Fun with Friends!

This weekend was so much fun! Our friends that moved to Ohio about a year and a half ago made the trip to Indy to hang out with us! Their mom and dad went to a dinner downtown on Friday night, so it was just me and the 5 kids here to get some good playing time in. We ate some pizza and then played the night away.

Meggan and Rachel hard at work doing a little painting!

And their finished products! Meggan's is the bear on the plate and Rachel's is the cat!

Then they had to do a little dancing!


Everyone getting in on the action!

By 9:30 Jordan was ready for bed, so he dismissed himself from the party and went to bed. Meggan, on the other hand, stayed up until midnight and thought that was so cool! The girls and their parents left around 11:30 but I let her stay up a little longer and then told her it was already midnight - the look on her face was priceless! :)

On Saturday morning we met them and some other great friends of ours at the skating rink! What a blast! Jordan even went out there for a while, with the help of all those girls! ;) There was Jordan and then 5 girls, ages 3 to 12 or so (I'm not exactly sure how old Greta is, but she's in middle school) - he was having a ball. He would fall down on purpose, just because the girls would laugh at him and then have to help him up. What a little ham!!!

We ate with them at Texas Roadhouse and then they were headed back to Ohio. Yum! It was so fun to see them, and we hope to see them again soon! We may even go visit them at their farm up in Ohio - I think the kids would have a blast! We'll miss them until then...

Meggan had a great time at her friend from school, Valerie's, birthday party on Saturday afternoon, and then we had a great time watching the Colts play their way to the SuperBowl yesterday after church! What a fun weekend!!!

This pic is just for fun! Meggan gave Dawn, Mom, and me all a tattoo on Saturday evening while they were here eating dinner with us. When Dawn asked her what she wants to be when she grows up, she informed us she wants to be a "tattoo person" because she wants to use those needles, you know. WHAT? SERIOUSLY? This is a pic of mine that she put on top of my foot. Do you think she's got a career? (Hahaha! She's just so funny!)

100!

Tomorrow is the 100th day of school for this school year, and they make a big deal out of this (at least in kindergarten they do)! Meggan has all laid out for tomorrow her Colts jersey along with her Dallas Clark jersey necklace (have to wear the Colts gear since they play this weekend - she even picked the number that she wanted put on the necklace, 44) and her necklace with 100 beads they made this week at school as well!


So tonight we had to get her homework all finished up, which included a posterboard with 100 items on it. You could put whatever you wanted - and try to be creative. However, I think we kind of took the "easy way out" and went ahead and just did 100 stickers. I just couldn't imagine trying to glue 100 things on there (such as cottonballs or paperclips or whatnot) and have them fall off constantly, etc.


Here they are doing the 100 chart. Jordan was "helping" in his own special way, but he was having lots of fun! They were supposed to put them in groups of 10, to make it easier to count them while they're showing them in front of the class. Okay, so the lines aren't straight or perfectly spaced either (let's just say I am NOT the artist of the family). It was really hard for me to just let her do it by herself and not "fix" it so that the stickers were straight across and spaced out right. She also has 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100 written to the right of each row that you can't see in the picture. She did a great job!


These stickers are very serious work!




Being silly (they wanted to put their posters in front of their faces)!


C-H-E-E-E-E-E-E-S-E!

We did manage to fit in a few minutes of Mario Bros. Wii tonight after getting all the homework done and before it was time for a bath. I think we're all glad that tomorrow is Friday! Hope everyone is looking forward to a great weekend! GO COLTS!!!

Fun in the Snow!

Saturday morning we got up and headed to get a few groceries, and when we got back, the kids wanted to play outside in the snow. There's not a ton of snow, but there are a few inches on the ground here (at least for now - I think it's supposed to be a high of 38 degrees on Wednesday and then it will all melt quickly and just be ugly).

The kids riding their bikes!

We ran inside, put on some snowpants and gloves, and hit the driveway/sidewalk. I scooped the driveway and then a path as well as I could down the sidewalk, and so we had to get out the bikes. What kid DOESN'T ride their bike in the middle of winter; right?!?! They also had fun making a couple snow angels and then we put together a quick snowman. The snow is pretty powder-y and didn't work all that well, but we got one to work well enough to satisfy Meggan! :)

Meggan's attempt at a snowman (don't ask me). She was trying to roll a little snow clump all the way across the yard and it never got any bigger. Poor thing!

Our finished product! She was pretty proud!

Jordan's snowman that he wanted me to make so he could hit it, which he was using this blade (I gave it to him as a "shovel") in order to knock it down!

Sunday was church and then we had some lunch (well, some of us had breakfast) at Bob Evans. Mom volunteered to take Meggan to her house to help/play with the kitties so that I could nap while Jordan did, so I took her up on that one! A 2-hour nap was wonderful, and then we headed down to Mom's to let Jordan play with the kitties for a while and have some supper quick before getting back home to get to bed for another school/work week.

All in all, a nice weekend! Hope everyone else had a good weekend too!