A Much Needed Update

My mother-in-law told David that she missed my blog, a great motivating statement to get me back on track. I've kinda fallen away from the blogging world because the months of January and February have been rather uneventful. And yet, as I've thought about what to update, there have been some fun things we've been doing to keep ourselves busy. Let's start with Savannah...

• The winter months always bring indoor soccer. Although Savannah's team has not been doing that great, Savannah has been playing really well. Savannah's coach has her playing defense, a great position for one so competitive and tough as she is.
  

• The kids have enjoyed the few snow days we've had. Here is Savannah with our tree that got blown over in the vicious wind we had a few weeks ago.
  

• We've had two Keepers meetings this year - the first was in January, the topic: Cleaning and Organization. I got to tackle that very boring subject and it was definitely not as successful as our February activity, machine sewing. The girls learned how to use a sewing machine and even made their own pillowcases!
  

Look at that concentration!
Preparing the fabric...
What a great new pillowcase! Savannah did such a great job.

• Savannah has been steadily reading the Harry Potter series and has almost finished #4, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
• Twice a month she attends Activity Days at the church.
• She has been extremely busy with her schoolwork, learning her multiplication facts as well as tackling division. She has done a lot of reading as well as various writing assignments.
• One of her favorite things in the whole world right now is Monster High, a bunch of dolls such as Frankie Stein, Cleo de Nile, and Draculaura. She received most of them for Christmas and I can often find her up in her room playing with them. She has also created several of her own Monster High dolls including Carla La Rouge (a devil), Zeeba Zombie, and Becca Bones (a skeleton).
  

• A friend of mine gave me an aquarium with all the trimmings which I handed over to Savannah to work on for a Keepers award. We picked out several colorful fish from the pet store and have had such fun watching their antics these past months. The highlight was Xander's fish had babies so we ended up with 8 free fish!