The Hill Family: 2015

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Christmas Activities

Buddy has been very creative lately.....

Reid was in a mini play at preschool. He was the pig in the Ginger Bread Man, and yes, the kid next to him has a mustach!

We had front row seats at the Christmas Program for Hallie (2nd grade doesn't do one). After their performance they came and sat down in front of us. We tried to embarrass Hallie in front of her friends. She told us the two boys sitting next to her have crushes on her. She always comes home and says how they all say she is famous because everyone wants to sit by her. She is very innocent when she says it, but it makes me laugh.

Ms. Tope, she is so good to Hallie

I looked back and saw this......too cool for school!

The kid table at the Ward Christmas Party. Seriously this is the bulk of the kids and two great families (my bff's) are moving, blah!!

Ginger bread houses at the library are a hit with the girls!

November

So I am playing catch up as usual. We were fairly busy this month.....

The girls had a day off of school so the 3 big kids went to lunch with Nate. Apparently they went to an auditorium and gave speeches.

The girls are silly and zipped their jackets up together and decdied that also called for brushing each others teeth.

This year for Thanksgiving we ate at home (no pictures). Since there was so much time off between school and work we decided for a mini vacation. We went to Pittsburg. Can I say we all LOVED it! We didn't get to see all of Pitt, but where we were was awesome. So many clifts and hills, driving up and down and the view was great. We were there for black friday and it wasn't crowded at all! Don't get me wrong plently of people were shopping, but the traffic and crowds weren't bad! The kids loved it and cried as we were driving away. We hit up as much shopping as we could do with 4 kids. Nate and I were pooped before they were. The kids also LOVE staying in hotels. We let them jump on beds and of course swimming it always the highlight.

At the mall Nate stood at the bottom of the escalator and watched Reid go up and down them. However, I was not a fan of the idea. Our main reason to go there was to do some shopping at Ikea for our new kitchen! Ha. wait.....that deal ended. I will post more on that later.

Ready to swim!

Ryan was worn out!

It makes me laugh, but Target makes our whole family happy. My kids love Target gift cards and love strolling all of the aisles.

For the first time in 3 years Adalie didn't have a grandparent in town for grandparents day. Nate was a great sub.

I was at home and asked Nate for a play by play of the program.

Ryan got ahold of the winter clothes I had just pulled out. He is ready!

So Nate and I share a dropbox account which allows us to automatically see each others pictures. I found this gem.

Nate got tickets to a Cavs game and we invited some of our really great friends here in Orrville. Sadly we didn't get a picture of all of us. Go Lebron!

It was a really fun game!

So Ryan is a bit of a challenge, he's hard to entertain and keep happy! One day out of desperation of trying to get things done without a crying baby at my feet I wrapped him in a blanket and stuck him in a laundry basket with the TV on. Worked great for about 30 minutes!

Nate took the big kids fishing one Saturday morning, sadly they only got one bite.

Ryan and I just hung out.

Monday, November 9, 2015

NYC!!!!

We had planned to go to NYC at some point in the fall. It worked out perfectly that Dustin was racing in the NYC Marathon. Most of the Shillcox's were there, the Robinsons, and us. It was so much fun. Since we knew we would be touring the city on Halloween, we decided to all dress up. After a 3 way skype we all decided to go as Where's Waldo. We had about 2 weeks to get our costumes together. Sounds easy, but was kind of a pain. My mom found shirts for 3 of my kids. I was able to paint shirts for the rest of us. We managed to all get matching hats. My kids loved the idea and had so much fun dressing up.The next day we went back into the city and watch Dustin compete. It was a lot of fun! By the end of it, we were all EXHAUSTED! That night Nate had to fly to Phoenix for work so that left me and the kids driving 7 hours home by myself. They were so good! Only two crying kids for about 20 minutes! They have become champion travelers!