DeAnne, Craig, and their two dogs, Lady Bones and Flossie Mae, stopped in Hiawassee on their way to Florida! We had a fun weekend catching up and playing with four white doggies.
Belated Christmas celebration with the Winiarski's and Krueger's! (Delayed due to COVID - whomp!)
Built a cool Star Wars Lego set!
Another belated Christmas celebration (COVID delay!), this time with the Hedges except Valerie who is now in Norway for grad school!
Funny story: Max participated in the Boulder Dash 5K race last fall. In early January, Ben received an email from the race organizer saying that they didn't have the winner medals at the race and would be sending them by mail. Lo and behold, Max won first place in his age group! The medal happened to arrive the day before our belated Christmas celebration with the Hedges, so we wrapped it up for him to open. A fun surprise!
Max had his first sleepover spending the night at his friend Connor's house! (A video game is on the TV which is what the boys are looking at in this photo -- also exhausted after staying up until after 10:00 and waking up at 5:00 to play - haha!)
We all had COVID at the first of the year, so Max spent the first couple weeks doing virtual school.
My friend Renee (the mom of one of Max's friends) had a health emergency one Friday, so she dropped her middle schooler, Audrey, off at our house while she went to the hospital (Audrey is doing virtual school right now). Renee and her husband were still at the hospital when the afternoon rolled around, so I picked up her three other kids at school and took care of them through dinner then drove them home to put them all to bed!
One of the older kids got picked up by his friend's mom just before dinnertime, so I/we had anywhere from 4-5 kids in our charge at any given time that afternoon/evening. Given that we're accustomed to our single calm child it was a wild time to say the least. Very glad to have had the opportunity to help out a friend in a time of need, but also happy to return to our simple little life! ;-)
Teaching Micky and his little sister Charlotte how to use the bow and arrow!
