Monday, February 26, 2018

School's Out Fun Day - Wausau Edition 

Lucy did not have school on Friday so we headed to Wausau for a fun day. First stop - the Colossal Fossils exhibit. These two love a good fossil.

We learned about how Wisconsin was once covered with a warm sea. 

There was a man at the exhibit that was providing demos of cave painting.

He showed the children how people once made paint from walnuts, blueberries, and sumac.

They were excited to give the painting a try!

Roman quickly chose a brown shade...

And made a short faced bear. 

This kid has retained so much information from our summer trip to the Mammoth site in Hot Springs! We are still obsessed with sink holes, mammoths, and short faced bears around our house! ;)

Lucy created a mammoth.

Next stop - lunch! The kids took about 100 pictures of each other while I got napkins and drinks.

We also stopped at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum on this day.

They had a quilting exhibit at the museum so there were lots of cool felt board activities for the kids.

Romy loves the puzzles and tools at Art Park.

Lucy got started on creating a quilt square right away.

Here she is finding the perfect display spot for her square.

Roman worked on a quilt square as well!

Proud little guy with his masterpiece!

We headed out of town with coffee and cake pops in hand!

A perfect way to end a fun afternoon.

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Winter Trip to Green Bay

We took a quick winter trip to Green Bay over the President's Day Weekend! Unfortunately Daniel was sick so it was just me and these two cuties for the short getaway. 

It snowed and sleeted the entire way to Green Bay so we arrived downtown to a fresh blanket of snow. First stop after stretching our legs -- posing in front of football statues. 

We spent the afternoon at the Children's Museum. The kids absolutely loved running through the digestive tract exhibit!

Nothing better than zipping down a slide from the intestines into the toilet! ;)

Roman literally spent hours running through this circuit. 

Blast from the past -- we visited the Green Bay Children's Museum back in 2015 and the kids enjoyed some of the same activities this time around! 

Here is my sweet 6 year old in the sandpit.

And here is 3 year old Lucy Bear in the same Sandbox. 

My 4 year old Roman loved the water table!

And Baby Roman adored the same water table at 18 months! Awwwwww!!!!! 

Lucy did some fishing at the water table.

The kids loved doing the Lambeau leap!

Roman tried and tried to do the leap on his own. He just needs to be a couple of inches taller! Roman worked so hard that he ripped a hole in his pants. He was very proud of said rip and asked mom to take a picture!

After the museum we went out for pizza at Glass Nickel. Man we miss this place! Can someone please open a Glass Nickel in Rhinelander? 

As always, there is a fine line between hugging and strangling with the Storm siblings.

We checked into our hotel and changed into our costumes for Disney on Ice! Here is Sleeping Beauty and Woody ready to go. Roman was so excited to show off his costume. He said, "Mom, I look so handsome! All of the boys are going to want to give me high fives!" Hahaha! I love it! 

Of course we got snow cones and commemorative cups at the performance! 

The kids loved the show! Roman got all kinds of compliments on his costume and he was soaking it up! He was still in full Woody character when we got back to the hotel and he realized that we forgot his toothbrush! We went to the front desk to see if they had any toothbrushes available. They did not and Roman's response was literally, "Oh shucks! Now I am going to get a cavity!" Hah! Where does he come up with this stuff? I assured him that he would not get a cavity from one missed night of brushing and we headed to bed.

The kids watched Lego Batman on television and left me a spot to squeeze into the middle of the bed with them. :) I am so lucky!!! 

We kicked off Sunday with some hotel breakfast. 

The kids were up and ready to swim at 615 ... unfortunately the hotel pool didn't open until 900 so there was a lot of waiting that morning. Sigh! We all survived the wait and had fun swimming! 

And... we can't go all the way to Green Bay without a stop at Target. ;) The kids were troopers! We had an uneventful drive home and were so excited to see Dad (who was feeling much better after a very quiet day of rest).

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Lunch with Lucy and Supper with Roman

You guys!!! Here we are during Valentine's week and I am realizing that I have been a total mom fail at taking pictures! Ugh! We had a very sweet family Valentines dinner last night and exchanged gifts and I have zero photos! Oh well! 

I had Monday off of work because I am traveling to Milwaukee for a work trip later in the week. I got to have some one on one time with the kiddos and spent the rest of the day cleaning up the house!! Just living the glam life! ;)

Roman was so excited to go to the CLC on Monday because the kids were having their Valentines exchange. Here he is sporting his Dino Valentines shirt. :) I just love my little Romeo so much!

The Kindergarten kids at Pelican celebrated with a grandparents day on Monday. All of the Grandmas and grandpas were invited to lunch and craft time. Too bad our grandparents live so far away!! I ate lunch with Lucy on this day so that she could have someone special at school too. 

Lunch with my girl! She was so pumped to eat with her mama. 

We sat next to her friend Maggie and her grandparents. Love those rosy cheeks! These girls were out for recess right before lunch. 

After lunch we worked on a craft - making quilt squares featuring a tradition or something that we like to do together. 


Lucy drew a picture of us potting our flowers together in the spring. What a fun afternoon with my sweet girl.

Roman knew that mom was eating lunch with Lucy so I told him that we could have dinner together that evening. After I dropped Lucy off at ballet -- I picked up Roman and we visited the library. Romy always says hello to all of the library pets!

Roman loves the library! 

We ate dinner at Golden Harvest on this night -- Roman's choice. I just love spending one on one time with my boy! 

Hope everyone is having a special Valentine's week! Xoxo