New Year’s Day
Happy New Year! We spent our day mostly just playing at home. The kids enjoyed all their toys, and spent a good amount of time creating treats out of Play-Doh. Since Brandon’s family tradition is to have lemon fluff on New Year’s, I thought I’d try my hand at creating it myself this year. I found a recipe online, and even though Brandon said it wasn’t exactly right (too fancy, he said–this one called for fresh-squeezed lemon juice and grated lemon zest!) I...
Read MoreNew Year’s Eve!
This morning, Grandpa Roger headed home–we hope he enjoyed his visit as much as we enjoyed having him! 🙂 We took it somewhat easy today, and played at home some, and took the kids over to Root to ride their plasma cars around the track. This was a super fun, yet exceedingly noisy, activity for them! We let them get out as much energy as they could there. Back at home, we worked on some Lego projects with Brian while Kendall was sleeping. He was super excited to build his Lego Coast...
Read MoreRoger’s Visit! Day 5
Today we continued the museum visiting and hit up Marbles! Before that, though, the kids spent the morning playing with more of their new toys.. They put together the giant hockey floor puzzle, and Brian did some wacky dancing, pretending he was the alien riding in the spaceship on his pajamas. We did eventually manage to get everyone ready and out the door, and we had quite the time at Marbles. The kids both loved the hockey, oversized Connect Four, and giant building blocks, and Kendall...
Read MoreRoger’s Visit! Day 4
The boys picked up some Krispy Kreme last night after the hockey game, so we enjoyed a super-sugary breakfast today! Kendall was a fan. 😉 We figured we should attempt another educational outing today, so we packed everyone up and went to the Natural History museum downtown. The kids had a blast, visiting a lot of their favorite spots and sharing them with Grandpa Roger, but they were so wild! Maybe it was the doughnut breakfast, or maybe just vacation stir-craziness, but it was an...
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Okay, we had to do it–we just couldn’t go another day without Kendall getting her own Plasma Car! We were quickly reaching global thermonuclear war level of conflict between the kids over Brian’s car, so.. We started making some calls to see who had any left after the Christmas rush. We found that there was a purple and red model out at Brier Creek, and that sounded just about perfect for Kendall. So, we made the trek out there, after a somewhat lazy morning playing...
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