We had such a great Christmas this year. Especially with Rachel celebrating her first Christmas. Still seems odd to me that I am married and have two little girls. Hannah was so excited this year when she woke up at about 8am to notice the tree lights were on and that "Santa" had arrived with presents. She had woken up at 2am, 4am and then I decided that Santa better get in gear and get those presents under the tree or I would fall back to sleep again. So, just as I got Hannah back to sleep Rachel woke up. This is very common these days...what is going to happen when Baby #3 comes? So, I woke Mike up and told him I had to get the presents under the tree so he needed to watch Rachel. I finally finished and went back to the bedroom and Rachel was still awake. So her and I came back out to the living room and fell asleep on the couch.
At 7:30am, I woke up realizing Hannah wasn't awake yet and that I should go back to my bed so that when she wakes up she can tell us Santa came. Well she did and it was so funny. It was just about 15 mintues later that she woke up and I heard her feet pitter patter out her door. She looked down the hall and then ran to my room screaming. "Dad, Mom, ...Santa came, Santa came, He really did there are presents under the tree." Mike said, "Oh Hannah, Santa didn't come just come in here and lay down with us". She said so seriously "No, Dad he really did come there are presents under the tree!" "You need to come now and look. I am very serious!" So we all got up and Hannah waited patiently as Daddy had to get some coffee and take care of the dog.
We each took a turn at opening a present and then at the end Hannah had about 5 more presents than Rachel, uh oh, I'll have to do better next year. Anyway, we had fun and Mike and the girls played all day with the new toys.
Another special event is that Rachel started crawling, well scooting on Christmas day. So needless to say the tree was taken down the very next day. She is into everything and she gets where she wants to go really fast. I'm going to try and video her today and post it on facebook. It cracks me up how she crawls.
So, all is said and done with Christmas of 08. We got to spend alot of time with the whole family and this morning Mike is back to work. Hannah is down at Grandma Donna's for a few days since she has Christmas break from school. So, it me and Rach today. Mike's birthday is Wednesday so Hannah is going to help me decorate the house up and make a cake.
Rach is waking up now so gotta go.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Verse #6
Philippians 2:14 Do everything without arguing and complaining.
I saw this on a website and boy it hit home. Especially since I found out I was pregnant this past Thursday evening. Along witht the shock of it I've been moody. Lord help me to not argue or complain and help me to teach this to the girls.
I saw this on a website and boy it hit home. Especially since I found out I was pregnant this past Thursday evening. Along witht the shock of it I've been moody. Lord help me to not argue or complain and help me to teach this to the girls.
Hannah's First Recital
How fun! Gosh I love having girls and doing these girly dancing things. Hannah had her first ballet dance recital for a Christmas Charity. We had to find her some Christmas pajamas which took me forever. But we found some darn cute ones at Meijer's.
Anyway, the whole day before the recital I was so stinkin anxious for her. Everytime I saw her practice this song in class she just wasn't paying attention doing what she was supposed to do whenever she remembered she was in dance class. In her class they have a whole wall that is all mirror. So during class all the little girls, including my Hannah, looks at themselves and sometimes gets so involved looking at themself that they start to drift off to la la land.
So on with the story, that morning I searched the internet for this song she was going to dance to to see if she really knew what she was doing. I finally found the song and made her practice once for me. Well this made me even more nervous after she danced for me. But she is just so darn cute that it didn't really matter.
So the night of the show came and Grandma Donna, Papa Bill, Grandma Marlene, Grandpa Hal, our neighbors, Kay, Reed and Her best friend Olivia all came to see her. I stayed backstage because of my stage fright.
So now it was time to go on stage and we got all the girls lined up. That was crazy. Hannah was getting up on stage and I ran out into the audience, thank goodness there was an empty sit in front of our gang. And her comes Hannah...........O my little Hannah. The first thing she did was have a huge smile on her face like her dream came true. She finally got to be infront of a bunch of people that were going to watch her perform. The next thing Iknow before the music starts is that Hannah is screaming to some lady in the first few rows on the right side (I was clear in the back on the left side) "Mama, Mama, Hi Mama" waving so fast and so excited to see me. The problem was it wasn't me. I wanted her to see me so bad but she thought 100% that this lady was me that she wasn't even looking anywhere else. I just prayed that that lady would wave back. She must have because Hannah finally stopped waving and yelling "Hi MAMA". So the music starts and she did such a great job! I was so proud of her. So, now I'm running back to backstage to find her and I see all the othe little girls except Hannah. My heart starts racing, oh my some one took her. Then I see two little girls in her class looking out this door onto stage. So I peeked in there and there was Hannah searching for me. She must have thought I was going to come up on stage to get her. She was so worried until I called her name and she turned around and saw me.
