Children's Museum!

We went the day after Christmas to the Indianapolis Children's Museum! It was our first trip there, and we are definitely going to get a membership for next year! Marissa loved going and is begging to go back (especially after looking at the pictures!). They have the neatest things there! A whole floor dedicated to preschoolers through kindergarten. Obviously, that is where we spent most of our time! There were also neat exhibits there for the Christmas season only. During the Christmas season, they have a slide that goes from the second floor to the first. Of course, her and Daddy had to go down that (Mommy stood and took pictures!). She went ice fishing, sat in a real race car, went rock climbing, planted flowers, played in water and sand and balanced on a log! What fun we had!!! Here are some pictures!

Love,

Kristi

What a wonderful Christmas!

We had just the most wonderful Christmas!! It was really the first year that Marissa got into the whole Ho Ho/Santa and presents thing! She is playing right now, so I thought I'd update our blog really quick!

The things we thought she would love are her favorite things (yay!). She loves her dollhouse, her Baby Alive baby doll, her art desk and her new play kitchen! We had sooo much fun with her and still continue to play play play!!!

We started out the holiday by going to our church Christmas Eve service and it was so very nice. It really was a nice reminder to us what the season is all about...Jesus! We then went to my Aunt's house for Christmas there and came home and went to bed and waited for Santa to come!

The next morning we opened presents and played and then went to Mom and Dad's house for brunch, opening presents and then later in the day, a movie and pizza!

Here are a few pictures of our Christmas! Hope yours was a blessed one too!!!

Love,

Kristi

It's the Christmas Season!!

Well, it has been the best weekend!! I took off Wednesday and have been off work 5 days straight. Needless to say, it is going to make Monday extremely hard to go back!

To start off the weekend I got to go to Tumbling with Marissa! She is just growing and maturing so much. I have noticed such a difference in her lately. She is interacting and playing with other children more, she is listening better (at least this weekend...haha) and chatting up a storm! Remember, I wanted her to talk! I prayed for it daily and she talks non-stop now! I think she is catching up so quickly with the other children. She is counting, working on her ABC's and using the potty so well! She is not potty trained completely, but each day it's getting better!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at my Mom's house and then later went to Phillip's Mom's house for yummy dessert. The next morning, my brother, Chad, and I went shopping! (It's kind of tradition now!). We left at 4:30 and went to Walmart. It was unbelievably packed, but we did manage to get what we wanted. We headed to the next city for more shopping and got back around 11:00 a.m. That was plenty!

Saturday we spent more time with Phillip's family and Sunday....we rested!! Well, I put up more Christmas decorations and am nearly finished (one more room to go).

I think we'll go out to eat Mexican tonight to end a wonderful weekend!

Hope everyone's weekend was wonderful and that everyone is looking forward to Christmas!

Love to all--
Kristi

Almost Happy Thanksgiving!!

I cannot believe that Thanksgiving is next week!!! I think this weekend we are putting up our Christmas decorations. We always like to get a jump on it so we can enjoy our Thanksgiving weekend and just relax! As you know, the house gets totally torn apart putting up decorations!

We had a great weekend with family and friends and just looking forward to Thanksgiving. So many things to be thankful for! I look at this past year and feel so blessed. Phillip lost his job, and found a better one. We had our home broken into, but nothing was taken. We have a new room addition that will allow us to have family and friends over during the holidays. We have our health. We have our Marissa. Just so many blessings...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Halloween!

Well, we had a great Halloween! We only went a couple places because when you live in the country and when you have a toddler, only a few stops can be done before they get tired of being buckled in the carseat a million times! Marissa had a great time and soon discovered that getting treats was pretty fun!! What a great Halloween! Here are a few pics of her as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz!

Day before Halloween!

Wow, I'm really slacking on the blog lately! Everything is going well with us, don't worry! Over the past few weeks, we have ....

Gone to the pumpkin patch/petting zoo...

Went to my Grandma's 95th Birthday party...

Went to Marissa's Tumbling Halloween Party...

And now we await Halloween tomorrow!

Here are some pictures from 2 out of 3 of those activities. I'll hold the party costume pictures until after Halloween to not spoil her costume for those of you who might see her on Halloween night!

Hope your Halloween is safe and fun!!

Happy Monday!

How time is flying! I cannot believe it's mid-October! It's been unseasonably warm here in Indiana this month, and, unfortunately, no good rains to speak of. It's so dry and dusty here, but it is allowing the farmers time to get their crops in, so this is a good thing for them!


On Friday, we will celebrate Grandma Evelyn's 95th birthday. Our whole family is coming to visit her and have cake and ice cream for all of the residents of her assisted care home. I cannot imagine living 95 years, although I hope to! I am taking a vacation day this Friday, as I have to use up some before the end of the year. It's been weird this year with Phillip at his new job and not having any vacation days. Normally by this time of the year, I would have already used up all of my vacation days with him!


Our life is more back to normal since our break-in. Our door is fixed and I'm slowly (notice I said "I"...this barely affected Phillip...haha) getting more comfy in my own home again. It is just such a violation. I never was really afraid in our house before until this happened. Of course, I admit to being a little bit of a scaredy cat anyway!


Other than that, we are gearing up for Halloween around here. Just got part of Marissa's costume and waiting for the last item. If the outfit fits, she is going to be Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. I wish I could make her Halloween outfit, but I don't know a thing about sewing! (My Aunt Cookie is one of the best seamstresses I know, but I didn't inherit any of that!). I missed the cooking gene and the sewing gene!


Marissa continues to do well and amaze us each day with her talking. We are just so proud of her! She will say something and we will not really know what she said and then she will point at it and we will say "Ohhh of course, you said that...how silly of us!" She still carries around her pet cat everywhere she goes --- we don't go anywhere without "Yeah" (that's his name...we're not sure how this got started, but we think it might have started when she couldn't say much and that's all she could say, so the cat's name became "Yeah"). We have had some close calls with Yeah and have almost left him places, but he was thankfully found!


I think that is our update for this week! Hoping everyone is well and that the state of the economy is not getting everyone down. It is not a good time, for sure, but it was sure to happen around the Presidential Election time. At least the gas prices are down and that makes us feel better!



Kristi