The big 6

An oddity is we had snow this week.  Gotta love our Southern Girls as they wanted to make snowmen and play in the snow.  This is what our backyard looked like:

Since we had spent last weekend in Atlanta celebrating Emmi's birthday we did a lower key birthday.  She brought goodie bags to her classmates, then she will have a playdate with her girl friends this coming weekend.  One highlight was that the P, A, B, C, clan came in for the Patriots Panthers Monday night game.  They all were great sports and went to Emmi's school for lunch with her.

We celebrated with a cake at home for Emmi.

American Girl & Aquarium

We prepped for the weekend in Atlanta with a spa day.  Emmi and Marli got manis and pedis.

American Girl Doll Store was the hit.  Not sure if Jacob or the girls were more excited.

Here the girls were with their dolls watching a movie at the store.

They have a cafe where you have to make reservations like a month in advance.  As you can see the girls totally enjoyed it since their dolls even have seats at the table.

 Then we spent the day at the aquarium.  Saw a cool dolphin show and many many tanks of huge fish.

Halloween & randoms

We did our usual routine of going Trick or Treating with the Perry's.   We headed over to their house early and hit their street.  Then came over to our street and hit houses with the rest of the neighborhood crew.  So many kids were you just hope your kid is in the mix because you cant see them anymore.  I usually make their costumes but when they saw the Power Ranger Costumes at Costco they had to have them.  They stuck to their guns and wore them.

This past weekend we unplugged.  That is right we shut our phones down to only calls and texts, put the computers away, tried to run errands on Friday and had tons and tons of family time.  This is going to be our new thing.  Family game nights, painting, and just hanging out.  As working parents it feels at times that life is just flying by especially during the week and then trying to catch up and prep for the week during the weekend.  So we are going to just try to embrace the slower times we have to have fun.

Speaking of work, almost a year ago my role shifted at work to where I am working on project stuff.  It has been going fine although stressful at times.  We are in the peak of stress as the huge project is about to go live on the 15th.  Please pray for me, send happy thoughts, etc.  It stinks when your stress relief of going to the gym is something that is not even happening.  So here is how I tried to brighten my day one day by just working on the deck.

 I was excited to get my hair cut this past weekend.  Had to take a snapshot as my hairdresser put curls in my hair.  I loved it enough to buy a curling iron to attempt to do myself.  Luckily we have the ABC crew coming in soon so Chloe has offered to teach me some tips on how to do it myself.  Woot woot.

 Oh is that another dog in our house.  We babysat my friend's foster dog while she had to go out of town.  As crazy as it sounds we get him back on Monday so we can be his foster.  Will see how this goes.