New Years Eve - Party bags!

We missed the official ball drop, but the kids begged to do our "bags of fun" party when we got back.  So on January 11th we celebrated the end of 2019 and the start of 2020!  Here are the highlights!

Hat Decorating! 

"Minute to Win it" games and STEM challenges

Please notice my "help" is more engaged in winning the challenge than helping the children.

 Snowman build!

So I did slime.  I don't do slime.  I caved.  Bailey was SHOCKED.  It still didn't come inside.

We "youtubed" the countdown and went out to do some sparklers to celebrate!

Happy New Year!!

2020 Resolutions:

Bailey - keep getting good grades...does that even count?

Andrew - learn to ride his bike without training wheels

Grant - to grow.

BJ - eat more cookies

Lindsay - finish reading the Old Testament

Game On!

Nashville - the hotel.

So BJ's conference was at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel.  It's pretty amazing.  It's a city.  Here are a few photos from our time there. 

Each night they have water shows!

For some reason, my family always wanted to sit in the front so you could get soaked!

Nashville - we had a great time. We made lots of memories that the kids are still talking about.  It was the first vacation that I didn't have to schedule around naps in 8 years.  Bittersweet, but such fun.    Our 2020 adventures started strong!  

Nashville - pancakes and athena

We got up our last morning and headed to the Pfunky Pancake.  It is a griddle place where we cook our own pancakes. 

After that we headed to the Parthenon. Nashville has an exact replica of the one in Athens.  It is an art museum that we cruised through in about 4 minutes.  However, we went at that time because of a story event.

Bailey thought the Gryphon was cool....Gryffindor references always a bonus.

The kids programming has story time right in front of Athena.  Not sure we will EVER find a cooler story time.  

Afterward they got to make a craft to take home.

Out front they have a cool dragon to climb on.  It got COLD.  We actually saw snow flurries in the parking lot.  We headed back to the indoor pool and waited for BJ to finish up.