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Friday, February 27, 2015
Meeting Mariana
We finally got the opportunity to meet Ashley and Sunil's baby girl, Mariana. Ashley was driving to her Mom's house and was worried since this was her first solo trip with Mari and wondered if she could stop by our place (since it's about half way there). This was great because I was able to meet the sweet babe without having to drive across the state! She was very sweet and very laid back. She did a great job in the car, which was a big load off of Ashley's mind! We had a lot of fun talking about babies and I had a lot of fun holding this sweet bundle! It was fun because Norah is almost 2 going on 12 and my babies were never as small as Mari, so it was nice for this Momma. :) Our girls couldn't get enough of her! Norah just wanted to keep giving her kisses... it was very sweet. Welcome welcome sweet baby girl!
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Dad's retirement
My Dad retired! I honestly can't believe that he's old enough to do so, but I am really thankful that he was able too. These past couple of winters have been pretty terrible and it always made me worry when he was out driving. He worked for Spartan for 34 (I think) years! That's crazy! He's been enjoying his retirement and relaxing, which is good! It's nice seeing him around a lot more. Congrats Daddy-o!
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20 Liters
Celebrate with us as we have now reached 15,000 people in Rwanda! We are going into another new territory to reach more people so that they can have access to clean water! :)
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Norah starts swim class
We had been waiting to start Norah on swim classes once she was fully potty trained and that time has come! She is now starting her second session of swim class and she LOVES it. She loves being in the water and jumping in... has no hesitation at all! I think that she really likes that she can do what big brother and sister are doing too. It gets a little crazy at times with all three in swim class but they love it and they do so well!
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
New frosting tips!
I got some new frosting tips and I was super excited to try them out! The kids had a lot of fun making the frosting color and I had a lot of fun making different designs! :)
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Mini Vacation
I think that this is our first real family vacation! We thought that the kids would really like to just go hang in a hotel and swim because they had such a blast when they dropped me off in Chicago and that hotel didn't even have a swimming pool! We didn't go far, but far enough to make it feel like we were going someplace.
The weather on the way there was awful. Somehow we picked the weekend that it was going to blizzard and look like another snowpocylpse. I honestly had to stop watching the road because it was raising my blood pressure... but good thing that Gaetan is such a good driver and so calm :) We made it to the hotel safely, despite all the snow and FREEZING temps and got all checked in. The kids wanted to get swimming right away so that's what we did!
I was honestly so cold from the outside that the pool was too cold for me, so I immediately went to the hot tub. Duder put on his wet suit and had a ball and the girlies followed him in. They played and played and played going back and forth between the hot tub and the pool until we all were famished and decided it was time for dinner. Since the weather was so nasty out we decided to order pizza and eat it picnic style in our room. We realized that we hadn't ordered delivery since we've been married so it was funny for us to pretend like we knew what we were doing. We ate everything we ordered! All that swimming made us hungry!
We thought that we were going to try and get the kids to sleep a little later than their normal bedtime but we were wrong. They were still wired and wanted to play... and they stayed up until 1:30 AM. OMG. I was exhausted and I was surprised that those boogers still had anything left! Eventually everybody passed out... whew.
My first night's sleep was pretty terrible. I had Norah in bed with me because she woke up in the middle of the night quite unhappy so I tried to snug her but she definitely didn't want that. In fact, all she wanted to do was kick me, scream in my face and then after she eventually fell asleep ON me continued to stick her feet in my ribs. And, to top it all off she peed on my arm. seriously. Everybody was still asleep when Norah got up so I took her out and we had breakfast together in the lobby. Then, I started gathering food for the others to eat in our room for breakfast. I was honestly pretty spent from the previous night but our crazies kiddos were ready to go! I was honestly thinking that we would check out a night early and drive home that night because I couldn't go through another long night like the one before... but, the weather pretty much dictated what we were going to do! After breakfast and the kiddos first swim of the day we had to decide if we were leaving or not because the weather was going to get considerably worse. We decided to stay after we went for a little drive for food and knew that it wasn't worth trying to drive home tonight.
I have to say that I am impressed with how much those kids love being in the water. It was so peaceful since we were really the only ones using the pool to have them swimming and watch the blizzard outside. I also couldn't believe how good of a swimmer Dude is! I mean, we see him in swim class so I know that he can but this was the first time I had watched him just go back and forth back and forth. It was almost like we didn't have to watch him because he was so good at it!
The kiddos were so tired the second night that they went to bed at a reasonable hour, which meant that we could go to bed at a reasonable hour. :) It made the morning so much more tolerable because packing everything up and making sure that we didn't leave anything behind is quite a task! The drive back was much better than the drive there but it wasn't awesome still. We did have a great time and I was happy that we could do this little mini vacation with the kids.
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The weather on the way there was awful. Somehow we picked the weekend that it was going to blizzard and look like another snowpocylpse. I honestly had to stop watching the road because it was raising my blood pressure... but good thing that Gaetan is such a good driver and so calm :) We made it to the hotel safely, despite all the snow and FREEZING temps and got all checked in. The kids wanted to get swimming right away so that's what we did!
I was honestly so cold from the outside that the pool was too cold for me, so I immediately went to the hot tub. Duder put on his wet suit and had a ball and the girlies followed him in. They played and played and played going back and forth between the hot tub and the pool until we all were famished and decided it was time for dinner. Since the weather was so nasty out we decided to order pizza and eat it picnic style in our room. We realized that we hadn't ordered delivery since we've been married so it was funny for us to pretend like we knew what we were doing. We ate everything we ordered! All that swimming made us hungry!
We thought that we were going to try and get the kids to sleep a little later than their normal bedtime but we were wrong. They were still wired and wanted to play... and they stayed up until 1:30 AM. OMG. I was exhausted and I was surprised that those boogers still had anything left! Eventually everybody passed out... whew.
My first night's sleep was pretty terrible. I had Norah in bed with me because she woke up in the middle of the night quite unhappy so I tried to snug her but she definitely didn't want that. In fact, all she wanted to do was kick me, scream in my face and then after she eventually fell asleep ON me continued to stick her feet in my ribs. And, to top it all off she peed on my arm. seriously. Everybody was still asleep when Norah got up so I took her out and we had breakfast together in the lobby. Then, I started gathering food for the others to eat in our room for breakfast. I was honestly pretty spent from the previous night but our crazies kiddos were ready to go! I was honestly thinking that we would check out a night early and drive home that night because I couldn't go through another long night like the one before... but, the weather pretty much dictated what we were going to do! After breakfast and the kiddos first swim of the day we had to decide if we were leaving or not because the weather was going to get considerably worse. We decided to stay after we went for a little drive for food and knew that it wasn't worth trying to drive home tonight.
I have to say that I am impressed with how much those kids love being in the water. It was so peaceful since we were really the only ones using the pool to have them swimming and watch the blizzard outside. I also couldn't believe how good of a swimmer Dude is! I mean, we see him in swim class so I know that he can but this was the first time I had watched him just go back and forth back and forth. It was almost like we didn't have to watch him because he was so good at it!
The kiddos were so tired the second night that they went to bed at a reasonable hour, which meant that we could go to bed at a reasonable hour. :) It made the morning so much more tolerable because packing everything up and making sure that we didn't leave anything behind is quite a task! The drive back was much better than the drive there but it wasn't awesome still. We did have a great time and I was happy that we could do this little mini vacation with the kids.
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