Saturday, January 31

January Daze . . .

 

I always look forward to January being a bit of a slower pace, re-set after the travel and business of the holidays. This year we also had some big snows that made it even more cozy and fun! Add to it some indoor tennis and lots of basketball games and we found ways to stay warm!

Snowy mornings in Apple Valley . . . 

Back 2 School - Kate and her friend Vivian.

Back to work - had a lunch planning meeting with the Kinsie team!

Molly went sledding with a couple friends to make the most of the big snow!

Annual Trivia Night at Cure of Ars is always fun! Too cold for costumes this year - 
decided to go with boring beige and jeans!
{Schlicks, Unruhs, Flanagan & Us}

Love Molly's CYO basketball team at Saint James! Such sweet, fun girls!

Kate loves playing with Bear in the snow and 
he is in HEAVEN when she comes outside!



Molly and Kate's first time playing doubles together for JTT - 

Was SO fun for Mike and I to get to with them both at the SAME time!

Not a win but they played really well!

Kate's Cure' of Ars 7th grade team!

Bearathon Joseph - ready for a walk.

Monday, January 5

Christmas Break!!

 

After traveling 6 of 7 days the week of Christmas, we were all happy to be HOME the week after Christmas to spend time together relaxing with each other and a little bit of friend time too . . .

Molly and about 9 of her friends got together one night and had a pajama party with hot cocoa, gift exchange and they played ping pong and games! They are all SO FUN! I love when we have a house full of teenagers!

Molly painted this darling sign for the party . . .

She got all the food herself and set up hot cocoa in the crock pot downstairs . . .

I love that she wanted to use my Christmas tea cups and dishes . . .

Kate did some water coloring over break . . .

And ice-skated with our family friend, Gianna.

We baked and cooked a lot of cozy comfort food . . .

Kate & Lucy made Vision Boards together on NYE!

It was a really nice break and it's hard this week to get back to schedules and 
all be apart at school and work every day again. 
It went too fast! 
So grateful for this chapter!