Saturday Morning at MOA

Jimmy suggested a spontaneous trip to MOA on Saturday after being stuck at home for a few days.  We had some ride and arcade points from our last visit, so we headed to Nickelodeon Universe to use them.  Esme decided she wanted to try the roller coaster, so we bought some more points and gave it a go!

She loved it!  Jimmy and parker watched us go and Parker expressed interest in trying it too.  This was so surprising, but he kept confirming he wanted to go, so we all got back in line.

He had a concerned look on his face the whole time, but I was so proud of him for trying something new.  He even said he wants to do it again some time.  I see unlimited ride wrist bands in our future!

We went on the Ferris Wheel next per Esme's request.  Parker did not want to do this one.  

The first video is our trip here in 2013 with Parker.  Jimmy was a little nervous about the Ferris Wheel too.

We used up the rest of our arcade tokens, then stopped at the M & M's store for some treats!

Cousin Day!

My brother was finally on his way back from Dominican Republic come Friday, but Kelsey's mom was still watching the boys.  I offered to take them for a few hours during the day to give her a break.  It was so fun to have them over!

Parker enjoyed showing them YouTube videos.

It's been a while since I tied a baby to a chair, but it does the trick!

Jameson has started walking some.  It was fun to see him stretch his legs.  Jaxxon won't be too far behind!

With spring training around the bend, I took the opportunity to update Jameson's helmet to look like a Byron Buxton Jersey! Play Ball!

Snow Stormy Week

We've been talking about this last week for what seems like week's already.  Weather is so hard to predict, but they said it would be a whopper when it was all said and done, possibly record breaking.  Things started with a little dusting Monday.

The kids spent Monday at Grandpa and Nana's house since it was President's Day.  Esme decorated the wall by her bed with a bunch of drawings.  This took me back to my teenage days when I drew pictures for each boy I had a crush on and taped them up just like that.

Here was the store impact projection we got on Tuesday.  We are in that purple Twin Cities zone.

Jimmy took this just as the snow was starting on Tuesday.

The kids got 3 distance learning/snow days because of the storm.  Esme got pretty creative with Bluey, Bingo, and some underwear.

Jimmy stayed home Thursday and Friday with us.  They made some yummy cinnamon toast crunch cookies!

The biggest part of the storm ended up a little further south, but we still got 15-16" over 3 days.  Leave it to Minnesotans to be disappointed in only 16" when they were told it would be 24"+.

Parker did a great job on his homework.  He is slowly learning to read, most likely by memory.

Esme built herself a throne and nest to play in.  We had our church small group Thursday night and did an old school virtual meeting.  This was a nice alternative since our schedule is a big disrupted already for the next month or so.

We celebrating surviving the snow with cinnamon rolls on Friday morning!

Here is a quick video comparing our last storm of this size in April 2018.

Youth Group All-Nighter

Our church hosted a youth group all nighter on Friday.  I wasn't able to stay the whole time, but did hang out for the first 5 hours.  We had a big team game competition that included chair races, wasabi pea/seaweed eating relay, spaghetti/marshmallow tower building, lego spaceship construction, and tug of war.

After that, we took a field trip to Perkins for some pie!

We played a color sorting sniper type game before it was my time to go.

They were just getting set up for an epic Nerf war as I was heading out.  They had a great night and we met a ton of new students.

Super Bowl and Valentine's Day

We had a small spread for the super bowl this year.  My parents joined us for the first half, but I didn't get any pictures of them.  I made wings, deviled eggs, and pickle roll ups.  My parents brought shrimp cocktail, and we had a little snack plater.  I made some cake mix brownies with M & Ms for each team.

Valentine's Day came up quick after that.  We went with slinkys for the kids to share at school this year.  I added a little label for them to sign.

My brother was out of town and the boys were staying with my parents for the week, so we visited them on Monday night.  This was the only free night we had this week.

The kids came home Tuesday with quite a haul from their Friendship Day parties.

We continued our fondue tradition by inviting over a new friend, Kristi, from church.  We had so much fun I forgot to take a picture.  All we had was one Esme took and this one of me after rescuing a meatball from the bottom on the oven.  I knew for sure Kristi and I were meant to meet after see sent me this mash up!

Hope you had a great day celebrating love.