Farewell to Friends Part 1

The end of February brought the time we had to say goodbye to our dear friends who were also Harper's nanny/caregiver since September. The neighborhood had a nice farewell party for them. Thank you to Sheri and Ray for hosting. It was pretty cold but some brave souls sledded for about an hour before the party and then played on Sheri and Ray's ice rink in their backyard. Linnea was one of these brave souls...until a puck went into her foot and then into her leg as she was trying to stand up. We were done at that point and headed in to play, eat and visit :) Sheri provided a taco bar and in true MN fashion, everyone brought an appetizer, side dish or dessert to share. We were so blessed and lucky to meet and have Susana, Elias and Andres in our life. Her love for Harper and the care she gave her was wonderful. It was so nice to have someone come to our house everyday. Susana made it so easy to go to work knowing Harper was in good hands and in her own home (or sometimes in Susana's house). 

 The ice rink!

right before getting hit with the puck. twice.

Susana and Gail (next door neighbors. Susana watched her girls a lot too)

We made Susana and family a salt dough ornament or wall hanging with the girls' handprint on them. Linnea did the honors of painting both during the sleepover at grandma and papa's.

Susana and three of her lil princesses :)

Playing games!

playing with Andres.

More Feb Fun

Still trying to finish up February fun :) The girls and I went to another friends 6th bday...this time it was a Frozen pool party at a nice rec center about a mile from our house. It was lots of fun!

Right from the party I brought the girls out to my parents house for their first double sleepover and Chris and I got to go on our second date of the year :)

I sadly did not take a picture of us on our date but we had a great time...we started at Pazzaluna with a group of Chris's friends from college and then when they went onto a bar we went off on our own to a comedy show. I had bought a groupon for The Joke Joint and we had a great time :)

The girls slept great at their sleepover. Harper even slept all night in their small crib they have! SO the girl can do it...just not for us in her own crib yet. Sheesh.

My parents returned the girls to us in the afternoon for a bit of sledding before our friends/Harper's nanny's farewell party. Harper actually wasnt able to come since she had a fever and was super tired :( More about that in the next blog :)

deep deep deep deep snow

so much snow this winter. here is some feb snowy fun we had:

a snowman I saw on a run.

 We miss the park so we played at it in the snow anyways.

Pretty.

Night snow pictures before a snow day off school...it happened to be on a Friday so I had it off anyways but I was so happy for my co-workers to not have to go in. 

The roads were so terrible.

finger painting!!

We did a new craft and it was a hit:

Homemade fingerpaint! I think we used the following recipe: 

3 tbs sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup corn starch and 2 cups of water and food coloring so it wasn't a big deal if Harper ate it which of course she did do a little sampling.

Sochi Olympics 2014

We enjoyed watching the Sochi Winter Olympics...I was ecstatic about how much more coverage of nordic skiing there...and I also thought it was very cute that Linnea wondered where I was...if only I could be fast enough to go to the Olympics. Some day I will go and watch but for now we enjoyed them whenever we could and we even had a few events here at the Meyers house:

up late waiting for figure skating!

still waiting...it was too late so we ended up watching it on youtube the next day :)

ski jumping!

the ski race begins...

shes finishing strong...

she's done!!!

 Linnea April Meyers won one of each...a bronze, silver and GOLD!

 Linnea painting some figure skates but by the time they dried we forgot to have that event...oops.

Harper may as well invent some dishwasher climbing event. She is always in here "helping."

I did not get a picture of the the girls watching figure skating together but every now and then we would catch them trying to do some of the skating moves...Linnea spinning and Harper leaning on the couch and lifting up one leg or holding her hands in the air. Such fun sisters :)

Family Ski Day!

Well I have managed to get about a month behind on my blog! eeek!!! I will try to do better starting this March :) As for the end of February on of the highlights was a family ski day at Willow River...the crew minus Brian's family was able to come and we all skied! All except Harper and daddy/Chris that is. She hung out in the Burley while Daddy pushed it around. 

Once we were tired of skiing (some lasted longer than others) we did a little sledding and then headed over to Erik and Lisa's for some delicious homemade lasagna, playing, Valentines day goodie exchanges and bedtime stories.

Mom was a trooper and pulled Harper along to the car when we were done. I had fun pulling Linnea and Jake in their sleds on my skis :)

thank you grandma and papa! I love sweethearts :)

Splat the Cat is such a fun book series :)