Sunday, January 22, 2017

MLK Weekend Girls' Trip to Bruges

The theme of my 4th Annual MLK Weekend Girls' Trip was: Huge in Bruges
The weekend definitely lived up to that!  :)

Here are 7 of my lovely friends ready to board our plane to Brussels 
 What do you to while waiting for a train to Bruges? 
Play Heads Up!
The silliness was in full force on our train ride north
 Casey and I enjoying our first Bruges Zot of the weekend
 AMAZING seafood dinner at a Michelin Star restaurant
 Jenna, Mel, and me
 Berri, Madds, & Sherri
 The 8 of us!
 Berri & Jenna shopping for chocolate
 Sherri, Casey, & Berri posing in the Market Square
 Casey's Auntie Christine, who lives near Bruges, was the best tour guide around the city Saturday morning!
 Beer and fries stop for lunch
The Halve Maan Brewery was the perfect place to spend a rainy afternoon
 Berri, our talented waitress
 Mel, Casey, Maria, and I are ready for dinner
 MUSSELS!
 After dinner in the Market Square
 Artsy group pic on Sunday morning
 Beautiful Bruges Bridge
 Casey, Sherri, Jenna, and I on our carriage tour
 More fries!
We met up with some more NES friends for Sunday afternoon drinks at Bourgogne des Flandres

 The view of our (awesome) hotel from my Sunday afternoon seat

 A very fitting sign outside Bourgogne des Flandres

Emma's 12th Birthday


Emma Louise kicked off her 12th birthday with a slumber party with some of her friends. The girls played games, ate, and laughed a lot!
 



 All cuddled up in Emma's room to watch a movie
 On Wednesday she was sound asleep when we woke her up for her birthday donut

Some of Emma's pals decorated her locker
 Birthday selfie :)
 Opening presents at Miss Mel's house



Birthday dinner at Dom's 


Cheers to the birthday girl who we love to pieces!



 


Saturday, January 7, 2017

MCT Jungle Book

Winter Break included another Missoula Children's Theater performance.  Exactly 5 years ago to the day, Emma was a monkey in The Jungle Book. This year she was part of the Wolf Pack.


 Camden was cast as the Master of the Jungle, Hathi


 Both kids did a fabulous job and had a blast!


Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Christmas Day 2016

MERRY CHRISTMAS
2 excited Kasparek kids were up at 6:00 and ready to see what Santa brought them.

 The Iowa Kaspareks were all together at Tim & Lori's house so they got to watch the kids open their gifts from Santa on Face Time
 Reading a note from Santa about his hat
 So happy to have his beloved Iowa hat back and looking brand new!
 Awesome Atari gift!
 Making breakfast
 Christmas puppy
 Funny Red Sox shirt
 Panda onesie

 This was the rest of the morning...

 Ryan and Heather came over for a Christmas Mimosa
 Blessed Family!

 Bunco time at Casa Zimmermann




 Showing off their new shoes from Santa