Sunday Snapshot #1

Our week started with the girls at home because of Christmas break and they were both more than ready to go back to school! Camryn asked me every day how many days until she got to go back! Their Christmas break ended up being 1 day longer than planned due to a snow day on December 20th which meant Camryn didn't get to have her Christmas sing-along at school. She was very upset to have a snow day and even more upset about it being the day of the sing-along so she was thrilled find out that they rescheduled the sing-along in January! Friday afternoon Brian, Elody and I got to go watch the kindergarteners sing the 2 songs I have been listening to for weeks at home :) They were more than cute wearing elf hats and singing "I took a lick of my peppermint stick" and "We are Santa's Helpers." In between performances the students along with their families would sing Christmas songs. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they did not only sing the fairly annoying Here Comes Santa Clause, Up on the Housetop, etc. They also sang a number of Christian songs including Joy to the World, Silent Night, and O Come all ye Faithful.

 

Saturday we had a pretty lazy day at home for once but by late afternoon the girls needed to get out of the house so we decided to go bowling. We haven't gone in almost a year so they had lots of fun! About half way through they started glow bowling which the girls really went nuts over. It was a great way to end the first week of 2013, we really need to have way more days like this!!

Camryn's first try on her own!

Elody of course had to do it on her own too!

glow bowling!

Game #1... Brian managed to beat the girls ;)

Camryn got a strike!!!

so Elody got a spare!!

Game #2... notice I won both times :) This is VERY RARE!

Here are a couple videos I took on my phone. They are somewhat boring but I find them kind of fun. Every time Camryn would do well she would turn around and say "Did you see that?!" Unfortunately I didn't get that on camera, it was very cute!

Happy New Year

I am not usually one to make New Year's Resolutions (so I won't call it that...) but I am going to make a solid attempt to blog more this year. I know people who do project 365 (where they post a picture every day) but I know myself too well and I know that would never last. Recently I came across a blog where every weekend she did a post called "snapshot Sunday" and I decided it would work out much better for me. SO stay tuned for many more posts in 2013! I will try to post each week about something going on in our lives. And by 'our lives' I really mean the girls' lives since Brian and I are boring :)  

To get us going for the year I thought I would share a video of Elody from this morning. The girls both LOVE to sing and regularly make a stage and put on a little show in our living room. Here is the most recent.

Halloween 2012

argh

Elody, Tessa, Camryn, and Gillian

waiting patiently

checking out the loot

Fall 2012 pics

zip line video (better quality)

The Scarecrow Patch

this is Elody's really FAKE smile :)

 

the girls LOVED the zip line

 

Here is a video of the girls on the zip-line, they went on it many many times. For some odd reason Camryn really liked smacking her face into the wall rather than putting her feet out. Also, each time she went Brian would help Elody get down and then she would get mad because she wanted to drop, finally he let her drop.... this was the only time.

p.s. she was totally fine, the whining lasted about as long as you saw in the video. Of course she ran right back for another turn!

Today the girls were invited to their friend Addison's pumpkin party. They got to pick a pumpkin from Addison's grandpa's pumpkin patch, bowled for squash with a pumpkin, ate yummy pumpkin snacks, and did what kids do best... got dirty! They had a great time even though the wind was a little chilly.

Elody led the way to the good ones :)

 

 She was very proud of the pumpkin she found.

 

 I asked her to lean down by it and this is what I got.

 It was just about too big :)

 Camryn wanted a BIG one...

 this was as big as mom was willing to carry!

 They had lots of fun in the cornfield too. Camryn later told me she was pretending to be a panda and was finding bamboo.

I think maybe Elody was enlisted to help Camryn...