Ice Skating, Utah, Hair Fun

For MLK day we went ice skating with the Wilfords.  We missed Natali a lot - she usually takes Lily around but everyone else had to jump in and take turns with her.  I took care of everyone on the sides. When they got tired Mack drove the youngest kids and the boys to Wendy's for a snack while Abby, Val, Kate and Emmy made the rounds in peace.

For Christmas Mack got to spend a weekend in Utah with McClain before he left on his mission.  Natali took him down there and joined the boys for some of the fun.  They did indoor skydiving and surfing, drank sour alcohol-free shots, spend hours at the arcade, ate at Tucanos, decorated Natali's car and just had a blast together.  

While they were gone we cut Lily's hair (no more tears about brushing) and Emmy displayed a little style while I did the cutting.

Ski Day with Bob

Lily's Christmas present was a solo ski trip with mom but she wanted her buddy Emmy to come too.  Emily committed to ski anywhere Lily wanted.  We headed up Wednesday night and the girls skipped school Thursday to have a great ski day.

There weren't very many people skiing and the sunishine was beautiful- the snow was a bit icy but the girls had fun.

They started picking up snow clumps and naming them.  This was Dave and Steve.  We also had Tootherella and Valentine at some point - I had to convince them to leave them behind now and then but they spent a big part of the day skiing with snow clumps in their gloves.

We had fun hanging out together, eating skittles, watching Harry Potter at the condo, listening to audiobooks and laughing together.  We even made it home in time for Emmy to get to dance.

Covid Style Dance Production

 The girls were supposed to have a ballet production of Wizard of Oz this fall but Covid sort of wrecked that plan so Miss Heidi found a way to do a make shift production so the kids could display the dances they have been practicing.  Kate was a farmer, the wind (no pic - sorry), and a flower from Nutcracker (they did one song from Nutcracker to practice troupe dancing).

Lily was a munchkin.  Miss Heidi gave each of the girls a flower and Scott Salisbury gave her another bunch of flowers.

Here she is dancing and taking pics with friends.  When she was done we got to watch Emily - during the downtime she took some selfies and took out all her bobbie pins.  She definitely doesn't love tight buns.

Emily was a poppy - she has lots of buddies in her class but she and Lily are my favorite buddies.