Inside Out Play Park

Another fun indoor play place opened near us this week! I hosted a play date there with a play group that we're in and the kids loved it! It has everything you would have at an outdoor park but it's inside:) Perfect for the many rainy days of winter or the SUPER hot days of summer!!

Discovery Center

Found a fun science discovery center to take the girls! They had so many different things for them to do, it was great! They learned about turtles, uncovered dinosaur fossils, fixed cars, built train tracks, shoveled coal into a train to make it go, played with a water irrigation system to grow a garden, built with play dough, walked around a wetlands exhibit outside (which would be much nicer to visit in the summer), learned how air vacuums work by sucking in plastic balls and shooting them out another tube (they loved that one)!

Happy Birthday Ella!

Happy 6th Birthday Ella!! As always, can't believe she's already another year older! She wanted to have her birthday at her gymnastics place. It was a ton of fun! The kids enjoyed a jumping castle, huge slide, swinging into a giant foam pit, jumping on trampolines, riding a zip line, and topping it off with Ella in a harness flying over them where they could grab her feet and let her go! So...much...fun:)

Our party guy was so funny...he would pull Ella down and tell her to stay put (pretending) and then as soon as he would let go and walk away, Ella would FLY back up! The kids were cracking up!!

Our neighbor Kazu. I just think he's the cutest little thing:)

Savannah loving on Brooklyn

Lucy Clark and Creighton

Snow Day!

The south really does freak out about snow! Girls had a "snow day" because there was a chance of 1-2 inches of snow! When Ella woke up, I told her to go back to bed because she had a snow day...she looked out the window and said, "What?! But there's no snow that's weird!" They enjoyed playing in the dusting of it anyway:) Brooklyn wanted to go out without any pants on. I kept telling her she was forgetting something but she assured me that she had her hat, gloves and boots so she must be good to go:)

Ella's New Bike

Ella got a new bike for her birthday and is doing very well, she is even trying it with out training wheels here and there! This is a HUGE step for her because a couple years ago she had a bad fall off her bike and has not wanted to ride since:( Last summer was the first time she even got back on a bike! We're hoping this summer we can work on ditching the training wheels forever!

Christmas Week

Nina, Josh's brother Nate and our three nieces Marisa, Megan, and Mia came to visit during Christmas week. What do you do to entertain FIVE girls for a week?? You go to the Adventure Science Center, go to GoofBalls, swimming, play games, paint pottery, go out for lunches/dinners/ice cream, ride bikes/scooters, play soccer and go to the park! What a crazy busy, crazy fun week:) We even had a chance to do a photo shoot of all the girls together. They had so much fun and kept asking, what are we going to do next?! It was amazing to see how they communicated together since Marisa/Megan/Mia use sign language. They all figured it out and it was never an issue for them...all we heard were giggles out of all five of them:) Our girls adapted and were very quiet all week, they even picked up some signs and started using it with them which was very cute to see.