A Mild Winter Revisited

I don't have very many photos from last winter. I guess I forgot to get the camera out, or we had a pretty uneventful winter, or both.

We have a tradition that each kid gets to pick one present to open on Christmas Eve. Here they are proudly displaying the gifts they picked first:

Here they are Christmas morning, eagerly awaiting to open all of their awesome presents!

The 3DS that their dad bought them was (and continues to be) a big hit!

We also made lefse during our winter break. Here are my little helpers:

And we adopted a cat! Her name is Pippi. We got her a few days after Christmas. She is definitely spunky. And did I mention constantly hungry. (We must be related.) The girls really enjoy her, so I think the adoption was a good decision.

In February, Miss Doodle had her 1st Grade Breakfast. It was a country theme this year. The kids were encouraged to dress as cowboys and cowgirls. She did a great job performing with the rest of the 1st graders!

(If you are wondering what's on her cheek, it's a tattoo. I did not okay that. Thank goodness it was only temporary.) 

A Peak at Last Autumn

It's almost summer! How did that happen?!  As you are aware, I never got my pictures up throughout the year. It has been such a busy school year and I have had very little time at home or on the computer. I still want to share a bit of our autumn with our extended family and friends, who may not know what we've been up to since October.

So here we go: 

My little roller girl, making Auntie Cass proud! Could her roller derby name be The Great Bugsby? 

We enjoyed the Apple Festival held at the Gibbs Museum during the first weekend of October. 

This is a young Cam Jansen pumpkin, which we made for a school project and also kept on our front step for Halloween. Miss Doodle loves these books! They got her excited and motivated to read. I credit them with helping her to go from easy readers to chapter books. 

Miss Doodle at her class Halloween Party.

Here they are ready to go trick or treating. Miss Doodle looked very menacing as a vampire, while Bug turned on the charm as an adorable fairy princess.

We enjoyed our annual tradition of picking Haralson apples at Fischer's in Hastings. We didn't make it down there until November. Lucky for us that the weather was mild or we might have missed out on all of the fun and apple crisp that followed. 

This orchard has a big wooden train. The girls enjoyed posing playing on it. 

So much for getting a nice shot of the three of us. Somebody was not being very cooperative. 

We had a party at the local nature center for Miss Doodle's seventh birthday in November. We enjoyed meeting a turtle and going for a lovely nature hike. She also gave a big thumbs up to the DQ ice cream cake. Yummo! 

Before autumn's beauty faded we took a trip down to, my favorite place in Minnesota, Nine Mile Creek, located in Bloomington. We had fun doing our own little photo shoot. I'm glad we did. It's nice to have lovely pictures of my girls that I will cherish for a lifetime.