The Wittenbergs

Friday, May 20, 2016

February 2015

Okay - here goes another month!! My mom and dad came to visit this month, and Mom always takes 1000 pics each time we visit (literally - no matter the trip length, somehow the number always settles near 1000), so I distill it down to my faves, and... here they are! Plus some more I took this month.

First time watching Brave - a close second fave movie to Frozen

Upkeep on the fairy house

Snowman - yes, those are rabbit poop eyes.

Puddle stomping!

Making the solar system - now hanging in her room!

Learning about wishbones

Training for Charley's marathon

The kid has ALWAYS been obsessed with vehicles!!! From one tire...

... to the other!

Nebraska sunsest

Making a Mardi Gras King Cake

Crescent Lake

Gotta have beads for Mardi Gras, right?

Prepping for the parade - decorating their rides

So fun! My favorite thing we did!

Popcorn confetti - bird/nature friendly, of course!

This "special book" is how I learned to read - I have a copy for the kids.

A view from the top of the sandhill nearest our house, that housed the refuge radio/communication towers.

Where is that kid going??

Charley planned an indoor picnic for everyone with her picnic basket (thanks Grandma!).

We arranged to meet the bus before school one morning so Charley could ride it.

Breakfast at the S&S, our fave diner

Reed acts like he's one of the class!

I co-hosted the class Valentine's party with Rachel, another mom

Charley's teacher, who took maternity leave soon after

We got to eat lunch with C in the cafeteria

Pops making magnets for C's chore chart

We got the kids outdoor toys for their birthday, to encourage them to be outside more... they haven't seen much use since!

Hiking up the sandhill behind our house

Making fritzerfills!

Mom always plans lots of fun activities and art projects for the kids when she visits.

Popcorn and nature movie.

Playing princesses

On to Valentine's day cupcakes!

I loaded all of Rod's music onto an MP3 for him for V-day

Deer in our yard!

Watching Mr. Marlin blow snow from our driveway.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

January 2015

OK grandparents... (because I really bet you're the only ones who read this) ;)

I've NEVER been this far behind on pics, and I apologize, but I'm trying to work through them in the evenings, and get caught up, and I'm going to do this month by month. So embarrassingly... here are the photos from January 2015! It's kind of fun, because the kids look so little, we still lived in Nebraska!!

Reed in his padded helmet - that never really caught on.

Enjoying the snow in the new sleds from Grandpa.

Charley's "Fever/Anna" dress

While I'm at it... might as well go through the dress up trunk!

Okay, now she's Elsa - see the fancy shoes? And yes, that is her dress, OVER her snowsuit and coat. She wanted to go outside, in the snow, and stomp, and sing Let It Go, and make everything turn to ice, like Elsa...