Father - daughter dance!

 Little girls with Levi. 

 Lotte went too!

 Cecily and Bella 

 Valentine Dance 

 C took this - I was running Nephi and Coraline somewhere....these days are so crazy busy.

 

Random Catch Up

 Clairana with girlfriends at a dance they drove to in Fort Wayne. 

I took these two out to lunch after they took their ACT test. 

 Dance Photos from C

 Levi and I went out to lunch with Lotte on Valentines Day - after our stove broke and now we are on the hunt for a new one. The waiter took our photo with a Polaroid for the holiday... it was sweet. 

 Don't mind her - she was enjoying her fried ice cream. 

 Cabella doing her schoolwork on the way to the orthodontist. 

 Little Love with Levi walking the farm.

We were losing our minds waiting on wrestling. C thought she was hilarious. 

 

State House Tour

Clairana and Nephi were invited to attend the State House with a group of other homeschooled kids as well as international students. 

It was SO lovely to have them go on a field trip that I didn't host or even go to! 

They had a great time and got to experience The Garage which has tons of food options. 

 

Lotte Love

Wednesday nights Levi gets to spend just with Lotte. And Zona. The rest of the crew goes to church activities and then we wait to pick up Nephi from wrestling. Wednesdays are SUPER long right now.

They went on a ride to go visit the pond. The weather was beautiful this past week. 

 

Valentine Day Party

 We had our traditional Valentine party at co-op! 

Everyone had a great time and lots of little goodies. 

It was even better that one of our moms in co-op works for a local flower shop and brought flowers for the kids to put together bouquets! 

Busy day - Science experiments, art projects, valentine exchange, pjs, visitors....

 For Science we dissected flowers, perfect timing.

The oldest group all led games or crafts. 

 Friends at Lunchtime!

Cecily gave watercolors for her Valentine gifts - they LOVED painting.

 Mrs. Malcomb flower station. 

 Science lesson

 Art lesson - they made Viking boats

French Lick Vacation

For New Year, we had to cancel our regular tradition of going to a hotel with friends because a few of us were really sick. 

SO when we felt better we headed to French Lick for a quick trip to spend some of the Christmas money we got from the family. 

We had never been to French Lick so we decided it was time to go check it out. 

It was an easy getaway and the kids had a great time - it seems to be getting easier to travel now that most of our big kids understand the routine and have more freedom. 

 Walked around town and found fancy woodworking place. 

 Christmas Lights!

 Included in our hotel stay was miniature golf and laser tag. 

 Coraline insisted she have my phone to run to the bathroom and take a picture of this.

 We drove to the zoo and saw the local Christmas lights. It was a fun short getaway. 

 Water Park Fun!

 French Lick Resort- we drove around and checked it out - the Christmas trees and casino looked so beautiful! It would be fun to go back and stay there - we didn't because we thought the kids would enjoy the waterpark more

 

 We walked around town and found this German Restaurant! It was super fun and different. 

 Pretzel!

 All the things... It was yummy and tangy

 C took this from the top bunk - if you ever want to see what a hotel room looks like with six kids before bedtime. 

 Lotte could not hang at the water park the whole time, but our room was super close to the waterpark so we got to sneak back and relax. 

 Morning breakfast time! Or maybe this was late night snack time. Poor Lotte. Either way it was nice not to have to leave to find food.