School's OUT!

We made it through the school year! First year with a middle schooler and we all survived. BARELY. Of course Kasper was very excited for the last day while Marlo was in mourning. 

Kasper's last day was a field trip to the MOA to go to Nickelodean Universe and Rob was a chaperone. Apparently 6th graders are "really something else." 

 

We eased into summer with a low key weekend. The weather was beautiful, the kids had sleepovers with BFFs and we all got excited for summer.

 

Bring it on, summer! Hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Memorial Day 2023

 Happy Memorial Day! We just had, without a doubt, the most perfect Memorial Day weekend EVER. EVERRRRRRRRRR. 

First, though, my parents came over Monday and planted a couple ground cover plants by our back patio and put up a couple bird feeders. We had goldfinches and hummingbirds within hours! We haven't done any landscaping so this was a great start. 

 

On Thursday night we went to watch a couple of Kasper's BFFs play baseball. They are on the same team and they played so well and it was so fun to watch. These are the sweetest boys.

 

Rob found some morels randomly in the yard.

   

Marlo had space day at school. She worked very hard on a presentation of Jupiter and did so well presenting it. Rob went to school and got to hear it live.

   

This weekend started with an early morning ride to get pastries for breakfast Saturday morning and was a delight all the way through to now.

   

We spent all day Saturday pulling thistle (Rob and I), skateboarding (Marlo) and playing with our remote control car (Kasper).

   

Those are our honerable mention thistles. Tallest plant/shortest root, shortest plant/longest root, etc. Yesterday the kids played inside a bit while Rob and I went to play disc golf at a local ski hill. We found a big pile of snow they're trying to save! 

 

Last night Grandpa Steve, Carol and Carol's son and daughter in law came over for dinner.

  This morning my parents came over for pancakes then it was another day almost totally outside! Rob and I tried to organize the garage, Marlo vibed and was so self-entertained. Kasper went over to a friend's house and ran through the sprinkler.

 

It was just such a great weekend. All 3 days of perfect weather, we got so much done, the kids had a great time playing outside which we hadn't been able to do at the apartment. Back to work and school tomorrow but only 8 more days of school. Where did the time go?? Hope everyone had a great long weekend!

Mid-May

It totally feels like summer now. Not just a day here or a day there. It's awesome! 

That face painting Marlo got at the Twins game lasted a few days after it was washed off. 

 

You could see the baseball stiching and almost read the word Twins. We had a friend join us for dinner.

   

 Marlo spent a lot of her weekend working on a space project for school. She did Jupiter. She video chatted with her BFF while she painted.

   

 Rob went to Washington to celebrate the life of his Uncle Burt. It sounds like it was a great get-together and he got to see cousins he hasn't seen in decades.

   

It was the most perfect weather this weekend! I can't believe summer is so close! Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Twins!

 This week went fast, we were busy here at home and at work. Kasper finally got the video games he's been excited about for awhile. He and Rob went to Target at 7 am Friday morning to buy it before school! Fun but I think Friday at school was torture. 

 

Yesterday we went to the Twins game with Marlo's school! It rained awhile but thankfully not too hard and also thankfully it stopped after a couple innings. The Twins were hitting homerun after homerun - one even came into our section which is nuts. It was actually a lot of fun and Marlo had a great time running around with her besties.

   

We went to a birthday party for Grandma Viv and Harriet last night then had a great Mother's Day today! I got my favorite pastries for breakfast, finished a home project we've been putting off and got to sit in the sun for Kasper's ultimate frisbee games. We also got to see Grandma Sandra and Dan! 

There are less than 20 days of school left! Hard to believe! Hope everyone had a great weekend! 

May

Crazy it's May already. The weather has finally turned in MN and the kids are getting Spring Fever. 

To start, I have to brag for Miss Marlo. She's been in speech therapy for 2 years for her r's and within the last 2-3 weeks she's suddenly immensely better at making the sound. She has never been able to pronounce her name clearly so a stranger can understand her. 

Kasper had his spring band concert. Turns out it was a band/orchestra/choir concert. It was a lovely show, these kids are getting so good! 

Then Marlo did a 1-mile race! It was such a beautiful night.

We gotta work on running through the finish.

Saw a bluebird. I miss the bluebirds we had at our old house. 

 

Another week! Thankfully it's supposed to be warm here. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Oops

Oops! I guess we haven't done anything interesting for the last 3 weeks! Sometimes that's the way it goes. 

Kasper has been moving through geography bee rounds at school and made it to the finals on Monday this week! I didn't count but it seemed like there were 10 kids from each grade 6, 7 and 8. 

We did great and went out with another kid for 4th and 5th place. They beat most of the 7th graders which was interesting. Of course all the 8th graders outlasted them. 

It was before school so we walked with Kasper to see his locker then sent him off on his way! 

There was a lice outbreak in the 3rd grade classroom so I brought Marlo to the school nurses house where she runs a lice removal business (!!!) and she found a handful of nits but no live lice so we'll see what happens next! Hopefully removing the eggs means nothing will hatch. We may have gotten off easy. It was very weird from Marlo to sit in the school nurse's kitchen while she combed thorough her hair. I always liked to think teachers just lurked around the school 24 hours a day. 

Kasper had his first Ultimate Frisbee games today! They were cancelled last week because of the wet fields and this week the wind was almost unbearable. Spring sports in MN for you. I don't actually know if they won or lost but they had fun! Oddly enough I saw Marlo's bus driver at the Ultimate meet which also freaked her out. 

And with that it's back to the grind again tomorrow! Hope everyone had a great weekend!