Getting in the Christmas spirit

 Our annual attempt at the forever falling apart finger bread house

Double rainbow

 

School pumpkin bash

 The monkey’s school had a treat bag giveaway, pumpkin carving and hay ride. These kids are cuckoo banana bread though. But cute

Camping pics

 Just posting some pretty pictures. I’m not going to go into any detail about my hatred of camping 😀 

And she moved up to a grey/black belt!!

 

She was super excited when it happened last week. She was just confused as to why I was taking her picture more than a week later. 

Silver medal winner

 

Beautiful sunset tonight

 

Someone got his blue belt in jiu jitsu!!

 Even after his knee surgery he’s kicking some butt. Literally. Well maybe not literally. I don’t know how this sport works. 

First day of fourth grade tomorrow!

 

Balloon festival was this weekend

 Beautiful couple of days for it…

Love the new quilt!

 

Silver medalist in shot put at the District Finals

 And qualified for the Junior Olympics in shotput and turbo javelin at Regionals

Also slowly rearranging the tv room

 Built a wall and turned the couch around. Here’s a before (not the best view but I don’t think I ever really got one)

Here’s with the couch turned around

And here’s the wall

Turns out our kitchen island wasn’t put together very well.

 It was wiggling and moving around since we moved in but today just completely fell apart

And now it’s gone (after dropping the counter top directly on my toe - unbelievably, it’s not broken 😊)

You do not want to know what was under it though - 99% of it was not our stuff (crayons, toddler biscuits, etc.) but 100% gross

She’s 9!

 Hard to believe. 

Doing some yoga before school

 

We started track!

 

One more Boone post

 

Boone continued

 

Boone, NC

 Spring break was nice and relaxing. We went to some caves and while we were waiting for the tour to start, we ate lunch by the creek and Chris fell asleep on the rocks  

We welcomed a new addition to the wolf pack

 

Just a snuggle before bedtime

 

Turtle back zoo

 So weird how much this zoo has changed since I was a kid. They have lions, bears, giraffes, even ziplines! (We didn’t do that) But we made sure to see the wolves! Fun day 😊

The bruise is gone

 But I found new little photo this on my iPad 😂 

It’s rough out there

 Huge bruise on the chin and four teeth lost, plus a bloody ankle in a week. What’s gonna happen next week?

Welcome to the wolf den

 Freshly painted her favorite color, green

“Something is out there for me to bark at, I just know it!”

 

First real snow of the season

 They had a snow war. I’m not sure who won