The Abla Family Updates: May 2013

Rock Climbing!

I suggested awhile back to my MOMS club that we should go to the rock climbing gym for a mom's night out. Well it got put off for one reason or another (too cold, too close to Christmas, etc). But finally we planned it out! We didn't have enough interested in our group to do the discounted group rate, but my friend Allyson got some other people together and we made a group!

We had a really fun time... I'd really missed climbing without even really realizing it!

Me, working my way up.

Me at the top.

Rebecca

Allyson

Me, on belay.

Playing Catch Up!

I am terrible about updating my blog within a reasonable amount up time... but I still have hope to one day be able to blog more recent events!

Until then... this might actually help me get to that point!

Kids table at a dinner w/ my family (Taelyn & Caitlin are in the back).

Our wine & palette class I took with my mom & sisters.

Homeschooling is still going along well here (most days, anyway!). Here is the project we did together as we studied Ancient Egypt. It was a lot of fun to paint ant put together. There is actually a wrapped mummy (well wrapped paper mummy) in the sarcophagus and organs we made w/ clay in the jars!

The kids valentine's lunch. We exchanged valentine's at our co-op but I had to do something on the actual day!

The kids got chicken pox somewhere in this timeline of events... here is Bella with some of her bumps still on her face. I think they took this picture because she made Jackson the decorated t-shirt and the necklace.

And happy Easter! I thought I had some pics of us decorating eggs but maybe those are on my cell phone that I can't get to upload!

Hunting eggs!

Happy New Year! 2013

With kids we usually don't have really big plans for New Year's Eve so when my parents invited us over for the evening, we decided to go! (One reason I was eager was so that Mike would actually be awake at midnight!)

We had a fun night of snacky foods and playing Trivial Pursuit. The kids had fun playing together and staying up super late! Oh and popping the noise makers!

Christmas!

So we get back from our cruise and we didn't have much time before Christmas was upon us! It felt a bit more hectic than usual but I am thankful that we still managed to get in all our Christmas traditions (the horse carriage ride to see the lights, unwrapping Christmas books each night to read together, visiting Santa, making Christmas cookies, etc).

Here are some pictures we took during that time!