Drama Class
Shecklet #3 is taking a drama class with her good friend. They meet twice a month and will have a performance in December. They are enjoying learning about projecting, annunciation, and even improvising.
Tag: fall
Airsoft afternoon
Friends from church invited the guys to play airsoft this afternoon. They came home sweaty and tired and excited to play again.
Visit from the Schmidtshow
My cousin and his family came to visit over the weekend. 8 kids, 4 adults, lots of laughs, and new memories made. The kids connected like they were old friends, which was awesome to see. The adults enjoyed sitting around the kitchen table and catching up over Crown Royal peach with sweet tea. We took in a Twins game (unfortunately, they did not win,) but it didn’t matter. It was just great to get to spend time with family.
This is what family looks like.
First CC race 🏃
Shecklet #2 is giving cross country a try as a way to get in shape for the ski season. I’m super proud of him for trying something new.
Guys trail ride 🚵
Jake took the boys on a new single track ride tonight. They all enjoyed it and can’t wait to go back.
Rainy day reading ☔️ 📚
Came downstairs to this pleasant sight.
Yes, Shecklet #3 is reading a comic (by Marvel) about Mother Teresa.
Just like his dad ❄️
It wouldn’t be the start of the snowfall season without a photo of my son wearing flip flops and shorts to shovel the driveway so I could run an errand. Love this crazy kid!
Remembering Astrid
This morning, our family walked in the 2020 NILMDTS Virtual Remembrance Walk in honor of Astrid.
Lower left: The six of us walked together around the neighborhood.
Lower right: My SIL gave me Color Street nail strips that were in recognition Pregnancy, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss awareness month. Astrid’s sisters each had a few fingers with them, too.
I’m incredibly grateful for the retouched images we have of her thanks to Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.
Shecklet #3’s quaranTEN birthday! 🎂
This girl has made 10 trips around the sun! I cannot believe how fast her first decade has gone. She is an independent, loving, leader who is artistic, kind, and helpful. She gives great hugs and isn’t afraid to show emotion. I love to watch her work hard in school and sports and cannot wait to see what the coming year has in store for her. 🍁 🎃 🍁
We decorated her bedroom door with streamers and made a birthday backdrop for her video calls today. She selected an awesome t-shirt and is all smiles today. Double digits!
For dinner, she requested pancakes, bacon & scrambled eggs. Her godmother/aunt joined us. She waited all day to open her cards and presents.
Birthday cake, was red velvet. The “0” candle on the cake was from the day we brought her home from the hospital. We celebrated her “0th” birthday with the boys as a way of including them in the joy of her birth in 2010.
School pics 2020-2021
Thanks to Covid and distance learning, I’m not sure if my kids will have “official” school pictures. So like so many other things this year, we did something different. No uniforms, outside, and fall colors.
