Chit Chat

Running down my random pictures for the past few weeks!  There are some goodies here!

Halle was our star eagle!!  She was so pumped to have her turn in the spotlight.

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We started music lessons towards the end of January and the kids have been enjoying the experience so far.  They were able to choose the instrument they wanted to learn between piano, violin, guitar, and ukulele.  Lia chose the violin and Erin and Halle chose piano.  We had to go to the music store to rent a violin for Lia and it is TINY!
 

Bob-o had to try it out as well.  :)

Group practice time!  

On the 100th day of school, the kids had to dress up like 100 year old people.  Hilarious!

Fun with the Schankel girls.

A place in life - bunch of kids all having a ball outside in the driveway.

Halle's buddy from school - Brooklynn

Todd was the mystery reader for Halle's class!

After mystery reader, Todd joined the girls for lunch.  They (and their friends) were delighted to get to eat up on the stage!

 Girl scout cookie sales were a lot of work, but the troop did very well and earned all the money we need for our campout in the fall!!  This was the last day of sales and we were trying to push the last few cases of cookies!

Having friends over to play is awesome!

My current background on my phone - the girls were convinced their teachers would not be able to tell them apart - so funny.

Riding bikes to school for the first time!!!  They did awesome - then daylight savings came and we are in the dark in the morning again - boo.

I love Miles' face here - saying - "wow, Halle, you are really reading that book!!!"

We built a bridge over to the swing!!  Well, TODD built a bridge over to the swing.  :)

Muffin movie date with daddy!

One day when the kids were at school late for a club, I looked out back and saw a group of women opening my back gate.  I could not figure out what was happening until I realized that it was a group of teachers from the school - two of which were Halle and Lia's teachers!  Hilarious.  They had been to our house before and got lost behind the houses on the trails (this is pre-swing, pre-trail, pre-bridge) so they were going to cut through the yard and I caught them  lol.  It was pretty funny.  I took this picture so they kids would believe me when I told them the story.