Christmas jammies

Every year I buy them matching Christmas pajamas that they get to open on the first day of December. It only took me until January 5th to get a picture of both of them in their pj's by our tree (and yes, our tree is still up, perhaps this weekend I will get a chance to get everything put away!).

Two random pics

Jack is becoming a great reader, and although I know that he would rather be doing math instead of reading a book, it warms my heart when I see this...

 And Elizabeth decided her locker is her new favorite spot to sit and play on my ipad

my life these days....

My life lately has been spent working on the silent auction and other planning for the Family Fun Night at Jack's school on February 10th. The basket above is the donation from Green Bay Oncology. Yes, no one wants a donation of cancer treatment but maybe something to Pamper Their Pooch will work instead!?

Also, we have tried to enjoy some of the unseasonably warm weather. I am getting a lot of runs in outside although my kids wish they were sledding instead of doing this

August

Well, we are approaching the end of September and I have yet to post August pictures! Some day I will get organized enough to get back to the day-to-day updates. For now, I guess August and September will be a mass of pictures!

August went by too fast due in part to our vacation to Door County, a weekend in Chicago with friends, hosting my nieces for a week, and preparing for back-to-school. Here are a few pictures I captured over the month.

My little mama sporting her swim goggles

So proud that he finally captured a Monarch butterfly

Fun at Lego Land in Chicago

Jack built a truck out of his blocks...even equipped with a jump rope seat belt!

Space for Elizabeth to ride in the back!

So much fun with a gift bag. I am not crazy about the guns they made out of blocks but they were being my protectors and finding bad guys.

He was teaching her how to play checkers. Might be my favorite picture of the month!

Birthday love for Misha on her 9th birthday

A special bone for the best doggie ever on her 9th birthday

Jack and his friend Alex at Lego Land

A perfect rainbow from end to end-so big I couldn't capture it all in one picture. What a beautiful sight!

July

She wanted Misha to read to her!

First tooth fairy visit!

Spent most Monday and Wednesday night at the soccer field. He made more goals than I could count over the season. So proud of his determination!

Kayaking in Door County

They could have spent all day every day at the beach!

I think I chose the hottest day in July for us to go strawberry picking. How can you resist a little girl with strawberry juice dripping down her chin and arms? And yes, I did dress them both in red since I had a scrapbook page already done for these pictures! I made my first batch of jam with the berries we picked. 19 jars total!

 Playing in their little pool...some day they will have a real one to spend all day in!

 Happy 4th! It was so nice to be at home this year!

 Keeping mommy cool by washing my feet!

 Misha the water dog! We can't keep her out of the water.

Making pesto with daddy!

I made cornstarch paint for Elizabeth. It wasn't as fun as I thought it would be but definitely easier to clean up than normal paint!

 

 

We love our new patio and fire pit!

The best thing about having a fire--Smores!

She definitely takes after her mama---a true animal lover!

 

 

Back!

Well, summer is over and a new year of school has started and FINALLY my computer is back up and running. I thought I would do a quick highlight of our summer starting with the month of June.

Last day of Kindergarten! Let the summer fun begin!

 Little Gym graduation. We are so sad it is closed now.

She decided she wanted "boy" hair and so we said good bye to her long hair.

Spent a day at "The Farm" in Door County. Elizabeth loved feeding the goats, pigs, cows, ducks and cuddling the kittens. Jack's favorite was climbing the tractor with his friend Joey.

 Playing dress up!

Roses from my love to celebrate 11 years of marriage. We spent 4 days in Las Vegas at the end of June without kids. Sun, pool and sleep=Heaven!!!

Will update July and August in the next few days. And then I'll be caught up!

Computer

My hard drive crashed on our desk top a few weeks ago so please be patient while we get a new computer and I get pictures re-loaded. Thankfully, I think I only lost a minimal amount of photos because of our external hard drive, Shutterfly, and the fact that my memory card on my camera is so huge that I hadn't deleted photos in a few months! This has been a pain but a learning process to back up OFTEN! I have a lot of photos to update so will be back as soon as my computer is running again!