Busy, busy, busy

Hello everyone,

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday. We are having a wonderful holiday vacation. We have taken a lot of wonderful pictures and I would love to share them with you, but our hard drive is full. We want to wish everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year! We hope 2010 brings lots of love, happiness, health and success to all of you. We hope to see you in 2010. We have a few trips planned this year...March we will be in North Carolina(visiting Teresa and a conference for Nathan), May we will be in Montana(working on our cabin), and June we will be in Alaska(visiting Doug, Uncle Brent and Aunt Mena)!!!!!
Happy New Year! Be Safe if you are traveling tonight or this weekend.

Cookies and snow!

Today is supposed to be our pajama party, but Pennsylvania is getting a snow storm! Just about everyone has called to say they are not coming. The roads do not look too bad right now, but it is snowing hard, and has been since early this morning. The weather channel says it will stop by 7am Sunday. A little too late for our party. We are all disappointed about the party, but we are enjoying the beautiful snow.
Leaf and Nonnie made gingerbread today.

Leaf is telling Nonnie about the gingerbread man book we read. Everest was outside playing before we had breakfast. He was out shoveling with Papa. We had breakfast and he wanted to go out again. We decided to go for a walk. (I think it took us as long to get ready as it did to walk!)


Everest ran and ran with the dogs. Hopefully he will sleep well tonight!Hope you are enjoying some snow too!

No luck

Well...he wasn't ready to go to sleep. After another fun filled 30 minutes of screaming, I warmed up the truck and went for a drive. It took another 30 minutes for him to fall asleep. I put him down at 1 am and we were back up at 2, then 3, then 4....you get the picture. At 7, Everest came into the room and woke us up again. I am hoping to take a nap today. Leaf's cheeks are bright red today, so maybe it had nothing to do with all the pizza he wolfed down.

It is midnight!

It is midnight. I should be sleeping. Teresa and I are making the 10 hour drive to PA tomorrow afternoon. We are going to Everest's holiday concert and then heading out. I need to be rested, we are anticipating driving until 2 am. So why am I still awake and blogging???????
Leaf decided to eat 3 pieces of pizza tonight. Now his tummy hurts and he has been screaming since 8, and I mean SCREAMING! At 11:30, I decided to bring him downstairs so everyone else could sleep. He is sitting on the floor playing now. His tummy seems to feel better when he is upright, but I can't hold him any longer, so he is on the floor. He is exhausted. He keeps laying his head on the floor, but after a minute or so, he starts squirming around, cries and then sits back up.
I have learned my lesson. Even when your child is screaming for another piece of pizza "just say NO".
He is crawling up the steps!!!! Maybe he is ready! Yeah. Wish me luck.

Christmas Parade

West Lafayette, Indiana boasts the longest Christmas Parade in the state. We decided to check it out. It was cold outside, but the sun was out and Teresa was visiting. The parade was in downtown West Lafayette (about 4 miles from our house), so we biked.
They were not kidding about it being the longest parade. It was over 2 1/2 hours. There were more fire trucks than we could count. All of them put on a great show, lights, sirens and horns. The West Lafayette football team won states so they rode on the fire trucks.


After an hour and a half we were all freezing(at least the adults). Luckily there is a lot of room in the bike trailer, we brought every blanket in the house. Everest did not mind especially when his favorite float came by...more exciting than the fire trucks, candy, and Santa.......

THE BOILERMAKER SPECIAL! This train is cool. It travels all over the US. It is a truck converted into a train, so it can go up to 60mph on the highway.
We had a great time, but we were very ready for Santa to make an appearance. He was on the last float. The minute he went by, we jumped on our bikes and headed to the nearby Starbucks for hot chocolate. There was no way we could bike straight home. No one could feel their fingers. After about 30 minutes in the coffee shop, we headed home. We pretended to be the boilermaker special all the way home. Toot toot!