Christmas

Christmas Eve afternoon we dropped off gifts at Nancy and Brian's and visited with them and Katelyn for a few minutes.  They were opening their gifts in the morning.

Nancy sent this picture, Katelyn likes being photographed about as much as I do.

Then we went to Charb and Kelly's.  It was fun watching Ava and Harper open their gifts, I told Ava to smile here, why do I still tell everyone to smile when they have masks on?

Harper showing off her new unicorn socks.

Posing later with their pandemic teddy bears.

We delivered Christmas biscuits and gravy to the Gourde's house Christmas morning since there's more room to distance there.   

It was a quieter Christmas this year, but with just as much love.

 

Slime, wood crafts, Oculus

Harper tried adding lots of glitter into her slime with shaving cream.  It looked pretty initially but not so much when it was all mixed in.

Ava added a whole lot of shaving cream and just a little gold glitter, it was some of the best, fluffiest slime she's ever made.

It was a mild and sunny Sunday morning so Papa took them for a walk and to check out the water in the stream.

They ended up in the shop where he helped Ava build a little bench and Harper made a little bed out of scraps of wood.  They had fun painting their creations.

They brought up their Oculus VR game and let Papa and I try it.  Wow, that was a wild and fun experience!  We tried roller coaster games, Harper was playing a game where you're on a space station as Ava followed along on Daddy's phone.

 

Ava's award, Josie, friendly Lucy

Ava won the HAWK award at school!

It was delivered by one of her Associate Principals.

Emmy sent this picture of Josie-she looks so grown up sitting in her highchair eating toast, not a little baby anymore!  

 

Speaking of growing up too fast - 6th grade pictures, how did this happen?

Wednesday - Lucy really missed her Mamas and came to them for lots of petting.

Ava Harper at home

Last week, after going to Costco, we had a short visit with the girls.  They were hanging out, working on science assignments.

Oliver and Murphy weren't too interested in having their picture taken.

 

Wednesday visit

The girls came up the day, they got busy with some crafts after breakfast.

They also made some cute pipe cleaner animals.

They enjoyed the hot tub even though it was only 40 degrees outside.

Rielee came over for a fire pit lunch with us, Papa took Sadie and worked on 

leash training with her while Rielee ate (she was a little too hyper around the fire.)  

Sadie knows lots of tricks but walking on the leash

isn't one of them.  She starts obedience training soon though.