Horse Drawn Carriage Ride

On the 19th, we headed to the Plaza in Kansas City for a fun night in town. Our first stop was to the horse drawn carriages. There were 11 of us total.....6 adults, 2 8/9 yr olds, a 2 yr old and 2 one year olds. It was really a wonderful time and so glad we got to spend some time with our friends and Chuck's dad and his family. We were lucky weather wise as it reached almost 40 degrees that day....so there was just a little chill in the air around 6pm, when our carriage ride took place. Here is a photo of Allison and her friend Dawson sitting in the carriage.

You can find more photos from our carriage ride on the link that says PHOTOS just to the right.
After the carriage ride, we headed to a restaurant called "fritz's" It is a pretty neat place. You place your order through a phone and then a train brings your order to you. The kiddos had such a blast watching the trains go back and forth on the tracks above. Sorry we didn't have the camera in the restaurant, so no pictures for you all. But I'm sure we will go back soon, as it was very resonably priced and very kid friendly!

Logan, the Sky Angel Cowboy!

So, Mom told me about this one, and not sure if you have all seen/listened to this. Love you all!

Busy Bees

Well today it was just us girls again, as Chuck is working a 10am shift today, which means he gets off at 10pm. He works the same thing tomorrow and then he's off for a day. Which is good, b/c we have his work Christmas Party on Saturday and that is always fun to go to.
We actually got worried we weren't going to be able to go b/c we couldn't find a sitter for Allison. We don't have any sitters b/c we've never had to have one! But it turned out that Chuck's dad and step mom are able to sit for us. So a big WHEW there.

So today was my cleaning day and laundry day. I can't believe how many dirty clothes 2 adults (one who wears a work uniform 3 or 4 days a week) and a 1 year old! I am currently on my 5th load of laundry today. Crazy. I also got the major cleaning done, except mopping (i hate mopping) and managed to bake about 65 Christmas Sugar Cookies. Don't ask me why I baked them, maybe just to have them around, but then I remembered we have to take something to our party this weekend, so guess what we are taking?!?!?! COOKIES! So hopefully I won't eat too many tomorrow! ( i set a few aside for us)

I've also been itching to start sewing. I bought Cousin Kristi's old sewing machine, which isn't old at all....a year maybe? So I've been looking and looking for things to do. I realized that I've been wanting heavy curtain panels in our living room...currently we only have blinds on the windows. With all this cold weather we can feel a draft coming through the windows and I know that the landlords aren't planning on replacing the windows just for us, so I'm now looking for patterns for curtains and some nice heavy fabric...that's isn't extremely expensive.

Sounds like we are going to get about 3 to 4 inches of snow this weekend....they say 100% chance we'll get it Saturday. Now just to find some snow boots for Allison! We haven't been out to play yet (we had snow, it's now melted) So I'm kind of looking foward to the snow this weekend.

Anyway, not much else happening here in Missouri. We didn't lost power like a lot of Missouri residents did, so very happy that we didn't have to go through that. A lot of them still don't have power!!! My heart goes out to them and their families. Hope everyone is surviving the cold!

Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow

So...it's snowing!!!! For some, snow is something that makes the road conditions really bad, makes you have to scrape your windows in the morning (if you park outside) and of course, it means that it is really cold. Those may all be true, but to me, snow is just the beginning of a great holiday!!! I was actually hoping for some snow right after Thanksgiving but that didn't happen for us. I guess with a child of my own now, I'm excited to get her out into the snow in her snow pants and boots.
However, the snow has caused us (allison and i) to be "snowed in" at Mom and Dad's house in Akron for an extra day. We had been over to Grandma's to help her out after she got home from the hospital and the plan was to leave on Saturday, well we ended up heading over to Mom and Dad's a day earlier, just so we'd have that part of the trip done. Plus they were caring for our 2 dogs while we were at Grandma's and I don't think mom wants to keep them until Christmas for us.

I would have taken a picture of all the snow coming down, but I'm sure most of you are seeing the same thing, plus it's too dark right now to take the picture.
So we did the Elf Yourself thingy that Jessica shared. Here is our link: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1246627275

Hope everyone is staying warm!

"Wii" Like To Have Fun

So, a few months ago, we decided to upgrade and bought a Nintendo Wii and I must say, it is tons of fun. We have our game nights and the competition gets a going between brothers (Chuck and Brett) I didn't know the guys liked tennis so much! They really get into it!