First scooter ride of 2021 🛴
This trio isn’t ready to give up their winter sports quite yet, but with the temp hitting 50 today, they were ok busting out their scooters to enjoy a ride around the block and do tricks in the driveway.
Tag: play
Playing solo in the snow
This kid. This independent, carefree, confident, and loving kid.
She is currently playing in the snow by herself (because her siblings didn’t want to go outside) and she is having no problem entertaining herself. Maybe it’s personality or maybe it’s the practice she had during the two years when her other three siblings were off at school. I don’t know what it is, but she’s great at it.
I love to just sit and watch her play, to listen to the stories she tells as she “teaches” or plays with her dolls. Her imagination is beautiful. I’m so thankful that I am her mom.
Labor Day 2019
We spent a good portion of the day at the park with friends – frisbee, fun and food! This was the first loaded up grill – gotta feed the hungry frisbee players!
Summer vestibular therapy
I took the Shecklets on a bike ride (a.k.a. vestibular therapy) on this beautiful summer Saturday. (Next time we will take Jake with us. He went to his parents’ cabin to help with cleaning up from last week’s storm.)
Cousins’ Day 2019 @ Nissedalen
We spent the day at Nissedalen with over 40 family members. The weather was fantastic, the food was tasty, and the memories we made were plentiful. I love that my kids get to experience the gift of having a large extended family. There’s always someone to talk to, play with, or laugh alongside. And to think – this is just a portion of the family!
One thing that I enjoyed watching (this year especially,) was the way that Jake’s younger cousins (who are now all adults) have taken an interest in showing my kids how to do certain things – helping them ski, how to safely use a gun at the shooting range, as well as taking the time to talk with them and ask about their interests.
Here are the rest of the photos from Cousins’ Day and the shooting range the day before.
Jake’s cousin, Jess, let the guys ride up north with her on Friday AM. I followed the next day with the girls.
New park
Jake is in CA for a conference. The Shecklets and I went for a bike ride tonight and stopped to check out a new park.
Once we returned home, we had ice cream cones and Shecklets 1, 3 and 4 drew designs on the driveway.
Birthday party with a piñata
We celebrated the birthday of our friends’ daughter this afternoon. Pizza, cake & ice cream and TWO piñatas! Breaking open the piñata and collecting candy is always a thrill for the kids. Thankfully the weather was nice enough for us to be outside.
Celebrating 11 with friends 🥳🎂🎉
Shecklet #2 is turning 11 tomorrow and he asked to have a friend birthday party this year. He did all of the planning – video games and nerf battles, complete with brackets and a trophy.
We ordered pizza, had pie and ice cream and just let the boys hang out and be boys.
Oh and Jake ordered 1000 darts in an effort to make sure they didn’t run out of ammo 🤣
5th grade b-ball league tourney 2019 🧨🏀
This guy’s 5th grade basketball team played their hearts out this weekend! 3rd place out of 17 teams!
I had two parents come up to me at two different times today to say how they wished they were playing us for the championship tomorrow night because they were so impressed with our boys’ sportsmanship. Those moms didn’t need to give those compliments – they did so completely on their own.
So proud of his guy and his teammates!
