New Year's Eve 2011

We had a relatively low-key New Year's Eve Day ~ Greg went into work and the kids and I played all morning.  Cooper took his first nap of the week and Reagan "rested" in her room for about an hour.  Reagan and Cooper each got belated Christmas gifts in the mail from Mamaw & Papaw.  For our evening festivities, we had a small gathering with our core life group members.



What could it be?

 a chore chart!

 He repeated over and over, "I need one of these!"

 What did Reagan get?

 Cooper loves Pillow Pets

 but, Reagan wanted to keep it all to herself!

 We had a delicious pot luck meal of ham, green beans, mashed potatoes, corn casserole, squash casserole, and plenty of desserts

 the boys watched Star Wars

 we lit a few sparklers

 Cooper and Eden played really well together

 he was her chauffer

 Reagan played on her Leap Pad

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Christmas Camp ~ Science Center Day

This was our last week-day of "Mom's Christmas Camp" with the kids!  We had a very full day as you can tell by all of the pictures.

one last breakfast at Cafe Living Room

 playing trains and safari

 painting the art supplies we bought earlier in the week

 they're loving the new art table

 painting his rooster blue

 Reagan is painting magnets to hold her art work on the refrigerator

 Cooper and Reagan tried his new roller painters out

 they work great!

 Reagan painted a rainbow picture for me

 Here's the finished art work for the morning

 they also ate lunch at Cafe Living Room ~ I've heard the service it great!

 After lunch, we went to the science center

 Checking out the turtles

 our old friends, the sting rays

showing me the fish that look like the ones in his tank in his room

 Looking for Smiley the Sting Ray

 petting Smiley

 Smiley was very playful today and let Reagan and Cooper pet him several times

 He also did tricks for them like floating on his back

 Smiley would also jump up and splash the kids

 We moved on to the exhibit part of the center

 we had to follow the blue line to the play building

 playing with a train set

 building structures to see if they can stand up to an earthquake

 they got to make a recording on a xylophone

 they used pulleys to pull each other up

 they shot rockets at targets

and went back to the pulleys again

 then, we went to the playhouse area

 they built a huge wall of bricks so I couldn't take any more pictures of them!

 We saw an African Spurred Tortoise

 Finally, we capped off our day with dinner at Chick Fil A ~ and an ice cream for dessert!

What a fun/busy/exhausting day!!