Girl Time

The girls and I had so much fun together shopping last weekend.  Here they were trying on clothes at our favorite consignment place.  Cute clothes and reasonable prices.  That makes everyone happy!

Apparently they took a break from the hard work of shopping to take some pictures!

Nicole was drawn to this ski helmet and goggles at the sporting goods store where we bought them some new running shoes (track season!).

And while we waited for our pizza, they couldn't resist a little Ms. Pac Man.  They'd never played it before and it's harder than it looks!  Those darn ghosts are always eating you!

Not sure what's going on here..... something bad it looks like!

Rocking Chair

The girls and I had a super fun day of shopping and hanging out on Saturday - just the three of us.  We drove by a furniture store in Moscow that has always had a huge red rocking chair out front.  We've talked before about the need to stop and take a picture in it.  Nicole brought up that she wanted to do that sometime.  I figured there was no time like the present, so I pulled into the parking lot.

Ellea was mortified.  What if we got in trouble?  I assured her it would be fine, but she didn't believe me.  The only thing that would appease her was if I went inside and asked permission.  They, of course, had no problem with my request.  The guy said the governor had even taken a picture in their chair once!  So we're in good company!

She was still a little disturbed by all the cars driving by.  How embarrassing!!  They started waving at the cars and one even honked at us!

It was fun.

It was great to have a day to ourselves.  We'll have to do it again soon.

Marbles

My mom found this very fun marble activity at the hospital thrift shop where she is the "toy lady"!!  It has these pieces with magnets on the back so you can put it on the fridge in different combinations and then send your marble through the maze.  It's more fun than you would imagine.  Glenn and I found ourselves standing in the kitchen playing with it at times!

It was well used when we had our special Kaufman guests.

This little man especially enjoyed it.

He's just too cute, this one.  Two is such a fun age.  Don't get me wrong, I remember it to also be a challenging age.  I'm grateful I don't have this age under my roof (most of the time).  But it sure is fun to have them in the family to enjoy.  (And for someone else to wrestle with!)

Snow Fun

We had a fun visit with a few of the Kaufman clan a while back.  Little Natalie requested that we build a snowman.  Morgan was a good cousin and packed the snowballs for her.  Natalie just sat back and waited.

She was all about the decorating process.

Morgan has this cool snowman decorating kit with different hats, mouths, etc that he let Natalie use.  She was pleased with her creation.

Jen and I stayed behind with baby Henry and had a good chat while the dads took the kiddos to the snow hill.  And a good time was had by all!

Zoom-zoom

Glenn brought home the company snowcats recently.  We have one of our own, but it was fun for the girls to go out with their dad and give them in a spin in the hay field.

It was a tiny bit concerning that Nicole seemed fearless about driving her own snowcat and then she started talking about how much she loves movies with fast cars and going fast and zoom-zoom.......  Had to have our "but you don't need to be driving snowcats and cars fast" talk.  "I know!" she says.  Ugh.  Can I just lock them all up in the basement?!!

Band

The girls played in their respective bands at the aforementioned jazz concert that Nicole made her fancy cake for.  I'm so pleased they both have had the opportunity to play an instrument and stuck with it for a few years.  Sadly, our band director is retiring and few students have signed up to take band next year.  The school has decided to combine the junior high band with the high school band and have one 7-12th grade band.  Not sure if my girls are going to keep playing or not.

Gotta love the psychedelic art on the wall behind them.  Makes me feel a little dizzy!