowling! The girls had so much fun with all the teenagers.

Then we went back to G-ma and Pa’s house and gave G-ma her birthday surprise...65 birthday gifts! 

She had lots of fun opening them all up (actually she had a lot of help from two little girls). And there may or may not have been a few individually wrapped bananas...

I’ll leave you with some birthday party videos:

Have a great week!

A Picture Update: Happy Birthday G-ma!!

Happy Friday and HAPPY BIRTHDAY G-MA!

G-ma is kind of hidden but this is the only pic I had with her three girls.

When she brought over Luna this afternoon, the girls were kind of a mess. But later I got them to sing for her:

It has been a pretty quiet week for us. Maya was at Boom’s on Monday:

And G-ma and Pa’s on Wednesday and Thursday.

Poor Cal got sick last night, so Chris and I took turns at home with her today. And that’s about it!

I’ll leave you with some Luna videos from our play time tonight.

Untitled from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

Have a great weekend.

Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday!  

The first one is is all about Callie! Eeeek I love her baby pictures so much.

And then: both girls around 4.5/5 years old.

Weekend Wrap-Up

After 17 days off, it is back to work for me tomorrow.  It will be good to get in a routine, but I’m not looking forward to frantic mornings again. 

Yesterday morning we met Auntie Yoda and Lucy for brunch, and then went to Boom’s for some crafts and play time.

 Those cousins are pretty sweet.

Then we went to G-ma and Pa’s house to hang out and pick up Luna.

She was so darn cute last night and keep me warm on my lap.

We played Headbanz last night, and got some pretty funny cards (at least the girls thought they were all HILARIOUS...I particularly enjoyed Callie’s card).

Today we tried a meeting of Iris and Luna at a neutral location. Luna was a nutball and constantly barked at all the activity at the falls. She ended up banished to the car with Chris while the rest of us did some walking around with Boom and Iris. Iris was a hit in her booties!

I love this picture I took of the girls and the sunray.

After some quiet time we headed out to do some sledding. It felt downright tropical today in the 20s after so many days in the negatives!

The girls’ blue eyes looked beautiful in the chilly sunshine.

Laura sent me a cute picture of Lucy in some of Maya’s baby jammies, that also happen to have a matching set for bigger girls. It was fun to go through pictures again to find them!

I’ll leave you with a collection of videos: Lucy, Luna, and sledding!

Have a great week!