Veteran's Day Program

The second grade at Abby's school puts on a Veteran's Day program every year, so this year Abby got to participate.  Lily and I attended and it was an excellent program.

It started with floats that the second graders designed.  You could definitely tell which floats the boys created and which floats the girls did.  Here is Abby's team's.  They used American Girl dolls for theirs.  Abby brought in Kit to be the Statue of Liberty.  Doesn't she look great?  :)  You can see (kind of) behind theirs, one of the other floats with Army guys.  

Here is Abby getting lined up after her class came in.  She had a speaking part, so she got to be in the front row.  She was one of the first groups in, so that is why she looks like she's all by herself.  It filled in a lot.

Abby and Lily afterward.  We all wore red, white, and blue to honor the veterans.  We are so thankful for them.

Seeing the world through new eyes, including an awesome gymnastics show

So.  I have new eyes!  

Today marks one week post op since my LASIK surgery.  Woohoo!  No more glasses or contacts for me.  I do however, live with constant eyedrops now.

For those of you who are curious, the surgery was good.  I wasn't nervous at all.  I was more nervous about finding out if I qualified, and the post op.  You know, not messing it up afterwards since you have to be so careful (you do, for those of you who don't know).  The whole thing took less than 15 minutes.  That's actually how long Matt waited, so for me if was less than 10.  Most of the time at the office/surgery center we spent waiting.  It was a little uncomfortable, but it was so fast that you can't really complain too much.

The post op was a little worse than I thought it would be, if I'm being honest.  I was really sore the day of.  My doctor things it might be because my prescription was pretty bad and so that means they remove more tissue.  After the first day, I just felt really dry and like I had stuff in my eyes.  The thing is, you can't touch eyes, or run water over them.  Showers are tricky.  I finally washed my face in the shower (instead of at the sink) on Friday.  It was glorious.  Everyday gets better.  Now, I'm just really dry, which is a uncomfortable, but doable.  I've had two post op appointments and everything looks great.

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On Friday night, we took the girls to see the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions.  It had all the big names from the Olympic Gymnastics teams (unless they are currently injured).  

It was awesome.  

My pictures kind of stink, but we had a great time.  It wasn't like a competition.  It truly was a show, with music and dancing.  The girls got to see their favorites:  Gabby Douglas and Jordan Wieber;  and I got to see one of my favorites:  Aly Raisman.  Matt even got to see his fave:  the trampoline gymnasts.

Back to the 1800's

As part of our "Stay-cation," we visited a local "Interactive History Park."  Everything is set in the 1800's.  Specifically, there is a Prairietown from 1836, a Balloon Voyage from 1859, and an Indian Camp.  We had lots of fun, as you can tell....

Family Pizza Night

We had a family make-your-own- pizza night this week.  I've started buying the packs of little Boboli pizza crusts and then everyone can create their own pie.  It makes it extra fun.

This time, we got extra creative (it was also a bit of a kitchen clean out).  

Abby decided to make a "taco" pizza.  She used leftover taco meet on hers instead of traditional toppings.  She loved it.

Lily went with the standard (as did I), but Lily has the practice of topping her with "one for me, one for the pizza," when it comes to the pepperoni and handfuls of cheese.

Matt also got creative and made a barbecue pizza.  He used some leftover barbecue sauce from one of our favorite restaurants as the sauce, and then used taco meat.  He said it was good and pretty spicy.

What do you like on your pizza?

Making our own Farmer's Market

Our most recent Kiwi Crate was one of my favorite to date, so I thought I'd share...

The theme was Farmer's Market, and the first activity was to create aprons.  They included fabric crayons, aprons, and a couple stencils.  I  have never used fabric crayons, but I really liked how easy they were for the girls to use.  All I had to do when they were finished was iron over them (according to the enclosed directions) and now they are permanent.    Love 'em.  As you can tell, even Lily had no problem writing on the fabric.

The second part of the project was to lace together fruits and vegetables and stuff them with cotton balls.  Then, they had money to punch out and they could set up their own Farmer's Market to play.

They had a terrible time, can't you tell!?  :)

(I love that they made price tags- that is soooo Abby)