Oh yea, I have to back up a little, as soon as Hannah finished performing her little friend Olivia was in tears because she couldn't see Hannah on stage. So I grabbed her and told her she could go back with me to pick up Hannah. So once I get Hannah from the side stage door I hug her, tell her how proud I am of her and then I said "look who came to see you perform?" She looked at Olivia and her nervousness was gone but Olivia still had these big tears falling down her face because she was so sad she didn't see her best friend on stage. So Hannah gives her a big hug and rubs her back saying "It's alright Olivia there were just so many people here, you see me know." I cracked up because honestly Hannah words and expressions sound exactly like me. So I finally brought them out to the audience to see the "gang" and to watch the last few performances. What a great night! Such a proud Mama!
We ended the night with a trip to see Fantasy of Lights! That was beautiful. It is in Alum Creek State Park.
Anyway, the whole day before the recital I was so stinkin anxious for her. Everytime I saw her practice this song in class she just wasn't paying attention doing what she was supposed to do whenever she remembered she was in dance class. In her class they have a whole wall that is all mirror. So during class all the little girls, including my Hannah, looks at themselves and sometimes gets so involved looking at themself that they start to drift off to la la land.
So on with the story, that morning I searched the internet for this song she was going to dance to to see if she really knew what she was doing. I finally found the song and made her practice once for me. Well this made me even more nervous after she danced for me. But she is just so darn cute that it didn't really matter.
So the night of the show came and Grandma Donna, Papa Bill, Grandma Marlene, Grandpa Hal, our neighbors, Kay, Reed and Her best friend Olivia all came to see her. I stayed backstage because of my stage fright.
So now it was time to go on stage and we got all the girls lined up. That was crazy. Hannah was getting up on stage and I ran out into the audience, thank goodness there was an empty sit in front of our gang. And her comes Hannah...........O my little Hannah. The first thing she did was have a huge smile on her face like her dream came true. She finally got to be infront of a bunch of people that were going to watch her perform. The next thing Iknow before the music starts is that Hannah is screaming to some lady in the first few rows on the right side (I was clear in the back on the left side) "Mama, Mama, Hi Mama" waving so fast and so excited to see me. The problem was it wasn't me. I wanted her to see me so bad but she thought 100% that this lady was me that she wasn't even looking anywhere else. I just prayed that that lady would wave back. She must have because Hannah finally stopped waving and yelling "Hi MAMA". So the music starts and she did such a great job! I was so proud of her. So, now I'm running back to backstage to find her and I see all the othe little girls except Hannah. My heart starts racing, oh my some one took her. Then I see two little girls in her class looking out this door onto stage. So I peeked in there and there was Hannah searching for me. She must have thought I was going to come up on stage to get her. She was so worried until I called her name and she turned around and saw me.
Oh yea, I have to back up a little, as soon as Hannah finished performing her little friend Olivia was in tears because she couldn't see Hannah on stage. So I grabbed her and told her she could go back with me to pick up Hannah. So once I get Hannah from the side stage door I hug her, tell her how proud I am of her and then I said "look who came to see you perform?" She looked at Olivia and her nervousness was gone but Olivia still had these big tears falling down her face because she was so sad she didn't see her best friend on stage. So Hannah gives her a big hug and rubs her back saying "It's alright Olivia there were just so many people here, you see me know." I cracked up because honestly Hannah words and expressions sound exactly like me. So I finally brought them out to the audience to see the "gang" and to watch the last few performances. What a great night! Such a proud Mama!
We ended the night with a trip to see Fantasy of Lights! That was beautiful. It is in Alum Creek State Park.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
No Way!!!
Well, since I don't think anyone reads this than I can post this news. If you do read it feel priveledged to know that you are one of few people who know the news.
PREGNANT, YES I'M TELLING THE TRUTH! Shocked yeah, so am I. Rachel is only 7 months old. Yep that will be a 4 year old, 15 month old, and a newborn in the dead of summer.
YIKES! How did this happen?
PREGNANT, YES I'M TELLING THE TRUTH! Shocked yeah, so am I. Rachel is only 7 months old. Yep that will be a 4 year old, 15 month old, and a newborn in the dead of summer.
YIKES! How did this happen?
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