June-December 2014

Yay for blog a day! It worked out quite well until June. You can see from my posts that I blogged through the 12th, I was always a little behind with COMPLETING posts, and I have the posts from June 12-June 30, but as soon as I read our Bible study chapter for July I realized, no blogging! July was, as you can guess, media. It was an eye opening month for me. After July, it almost felt gluttonous to be on Facebook. And to my shock, no one died if I didn't check Facebook from my phone every 30 minutes. From then on, I kinda went rouge, and spent a lot more time offline. That means no blogs every day, but I do have some pretty fun photos. I'll share those. I also don't have some really fun photos, because for a lot of time I just chose to exist in the moment without documenting it for posterity. Either way, it has been a GREAT few months. Hope you enjoy the photos :)

Our indoor swim hole! When it was cold, hot, storming, ANYTHING, we could still swim. Lots of fun times at the pool.

 

Moms night out

 



 

Father's Day, every dad needs a new tie :)

 

Moser's Austrian Café

A great meal with a wonderful family before they moved

Great memories here, but I sure miss them

 

 

BAB

 

Olivia, the world's WORST photobomber

 



 

 

 

We had SO much rain this summer. There was nowhere for water to go, and we had a wet basement so many days this year, glad the rainy season is done!

 

Maddie's bday party

 

Our trip to the Chocolate Factory

 



 

VBS

 

Springhill Camp

Three of the best goofballs in the world!

 

 

Grant is slightly OCD. Slightly....

 

Clara is da' boss

 

 

My favorite post race photo with Ms. Awesome 2014

 

Brew & Woo

 

Yep, he's mine, and I'm keeping him. Back off ladies!

 

 

Trip to the Fort Wayne Zoo

 

What girl doesn't love to twirl?

 

My triathlete

 

Finished!!

 



Brew & Woo #2- We didn't end up eating here, even though it was $1 hot dog night ;)

 



 

Blueberries!

 

 

Swim lessons at Penn

 

Olivia was Grumpy in an original production of Snow White

 

This is what I get when I have Clara try on clothes. Diva to the core

 

Grumpy in the park!

 



 

Beach Trip!

 

I had to include this, because of the creepy photo bomber in the back.

Evan looks super excited to be hanging out with us

 



 

Our teacher letter! Olivia was super excited to have Mrs. DeLaurelle

 

 

 

 

Last day of summer!

 



 

School year 2014-2015

Olivia 3rd Grade

Clara Pre-K

 

 

 

 

Clara's First Trip to the Dentist



 

Football 2014

 

 

Olivia's New Apron From Grandma

 

Clara likes to pose with props. It's a fact

 

Fall Bible Study Group

 

 

Olivia gets her first Bible from church

 

Party Face!

 

My goofballs :)

 

Clara's first day in Ms. Beth's class. THIS IS HER LAST CLASS AT EASTBANK. I...DIE...

 

Clara & Mr. Steve. Love that guy!

 

Apples :)

 



 

 

 

The measuring scarecrow is on a hill? Weirdness

 

Last day at the zoo

 

 

 

Pumpkins

Daddy-Daughter Dance

 

Lunch with Santa

 

 

 

Dropping off Olivia's lunch, and Clara's outfit goes so well in this landscape!

 

Here she is with the top up. It's a skirt...it's a dress..it's a skress!!

 



 

And proof that all four year olds are crazy. Also that Clara gets way too many suckers ;)

 

Clara's last ballet class

 

 

All bundled up and ready for snow 

 

Our family Advent creation

 

Anyone else not able to pass Sandy without a ride?

 



Best cake decoration by an 8 year old ever

 

 

Anyone else have Ronda reindeer from McDonalds? She's a Christmas staple in our house

 

Now for the tree!

 

Ladies night to reveal our surprise MJC bags. We ordered sight unseen, and just got what we got

 

Surprise! They're all the same (ish) Erin's is just turned inside out



 

Advent candle lighting

 



This has been an awesome year! Here's two more boxes that arrived from an eBay client, all the way from sunny California

 

Olivia's Christmas concert

 

Clara and the great bloody nose. Aka-mom watches Clara hold a tissue over her nose for 5 minutes at her last Eastbank concert. Wah!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let me take a break and get another tissue. I'll be right back guys :)

 

 

Celtic Santa, my favorite Santa ever!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Mike snaps a photo of Clara licking me. There were about 5 more, guess I smelled good

 



 

Olivia's Last Day of Dance

 

The ratio of chocolate to peanut butter in this has to be totally off!

 

And....Sandy....again....

 

 

Winter break starts with a bang, getting my oil changed

 

Olivia plays Mary

Clara as Clara