a low key week - make a wish meet

 This was your typical routine week.  School, work, sports, homework, repeat!  It makes the week go by fast and slow all at the same time.  It also leaves little to be photographed.  We did go to Fredericksburg for a gymnastics meet on Saturday. 

This particular meet is a charity meet that our gym participates in each year.  All the athletes get the same leo.  It makes finding your gymnast a little difficult at times. 

Emmy had a great meet.  She medaled in every event and came out 4th all around.  She was really hoping to place in the top three because those athletes receive a sweatshirt.  She got second place at this meet the first time she competed in it years ago and was hoping for another sweatshirt!  If her floor score had been as high as it usually is, she would have made it.  She was only .125 behind the third place finisher.  We're proud of her hard work. 

a snowy week

We got some snow this week and the kids were happy campers.  They were out of school on Monday for the holiday, so they were excited to be home to play in the snow, even though it was just a little.  

There was enough for a cute little snowman.  It's still standing today because it's been SO cold this week. 

They enjoyed their hot chocolate outside because they didn't want to come in and miss the snow. 

Bryce already had the day off of school Tuesday for a teacher workday so Jason took him and a buddy up to Wintergreen to snowboard on the fresh powder.  Emmy ended up getting a snow day and we enjoyed a day at home.  

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday flew by in a flash as they had more delayed openings.  We were back to regularly scheduled programming this weekend.  Emmy went to the gym, got her nails done and went to a friend's house.  Bryce went to Wintergreen with his buddy's family for another day of snowboarding. 

Bryce got a 4 pack of lift tickets for Christmas so he's excited to go back two more times this season. 

meet day

Winter break is over and we're back into the swing of things!  The kids were back to school this week with their normal activities, and nothing was documented by pictures!  Emmy did have a meet today so that gave me a reason to snap some pictures. 

Emmy continues to improve in her sport.  She got season high scores on the floor and bars today and placed third on both!  

She placed 4th all around in this meet. 

This meet was different because the competition was only against her gym.  It kind of made it fun to see where she stands with the girls she spends all of her time with!

happy new year

With the majority of our winter break falling after Christmas, we had time to hop on a plane and head south!

We went to Fort Myers, Florida on Tuesday and enjoyed a few days of sun and sand!

Shell hunting on Sanibel Island was on Emmy's wish list.  We did this on Wednesday.  It was a cool day on the beach, but the sun felt nice.

Best buds!

We enjoyed lunch out before heading back to the house to warm up in the hot tub.

Being on the gulf side allowed for evening sunset viewings!

Stunning!

Love these two!

Unintentional twinning!

We went to manatee park on Thursday.  The park is built near a power plant, so the manatees are attracted to the warm water.  We saw a few!

Here, lizard, lizard, lizard!

Putt-Putt is a must at the beach.  Emmy won, even though it was questioned the rest of the week!

After a day of adventure, we headed out to the beach for a little sun, another sunset and of course gymnastics. 

Friday was forecasted to be the best day of the week, so we planned to park it on the beach ALL day!

After the beach, we headed out for our last dinner.  We ended up going to the same place two nights in a row, ha!

Silly

Silly

Hopefully this fun trip will last us until summer!  It doesn't look like we'll be doing a spring break trip this year, so we've got a long stretch before another vacation!