First week of January 2017

Happy New Year!  We enjoyed the little bit of time we still had with Kimberly and her kids.

Uno!

Making slime

Playing with bubbles outside

Hanging out at the park - getting more time outside (You've got to get out after being cooped up playing with all that Christmas stuff!)

Kids are enjoying this marble run toy they got

Fun with slime - Kaitlyn

Fun with slime - Tyler

Late night games together

Maxwell has been sleeping on some blankets in our room while Kimberly was here.  He has loved it.

She loves looking at our Christmas cards

Saying goodbye :(

Maxwell asks to do more science experiments everyday.  I love that he's into it.

We started up swim lessons (sort of).  The kids have a bunch of make up lessons so we are using those up and then we will sign up again at least for Emmalyn.  We will see how it goes for Maxwell.  Since his favorite teachers aren't here any more I'm not sure how into it he will be.  It was fun because they were swimming right next to each other.

Emmalyn moved up to the next level!  I no longer have to get in the pool with her.  She's now a level 3.

Katherine and I are still getting out and walking multiple times a week.  We just have to really bundle up right now.  This time it was 26 degrees ("feels like 14") and we still did it!  Committed to keeping up the exercise and weight loss in the new year!

We got a tiny bit of snow.   The kids were so excited.

Trying to get enough snow together to make a snow ball but it just wasn't the right type of snow.

We took the kids to another movie (again, have no idea what we saw).

Emmalyn is so loving.

After the movie we went out to dinner.  Was a fun evening together!

Dallas Zoo - New Years Eve 2016

As another activity, Kimberly Brittany and our families went to the Dallas Zoo.  We've never been there so it was fun to explore a new zoo.  It was much smaller than the Fort Worth Zoo, which was fine by me.  We were able to still see plenty.

Watching some birds

Look, it's a giraffe!

Giraffes and zebras

Watching the gorilla

He came right over to the glass

We ended up splitting off from the rest of them and went around with Tyler.  

Tram ride to see more animals

Love those silly faces :)  Tyler was really good with the kids and a good sport even though you could tell being at the zoo was not his favorite thing.

Wiped out!

Another tired kiddo (not Tyler though)

That night we had a spread of snacks to enjoy for New Years Eve and threw a little party.

We played a video of a countdown at about 9 pm so the kids could do it.  They had noise makers and then went outside to make more noise.

After the young kids were in bed, the adults and older kids played apples to apples.  (Not everyone was in a good mood so it wasn't the funnest New Years Eve we've ever had.  I ended up just going to bed earlier than the rest.)