Wednesday, July 19, 2017

February 2017

February was filled with lots of meal planning and groceries!  We (Jared and I) did Whole 30 during the month on February (and a couple days into March).  Abby and Margo visited, more house projects, a little snow, school days with Nora, Valentine parties, potty training for Atley, a visit to Scheel's, indoor swimming at the Y, and kindergarten screening for Nora.

Grocery shopping with a star :)!
Feb. 1
Party in the crib- Margo and Atley
Feb. 2
Shopping at Lowes again!  Another project :)!
Feb. 5
Whole 30 dinner! Chicken tomato soup and cut veggies.
Feb. 5
Snow!  Not much, but snow!
Feb. 8
Atley, Liz, Nora, Ethan, Zach- best friends!
School with Nora!
Feb. 9
First day of potty training with Atley- she refused a new diaper when she got out of bed.   So, she basically potty trained herself!
Feb. 11
3 Happy kids at Krave for some Fro-Yo.  (This was torture for me...no diary/sweetener)
Feb. 11
Fireplace "shiplap" project!
Feb. 12
Ethan and his Valentine's Day box!
Feb. 12
Valentine's Day party for N
Feb. 15
Nora's pre-k class
Oh Atley girl!
Feb. 17 
Saying "Hey" to Thomas Jefferson at Scheel's
Feb. 18 

Nora, Ethan and the bear
Riding the ferris wheel at Scheels with the bigs
Foxy Atley ;)
Feb. 19
Swimming with the neighbors at the Taylorville Y
Feb. 20
Nora gets to go to Kindergarten! She passed her screening with flying colors!!
Feb. 23
Silly Atley!
Feb. 28

January 2017

January was filled with basketball, dance class, some small house projects, roller skating with church, pinewood derby, school with Nora, mother/son luau, and playing around the house!

Loved watching him play basketball!  (And trying out my new camera lens)
Jan 7
Nora's showing off her ribbon dancing skills!
Jan. 11
Dance class was so good for Nora!
Jan. 11
She loved Ms. Jan :)
Miss independent!
Jan. 12
We re-vamped the front door area! It looks so much better with the new lighting, rug, wall planks, hooks and shelf!
Jan. 15
Roller skating with Ethan and Nora for a fun church event.
Jan. 16
She struggled...this thing was a life saver (or maybe my arm saver!)
Zach, Ethan and Soren- ready for the pinewood derby!
Jan. 21
Nora, Liz, Zach and Ethan- they all entered cars in the derby
Ethan and Jared 
School with Nora
Jan. 27
Hanging out in the igloo with friends at school
We had a great time at the Mother/Son luau for Ethan's school
Jan. 28
Hang 10
Hula hooping!
Family Culver's dinner! (Last hoorah before Jared and I started Whole 30)
Jan. 31
Undie Atley :)
Jan. 31

Christmas 2016

I realized that I quit blogging after Christmas Eve...so here's the rest of our Christmas festivities :)!

We had a nice Christmas morning, just the 5 of us.
Happy Ethan!
Nora's ready to open!
I think we had to wake Atley up!  But she warmed up to Christmas morning quickly.
Peppa pig!
Nora LOVED her watch.  (She still wears it and plays with it a lot!) 
Nerf gun madness!
Love these 3 kiddos
Beautiful Nora (using my new lens)
After breakfast and playing at home, we loaded up and headed south to celebrate Christmas with our families.
Ethan and Nora- opening presents at Grandma Terri and Pop's house.
Opening more gifts with Grandma Karen and Grandpa
Pie face!!
Ethan and Grandpa shooting in the yard.
Atley and Burke having serious conversation!
4 cute Collier grandkids!
Playing bingo with Aunt Jeanne and cousins!

Merry Christmas!!! (only 6 months late!)