The Rock Girls

Kaylee started a new band called The Rock Star Girls.  She recruited some music girls and got them dressed for the part.  They had lots of pink and rocked the night away.  Nathan, Owen & Kaylee had a lot of fun with this!!  

Christmas Morning 2020

 Christmas morning was magical!!  Since our remodel took over our house, we enjoyed Christmas morning in the basement.  Santa indeed came and brought stockings for all.  Nathan asked for a stuffed animal and got a cute bear from Santa.  Kaylee got roller skates and Dawson got lots of legos.  Cooper wanted a drone and Jaxton got some trendy shoes and hats.  Owen got a sleeping bag.  Of course it was a fun morning for all!! Merry Christmas!!

Opry Land Ice Skating

 We spent one day outside doing ice skating and ice tubing.  They had bears that slid on the ice that could help beginning skaters hold on while they skate.  The kids also would sit on the bears and get pushed around.  Everyone loved skating!!  There was a live band playing great music while we enjoyed the winter wonderland.  We also went ice tubing.  This was a big slide that we would go down in a big tube.  So much fun!!!  At the end of the evening, there were professional ice skating performers that put on a show for us.  What fun!!  

Opry Land Christmas Movies

 Opry Land had a huge Christmas Movie Tour.  One of our favorites was The Polar Express.  There was a pretend train with hot cocoa and dancing just like the movie!!  We also enjoyed National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when Nate got to pretend to be the dad and turn on the Christmas Lights on the house.  It flashes with electricity and then goes bright, just like the movie!!  So fun to see life size display of the movies we love at Christmas time!!

Opry Land Tenessee

 We went to Opryland in Tennessee to get away as a family.  We drove several hours and got a couple of hotel rooms inside of Opryland.  The hotel was all enclosed but it felt like we were outside.  It was filled with plants and trees and even a river.  At this time of year, everything was decorated in Christmas!  We did some fun scavenger hunts around the hotel and enjoyed exploring everything there was to see.  Cooper and I did an Endangered Animal scavenger hunt with a fun app and photos.  We saw a kid that looked just like Nathan too!  

Oak Farm Work

 Oak Farm is our favorite school.  The kids all get opportunities to learn and work.  Owen worked by scrubbing a chair one day.  Nathan and Kaylee's classes visited the actual farm and got to see the goats, sheep, donkey, alpacas, and of course the cats.  The younger grades spend half days in Kinderforest in the back of the woods learning and exploring and cooking over the fire. The older grades dissect animals and do all kinds of hands on science.  What a fun place to learn!

Blue Fox Bottling

Rollar Skating

 We enjoyed roller skating one afternoon for fun.  Its an activity our whole family can do now!  The big kids can skate all on their own.  The youngers use the walker things, and Owen did great in Fisher Price plastic skates!  The plastic skates go over top of your shoes and they hardly roll so Owen was just walking along with skates.  He thought he was big and enjoyed it!!  Everyone had a great time!!  

Christmas Lights

 Cooper has asked every year, year after year after year, to put up Christmas lights on our house.  We have responded with no year after year because of how much work is involved.  This year, he said he would do it!  Well, we got him the supplies he needed and a tall ladder and he got to work.  He worked hard all day into the evening and got lights up all the way around the front of the house and the garages.  What a hard worker!  He had to hang clips along the gutters and then hang the lights.  When he turned them on after dark, we were all amazed to see a lit up house!!  Great effort Cooper!!

Felix's Christmas

 Felix is our employee who had an accident on a job site.  He fell and hurt his neck and ended up with some surgery.  He has been stuck at home healing for a few months.  Since he lives alone and his family is far away, we thought we would bring him some Christmas cheer.  We brought him a small Christmas Tree and set it up on a wrapped box with ribbon.  We brought him some stockings to hang and a candy dish.  It was fun! Felix enjoys seeing all the kids and we were glad to bring him Christmas!!

Gingerbread Festival

 I took the kids to see the annual Gingerbread Festival downtown at the Fort Wayne History Center.  It is always so fun to see the creativity of all the different kinds of gingerbread houses.  There were displays such as The Grinch, Santa's Wonderland, Recycling Center, Log Cabin display, Fancy Condo House.  The kids each had their favorites!  There were some creepy moving dolls on the stairway.  When Owen stood with the dolls, he kinda looked like one.  It was just too funny!!