Thursday, April 18, 2024

Outings in March

First Saturday in March, we cleaned the church.  
The girls picked their outfits and they looked SO cute!

All of the kids were great helpers.  Noah helped me clean the bathrooms.
Isak and Nels vacuumed.
The girls helped other girls wash the windows.
Then we went with some friends and got donuts.  Isak got a cinnamon roll.
We ate them at Stone's River Park.
Even though it was cold we went for a walk and talked. 
And noticed the spring blossoms...

Another day, I went on a walk with a friend/young woman named Sarah at Barfield Park.  I loved seeing all of the blossoms!




Another day, we went to Barfield park and met up with some friends to play.
Kira and Amani.
Sofie and Brooklynn
Sofie, Jaelynn, Zuri and Brooklynn.
Another Saturday, we drove to Eagleville to see if a bike that was selling on Facebook Marketplace would work for Kira.  The bike didn't work, but the people selling the bike lived on a little farm.  They had our kids pet the goats and other animals.  
Then we went to Bell Buckle, TN to the Daffodil festival.  It was a small festival.  Smaller than I expected.  We just walked the two little streets of their downtown and that was about it.  It didn't take long.  But we did have fun taking pictures with the murals and we ate some Moon Pies.  









Pretty Daffodil.


Then we went to the Bell Buckle Park.

There was a hill with lots of daffodils.
And that was it for Bell Buckle.  I did enjoy seeing the daffodils and the Moon Pie was yummy too.
Nels and I went on a date.  A sitter came from 4-8 p.m.  Nels and I enjoyed uninterrupted time together.  We drove to Nashville and ate at Black Tap.

Big burgers...

And we shared a Crazy Milkshake!  It was delicious. 
Then we walked around for a bit.

We went to Hard Rock Cafe and Nels got a Tshirt and a guitar pin for his guitar strap.  
Pretty Picture of Nashville as the sun set.  
So glad we went on a date.  It's kind of a lot of work and effort, but it was definitely worth it.  :)

And those were our outings for March.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

School Pictures, Salem Sprint Day and Robotics

School pictures are ridiculously expensive here.  So this is all I get for free...  The kids look SO cute!!

Sofie and Noah's class picture


Isak's Class Picture




Kira's class picture.
The school did a sprint fundraiser.  The kids all got new t-shirts and ran around the school a million times.  :)  They had a great time.

Mrs. Fletcher and Ms. Stephens...Kira and Isak's 5th grade teachers.  They have been amazing!

Sofie and her friend Brooklynn wore the same shirt!  

I had to take a few pics of them in their matching shirts.


Sofie got some cool glasses...

Our last Robotics event.  Isak and Kira were glad to do it and glad to be done with it too.

Funny selfie while we waited...


Mrs. Kahle was a great Robotics coach!
There was a STEAM walk too.  So I took Sofie and Noah around to see other school's projects.  We visited Salem's second grade class and talked with their friends.  Dominick is Noah's best friend who is standing next to him.  :)  The second graders took trash and made instruments out of them.  Sofie loved this project!

And last pics with the Robotic T-shirts.

They took apart the robots for their last meeting and Mrs. Kahle gave them awards.  Kira got the Notebooking award and Isak got the Coding award.

Just a cute picture of Kira that her teacher sent to me.  :)
And those are some fun pictures about the kids and school stuff in March.