I am pretty diligent about getting my phone pictures to our main computer. Sometimes I end up with a bunch of random pictures from our every day life. So here is a collection of some of them:)
Happy New Year! 2020!! This is when we went to the NY party at the Wests and I made everyone come home at 11:30 pm so that we could meet the New Year together at home;). Alex and Mark were less than thrilled. At least I let them stay up till after midnight! And I just wanted to watch London Eye’s Fireworks again:)
Mark surprised us all this fall and joined his school’s chorus! He diligently went to all the rehearsals and learned all the songs. He definitely needs to work on his concert face though. We laughed quite a bit because he was so funny to watch!!! Good job, Mark, for trying something new though!
Katya’s choir also presented a Christmas concert in December. It was fabulous:) These kids are so talented!
This is our favorite group of friends to go out with--the W’s. All of our last names start with a W, so we make it a thing:) We are so busy though that if we find a date when we go out once in 3-4 months, we are happy. This is the place that Melanie suggested called Fiction Kitchen in Raleigh (a vegan place). It was good (and I liked it, personally) but most were not huge fans, so they said next time Melanie is not choosing the restaurant.
Since September, when we switched our church to 9 am, we have been really good at taking walks on Sunday as a family. Most Sundays the kids whine and gripe about going and then when we are walking, everyone is having a great time;). Sometimes we bring Pepper but then things like this happen.
And sometimes things like this happen! Mark is holding onto Katya!
But most of the time it’s Pepper pulling on whoever is holding onto the leash-hahaha.
I love our Sunday walks! I have a list of different places we can go, and some are further than others. We love Harris Lake Park and Nature Park.
While I am talking about Pepper, look at her new sweater with a unicorn:) She wore it once and looked quite fancy!
Robert usually has every other Friday off. It’s exciting because he gets to do a bunch of things now that normally he cannot! One of them is visiting Mark at school at lunchtime:).
And one Friday, our high schoolers were off as well, so we got to go out to lunch at Diced with them! I love Diced salads! And surprisingly even the big kids liked their food!
Oh yeah, a picture with my British scarf! It was given to me as a parting gift by Natasha and Victoria in England. I love wearing my trench coat too:)
Oh, and this is a picture of Alex and Katya before their Valentine’s Day stake dance in Chapel Hill. Alex absolutely loves dances! He had a group of friends go with him to this dance and they had a blast! Katya said she is getting too old for stake dances 😏 so perhaps this was her last stake dance, who knows?
Alex and Katya both participated in the speech and debate tournament this February. Our high school actually hosted it so it was nice that we didn’t have to drive anywhere! They both did so well!
Alex got 3rd out of 17 in Declamation!
And Katya got 10th out 32 in a more advanced group in Dramatic Interpretation! So proud of these kids! Love that they are involved in speech and debate as it’s such a useful skill to have no matter what they choose as their profession someday.
Quick snippet of our Saturdays. Mark usually sits right there on a chair that he is vacuuming in this picture. It’s his “watching TV” chair. That rug is also very difficult to vacuum! Once something gets dropped in there...it might be forever:)
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Finally...here is a selfie of me and Robert on a late weekend night. We are those parents of teenagers now that have to stay up late because our kids are having a friends party or get together whether at our house or out somewhere. Katya has been hanging out with Cameron till 11 or so each weekend (in Feb/early March) and Alex has been getting together with friends to play games and chill. Mark still likes us while we are watching a movie or playing a game with him...for now:) We are too young to have teenage kids!!! 😛😆
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