Thanksgiving

A visit with Santa

A trip to Laumeier Sculpture Park

We took advantage of a nice day and headed out to a local sculpture park to let the girls run around. The big eye, this the what Evelyn recalls about this park and what she calls it.

Ballet class and injuries

Evelyn had her first dance class where parents could come watch...she did much better than we were expecting.

Nora and Evelyn had a wrestling accident and this was the result.

Halloween

Oklahoma

Playing at the park in Oklahoma

Evelyn and Preston enjoying the big sea saw thing.

Grants Farm

Evelyn's 1st Day as a Pre-K

Evelyn is back in preschool again, has been back in school for about 2 weeks now. She is going to the free preschool within our district the same district I work with. She has the same teacher and many of the same kids in her class, but this year she goes 4 afternoons instead of just 2 mornings a week. She loves it and is always ready to run out the door when its time, by Thursday though when I pick her up she is dragging.

Magic House Trip

After about a dozen tries we finally got a bubble to form around her, she was so excited.

Nora loved the ball pit area, I'm not sure if it was the balls or the mirror she likes the most.

Trip to Kansas City

Hanging out before the wedding.

Dancing the night away at cousin Jake and Jackie's wedding, the kids had a great time!

Nora probably walked 5 miles, she wore all of us out.

Jaden the lovely flower girl

Enjoying some coloring at the kid's tables.

They were done, shortly after this Evelyn actually asked Jeff if we could go back to our "apartment" she called our hotel room, she was so tired, was also battling some asthma issues and an ear infection, but that didn't seem to slow her down too much.

Earlier in the day Jeff had to perform with the Ambassadors so we spent the morning in KC and met him for lunch before he performed. I just happened to read about this train place at the Crown Center the girls and I had just been at down the street. Thought it sounded like a good place to keep two tired girls entertained long enough to have some lunch and close enough to get Jeff back in time to sing. It was a big hit and the food was much better than we were expecting! Train delivering our lunch, Evelyn was really excited about this.

The girls and I had a few hours to kill after dropping Jeff off for rehearsal in the morning and I had read about this Hallmark place that is free to get into and they just have a bunch of different craft supplies out for the kids to create with, so we decided to give it a try. It was a really neat place. Evelyn really liked just looking around more than crafting, but had a great time and started getting into making things about the time our session was over. They were really great about letting her take things home to finish things though.