End of School Questions: Ford Edition

 1. What is your favorite color? Red

2. What is your favorite toy? Baby Yoda and Construction Lego Set from Gpa &Gma
3. What is your favorite fruit? Banana
4. What is your favorite TV show? Mandalorian
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Hot Dogs
6. What is your favorite outfit? Under Armour shirt, long sleeve
7. What is your favorite game?Fortnite
8. What is your favorite snack? Banana
9. What is your favorite animal?sloth
10. What is your favorite song? Fortnite song
11. What is your favorite book? I don't have one
12. Who is your best friend? Doo doo doo buddy, Lachlan, Declan, Shane
13. What is your favorite cereal? Life
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Swimming 
15. What is your favorite drink? Mt. Dew
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Baby yoda
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Pancakes
19. What's your favorite dinner? Pork
20. What would you wish for if you were granted any 3 wishes? For everyone to have a great life, to have a real baby yoda, and to have everyone be a billionaire

21. How old is dad? 42

22. How old is mom? 39

23. How old is Evan? 16

24. What was your favorite vacation so far? Florida, PCB

25. What are you looking forward to this summer? Swimming, boating, try tubing again and visiting cousins

26. What's your favorite candy? smartees

27. What's your favorite ice cream? salted caramel

28. What's your favorite season? winter

29. What's your favorite thing about your home? My room and the living room.

30. What do you like to collect? Baby Yoda stuff
Bonus Question: What do you want to be when you grow up? Astronaut so I can try to find baby yoda

End of School Questions: Isla Edition

 1. What is your favorite color? light blue

2. What is your favorite toy? LOL Dolls

3. What is your favorite fruit? Oranges
4. What is your favorite TV show? She-ra
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Ramen Noodles
6. What is your favorite outfit? I dont have one
7. What is your favorite game? Geometry Dash Meltdown on the tablet
8. What is your favorite snack? Vanilla yogurt
9. What is your favorite animal? Lemur
10. What is your favorite song? My World by Ayo & Teo
11. What is your favorite book? Princess in Black Books
12. Who is your best friend? Doo Doo Doo Doo Buddy (Ford) 
13. What is your favorite cereal? Shredded Wheat and Lucky Charms
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Swimming
15. What is your favorite drink? Apple or Orange Juice
16. What is your favorite holiday? Valentines Day
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Monkey
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Waffles
19. What's your favorite dinner? Chicken Curry
20. What would you wish for if you were granted any 3 wishes? To have a Lemur, a million cookies, and to let everyone have lots of money/no one is poor. 

21. How old is dad?41

22. How old is mom? 39

23. How old is Evan? 16

24. What was your favorite vacation so far? Yellowstone/Montana because I learned to swim in hot springs there

25. What are you looking forward to this summer? Swimming, playing with Paige, playing outside, visiting cousins.

26. What's your favorite candy?gummy worms

27. What's your favorite ice cream? mint

28. What's your favorite season? fall

29. What's your favorite thing about your home? We're close to a park and we're on the lake

30. What do you like to collect? Shells/unicorn horn shells 
Bonus Question: What do you want to be when you grow up? President

End of School Questions: Celia Edition

The kids and I were looking at the blog recently. It was so much fun to laugh at all the stories and videos. We thought that for our future selves we'd add a couple of updates!  Celia is certainly under represented here so we started with this interview!  

1. What is your favorite color? Pink
2. What is your favorite toy? Probably the Barbie House
3. What is your favorite fruit? Cherries
4. What is your favorite TV show? 
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Ramen Noodles
6. What is your favorite outfit? My really soft, grey dress with a glittery skirt
7. What is your favorite game? Roblox: Brookhaven
8. What is your favorite snack? Frozen applesauce
9. What is your favorite animal? All of them
10. What is your favorite song? There's lots of songs... dont know that one.
11. What is your favorite book? I don't have one
12. Who is your best friend? Paige
13. What is your favorite cereal? Cinnamon Toast Crunch
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Playing with friends 
15. What is your favorite drink? Sprite
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Mr. Flippers
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Cereal
19. What's your favorite dinner? 
20. What would you wish for if you were granted any 3 wishes? For everyone to have a great life, a koala as a pet, and to have another sister

21. How old is dad? 83

22. How old is mom? 51

23. How old is Evan? 12

24. What was your favorite vacation so far? Florida, the house with the waterpark

25. What are you looking forward to this summer? Swimming, playing with Paige, playing outside, go to a waterpark and visit Aunt Becky and Aunt Tracy.

26. What's your favorite candy? yellow gummy bears

27. What's your favorite ice cream? bubble gum

28. What's your favorite season? summer

29. What's your favorite thing about your home? That I have shelter and a place to sleep. My bedroom is the best. 

30. What do you like to collect? Shells
Bonus Question: What do you want to be when you grow up? Zookeeper

Christmas 2015

 Christmas Eve we painted ornaments and the kids opened their new pjs!  

We were supposed to be getting ready to go camping but the weather wasn't cooperating, 8 people jammed into a camper in 90 degree weather and 80 percent humidity is not ideal, so for the third year in a row we cancelled!  

That meant we could do Christmas on Christmas day!  

Celia's 2nd Christmas but first time actually opening presents.

She got a towel and a pillow pet. 

She has no idea what it is but she loves it! 

 Then she decided to teeth on Isla's new Christoff doll.  Silly girl.

This Frozen fan had a great Christmas!! 

 We got the kids two group gifts, a trampoline and a zipline!  Our backyard is kind of epic! 

 I wanted to get Jed a kayak for Christmas but it's sort of hard to fit one in the back of our van, especially with 6 kids!  So my plan was to buy him an inflatable one, have him open it and then take it back and get a real one with his truck.  

Then this happened. 

Our pond is thankfully gator free!! He decided he wanted to keep it to use on our pond and get a real one later. He's not allowed to take it out on any other bodies of water south of North Carolina. 

Celebrating 11 Years!

It had been a few years since we had been to Sea World so when they had a BOGO sale on their passes we jumped on it! We kept it a secret from the kids so we could surprise them!  

We got up on Evan's birthday and told the kids to get ready to go out.  We loaded everyone in the van and drove.  It worked out really well that we had moved since our last time going to Sea World because the kids didn't know the drive.  

Cece Climbs For Cookies

Kindergarten: Ford

At the beginning of the year I considered putting off Kindergarten for Ford for another year.  He wasn't showing readiness in letter recognition but his excitement for math was overwhelming so we pushed on with a focus on numbers.  As the weeks went by he made slow progress in phonics and then one day we opened his phonics book it clicked!  Yay! Since then he's blown through his first book and even went back to finish things that had been to difficult