Thursday, March 31, 2016

Playing Catch Up

What a week... Can't believe it's almost Friday!  After cookies chaos Monday...the rest of the week has been non stop.  Tuesday I subbed half day, then had some parents pick up cookies...then out to get Emily, dance for Rose, picked up Rose early to head back to school for conferences.  That's Nora's seating of Bill Clinton from a report she did...they both had great reports from their teachers!
On our way out we stopped at Holcomb's Little Free Library....

Then yesterday, work, cookie pick up, get the girls from school, out for piano, then home again in time for bed.  Today I made sure to have time at home, laundry piling up and dishes to put awa...I vacuumed and cleaned, sorted mail, caught up on emails...
Fed the birds and repainted the chalkboard outside....out phlox are blooming, love them!
And of course spring is our time to watch the butterflies and ladybugs grow....my students love it but so do my girls!

And I picked up some new hummingbird feeders today...they should be coming back real soon now!  
Then time to get the girls...being silly walking up the sidewalk...then off to get Emily...

With cookies in tow, we were delivering to the librarians at the library.  
Always love a good visit with Ms. Alyson!
Home again and then off to soccer..
Rose scored another goal, up to 12 now!  
It was a tad chilly but not too cold for Nora to find some Polly noses!














Monday, March 28, 2016

Cookies!!!


 Cookies - today was all things cookies - well, after work and our school egg hunt  that is... we had the best helpers picking up over 8000 boxes of cookies - taking 6 car loads to our house, unloading them, then sorting them out by our 55 girl scouts  - whew!!
 So here's the complete stash...

 And our little helpers that enjoyed playing in the boxes...
 and I love that the girls have as much fun visiting with friends as they are excited to be getting their cookies!

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Happy Easter

 Happy Easter!  Boy did it come early - these two were up at 4:20 this morning... they said they went back to sleep but then they were up again at 5:30... whew!


 So we gathered up and got ready to go - Nora was signing with the coir today so we had to get there early - about an hour early - so Morgan and Emily joined us later... as you can tell - it was a tad chilly and windy this morning..


 Happy Easter morning...
 Home for some dinner prep and clean up from our trip and some play time..


Then our guests arrived - so fun having the Dickson's over ... the girls are getting so big!

 We had an egg hunt for them to do -














 Then some yummy dinner..





 and cupcake decorating...




 and of course dessert.. yum!  Happy Easter everyone!!

Across the Pond

 Nora spent 3 weeks in England on a study abroad program - Medieval England... she had the best time.  I'll gather up more of her pictur...