Winter Break Events

Hoping everyone had a wonderful Christmas, here's what's been up with our Miss Madeline...
The week of December 14th brought an extra week of winter break due to the snow. She had school the Tuesday of that week and was off the rest of it. 3 weeks of break, somewhat stuck in your house, with a cooped up 6 year old and a very pregnant mommy isn't the best of combinations, I might add. I felt bad not being up to playing all day out in the snow but the dogs did a great job of taking over that duty for me.

The week of Christmas was a little crazy. We had an appointment on Tuesday (which you can read about on Libby's blog) that didn't go my way and headed to my parent's house for left overs afterward before heading home to finish wrapping presents and Jeromy working on our closet... some more. Christmas eve we were off to my parent's again for an early dinner/ gathering with my family. It was a little weird because there were quite a few people missing due to the weather and other factors but it was nice. My cousin's two little ones came with my aunt and uncle. Kylee and Jaden. Holy cow what cutie patuties! We logged on to iChat to talk and see Nate and Carter down in LA. I love that program! We got it set up on our computer at home too so we can all chat with each other. It'll be perfect for when Libby decides to show up! Anywho... Madeline took off to her other dad's house at 3 and spent the rest of the day with him. We hung out until about 3:45 before leaving to stop and see James and Heather before they took off to LA. The rest of the night was just relaxing and doing a whole lot of nothing really.

Well, I take that back... Jeromy worked on the closet some more and got the door frame up and all ready to go for it to be enclosed. It looks great! We're having a guy come out next week to hang sheet rock, mud, tape and texture it. He's also going to finish the wall in our living room that's been just sheet rock for close to... 3 years! WooHoo!















Madeline got home at 1 on Christmas. We picked her up while our house was being taken over be Jeromy's family. The plan was to go to Grandma Tetz's after getting her, but grandma's power went out about 1 that morning so we offered up our house for warmth and gathering of the troops. She opened all her presents from us and Santa and of course the best present ever was the Wii Santa brought us, I mean her. :-)The rest of the day was pretty fun. We had about 15 people over and had some great games of Wii to partake in. It was a way busier day than planned, but a good one. Angela and Bonnie ended up staying the night and the next day was just a time to recuperate! Saturday I took the girls to the nail salon the have manicures for Angela's birthday present. How cute! Shoot! I left the camera in the car... I'll post that picture up later. The girls saw two movies this weekend. Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler and Desperough (sp?) the one about the mouse not afraid of cats.
She's off to her dad's again today until Friday but is hoping we'll be picking her up early because we're heading to the hospital. That's going to be grandma Penny and grandpa John's duty. School starts back up next Monday. THANK GOODNESS! She starts a Mad Science class on Tuesdays after school where she gets to learn all sorts of cool sciency things. She also starts in a new ballet class that is the next class up. We'll see how she does!
Well... Everyone have a wonderful new year! Happy 2009!