7 years, 2 months & 4 years, 11 months

Monthly pictures almost escaped us!

Questions!
John:
1. What was your favorite Christmas present? My Legos
2. Can you smell me from there? What? Nope!
3. Where in the universe do you want to go for a visit? Ummmm...Iowa!
4. If you got to be a teacher for a day, what would you teach? Math.
5. What makes the best fort? The blankets and cushions.
6. Who do you impersonate the best? Dad.
7. What question should I never ask you? Don't be mad at me.
8. How does it feel to be only one month away from being five? Exciting!

Tess:
1. What was your favorite Christmas present? Hmmm...ummm...my LOLs
2. Can you smell me from there? [confused look]...no.
3. Where in the universe do you want to go for a visit? The moon.
4. If you got to be a teacher for a day, what would you teach? Huh. To read. 
5. What makes the best fort? The cushions. 
6. Who do you impersonate the best? Johnny. 
7. What question should I never ask you? Why did you do that? 

Costco

Goofing around at Costco!

Nutcrackers

This kid loves his Nutcrackers!

Delay

We had a 10-minute delay getting to the basketball game on Saturday afternoon because there was plenty of excitement on the street right outside the gym!

Construction

 Waiting patiently for Pastor Asher and Mom to get the house assembled well enough.

 Hurry up and decorate!

 

Masterpiece!

Favorites

During the women's game, he scooted over a few seats so he could hang out with the guys who were getting ready for their game...

NCCA Tournament

Thursday night volleyball match to see the Regis ladies play in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II Volleyball Tournament. Regis won! There are now only four teams still playing in the whole country and Regis is one of them!

Concentration

These kids were focused!

Tradition

Frozen

Snow

7 years, 1 month & 4 years, 10 months

Keillor must have thought this was the silly one because he is sticking his tongue out!

Perfect timing on the photo!

Question time!

John:
1. What was the best thing you saw while watching the Thanksgiving parade on TV? Santa!
2. What was your favorite food during Thanksgiving dinner? Cranberries
3. How much fun was sledding this week? Super duper fun.
4. What would you like to do during Christmas break? Uh...um...have a snowball fight. And I want to play with Hootie. 
5. What are you hoping for for Christmas? A skateboard.
6. What do you like best about your sister? She gives me hugs. 
7. What is something you are thankful for? I am thankful for turkey.



Tess:
1. What was the best thing you saw while watching the Thanksgiving parade on TV? The Chase balloon (from Paw Patrol)
2. What was your favorite food during Thanksgiving dinner? Everything except the cranberries.
3. How much fun was sledding this week? A lot of fun!
4. What would you like to do during Christmas break? Eat candy.
5. What are you hoping for for Christmas? A unicorn.
6. What do you like best about your brother? He's crazy!
7. What is something you are thankful for? Keillor.

Volleyball

A photo from what turned out to be the last home game of the season:

That's their friend, Lilly. Her little sister was a bit too scared to join in!

Basketball game activities

See if you can tell what's going on here at a recent Regis basketball game...

Art at Central

We apologize for the lack of blog posts lately! Too busy and not enough pictures, unfortunately.

Here are a couple from a trip to the Central Library. We stayed for three hours and brought home tons of art projects!

Nutcracker

John is a big fan of the Nutcracker and was thrilled to see Christmas decorations out at Home Depot last weekend!

New bike

New bike from Grandma for her birthday!

Halloween

Taken in between the first trick-or-treating trip and the second trip. There were three outings in total to various places!

Birthday party

The party was unicorn and narwhal themed. Two friends came prepared with horns made at home!

Happy Halloween

7 years & 4 years, 9 months

Happy Birthday to Tess! Seven years old!

We missed the monthly pictures by a day, but we had plenty of time today because it was a snow day!

Keillor was not in the mood to cooperate, though! 

Monthly questions!

Tess:
1. Do you feel older? Ahhhh...yes.
2. What's the best part about being seven? Presents!
3. What was your favorite thing to do on the snow day? Umm...umm...hot cocoa.
4. What is your favorite Halloween candy? Hershey's.
5. What should Keillor dress up as for Halloween? A dog.
6. What's been exciting at school lately? Crew buddies [when their class gets together with an older class]
7. What would you like to do for the week of Thanksgiving? Have fun!


John:
1. Does your sister look older? Yes.
2. What's the best part about Tess being seven? She has a lot of toys.
3. What was your favorite thing to do on the snow day? Sledding and staying at home.
4. What is your favorite Halloween candy? Snickers.
5. What should Keillor dress up as for Halloween? A bumblebee!
6. What's been exciting at school lately? I've been playing on the playground a lot.
7. What would you like to do for the week of Thanksgiving? Uh...go to Mexico on an airplane.