Sand dune fun!

In November, we had another mini-quarantine.  The governor called for a 2-week shutdown of all extracurricular activities.  The day after Katelyn's show ended!! Blessing!!

So suddenly our schedule was wiped clean again.

Eric surprised us one Friday night by suggesting we go to the sand dunes the next day.  Fun idea!  We were going to make tin foil dinners and have a fire....but at the last minute scrapped that and just got pizza on the way home haha.

Anyway it was a fun last hurrah of warm-ish weather before the cold really set in!

Katelyn and Emma enjoying the sand:

Maris did a hilarious slow motion face slide, and got SUPER dirty haha.

Eric had fun taking slow-mo jumping videos of the kids, and I got a picture of me and Kate's twin-ness!

Cute kids jumping off the hill:

Also we had fun with panoramic trick pictures!

Here's Eric leading the kids down a path strewn with poky weeds- they were trying to follow exactly in his footsteps so they could be safe. Lots of possible metaphors here!

cute portrait of Emma.

We also enjoyed a bunch of catch and volleyball before heading home.

And lastly, a little add-on to this post.  In November Emma got on a note-writing kick (to mimic Maris' last year or so of intense note-writing!)

She got this little notepad with attached pen from the dollar store, and wrote literally hundreds of these cute little notes!  They usually included a little picture of her and the person the note was for, maybe some clouds and the sun, maybe other details.  Then on the outside, her name and theirs on one side, and a drawn-on envelope back!  So cute!!

They were lying around everywhere in the house, so I saved a couple and took a picture of these before I threw them away.

Once she used up that notepad, her note-writing has decreased significantly, so I'm glad we have this picture to remind us of a fun month in Emma's life. :)