Monday, January 5, 2009

Favs

two of my favorite pages - i just put these in her album tonight!



I Can't Wait

Hey there, hello! I am listening to the sounds of Molly's new found hobby... Dropping items from the "old school" registers we have in our bedroom and the boys have in theirs. She likes to find anything she can to see if it will fit down and boop, she drops it. Cracks me up! She's seen the boys do it, and now she will go on upstairs solo and try it. Last night we wondered who the beak was dropping stuff from the boys' register, it has 2 metal layers to get thru. Umm, it was her. So she was successful on the Tinkertoys going thru, then proceeded to come downstairs and drop those same Tinkertoys into the cold air return! HA! Hilarious!

Her and I headed on a few quick stops this morning, none of which she had to get out of the truck so that always helps. She conked out somewhere between dropping off our recycling stuff and the library to return our books. Then we headed to Sally's house so I could pick up my much anticipated album for my 90 digital scrapbook pages we just printed! I can't WAIT to put it together!!!

And now it's time to get Mikie from preschool, we'll eat some lunch, then Shawna and Ivan will be here for our Monday afternoon meeting. We haven't seen them in weeks so it'll be GREAT to get connected again :) Have a good Monday!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

I have no idea why this picture is turned this way, but it's our fancy desserts we got at the hotel :)

Meg and Tony

Sis

Dad was so funny, he put on the boys' Speed Racer helmet the other day and let's just say it was a little TOO tight! :)

Molly going up to meet her friend waiting at the top of the steps...


so nice of you to wait, Bean dog!

Mol's preferred method of transportation these days, walkin!
Meet the newest boy band! Alls ya need are Tinkertoys (thanks Granny and Grampa), an empty vacuum box and a little imagination!



Erk and the Bean dog
the new bunk beds!




Missing our Exit

Hello and good afternoon! It's so freaking icy out there that we didn't venture out for church this morning. That really bugs me! Feels like we haven't been able to go to church consistently for weeks and it's hard to not be "fed" each week. Next weekend I'll miss again due to the scrapbook retreat, so I'll just need to spend more time in the Word all on my own :)

Erk and I ended up heading outta town for the night Friday night thru yesterday evening. We went to Chicago! That's where we were supposed to go for our honeymoon, but never made it (due to a huge snowstorm that made it so our train trip was cancelled). So TEN years later, yep, we just celebrated our 10th anniversary, we made it afterall. We had a great time relaxing, eating out, watching Law and Order (3 times in a row) and ordering dessert via room service! Yesterday we met up with Meg and Tony at a pizza place not far from our hotel and enjoyed some deep dish pizza. We had many laughs and a nice time. Then headed back to our hotel to get the truck and drove to Meg's place. Got to meet Tony's grandparents and get a tour of their casa. It was great to see Megoo and visit for a while :) Then we headed on home and ended up missing our highway exit, went about an hour outta the way, but made it home eventually! We stopped at a Wendy's and ate (even shared a Frosty to dip our fries in, the ONLY way to go) and picked up the kids from Nanny and Papa's and towards home for bed. It was good to be home and Bean was especially glad we were. Thanks to Nanny and Papa for watching the kids for us and letting Bean out, also to Grampa for letting Bean out too! We really appreciate the help. We hope you are feeling better Granny! We thought about you a lot.

So now the 3 kids are laying down for a (hopeful) Sunday nap and I'm gonna get caught up on email and all. Erk is getting things cleaned up today - we took our Christmas tree out and that is always a big vacuum job afterwards! But the family room seems big again and the house feels cleaner. I bet we'll be finding needles for the next year, but that's alright.

Have a good one all!