Pinewood and Princess Mary

Saturday was a busy day for us.  Miss Mary turned 3!  Here she is enjoying her breakfast.

 Opening some gifts.

 

Saturday was also District Pinewood Derby day, which means Mike and Pat were out the door at 6am and I made multiple trips to Metamora.  Here's a group o Bears watching their race.

 Lia and the Lion even got to race. 

 Come on Lia!

Both George and Lia made it to the final round but Lia brought home some hardware.

It was a busy day but we ended with dinner at Pizza Ranch (as Mary requested) and some ice cream.

George is 9!

Two weeks ago this crazy boy turned 9.  He graciously let me take his picture.

Aunt Pat sent him this Lego set because it has something that blows up.  Just what George wanted. 

Mary wanted hot chocolate and Cheese-It for snack.

Catholic Schools Week was broken up a bit due to snow and subzero temperatures.  Mary managed to find her friend Lucy and enjoy the talent show.

 

Silly Cecilia wanted to see if she still fits into Mary's car seat.  If I asked her to seat there she would have had a melt down.

The kids, to my delight, weren't really into making fancy Valentine's Day boxes this year.  This is what they came up with.

The costume trunk strikes again!

Now I am all caught up on pictures.  Everyone has had their share of stuffy noses and coughs, but no major problems.  Even Becca managed to get through February 13th without an injury.  Come back soon for more crazy pictures.

Pinewood Derby

What would January be without building and racing pinewood derby cars?  It will be awhile until I find out with Lia making her first car this year.

 

Here is George waiting for his car to make its way down the tracks.

He came it 2nd overall in the pack, with a Lion taking home 1st. 

The girls like to wear matching clothes and have matching hair.

Teenager in the House

At the end of 2018 we officially got a teenager in our house.  

It was a low key celebration with donuts holes and blowing out the advent candles.

 

 Tilly has found some sun in the house.

George helped me out by shoveling the back slab.

 

Tilly enjoyed the snow as well.

Mary and Tilly like to snuggle up and take a nap together.

 I know I way behind on my posts.  It take some doing to get the pictures from my phone to the computer to the blog so cut me some slack.