the first few days of the new year

Well, we are four days into the new year.  Seems kind of crazy!

It's been a great year so far!

C Girl invited some friends from church over for a play-date on the 2nd.  I had four 2nd grade girls, a kindergartner, and two almost 5 yo twins in my home playing!  

They had tons of fun!

While she had friends over, Tim and B boy had a guys day!  They went bowling, to McDonald's and to get ice cream!

The next day, B boy was invited to have lunch and play with a friend at Chick-fil-a.  He had a blast and I had fun catching up with the friend's mom!!!

While we were at CFA, Tim took C Girl to get frozen yogurt!

When everyone got home from having fun, we started the big task of taking down the Christmas decorations.  It always makes me sad and makes the house look so bare!

 Today, we ventured out to go ice skating before we get some really cold weather.

Our wind chill could be -23 on Monday.

That is nuts!

 We all had a good time!  I will be so ready when they finally completely learn to skate on their own!

Interestingly, ice skating seemed a lot easier than roller skating a few weeks ago.  

I don't know why, but ice skating always seem to be like that.

Ice Skating and the weekend

We went to help celebrate our friend's birthday last Tuesday night at the ice skating rink!

The kids did really well and were trying to skate on their own by the end of the night!

After ice skating, I had a Girl's Night In with ladies from Sunday school.  There were about 20 of us.  I feel so lucky to have so many women to call friends.  They are a lovely, lovely bunch.

Friday night was our Winter Movie night at school.  PTO sponsored and we showed Arthur Christmas and had hot chocolate and cookies!  All of the families had a great time!

Saturday was a nice, lazy day and then we did a little shopping, went out to dinner and went to the see The Lights of the Ozarks at the square in Fayetteville.  It was beautiful as usual!