The kids got some cooking badges from Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas. They made some crepes and cakes to earn some new ones for their aprons!
Tuesday nights have turned into a fun girls night out - The Kohnhorst and Ory ladies have tap class, and have a little fun at the bowling alley before and after.
Eric learned to make croissants for our France unit.
Our family was responsible for the January 4H meeting. We taught kids how to make bird feeders - Olivia led the demonstration.
Pop Art Mona Lisas for our Mona Lisa Vanishes book!
We did this awesome Harry Potter color by number as a family!
As part of our unit on France, we did an amazing multi course French dinner. Eric did the majority of the cooking and did such a great job. It also happened to be Gabrielle's birthday, so it was a special occassion of celebrating one of my favorite people! We had crudite (fresh vegetables and dip), vichyssoise (leek and potato soup), quiche lorraine, chicken fricasse and pommes aligot (cheesy mashed potatoes), homemade baguette, goat cheese, croissants, nutella, and eclair torte for dessert. It was so much fun and all so delicious!
We've been occassionally hitting TJ Maxx after our Tuesday tap class and listening to these girls giggle is so fun.
Nolan's impressionist style painting
Our church kids group is collecting hygiene items to make personal care kits for hurricane victims in North Carolina. We are hoping to make 100 kits to be delivered by our high school youth this summer on their mission trip. We also made valentine suncatchers to put in care packages for our church's college age kids.
The kids were divided into teams and made catapults in the style of Leonard DaVinci. They did surprisingly well considering how difficult some of the steps were and all of the catapults were successfully able to launch!
We had a family dinner out at Holiday Acres to celebrate the closing on Steve and Patti's house, as they prepare to move into their new build on Boom Lake. It will definitely be a transition, but we look forward to making lots of great memories in their new house. On to the next chapter!
