Friday, September 14, 2018

A Picture Update

Happy Friday! Maya talked about colors this week in Kindergarten and had to wear a different color every day!


She is loving school and it makes me so happy.

Other pictures from the week: more from school!


Boom’s birthday dinner!


Before and after school (and a bus drill).


And there were some pretty great sunrays this week too...reflected through my side mirror.


Have a great weekend! 

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Timehop Tuesday: Happy Birthday Boom!

Yay it’s Boom’s birthday today! Here’s a Timehop with her two crazy Gosselin grandchildren.


Love you Boom!

My other Timehops today are:

This goofball!


And this goofball!






Sunday, September 9, 2018

Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday!

Chris was gone for a bachelor party most of the weekend, so it was me and the girls. 

We had the first dance classes of the year on Saturday. I took the top left picture in my car and captioned it because they were just being little monkeys! But dance was fun and it was great to see Ms. Connie again.


Then we met Jenna and the kids at Edinborough to burn off more energy. They came back to our house after and had fun playing outside. It was beautiful out!


This morning was the first Sunday school class, and then we went to Boom’s house. She had been in Alaska the past couple of weeks so it was great to hear about her trip and see pictures!


As you can see above on the right, all weekend the girls have been using the big cul-de-sac as a chalkboard. Hopefully the neighbors don’t mind!

Callie has been asking to do a water ballon fight for awhile now, so we stopped to get some on our way home from downtown. 


To see some dance class, play time, and water ballon madness videos, click here!

Finally, my Uncle Larry completed his NINTH Ironman race tonight! I tracked him all day and was able to watch him finish on the live feed. Congrats Uncle Larry (in the blue shirt and white visor).


It is so inspiring to watch the live feed of the finish line. 

Have a great week everybody!

 

Friday, September 7, 2018

A Picture Update

We made it through the first week of school!!! It was great. The girls did awesome. 

In the age of social media, teachers have Facebook and Instagram pages...and I love them! Here are a few pics of the girls and their classmates from this week, directly from their teachers (mostly).



Other pictures from the week include:

Hanging out and Mall of America with G-ma!


Playtime outside and Back-to-School open house!


We ended the week watching all the hullabaloo at the football field near our house. So much activity!


Caught some pretty sunrays on the way home.



And that’s it...I have a feeling there will be lots fewer pics to share at the end of the week since I won’t get my usual picture texts from the grandparents. I’ll do my best in the evenings...but who knows! Busy times! 

Have a great weekend.

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

First Day of School!!

Today was the girls’ first day of school, and they were ready! My first day was yesterday and so far so good (*knock on wood*)!



I have saved all the first day pics that have come up on Timehop the past few days because it is just so fun.

Look at how big Maya has gotten! Ahhh!



And holy moly our 3rd grader!



And just for fun, another round of me and Chris in Kindergarten and 3rd grade.

You guys!  Maya wore tall socks!  I wore tall socks!  It was not at all planned and I am thrilled
by the similarity!

People always say Callie is my mini-me, but look at how much she looks like her dad in this picture!

Here's to an awesome school year!


Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! I have some State Fair Timehops first...like finding G-ma’s quilts!


And State Fair toys.


And Auntie Yoda on the slide with little ones.


Lastly, just Maya and her goody face!







Monday, September 3, 2018

Weekend Wrap-Up

Summer is now truly over. I start school tomorrow, and the girls start on Wednesday. Fall is beginning. And I’m doing what I have done a few of the past number of Septembers: Cincuenta September- running 50 miles during the month. And there is another chart, because I’m a teacher and need the satisfaction of crossing every single mile off of it!


Ok to our weekend...we spent Saturday picking apples and playing at the neighbors. Maya was invited over by the neighbor boy, Isaac, and was so excited to run home after the play date.


There are two boys down the street in the girls’ grades, and they are in both of their classes this year. They have fun biking around the cul-de-sac together. 


Then later, Auntie Yoda, Uncle Craigles and Lucy Lou came over for pool time and dinner!



On Sunday morning I went downtown to meet up with them again and we headed to the fair! (Chris and the girls stayed home). It POURED rain a couple times, but we still had fun!



Lucy was NOT a big fan of the yellow slide.



Later, the girls hung out with Auntie Cat and got pretty good at frisbee!


This morning we did some playing outside and then ran into Auntie Hanna at Brueggers (and Callie was completely a weirdo when I tried to get a picture)!


We also taught our children what laboring on Labor Day means. We cut down and chopped up so much freaking buckthorn.


As a reward for all the hard work, we went to Dave and Busters and played games.


And then later we had to get ice cream.


Here’s some videos from the weekend! Videos don’t normally come through on the email version of the blog, so I’m just going to give you links today to go directly to the videos on Vimeo. For some Lucy cuteness and other things, click here!

And for some DANCE PARTY VIDEOS, click here!

Have a great week! Good luck to those going back to school. It’s going to be a GREAT year.