Friday, February 24, 2012

field trip


Reese is always hearing her big sisters talking about taking a "field trip" with their school friends.  She always asks if she can go.  Unfortunately she can't.  So this past weekend we decided to take a small "field trip" for her since we had a long weekend.  We woke up Sunday morning and took off for Chicago.  Plan A was to head to Shedd Aquarium.  The girls LOVE that place and it had been a little while since they had been last.  We love going to that place because teachers get in free.  All we have to do is pay for the girls.  Once we got there, we noticed the extra long lines just to get inCome to find out it was Illinois resident free day.  The lines were over an hour wait just to get in...and then it would've been so crowed inside, so needless to say we moved on to Plan B. 
Plan B (which we were planning on anyways) was a stop at the American Girl store.  We kept most of the day a surprise from the girls and didn't tell them until right before we got there, but I had packed their Bitty Babies for them.  And boy were they excited!
They each got to pick out something that they had been wishing for.  Reese and Addy both picked an outfit for their babies and Presley got a diaper bag with all the supplies.
We did have an unexpected mini-field trip to see Justin B.  : )  (Which may have been just as exciting to the girls as the American Girl store!)
Next we walked around downtown for a bit.  The girls loved seeing all the tall buildings. 

And last on our field trip was a trip over to see Trenton.  We enjoyed taking him out to dinner and spending a little time with him before coming back home.  It was good to see him, and I think he enjoyed seeing some family too.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

school days


Wow, I guess I didn't realize how long it's been since I last updated this.  We've been good, busy - but good.  Seems like that is how these months are for us.  After Christmas when Chad starts coaching basketball our days seem to really fill up.  We've been having some special celebrations at school.
We celebrated 100 days a few weeks ago!  (Only 66 left now.)
On our 101st day we (kindergarten) celebrated with a pj & popcorn day.  As a reward for "surviving" the first 100 days we watched 101 Dalmatians on our 101st day!
The next week we celebrated spirit week.  Twin Day - with friends Briella and Brayden.

Crazy Mis-Match Day.  Aren't they lovely?
Favorite Character day...Meet Silvermist and Pinkalicious.
Addy as Silvermist, Briella as Pinkalicious, Ayla as a fairy, and Max as Woody.
Addy and Pocahontas.

And Friday was Favorite Team Day.  I was a bit sad that I couldn't convince either of them to wear MSU, but that's ok.  IU is my 2nd favorite team.  Addy felt bad for me and offered to change teams so I wouldn't be the only one in MSU, but I told her she didn't have to.  :)
Throw in a few basketball games and that's been taking up our days and nights.  We are counting down the days until Spring Break and the beach!