Fancy Caroline

We celebrated Valentine's day with heart shaped pancakes, candy, and cards. Later in the week, we gave Caroline tickets to go see Fancy Nancy and Friends. She was thrilled. The was at the Valentine Theatre and there were 6 books that were turned into musical numbers:
1. "Duck for President"
2. "Fancy Nancy"
3. "I Have to Go"
4. "Pirates Don't Change Diapers"
5. "Babymouse: The Musical"
6. "Leonardo, the Terrible Monster"

Jammie and Caroline attended on Saturday and got all fancy. We were FABULOUS!!

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Sledding

We got about 3 inches of snow last night. This is the first "big" snow we have had. Phillip got to use the new snowblower for the first time and there was finally enough that we could play in it and go sledding. Snow was not packing kind, so we had to make snow angels...no snowmen or snowball fights:( We found this random hill in the back of our neighborhood...well we had to walk about 1/4 of a mile to get back there, but it was worth it. We even found a "pond" that Caroline liked to "skate on". Winter can be fun..but only for so long:)

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Tarheel basketball game

On Thursday, Dec 29th, we headed to Chapel Hill for a men's basketball game. This was Sawyer's first Tarheel game EVER! We are were excited for him. Phillip, Bethany, Sawyer and I enjoyed some time before the game walking around campus and arrived to the Dean Dome just in time to see the players run out of the tunnel and see the starting line-ups announced. Tarheels won too! Hopefully the first of many games for our family. Good times:)

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Christmas

We spent Christmas Eve at home in Ohio. We had a great meal, attended candlelight service at church, and allowed the kids to open several small gifts from each other. We read the Night Before Christmas and then tucked the kids into bed. Christmas morning was full of joy and all the fun of viewing Christmas through a young child. After a while, we headed to Michigan to enjoy Christmas with Jammie's family. The day after Christmas we headed to NC to celebrate with Phillip's family! Lots and lots of miles and loads of fun and memories!

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Pre-Christmas

The weeks leading up to Christmas we fun and festive. We had the program at church where Sawyer was a nutcracker and speaking part while Caroline was an angel who sang--well most of her song. We made Christmas cookies and took family photos.

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Future QB

Sawyer really loves football. Any chance he gets he wants to play. We had some great weather for November so we headed outside to run some plays! Do we have a future Tarheel QB in the making:) Maybe a Spartan?

Halloween

What can I say, the kids were soooooooooooooooooo much fun this year. Caroline could hardly sleep the night before. She was so excited to take apple cider to her preschool party and was itching to wear her purple wig! Sawyer went between being batman "the dark knight" and Captain Kody (clone trooper from Star Wars). He enjoyed being the big brother and helping his siter "trick-or-treat". They both lasted for about 1 hr and 30 mins. Then they came back to the house and handed out treats to other kids:) Love my babies!!!

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Pumpkin patch and more

We had have lots of fun this fall. We are wrapping up October and did so by going to the pumpkin patch (hayride, straw maze and cider), decorating pumpkins, and believe it or not...packing shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. Sawyer has hit a big milestone today...he lost his first tooth! Congrats Sawyer:)

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GG and Papa visit

GG and Papa came for a fall visit. They were able to catch one of Sawyer's soccer game, helped with some Halloween crafts, assited Caroline with "booing" one of our neighbors and listened to a concert performed by Caroline. Fun was had by all.

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Pumpkins and more

10 days ago it was 75 - 80 degrees and we headed to the pumpkin patch. The kids enjoyed petting some of the animals at the farm and loved looking at all the pumpkins. The next day we headed to MI for a party and got a chance to view all of Uncle Mark's pumpkins. Caroline and Mommy enjoyed raking leaves at Grandma and Pa's. Fall is fun:)

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