it's all fun and games: January 2020

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last sunday the girls wanted to look at nates baby books...and look what fell out! the score sheet from guessing they boys births! its 12 YRS old! MOM got the best guesses! who would have thought it all would have panned out the way it did...

and i found this GEM. quinn was 7 DAYS old! can you even imagine us doing that to copper? hahahaha!

monday nate entertained us like this. what a goof. for some reason us girls thought this was TOO funny and LAUGHED so hard!

we did some school

see!

then our YUM box came and i guessed it! it was poland! those monster munch were SOOOO good!

wed we did cheer. i snapped this pic before i got settled in with coffee and a chat. sonya's hubby was on the area and he dropped by, he's RCMP. it was SO funny to see how the kids reacted to him in full uniform...we usually see him in jeans..

tues night was our small group, and it was a late night for all...the girls kept them selves busy in the morning by playing with this set up for 2.5 HRS! awesome! i love how they play!

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Posted by mel at 3:02 PM

the day we ran away!

i was DONE with the week by thurs. so i packed the car and the girls up and we headed to the cabin for a "girls party" nate stayed at the house with chris to go to cadets. they joined us around 10 that night

the girls played on the hill that chris made. but it was MY idea. ha. tues chris went to blow out the driveway, i asked him to blow the snow to make a hill for the kids to play on the wkend with. SO fun!

wheeeee!

i was outside too!

then we went in to make a "girls supper" their fav, noodles with meat and Caesar salad. i had the girls unpack. joey spent about 30 mins in her room. i found this...

she set up her room perfectly! love that!

i LOVE my land!

and i got this bad boy going and stayed going! i conquered my fear!

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Posted by mel at 3:02 PM

fri fun day!

fri was 'FUN DAY!" i planned a FUN day for the kids. no "books" school. but instead we slept in, had a relaxing breaky, then spent and hr or making bird feeders from the stale food i found in my cupboards. ha. we talked about birds, winter, nesting and how to start talking nice to each other ;) ha

there was a HUGE mess after! but i had all the kids chip in and clean it up

ellie cleaned the table, nate vacuumed, joey put all the garbage away. i went back in and wiped everything clean. ha

voila! bird feeders!

then we went to put them away

but joey got distracted by the HUGE amount of different animal tracks!

we hung them all over the place. and i will admit, i took a few *cough* a lot of trips over the wkend to check on them...hahah

so pretty!

then the girls got the idea to hide and watch the critters come and eat...this is joey "hiding" you cant see her right!

ellie "hiding"

nate "hiding" he put the pan over his face. what a goof!

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Posted by mel at 3:02 PM

pt 2

then we went looking for more tracks. SO many!

the original plan was to go to the river, but i forgot my snow pants and the snow was too high...oops....so i came up with plan B which was way better!

i had nate make a fire, and after 2 attempts. he DID it! he cut ALL the kindling and logs from the wood shed, he found all the small twigs and burnable himself! we did use a zip started BUT he got one mad fire going!

working away

the girls sled and pulled each other around

working on the fire

voila!

fire!

then we roasted hot dogs and drank hot cocoa for lunch...

enjoying the BEAUTIFUL day outside

my cabin!

after lunch we did some more sledding, down the hill into the woods!

wheeee

it was a BLAST! we spent 3.5 HRS outside. then we went in to dry off and watch a show. it was such a fun day, a day that reminded me that home schooling IS worth it. even on the bad days...

chris joined us for supper and we spent the weekend at the cabin...except for sat

fri night i realized i NEEDED some ME time. so sat i went into town alone for 4 hrs. it was AMAZING! ha

i came home today with nate, to get caught up on school work and the blog, life and laundry...which will never end or stop....i just gotta get er done!

and that was a quick peek into our week! 0 comments

Posted by mel at 3:02 PM

beads! and a date!

joey got into my beads this past week, and made herself 3 necklaces and 2 bracelets. totally worth the 4.00!

tues night chris and i left all the kids at home and went on a date! to the movies! we saw 1917. SO good! i held chris's hand for most of it, then cried at the end. its a great show! and the best was it costed us 12.95 in total. no babysitting cost, cheap night. ha! it was super fun to go out with chris ALONE! we even hit up A&W on the way home!

i checked on the kids when we got home. ellie was like this. all clean and tidy...

joey was like this! a hot mess! how can she sleep like that????

we did a lot of school this week, and cheer and gymnastics. i didnt take any pics bec i was too busy talking to my homies...ha. but we had a BLAST!

on thurs i found this little one like this. she dressed herself. i LOVE it!

you go girl! you rock that look!

she's a hoot!

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Posted by mel at 4:43 PM

cabin!

we havent been able to get to the cabin, storms and commitments. we decided to go fri for just the night. we wanted to check on it to make sure everything was ok; which turned out to be a GREAT idea. we left the coffee machine on! it burned out all the water and it could have caught on fire if we left it longer! so we made the mental note to now unplug all the appliances when we leave!

we did not bring the tracker, not knowing what the roads would be like. so we left the van at the end of the driveway and walked in...so beautiful!

SO cold! it was -18! and for n.b that is COLD!

but it was the best 24 hrs away! i slept, watched movies and even went for a walk with chris at -20! so cold!

we even found a porcupine hidden away. we saw lots of tracks and such. it was so enjoyable. we packed up sat around 4 and headed back to the house. we hope to go again this wkend for longer!

we woke sun to a snow storm! i woke chris up and told him, in a nice and kind way, that he had to get up and get ready for church...to drive me! ha. i was teaching and i didnt want to drive, it was SO nasty out! but we got there and back...