demolition

Earlier this week they started demolition on our old school. It sits on the same campus as our new school, so we spent a bit of our morning watching out the windows.

 

Here’s a Facebook quote from our band teacher:

Down goes Old Lincoln. Majestic New Lincoln rises above the demolition.

The entire school was down in two days. Trucks picked through the rubble and sorted out metal and bricks and everything else into piles. By day three, a good part of the destruction had been cleared away.

Goodbye “Old” Lincoln. Where 3 of my 4 kids started kindergarten and where I taught for 13 years. You served our family well!

Happy B-day Kansas!!

Today our great state is 152! And our school had a Kansas Day celebration.

The students rotated through several stations (soap carving, story time in a “log cabin”, quilting, pioneer games, etc.) I was in charge of apple turnovers. Whenever you feed kids, it’s always a popular place!

They were super easy and I had a lot of great help!

Start with a canned biscuit. Flatten it out. Put a spoonful of apple pie filling and sprinkle with cinnamon.

Fold over and crimp the edges to make a turnover. Place in the waffle iron for 2 minutes.

 

And there you have it! They weren’t the prettiest and they were quite messy. But the kids loved them! We drizzled them with some powdered sugar frosting. Now if only I can figure out how the early Kansas settlers cleaned their waffle irons (wink wink)!

We ended our day with a Cowboys and Cattle Drives demonstration from our principal.

 

Happy Birthday Kansas!!!

new year update

Here we are halfway through January and I haven’t posted since before Christmas!! I won’t bore you with family pictures from Christmas.

On New Year’s Eve we ended up getting the first snow in about 2 years. So I took Delaney over to Gaga and Papa’s backyard (they have a couple of awesome hills for sledding) on New Year’s Day.

The rest of January has been fairly uneventful. I did spend all day Saturday in Olathe at the Miss Kansas Dance Festival. And when I say all day, I mean all day. Thank goodness for my awesome mom who was willing to spend the day with me. We left town at 7 am and made it home right at midnight. The girls took 3 dances and took home 5 trophies!

       

So that pretty much sums up what’s been going on here.

I did get a new iPhone for Christmas. I’ve been an android user for several years and decided to crossover to the other side. Today I was so excited to find the bump app. Probably everyone already uses it, but it was new to me and will make my life so much easier!! A lot of times I take pictures on my phone, just because it’s with me and honestly, phones take pretty darn good pictures these days! The only problem is getting them to my computer to post on my blog. In the past, I would email them to myself and then download them to my PC. What a pain! Well today I found the bump app and I can share them with my computer in a matter of seconds. Here’s how:

Download the free bump app to your iPhone. Then go to the bump website using google chrome, firefox or safari browsers. Open the bump app on your phone and choose to download files. Click on the pictures you want to share (I did about 15 at once…not sure if there is a limit). Then you touch the spacebar on your PC and voila…your pictures are there and ready to download!

Hope your year has been great so far!

catching up on christmas eve

The week sure got away from me! I’ve been busy baking, entertaining, crafting, shopping, wrapping and celebrating. No computer time for this mama! So here is our week in review:

Christmas crafts:

This foam tree craft was one of our advent gifts. Delaney loved decorating her very own tree!

  

 

This Santa ornament was made from salt dough. We rolled it out and baked it and then painted it to make it look like a shiny Santa!

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Christmas get-togethers:

Our annual Christmas celebration with our dear friends. We’ve been doing this since the big kids were Delaney’s age!

We also got together with Nate’s former nurse (that’s a sad story that I don’t want to talk about right now) and her family.

 

The three kids are wild and have so much fun. Could’ve been the sugary vintage soda we gave them!

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Dexter:

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Dexter went out with a bang!!!

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Delaney is very protective of my nativity set. Especially after last year when she thought it would be a good idea to play with the pieces and broke Joseph into a million pieces. I did manage to repair him and you can only tell if you look at his back side.

So Delaney gets a little distraught when the cats are hanging around baby Jesus. The other day she reported that “Jinx is sitting on the ‘Away in a Manger’ book.”

week in review

Another week down. Wow!!

Here’s a peek at our week:

 

Day 8: This is our pickle ornament…you hide the pickle and according to German tradition, the child who finds the pickle will receive an extra gift from St. Nick. But don’t tell our kids about the extra present part. We do it just for fun!
Day 9: I love my Kindle. If you don’t have an e-reader, I highly recommend trying one out. I’m currently reading Gone Girl.
Day 10: Wrapping paper…pretty self-explanatory.
Day 11: You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
Days 12 & 13: I was uninspired and sat them out.
Day 14: Our living room tree. Please notice Delaney’s most prized possession…her red Dorothy shoes. They were an early present left by Santa because the shelf elves have reported how nice she has been.
Day 15: Jingle Bells (for the winter formal…Jingle Bell Ball).