Friday, February 22, 2019

January & February

Wow, I can't believe that we are already half way through February! We've been busy getting dumped on by snow, freezing in arctic like temps and overcoming sickness to kick of 2019! Needless to say, we're ready for spring!

Jemma

Jemma has been keeping busy with her gymnastics classes on Tuesday's after school and her ballet/tap class on Friday mornings so far this winter! We have also been enjoying a special lunch together on Tuesday's between school and gymnastics! She tends to pick somewhere that has a play place, so we usually end up at Chic Fil A. ;)





Jade

Jade has been busy with her weekly Art classes on Thursday's after school, and recently this winter started a Track class on Sunday evenings. She is loving it so much! The end of the first session was on Super Bowl Sunday, the parents were invited to watch the last few minutes of class, while the kids ran some races and showed us what they had been learning. 


Also, just wanted to mention how proud we are of how Jade! She was recently selected to participate in a friendship group at school, as a role model peer! Her teacher also gushed about her during conferences and loves having her in class! Definitely makes you feel like you're doing something right as a parent!

Snow

Nate helped build the girls a giant snow fort! They had so much fun playing in it together and with some neighbor friends, before it melted! :)




Daddy Daughter Dance

Nate took both girls to the Daddy Daughter Dance this year! After each girl had their own turn to go alone, they had the best time going all together this year!!





Sunday, January 13, 2019

Glitter Mini Photo Session

A photographer posted in our local mom's group on Facebook that she had a few openings left for her glitter mini photo shoots last weekend! I knew the girls would love this, so I jumped on the opportunity and they had a blast!!














Monday, December 31, 2018

Christmas 2018

Christmas celebrations started for us on Christmas Eve! Nate's mom and dad came over for brunch and presents in the morning! The girls had so much fun opening and playing with everything with them!








After Grandma and Grandpa left, the girls and I made cookies for Santa before heading out to church at 4 and dinner afterward at one of our favorite spots, Little Italian! When we got home it was time to put out the milk and cookies and head to bed!






Christmas Day is always so busy for us, as we're trying to cram in as much as possible! We started the morning with presents at the house! The girls were over the moon with primarily LOL stuff! After opening presents and playing for a bit, we headed to my Aunt Mar's house for celebrating before heading to Nate's Grandma's house for our final celebration of the day!











On the day after Christmas we headed to my parent's house in Crystal Lake! The kids opened presents from my mom and dad, and spent the rest of the day playing! Jade got a kids version of a fitbit from Grammy and Grampy, so she and cousin Cora spent most of the day running around getting their steps in. We finished the day with our traditional dinner at Nick's Pizza!









Our final celebration was on the 27th with my extended family on my mom's side! I always love this day, as we get to see lots of family members from out of state!