Today At Roller Kingdom

School vacation week + a dear friend with her first pair of roller skates = a trip to the roller rink, of course! xo

This Weekend

Grace and the dance team girls at Adrianna's party yesterday. xo

(This Moment) Now And Then

{This Moment} An end of the week ritual. A single photo -no words- capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you are inspired to do the same leave a link to your moment in the comments section below. We wish you a lovely last weekend of January! xo

Then: January 2014

Now:January 2017

Yesterday

Yesterday Dave's parents and sister and her husband came up for our Christmas visit. From the moment these unique gifts came in the house the girls were super curious about what could be inside. 

Thanks to a little help from Papa they were finally able to discover what the boxes contained.

Gorgeous new toboggans! We love that these are the kind of things that can be passed down for generations to come. We had (have) the lovely LL Bean baby sled when the girls were little, and are thrilled to now add these beautiful toboggans to the "family heirloom sled collection" we seem to have going on. Someday we'll have to add some Flexible Flyer type sleds to our collection too, as well as a family toboggan. Might as well cover all our bases, right?!

New cloaks and robes and books were given as well. 

And a long wished for wish came true! Thanks Susan and Barbara for these dolls! 

Then it was outside to try out the toboggans.

Unfortunately they kept sledding into the shadows so sledding pictures will have to wait for another time. 

The topic of rollerskating came up and everyone agreed that a trip to the rink was in order. 

Dave's parents gave us this retro Christmas decoration and the girls wasted no time decorating it. I have always wanted one of these trees and am thrilled to now have one to call our own!  Thank you family for coming up to spend the weekend with us! All the gifts were lovely (and the toboggans really are gorgeous!) but what we enjoyed most was spending time with all of you! xoxo

{This Moment} At The Roller Rink

{This Moment} - A Soule Mama Friday ritual. A single photo- no words- capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you are inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments section for all to find and see. We hope your 2014 is off to a fabulous start!

The Day After Christmas

In my effort to get all caught up before 2013 comes to a close I present to you The Day After Christmas! 

There was lots of Lego building!

My little women and I snuggled on the couch to watch Little Women.

This became an instant favorite when they saw it a couple of weeks ago. I see a lot of myself in Marmee (especially the way she is with her girls). Grace is our Beth and Emma is our Amy. I've always loved this story but even more so now that I am a mama to my own little women. 

Later on we turned the dining room into a roller rink. 

'Cause really, why not?!

The day after Christmas (and the weekend that we're just finishing) have been delightfully low key. We've done things, sure, but we've been taking our time and leaving plenty of room for kicking back and reconnecting after the busy holiday season. We're so grateful that Dave's holiday schedule is over and as such we've been reveling in having him all to ourselves!