it's all fun and games: March 2018

mail!

joeys face when chris told her a letter arrived for her from nana and papa plumps!
dinosaurs! she LOVED getting her own mail and it had dinosaurs on it. she slept with it

and laughed...and shared a few meals with it...thanks for thinking of joey! we love you guys!

awe, my heart!

my girls in their matching p.js

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Posted by mel at 6:30 PM

fri morning i hooked nate up with some curling video's. we had our first curling class and i wanted him to know what it was all about...

i took the girls up for school. now that joey has her own desk, she is super happy to sit and craft and do her own school. she is constantly asking for my attention, probably because i sit beside ellie to do ellie's lessons. so last fri, i took ellie and set her up at joey's desk. i had a girl on each side. it worked well! ill try it again this week

so, joey cut this sheet up, colored and glued it all. by herself! i was super impressed

working away
joey wants to copy everything we do. for the most part it's ok. but sometimes i do send her out to visit nate while i get some more serious work done with ellie. ha

puzzle time. ellie gave up, they were hard puzzles....but.....

get this. joey, with a little of my help, and i mean little! did the puzzle!!!! i was shocked. you go girl!

having lunch with her dinosaurs

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Posted by mel at 6:30 PM

crafts

nate was gone to a class and i spent the afternoon making beads with the girls

they did a good job, it was time consuming...which is great when the weather is not nice and you need something to do!

after joey went to bed ellie made me a tea party. compete with a table cover and snacks of fruit. so cute

i found joey like this. sigh

we battle it out every night when i tell her NO to piling the books. when i left she had about 10 books. i came back to this! lol. i took them all away

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Posted by mel at 6:30 PM

curling

fri we had our first, but wont be the last curling class. the kids LOVED it. i really enjoyed it bec i sent my friend out for coffee and we sat in the warm, comfortable waiting area, sipping coffee and chatting

ellie was the youngest. but she held her own

joey enjoyed watching

nate asked today if he can go back, he really liked it. i said for sure!

joey. joey. joey

happy

smiley

silly joey

ellie joy!

can life be any better?!

sat we headed up to the land to pick up some Styrofoam and to plow out the driveway

joey (us!) forgot her boots so she stayed in the van with me

while we waited for the driveway to be cleared. the older 2 went off to play in the mountains of snow

joey discovered the mirror

and had a GREAT time talking to herself

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Posted by mel at 6:30 PM

land

ellie in the back hoe

finally we got in and the kids played. the girls took turns using ellies boots

nate and ellie

joey in the van crying. ha

joey and nate

cheers!

so, for the first time in my life. i got the van stuck. the back hoe pulled us out. the hole doesnt look that bad right?!

this is the HOLE!

to my knees! i was very thankful for the back hoe to get pulled out! and we decided to spend the extra money and add a another few ft to the covert this summer....ha

the snow was so fresh and a lot of it. the weather was nice, it was a fun afternoon. so fun that chris went back last night with the kids and 3 of their friends to spend 3 hrs building a snow fort with a slide and stairs. the kids had so much fun. so much they are going back out again tomorrow. joey and i stayed home, in the warm, dry house. ha

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Posted by mel at 6:30 PM

life stuff

joey crashed on the way home. ha

sunday nate went to the movies with his friends with out parents! we sent the kids in to watch the show while i snuck off to starbucks with aralee to have coffee. it was AWESOME!

i cant believe i have a kid thats old enough to go to the movies with out me. its GREAT!!! i love my coffee chat. so nice. then the kids all went off with chris. a great way to spend a sunday afternoon!

today we hit up air heads. it was a fun turn out. over 35 kids showed. there was 5 tables with parents to chat with. i was there for 4.5 HOURS. totally worth the 22 bucks!