And more snow... yet again

I don't have a solid measurement, since i couldn't get the ruler through the sheet of ice, but we have at least 6 inches of snow on top of over an inch of ice on top of another couple inches of snow. The girls had a wonderful time outside trying to find big pieces of ice and romp around in the snow!

More snow!!

Our snow almost completely melted last night. The girls were quite disappointed, so we were excited to wake up to a fresh blanket of snow to play in!!

Snow Angels

Snow!!!

We thought we'd have to wait until morning, but we looked outside one more time and discovered a winter wonderland!! Yes, I let my kids play in the street, but.... all the other kids were doing it, too!

Santa!

O Christmas Tree!

We went and cut down our Christmas tree - both girls were quite excited once Mikayla got over pity for the tree being cut down. They had lots of fun picking a tree, seeing it baled, having hot chocolate and candy canes, and decorating it at home!

Swimming Lessons

Both the girls are loving their swimming lessons! These pictures aren't the greatest, since they're from my phone, but still cute! Mikayla can swim half the width of the pool underwater. She's making pretty fast progress. Next week she gets to move up to the "big pool." She's pretty excited about that!

Today was safety day where they all got to use life jackets and talk about safety in lakes, on boats, etc.

Lily cast her vote!

Baby Keziah Anne!

Yay, she's here! I've spent an exhausting few days watching a bunch of kiddos while Becky was at the hospital... but mine wasn't nearly as exhausting as hers! Keziah's such a little cutie - we're so glad she's finally here!

Halloween!

My cuties had a pretty fun time going to the church pumpkin party and then trick or treating!

Where's Lily?

I went in to wake Lily up from nap to discover this scene... She had completely trashed her room, wasn't in her bed, and took me a couple seconds to figure out where she had fallen asleep.

Bauman Farms

We went with our home school group to Bauman Farms. We got to see how apple cider is made and got to taste the fresh cider! There was lots of play equipment and a hay ride out to pick out pumpkins, gourds, and corn to take home. The girls had so much fun!!



Our group watching the apple cider demonstration


The cider press


Feeding the goats




Lost in a hay maze!






The kids in our group... this is actually a third of the group. We had over 85 people there, so they split us into 3 groups.


hay ride!!










Both girls were nuts about the hay bale pirate ship!


The rain wasn't that bad. We had boots, nice coats, and umbrellas. :)

Craft day!

The girls have a wonderful little group of friends to get together every month for craft days or field trips. They all made and decorated cement stepping stones today. All the kids had a ton of fun!... and my arms are sooooo sore from mixing cement!

Kalindi and Mikayla


Lily and Faith


Natalia


Abigail


Isabelle and Kira


Isabelle

More Star Wars

The comic store had Star Wars people again! Mikayla was disappointed she forgot to bring her light saber, but seeing Princess Leia there made up for it!

Back to school party!

We've been going to the park each week to meet up with our local homeschool group. The girls have loved it and met several new friends! Today was the back-to-school party with potluck, games, goody bags with school supplies, and yearbook signing. It looks like a really good group, so I'm pretty excited for the school year! There were 53 kids age 1 to 16 or so, which seemed pretty decent sized! The girls loved the pillow sack races. Mikayla won the race for the 5 and under age group.









Lily and her friend may have come in last in the 3-legged race, but I think they had the most giggles and fun during it!

State Fair!

We went to the fair today since it was $1/ride day. Grammy Thelma was able to go with us, and both girls had a wonderful time! We rode the skylift, saw all the animals, went in a reptile house, got attacked by goats and deer in the petting zoo, got to race ducks, and rode a ton of rides. Lily skipped nap and had a lot of fun - she rode all the rides she cried on last year and loved them this year. Mikayla graduated to the "big kid" area, and went on all the "scary rides". Her favorite was the Gravitron (called the Starship at this fair), but she loved the Octopus, Scrambler, giant ferris wheel, swings, and several other bigger rides! Mama loved going on them with her!


Round trip on the skylift! Both girls loved it... good thing since it was a loooong trip.








Mikayla getting ready for a "scary ride."






The view from the top of the teacup ferris wheel!!


Mikayla loved the Octopus!


We have pictures of Lily crying on this last year!


Lily loves the swings. Mikayla's trying to make a point of how boring they are.












The petting zoo was a little scary. Anyone with food got attacked!




Both girls got to pet a dragon, snake, and turtles!