Covid-19 Day 228 - Pictures

Ok, a few more random pictures from the last couple weeks and little snippets on what we've been up to...

Our advent calendar for this year came in on Saturday!  Couldn't have arrived on a better day!  The kids are STOKED!  They had so much fun with the Lego HP Advent Calendar last year, when I saw this one online, I just had to get it!!

Avery is doing a book report for school over the story "The Happy Hedgehog".  She also had to make a pumpkin into the main character!  She did fabulous! 

Avery made "Fuzzy Friends" with some left over pom poms and googly eyes.  She's going to LOVE all the craft supplies she's getting for Christmas!!!

We voted!!

Got enough stocking holders for the 3 fur babies, 2 skin babies, and 2 adults in our family.  😉😂😁🎄🧦

Bought bear spray for our trip to CO.  Word on the street is that they are very active right now, eating a lot before hibernating.  Better safe, than sorry.

Every Friday in October we go to Dunkin for fun, festive, Halloweeny donuts before school!

She looked so cute I had to take a picture!  This girly is ready for the holidays!

Christmas presents for the Isaac, Jackson, Connor, and Madison!

New school spirit wear!  No, she hasn't stained the shirt or hoodie yet.  Yes, I know it'll happen sooner rather than later.  🤞 Hoping bleach will help...  🤷🏼‍♀️

Probably had enough pictures that I could have made pumpkin carving it's own post, but I didn't...  Oh well!  The kids had very big ideas of what they wanted on their pumpkins.  I had to explain that Michael and I are not the world's greatest pumpkin carvers and that they needed to lower their expectations a little.  I think they turned out great!  All credit goes to Michael!!

Working on her book report pumpkin!

Taking her new hedgehog gloves to school for the first time!!

Grandma Marsha printed some pictures of Avery and Lily from Avery's birthday.  Avery wanted to frame one.  She's such a sweetie!

Alright, my phone has had enough for a bit.  I might try to throw together another post a little later, but for now, gotta get this packing done!  (I was lazier than I intended to be today and didn't finish.  *le sigh*)

Love you!  Later!  Bye!

COVID-19 Day 226 - Harry Potter Mini Marathon

I'm not going to backtrack the last month that I've failed to update the blog, but I will do some.  Once again, sorry it's been so long since I've blogged!  I'll try to do better!  But, if you've followed my blog for any time now, you know, this is kind of how it goes.  It ebbs and flows.  Sometimes there are multiple blogs in a day, other times there are crickets for months.  That's Life with The Vosses.  🤷🏼‍♀️

So we have been reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with the kids for the last several months.  Last week they finally finished the book, so we made plans to watch the movie!  But when we watch HP movies, we don't simply sit down and watch them!  We make snacks, themed foods, and dress up!  We grab out wands and our stuffed animals and we hunker down to watch every movie, with the last one being the newest one in the group.  This time, the kids were up to movie #4.  So we started watching HP around 8am and finished just before 7pm!  It was quite a day!  Here are some pictures from our fun!

This is the "trolley" from the Hogwarts Express, with all sorts of junk and snacks on it!  Every time the kids were on the train, as well as between movies, I'd say, "Anything off the trolley, Dears?"  That was everyone's cue to go grab a few more snacks off the cart if they wanted.

In the first movie Harry has to make breakfast and bring Uncle Vernon his coffee.  So Saturday morning I told the kids to make breakfast and not burn anything.  I made Connor bring me coffee too before we could start the movies.  🤣  He didn't like me taking pictures, but I eventually convinced him.  😉

Everyone is dressed in their house colors!  We snuggled into comfy spots and got the movies started!

Who'd ever be writing to you?!?

Anything from the trolley, Dears??

Connor got Rowena Ravenclaw (one of the four Hogwarts founders, and original head of Ravenclaw house) in his first chocolate frog! 

Ravenclaws stealing my Hufflepuff quilt!  💛🖤💛🦡💛🖤💛

Snuggles!  I help him hide his eyes during the scary parts.  After 4 movies, the only thing that scares him is Professor Quirrel/Voldemort at the end of Movie #1.

Fizzing Whizzbees!

 

Skele-Gro! 

Avery loves candy!  I didn't even limit her on movie marathon day!  She didn't feel super awesome by the end of the day.  Such is life on movie marathon days...  🤢

Dobby!!!

Finally ate the cool chocolate bar someone brought us back from Orlando!

Hagrid's Garden lunch!  We've learned long ago that you need some non-junk on movie marathon days to balance everything out.  These delicious salads REALLY hit the spot!  And there were no complaints from the kids either!  😊

Helga Hufflepuff!  I made the chocolate frogs, boxes, and cards!  They're a very special treat for each marathon! 

No Spoilers.  😉

Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans!

Butterbeer!

More Butterbeer!

Starting our last movie for the day!  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire!!

It was a great day!  Fun was had by all!  Now onto the next book, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix!  And, conveniently enough, we have a couple very long car rides ahead of us to dive into the audio books!  Fingers crossed we can finish the next 3 books in the next year so the kids will know the whole story before we go to Orlando!  Can't wait!

COVID-19 Day 228 - Snow Day!!! ❄❄❄

Ok, I know I'm in trouble for not blogging in a long time!  Sorry!  I got into a rhythm with the new work schedule and home schedule and haven't spent as much time just playing on my phone or computer.  I have been updating periodically on the case counts blog, it's day 40, if you want to see any of that.  But it's mostly just that, case count related.

On to the fun stuff though!  The kids had a snow day today!  We had snow and ice and school was cancelled by 5:15am!  Huzzah!  The kids got their lists done likely split this morning (after they went out and played at about 8am) and have enjoyed a day of TV and fun and video games.  😊  Michael worked from home today, and I enjoyed a relaxing day off after a fun-filled weekend!  I am currently working on packing us all up for our vacation in a couple days!  We are very much looking forward to getting to Colorado!  Don't worry, we're watching the weather and roads very closely, we'll be very careful, and we promise to pull over and find a place to stay if the roads or weather get too bad on our way up Wednesday night.  Hopefully I'll be good about posting pics during/after our time there.  Until then, here are some snow day pics!!