Easter 2021

This Easter season was packed with fun.

We made Rice Krispie bird nests

 decorated eggs

and made M & M cookies too!

The Easter Bunny brought a basket of goodies

and Harper picked cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs and ham for breakfast.

We got dressed up for church.

This year it was drive-in style for Easter.

The kids got a goodie bag with a “ scavenger hunt” in it.  Harper had fun checking key words off the list when the pastor said them.

There were coloring sheets,crayons, mazes, 

crossword puzzles and candy too!

After church, Ashley came up and we had a big lunch!

We opened gifts

and played with sidewalk chalk.

It was a perfect day to fly a kite

and play pickleball.

We had dinner at Jose Peppers

then went for a walk around the neighborhood.  

We had a very happy Easter!

Harper’s 10th Birthday!

We celebrated Harper’s 10th birthday a day early

due to a forecasted snowstorm.

We started with dinner at Hong’s Buffet

then headed over to Main Event.

We played skee ball

and air hockey

and went bowling too!

Harper was winning for a long time!

The next morning, Harper was excited to open gifts.

She was surprised when she got her own phone!

She spent much of the day like this:

She requested a donut cake and 

Slivinski’s made the perfect one!

For her birthday lunch, Harper chose a baked potato.

It was a very happy birthday!

Christmas 2020

Christy and Gee came to visit last week. 

 We went to Winter Magic to see the lights.

The tunnel was cool

and there were lots of displays.

We had a great time!

On Friday night, we did two escape rooms,

and got out both times!

We opened gifts

and made a gingerbread train!

After a COVID exposure, Harper and I were quarantined.

We made cookies for Santa.

On Christmas Eve, we watched the 

church candlelight service

and sang Silent Night with our candles.

We put on our matching pajamas 

(a tradition my mom started)

and waited for Santa to arrive.

Santa brought Harper the 197 piece 

glitter Shopkins set she wanted!

She also got the New Balance

 tennis shoes she’d been hoping for!

We spent the day playing

then took Ashley’s gifts to her apartment

 and left them in the garage.

We were sad that we couldn’t spend Christmas with Ashley,

but we got to FaceTime with her and open gifts.

She wore her matching pj’s too!

Merry Christmas!

Quarantine

On November 18, Harper was exposed to someone

who was COVID positive at school.  She had to

quarantine for 14 days.  Quarantine time was

pretty boring, so we played lots of games.

We went to Sonic for dinner

and spent lots of time driving around

 looking at Christmas lights.

It was only the two of us for Thanksgiving, so we

dressed up for dinner

and pretended we were eating at a fancy restaurant.

One day after homeschooling, we 

celebrated with ice cream from Sheridan’s!

Luckily Harper never developed any COVID

symptoms.  We were both ready for the quarantine to end!