“Insta” replay-a thankful heart is a happy heart

Happy Thanksgiving!

This year we started what I hope will be a new tradition, and did a 5k walk first thing Thanksgiving morning!  Merry joined her Aunt and I in the “fun”.

Also fun was discovering Merry’s picture is the local Holiday’s event guide.  Her class was shown practicing for their Christmas program.

Animal Crossing for my phone makes me ridiculously happy.  Mostly because my sisters are also playing so it’s a fun family thing!

Another thing that made me ridiculously happy was Jon reading “Grumpy Cat” out loud to his family.  He really connected with the main character!

So that’s how we are wrapping up November, with thanksgiving and laughter! (And way too much time spent playing games on my phone, sigh.)

Insta-replay, focusing on family fun!

Between moving and school, life is pretty crazy right now.  So I’ve been making an extra effort to slow down and make some happy family memories. So while most of our time is spent digging through boxes and typing out math assignments, here are the highlight.

We went to my old highschool’s student play, the Wizard of Oz.  The girls had friends guest staring as munchkins.  It was fun seeing faces we knew on stage.

It was dress rehearsal week for our dance studio.  Charry is at that fun, easy to embarrass age, but I gave her some space and didn’t go in to watch the rehearsal as long as she took a picture with her sister while in their costumes.

We’ve started a weekly game night.  The agreement is at least one game as a family.  Last week we opened up Angry Birds Star Wars Jenga, which had been bought on sale years ago but never played.  

Sunday we tried something new.  Instead of going over to my inlaws, we all stopped at a food truck rally down the street from us, then they brought the food to our place. A highlight for Merry was playing potato head with her aunt. 

Now we are getting ready for the holidays! The plan is to continue to make memories, so this year Christmas Barbie is making her comeback. So much to look forward to!

We moved! (In real life not to another website)

So I have been crazy busy and not at all focused for the last few months! But now things are settling down just in time for the holidays when life gets crazy again, sigh.

After spending a month living in a camper in my inlaws backyard, we moved to our very own house! Now we get to experience the joys of home ownership!

Through it all we have been trying to keep up on school which has been a struggle.  Even now getting into a routine is tough.

But girls are working hard, even in the evenings and on the weekends. 

And I had a moment free to update my blog (although I should get back to my school).