Wiffle Ball

We've been having some great weather, so hanging out in the backyard before it gets dark has consisted of a lot of wiffle ball!

Fabulous Willow

Having Willow home ever afternoon provides such entertainment for me.  I am so going to miss her next year when she is in school full time.  

Preview of teenage years?  When she is talking and talking and talking, but never looking at me anymore because she has her friends on her phone to pay attention to as well?  

Sam becomes her live dress up doll and has recently been the recipient of her own clothes.  This day Sam was getting ready to go snowboarding.  :)  While Sam never looks very pleased, he is a good sport about it.  :)

This one has to be one of my all time favorites.  Sam was dressed up like Pinkie Pie from Equestria Girls, and became a member of Willow's rock band.

I get to hang out in Willow's room with her and she pretends to give me massages, tells me made up stories about people we know, and then laugh hysterically and leaves me in the room to take a nap.  

She also has recently started to have an interest in doing her own hair and on the days I straighten my hair, I sit in a kids chair while she practices putting in pony tails and pretending to braid my hair that usually ends in a whole lot of knots.  The other morning, she snuck off and declared she has mastered pony tails and put them in her hair herself!

Willow's other front tooth has been majorly wiggly, but she has refused to let me pull it out.  It has literally been hanging crooked in her mouth in about a week.  Today she asked for a bowl of frozen blueberries and popped her own tooth out while biting right into one.  I am so glad that thing is out of her mouth!

Snow Day!

Finally!  Snow!!!!

This snow storm fell on a weekend, so no school got cancelled, unfortunately.  But it was fun to play in!

The snow didn't stick around too long, but long enough for Willow and I to build some snow castles.

And then smashing it!

El Dora Ski Trip

The kids had a 4 day weekend in February, so we decided to plan a ski trip to El Dora and stay at Royal's uncle's house up in Loveland, CO.  We invited our friends, the Boggess', to come with us, because our kids had done so well in ski school together the previous year, and well, we just really like the hang out with them.  :)

Then, sadly, I ended up missing the trip because a good friend's mom died and I flew home to Washington to see her and go to her mom's service.  Really, it was only sad that I was missing it because I was missing out on a family adventure, but I wasn't going to be able to ski anyway.  My leg isn't what you would call....healed.... :)  But I packed and cooked a ton of food and sent my family off on their way.   Thankfully, my friend, Kerri sent me a couple pictures and videos of the kids that weekend....I'm not sure Royal knows that his phone can take and send pictures and videos....

Everyone survived without me, if you can believe that!  :)

Willow's Got a New Smile

Another of Willow's teeth has bit the dust.  She's got a lot more wiggly ones, so it won't be long before she has a whole new smile!

Willow's Concert

Willow is a child who loves to be on stage, so when it came time for her concert, she had no worries about being up there.   It was also fun for me to hear, in completion, all the songs she had been singing for months.   She was all business up there!  She takes performing seriously.  :)

When the concert was over, she said that the only thing she would have wanted different was she wished she knew where we were sitting out in the audience, and in the next breath said, "So...when's my next performance?"  Um.....next year, kid????