Dedicated to Uncle Bob

This post is dedicated to Uncle Bob…he was the first to call to complain that they blog has not been updated in a while (I knew it would be him or Auntie Annette).  Not a whole lot of new pictures lately.  I really did not take too many while we were in the U.P.  We really didn’t do anything too exciting.  We did celebrate Uncle Justin’s birthday with an ice cream cake from DQ and went swimming (at a hotel).      

On Friday night after dinner, we went shopping for some birthday gifts.  While we were shopping, Megan picked out a Barbie swimming pool to spend her Christmas gift card on (thanks Jan :)).  She had been wanting a remote control Furr Real pet (I think Mike and I talked her out of it…she really doesn’t play with toys a whole lot so we didn’t want her to waste her hard earned $50.00 on a toy to not really play with…now she has a surplus of money).

On Saturday morning before a birthday party, we took Megan to paint pottery.  She had this in her mind for a while that we would do this while the twins were at grandma and grandpa’s house.  Megan painted a little “peace” box.  Mike painted a coffee mug.

After the party, we headed to downtown Detroit to have pizza at Pizza Papalis for some deep dish pizza and took a walk to the outdoor ice rink.  We also found Mike’s Superbowl hat for a great deal.

On Sunday, we hung around the house and went to see Gnomeo and Juliet (it was a cute movie).

The twins are doing good at Grandma and Grandpa’s house except that they all have bad colds.  I don’t think they are missing us at all.

Hope this meets your approval Uncle Bob!!!!!!!

Music and Sickness

Megan had her music concert on Tuesday.  They did a good job!  The kids were all very excited to be on the risers, Megan was very proud of her accomplishment…she was not on the floor, she actually got to be on the risers.  She said, “I was rooting for that!”  I told her good job (Mike thought I was making fun of her, I told him it was a BIG accomplishment when your short like me.)

The twins have been sick for about a week now, starting with a runny nose and now a nasty nasty cough.  A cough so bad that they both have thrown up a few times due to coughing so hard…Annaylse accomplished it in Kohls on Friday night (thankfully no one was around us).  Mike is now also sick with a awful cold.  I have a little runny/stuffy nose; its not too bad at the present time.  Megan has been healthy so far so hopefully she stays that way.

The girls and myself are heading Up North on Thursday, looks like the roads should be bare of snow…the temps look pretty warm.

Here are some pictures from Megan’s concert. 

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Go Pack Go!

Our yearly tradition of McDonalds chicken nuggets

Making Packer necklaces

New Packer Cheerleaders

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We LOVE Snow Days!

We enjoyed our snow day lounging around.  School was cancelled at about 9:40 last night, unfortunately the twins didn’t realize it was a snow day and didn’t sleep in.

Most of Detroit seemed to be shut down, they even closed doctor offices on Monday already, but it really didn’t need to be shut down.  We sure didn’t get the amount of snow that was forecasted, we got about 5 or so inches.  There are parts of our yard that the snow is about up to the twins waist and other parts that there is no snow and you can see the grass, we have quite the drifts after all of the wind the last few days.  

On Sunday, we went to the Polar Bear Plunge down on our lakefront.  The kids made the newspaper, not sure if it is the front page or not because we didn’t get the mail today (so much for “rain or shine, the mail must go through.”)

click on link below:

New Baltimore Polar Bear Plunge

Hopefully there will be a Packer post on Saturday or Sunday morning!  GO PACK GO! – gotta beat those Stealer fans that we are related to!  :)

Ready for a SNOW DAY

Flush ice down the toliet…

CHECK!

Spoon under the pillow…

CHECK!

Pj’s inside out…

CHECK!

 

BRING ON THE SNOW DAY!  WE ARE READY (if not there will be 2 disappointed girls)!

 

We are ready for SNOW-MAGEDDON 2011!

 

Even Mike’s bowling league is cancelled for tomorrow already!  There are 470 school closed, as of 9:04 Megan and me still have school! :(

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!