Giant Bears

We were driving by Walmart on Thanksgiving evening and it wasn't crowded. We decided to go see if there were any deals. That's when we saw the cheap giant bears.

Did I mention they are giant?

Cuddling with a bear doesn't usually look like this!

Wordless Wednesday

Christmas Decorations

Santa Picture!

Every year we take the kids to Bass Pro for the free picture with Santa.

Digging with the backhoes

They are getting so big!

Bass Pro Randomness

You never know what you are going to find when visiting Bass Pro Shop.

Laser Guns

Stuffed Armadillos

More Basketball!

Sweet Daughter loved basketball and wanted to do another season, so be prepared for more pictures. New team (this time they are all much closer to her height, she wasn't even the smallest!), new head coach, same Daddy as the assistant coach. :)

First team meeting

Local one day basketball skills camp

Community Parade - part 3

Businesses and popular local figures add variation to the huge parade.

Trampoline store, yes she jumped the entire parade

Santa in a one horse open sleigh

Rock band from a local music school

Wordless Wednesday

They love playing with Bella

Community Parade - part 2

The parade includes each of the schools in the district - all 68 of them! Here are some of the best small floats.

Elementary School float

Cub Scout float

Elementary School float

Community Parade - part 1

Our city has a community parade every year. We have yet to make it to the end since it lasts for hours. Here are some of the highlights.

Multi-cultural focus

Firefighting clowns

More cultures in our community

Martial Arts demonstrations during a parade

Football

I love going to college football games and it's even better when the kids go with me.

Watching the game from the end zone

Peruna!

Pony Up

Sewing

The school I teach at and the kids attend part time went through accreditation. This meant stress for Mommy and needing the kids to have perfect behavior. I bribed them. After they did it, I asked what they wanted for their reward. They both asked to learn how to sew. Not what I was expecting, but we jumped right in.

Concentrating

Hard work

Finished products

Sweet Son made a doggy and Sweet Daughter made a kitty

Wordless Wednesday

We escaped from our first escape room together!

Swimming

Sweet Son is loving his swim lessons. The swim school maintains a ratio of 1 teacher for every 2 students, so when one kid is out, the other ends up with a private lesson! This makes for a very tired child and a very happy Mommy.

Practicing the proper form for side breaths

After lesson "smile"

Basketball - End of Season

The final game of an 8 game basketball season was a reason to celebrate. These girls learned so much and had fun in the process. They didn't win any games, but that's not what is important.

Exciting game! (Sweet Daughter is the one who waves at the end)

Final game team picture

(The team got noticeably smaller the longer the season went on)

End of the season so the girls got to silly string the coaches!

Silly string video

Inflatable Run - part 4

Almost to the end

Still bouncing and happy

Ends with a big slide and now we are feeling warm

Inflatable Run - part 3

Jump and slide down, trying to avoid obstacles

Climbing up is difficult with short legs

It's great when you have no idea what is coming ahead

Family photo at the top

Wordless Wednesday

Dinner with friends

Inflatable Run - part 2

Climbing over and under and around

Big slide

Climbing

Inflatable Run, part 1

Sweet Daughter requested a 5K for her 7th birthday. We signed up for an inflatable race because who doesn't love inflatables?

 BRRR - It's cold at the start.

 

Running through the giant balls - they had volunteers throwing the balls up and moving them around as everyone went through.

Climbing up a giant slide!

Come back tomorrow for more pictures of our fun.

Birthday Party

This post is continued from yesterday - the kids were invited to a birthday party for a friend. This trampoline location had many cool things other than just trampolines.

Multi-level play structure

Oh and somewhere they did have trampolines!

Obstacle Course

The kids were invited to a birthday party at a trampoline place. Of course, they immediately decided to complete the obstacle course which had nothing to do with trampolines!

Sweet Son swinging across

Sweet Daughter climbing across

Come back tomorrow and you might see them actually on a trampoline! (maybe)