1.25.2009
1.24.2009
Jan. 1 2009 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Well, it's a new year people! As I'm blogging this on the 24th of January, I still cannot believe it! And yet the days, weeks and months seem to fly by so fast anymore. I am on Facebook now and have been since October. It has been such a wonderful experience, reconnecting w/so many people who have entered and exited my life at some point and now reentered, and they are in my little FB page, all cozy and where I can talk to any one of them at any give time.....it's such a small world. I am thankful to have gone to school in a small town, where, come to find out, everyone was friends with everyone!!! It's just so neat and I am enjoying it thoroughly! Other than that, we have been home a lot since the holidays, basically staying in and warm, only going out when necessary....I'm really sick of the weather and we have a ways to go.....I really wish we could live somewhere warmer w/all of our family.....maybe someday I'll talk them all in to it?! The kids are bouncing off the walls, literally and they each have had their fair share of bumps, bruises and black eyes as they bounce off of each other or, like I said, the walls. This being inside all of the time is making us all crazy!
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1.21.2009
Dec. 31 - New Year's Eve & Ryan's 1/2 Birthday Celebration
We decided to wait to celebrate Ryan's 1 1/2 birthday until after, since it falls on Christmas Day. We invited Aunt Sherry, the girls and Grandma over for a Disney Princess Waffle breakfast, Daddy cooking of course. We had lots of options to make everyone happy!
Here they are dining on my holly pottery! hehe! Gotta use it sometime huh?
Then the girls got the polka-dot tea set out for a tea party!
Here are the kids with their Joey Panda.....if you want to know the full story about this, you'll have to ask. It all started w/Daddy, back in Kindergarten...anyway, they each have one now so nobody is fighting over JOEY!
The cupcake 1/2 birthday celebration moved to Grandma's house later in the day since the kids ended up playing and napping after the big bfast. Here is Ryan getting ready to blow out his 1 1/2 candles and I didn't forget the traditional CLOWN that goes way back to Natalie's first "1/2 Birthday" celebration!
Happy Birthday to You!
Yum!
Amanda getting in the New Year's Eve spirit, at 9pm!
Grandma got the pots and pans out at 9pm for the kids to bang to bring in their
NEW YEAR, 2009!
OK, now let's watch a movie.
Wow, this is exciting!
Myself, Natalie and Scott at his colleague's annual New Year's Eve CORN DROP Party
This friend/colleague of Scott hails from New York and when he moved to IL many yrs back, he decided to come up w/his own tradition of the CORN DROP. Yes, an ear of corn is suspended in the sky and lights are aglow, music playing..it's quite a show....Scott decided Natalie was old enough to go and stay up late...she barely made it, but we all had so much fun. They had tons of food, drinks, fun for the kids....we might make this an annual tradition ourselves!
The Corn Drop
Welcome 2009!
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Dec. 30 - G &G Arrive Home from Europe!
Another day off school, another day staying inside, keeping warm and trying to have fun, like baking a cake!
This is the only reason they stick around I think....lick!
Amanda takes her licks very seriously!
Ryan relaxing on the floor w/Reindeer and Joey, his Panda
Experimenting w/Natalie's hair
G&G have returned home from 2 wks in Europe for Uncle Tommy's tournament. They visited Switzerland and Italy!
Natalie made a book for Grandma as her WELCOME HOME gift, very nice!
Grandma LOVED IT!
Look closely on the pink page, that is a 'boot', Natalie's interpretation on Italy!
Giddy-up horsey!
Ride 'em cowboy!
These guys could not get enough of each other!
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