What's for dinner???

SPAGHETTI!!!!!!



Can you see the spaghetti sauce in her ears?!?!?


Then came bath time!!




hope you enjoyed this as much as we did tonight!!!

Little Climber!!!!

Step One:

Grab a hold of the arm of the sofa


Step Two:
Pull up and lean over....head over heels or is it heels over head?


Step Three:
Get back into a good stable position and smile at mommy while she snaps the picture


Step Four:
Run back and forth on the couch screaming and giggling the whole time!



So this is what our lil Allison has been up to lately, luckily no hard falls as of now, couple close calls but it's all a bunch of fun for her!!!

Praying hard

Our continued prayers for Grandma as she continues to have problems with all that fluid!!! We love you Grandma! Get well soon!!!

Warm weather headed our way??

Not sure if this will be the same scenario for everyone else, but the weather man has forecasted for SUnday.....a high of 61!!!! Whoot Whoot!!! Will be a wonderful weekend here!!

Happy 2008!!!

So I'm a few days late, but we've been busy busy bees lately. We are finally getting back into our groove here at home. Christmas was wonderful this year....we spent Christmas Day here at home and had Chuck's mother and brother over for dinner and gifts. Then on the 26th we headed up towards mom and dad's for a week long stay. Our little vacation started off with a lot of driving, as Chuck and I drove up to Minneapolis to the airport to pick up Jon and Heidi. They had arrived around 10:30pm, so it was a late night....I believe we got home around 3am? Then on the 28th, we had our family Christmas after Dad arrived home from work. Had a wonderful time opening gifts and being with our family. Allison really enjoyed the gifts, especially her new Radio Flyer wagon....with huge wheels!!! She also had a great time getting reaquainted with her Uncle Jon and Aunt Heidi. Saturday morning led us to SIoux City for a quick stop at Chuck's (step) grandparents home, while on our way to the Heisterkamp Christmas in Onawa. Seems they are doing well and keeping healthy. Again, we had a splendid time in Onawa, doing the gift exchange, eating soup and playing BINGO!!! It was a late night again, and it was hard to wake up on Sunday for 9am service. After church, a few of us piled into Mom's cadillac and drove to Storm Lake to see Grandma White in the hospital. She looked great considering the last time I had seen her was after her surgery, into the 1st week of December. Still praying for her to make a full recovery and get back on her feet and to her usual daily happenings!

New Years Eve, we headed to the Sioux City Musketeers Hockey game. Unfortunately, they lost, but had a great time, as this is the 1st year Chuck and I have been together and gone out on New Years since 2004. We arrived home earlier than expected, but stayed up til after 11pm, watched the ball drop in Times Square and called it a night.

Here is the best part, on New Years Day, we all went sledding....the whole family!!! Except Allison, she fell asleep in the truck on the way to the sledding hill/road, so she stayed in the truck the whole time. Unfortunately, sledding was cut short, as Mom and Jon headed down the hill, mom somehow twisted her ankle under the sled and down they went. She was in quite a bit of pain and after a visit to the ER in Vermillion, the outcome was a broken ankle!!! Can you believe that Mom broke something?!?!? First Dad with his arm, now Mom with her ankle?!?!? Luckily, no cast for her, they just put her in a boot on Wednesday. So hopefully she gets the hang of the thing before they head to Peru later this month for their mission trip.

Wednesday our little family headed back home to Raymore. It's great to be home. Suitcases are unpacked....well mine is anyway, and all the presents are put away. I started taking the Christmas ornaments off the tree yesterday, so now we just have a pine cone covered tree in our living room.

Oh and I must add this, I went into Walmart back on the 29th, on our way back to mom and dad's from Onawa....and can you believe they already have Valentine's Day stuff put out!!!! Crazy!!!!

Well, I added tons of pictures to our online album, the link is to the right, so check 'em out!!! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and safe New Years!!! Looking forward to this June....only 6 short months away until we all head to Okoboji!!!