Snowy Fun

Not too much going on in the Voakes house lately.  We have been having some relaxing weekend around here.  The snow has been pretty steady this winter, no major snow falls (although it sounds possible Tues/Wed) but we have been getting a couple of inches every few days.  Mike took the girls out Saturday morning while I went to get an oil change in the van.  Looks like they had a lot of fun – there was about 4 inches of light fluffy snow. 

           

They also did some finger painting while I was grocery shopping on Sunday.

   

Just a couple of funnies -

I was using rubber bands for decks of cards for school this week and Annalyse said, “Mom, do you want me to put this silly band over there.”…guess they are growing up  in the 2000’s.

We went to dinner at the Olive Garden on Saturday.  Of course on the way there Meredith gave her famous line - “This takes forever.”  I told her we were almost there and she said “where, I don’t see any flowers.

Have a great week – crossing fingers for a snow day on Wednesday!

What We've Been Up To…

We had a pretty relaxing 3-day weekend.  On Friday night, Megan had a sleepover – they went to bed great but unfortunately were awake at 6:30 am on Saturday morning.  We ran some errands in the morning and then cam home and everyone took naps (all 5 of us).  We were planning on going sledding but just decided to relax around the house.  We did some sledding on Sunday morning we went sledding.  The hill was pretty quiet when we got there but kept getting busier and busier.  We had movie night on Sunday night and the girls slept in the living room.  Monday morning we went to IHOP for breakfast, WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!  The wait was a half hour, which was not too bad although we were not planning on a wait.  While we were waiting I heard a waitress tell a table they were out of hashbrowns, WHAT???  When we sat down, the waitress said they were out of hashbrowns, stuffed french toasts, eggs,  creamer for coffee (although they had milk), and she would have to check to make sure they had pancakes.  Are you kidding me?  Well, they did have pancakes, although I am not sure if they were IHOP batter or Meijer batter.  After IHOP, we went to Chuck E Cheese to play some games and then came home and relaxed some more.

My job is going okay.  Each day gets a little better, I sure do miss my old class though.  A few of the kids are turning their behavior around, I have been making LOTS of phone calls home, more than I ever have made in my whole career.  Hopefully, in another week or two it will be back to a regular classroom.

   

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Getting Ready for Christmas

Friday night, Cristy, Mark, and Nathan came to celebrate Christmas early with us.  The girls had a lot of fun smothering playing with Nathan.  The twins are always excited when they have someone to “boss” around.  They tried to dress him in a hat, tutu, and high heels but he wasn’t too excited about them.

Nathan opening his present first

Hey Buddy, your going a little too slow for us, let us help!

Nathan got a “pop-on pal” amusement park

Megan got a swimsuit and cover-up outfit for her American Girl dolls 

Annalyse opening Cinderella accessories

Cinderella all dressed up for the ball

 

Ariel ready for Prince Eric

 

Not too bad of a group picture, best one we have gotten in a while.

Who is ready to make gingerbread cookies?

We are! We are! We are!

Our outside view is just a little different today.

Decorating the cookies!

Megan enjoyed making clothes on the gingerbread “people”

Meredith’s way of decorating was to see how much frosting she could put on one cookie.

Annalyse did a EXCELLENT job of outlining each of the cookies, she outlined them and then put a line down the middle and also across the middle, on just about every cookie she did.

Mike adding some eyes

Megan’s materpiece

Uncle Bob making a Packer jersey

Meredith’s masterpiece

Annalyse trying out her creation

Megan taking a bite

I would have never thought in a million years that Meredith would take a bite of that cookie with SOOOO much frosting.

Our creations, they turned out pretty well!

Now, onto sugar cookies!

 

 

After the disappointing Packer loss (I told Mike he probably shouldn’t go into public for a couple of days), we headed out to brave the winter weather.  The weather sure changed from this morning, it was VERY windy outside, a little too much for Meredith’s liking.

Going for the first scoop ride of the season

 

Our snowman

Meredith taking shelter in the garage

Warming up with hot cocca and cookies!

Stay warm!