The kids are really excited! Today was the last day of school before Christmas Break (or should I say Winter Break to be politically correct)! 🙂 Brittany and Sarah finished up their finals and were VERY relieved to be done with them! This semester has been a tough one for them, but they have worked […]
Today was the first big snow of the season! The boys were totally pumped to go outside and play in it. They got all bundled up and had a chat about what they wanted to do outside. The first thing they decided on was to try and build a castle. That said, they got out
Today was a day of building stuff! Ben is really into his blocks and building castles and such. He loves to build stuff and then when he is finished, he finds us and wants a picture taken… Once the picture is taken, he then wants to see it to make sure it’s OK and he
This year, we are trying to take things a little lighter and not buy as much as we did last year. We want to spend more time this season contemplating the true meaning of Christmas and not spend it shopping! We got a large chunk of our shopping out of the way today and were
Today we had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had a couple of families over to celebrate with us. Initially, Angela had said it would be very low-key, but I think my definition of low-key is a LOT different than hers! 🙂 We cleaned like crazy, cooked like crazy, and prepared like crazy to get ready for
Recently, Angela entered to win a Just Dance 2 Party and won (she seems to be winning a lot of this stuff lately)! She got the Wii Just Dance 2 Game for free along with a bunch of other stuff to host a party. She and the girls invited over friends and had a girls
The boys had a very creative day today! They got out Zach’s Thomas the Tank Engine track set and built a person on the floor of the family room. They were SO proud of it! We had to take some pictures because we knew that shortly thereafter, the wrecking balls (a.k.a Ben and Zach) would
As we mentioned in an earlier post, Kirstyn applied for and was accepted to a girls engineering program at Northern Illinois University (Naperville Campus). It’s called NIU EEP (Northern Illinois University Enhancing Engineering Pathways) and is designed to get middle school girls interested in engineering fields of study. Today was her first day and she
Tonight, Angela and I went to Drury Lane Theater in Oakbrook and saw Seven Brides for Seven Brothers! Angela surprised me with tickets and we were very excited to go! It was 20 years ago that we first met, got together, and this was the first film that we watched together at a ward leadership
Today, Zach had his last football game and was kind-of sad that it is over. Like the rest, they lost, but he had some great blocks! He played both Center and on the line today. They kept getting better and better each week. If they had about 6-8 weeks more of games, they might actually
Tonight, Sarah and Brittany took Zach and Ben over to the Gombert Elementary Monster Bash for Halloween. Zach and Ben got all dressed up and ready to do the games and such with Brittany, while Sarah volunteered to help out with concessions. She worked at the caramel apple stand most of the time which made
Today was Sarah’s first day of work! She is SO excited to finally have a job and absolutely loved working at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory her first day. She did all kinds of candy and will soon learn the register. While Sarah was doing that, Brittany had her first facial at a nearby salon. She
