New Year

These first are weeks of the year are kind of a nice breath of fresh air for us. The holidays get nuts. 

This week was Marlo's first choir concert and she did great! 

We ran some errands yesterday. Marlo loves a mall.

   

 How Marlo is most of the time.

 

Rob took the kids to Lion's Tap for lunch. Don't they look awfully big suddenly? 

And another week begins. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Busy

This week was busy, busy. 

On Monday Rob was the 4th and final family to get strep throat! We had Kasper tested yesterday, while the rest of us had been on antibiotics for 5 days, and he was still negative so we are maybe all done with this round. 

Kasper had his winter band concert Thursday night. They really improve from 6th grade to 7th! 

Rob had to leave the band concert early to pick Marlo up from her first ski club day! The 4th and 5th graders go to Hyland for 6 Thursdays and it's a ton of fun. It was 5 degrees or something but she said she was able to stay warm enough. She looks kinda cold to me. 

 

Kasper had his ski club day Friday up at Wild Mountain and was home by 11 pm. It was even colder for him! After a crazy busy week, this weekend was nice and chill. We needed it. 

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Strep

This week didn't go exactly like I anticipated! I came down with strep throat on Tuesday and was out for a couple days. 

Friday was Rob's birthday so we went out for dinner and played some Rock Band in the basement.

Yesterday we went skiing again! Since Marlo starts ski club Thursday we really wanted to make sure she could handle her gear, put it on, go on the chairlift and ski down by herself. We went with her bestie and her family and happy to report the girls did great and have lots of confidence for Thursday.

     

 Kasper tried Rob's old ski blades and had fun with those.

   

 At my appointment during the week, the provider said to bring both kids in because of the length of time between Kasper's strep and mine thinking there might be a carrier in the house. Neither kid is showing any symptoms at the moment but we took them in anyway. Sure enough, Marlo tested positive! Her throat isn't even red in the slightest and the lady said she wouldn't guess she had strep at all. So 2/4 of us are currently on antibiotics and I'm thankful we found Marlo's infection before it spread again. UGH. I hate strep. So that was our week! 

Hopefully we're all healthy this coming week! And hope you had a great weekend! 

Wrapping up 2023

Happy New Year! Break is over for me and I have to get back to the real world tomorrow so let's wrap 2023 up! 

We had a beautiful sunset.

 

Marlo turned 10 on the 20th and had a day filled with her favorite things. Waffles for breakfast, 2 parties at school, ice cream. What a day.

 

We got to see all of our family for Christmas.

 

We had some friends over. And got to play on Kasper's new electronic drum set! 

 

Kasper has done a LOT of skiing over break! I think he and his buddies have gone 4 of the days! There's not even any snow but they make enough.

   

We went up to St. Cloud for NYE and decided to hit up Powder Ridge so Marlo could try her new skiis and get comfortable on them before ski clob starts next week. But then she slipped on the ice and hurt her tailbone so Kasper, Rob and I spent the day at Powder Ridge yesterday. We actually had a blast.

 

We spent New Years Eve with some high school friends, their kids and a corn snake named Milo. 

 

 We made it to midnight to watch the countdown and sing Happy Birthday to Kappy! Bring it on 2024!