Halloween

 Parties, ice skating, carving pumpkins and trick-or-treating are just a few of the fun activities we did this halloween.  

Shark, Cat, Elsa, Vampire

Ice Skating

All 4 kids are taking ice skating lessons. Marcus & Erik are in the same class and are doing really well. Erik continues to purposely fall so his teacher will pick him up and Marcus is getting really fast. Natalya continues to improve and will advance up to the next class next session.  Raquel truly loves to ice skate and enjoys her lessons and teacher.

Kindergarten Fun & Dance

Marcus' kindergarten class learned about community helpers this week.  A couple of doctors, a baker and a mom came to their class to talk about their work. At the end of the week the kids were visited by the York County Fire and Rescue squad.  They were able to learn all about what fire fighters do and explore the fire trucks.

Natalya loves to dance and was able to take a class at the YMCA. On the last day parents were able to come in and watch and see all the kids learned.

Pirate Party!

Marcus had a pirate birthday party. The kids had fun learning to become pirates. First, they learned to follow the captain by play captain says and earning a bandana. Next, they earned an eye patch playing pin the patch on the pirate. They also decorating treasure chests, popped cannon ball balloons and hunted for lost treasure.

Cruise

We have all been super exciting about our cruise and it finally came.  The kids took a couple of days off of school and we cruised to the Bahamas.  Grandpa and Grandma Clinger joined us on our family vacation.  The kids had lots of fun playing at the kids club and eating what ever they wanted.  I think Natalya had a least one ice cream cone at every meal.  Mike and I enjoyed relaxing and watching the on board entertainment. Besides Grandpa forgetting his passport and having to jump through a few hoops to get on board, Grandma getting a little sick, and me having a panic attack we all ended up having lots of fun.  When we arrived in the Bahamas we took a taxi to the beach.  It was a bit disappointing because everyone was trying to sell you something, it rained on us and it took more time to get to the beach and back then time we were there. We did get to swim in the clear blue water and do a little shopping so it wasn't all bad.

Getting ready to board

Ready to set sail

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Erik hanging out in our cabin

Checking out the ocean from our room

Walking along the beach in the Bahamas

Trying to take cover from the rain

Marcus & Erik had fun in kids club

Mom, Dad and I leaving the Bahamas

Eating dinner

We had a great server that made the kids origami planes and frogs

Natalya enjoying one of her many desserts

The kids and I did a family scavenger hunt. We had to go around the ship and take pictures of things and ask people to do stuff. One of the thing we had to do was go down the water slide. Natalya was brave enough to go down with her clothes on even though it was a cold day.  We ended up being the only family that did the hunt and so we won.

Natalya going down the waterslide

1st Day of School

All 4 kids started school at Coventry Elementary School today. Raquel is in Ms. Littreal's 4th grade class, Natalya is in Ms. Cleland's 1st grade class, Marcus is in Mrs. Molloy's Kindergarten class and Erik is in Miss Missy's preschool class.

Erik
Preschool

Marcus
Kindergarten

Natalya
Grade 1

Raquel
Grade 4

All 4 kids off to school

Natalya and her friend Leonidas