Ready for Christmas...well almost!

So as soon as I put this Santa hat on Maddi she immediately started cracking up and still thinks its the funniest thing! Too bad she doesn't think Santa is that funny. She's pretty much terrified of him :) Purdue has this HUGE Christmas tree in one of the commons buildings on Campus and last week for playgroup we went to see it along with the Purdue Bell Choir which was SO pretty.

Maddi 8 Months Old

So as soon as I posted Maddi's 7 month old pictures I realized that she would be 8 months old 2 days later! Time definately flys by faster with Maddi then it did with Mia.

Aunt Jilly's Visit

We had such a blast with Aunt Jilly! It was SO cold while she was here but we still mangaged to get out to the outdoor iceskating rink and take Mia for her first time as well as hit the Children's Museum with all their fun Holiday Stuff. We miss you Jilly!

Funny Pics

So here's some random pictures! One morning Mia and Maddi woke up in the best moods and Maddi sat on Mia's lap forever just playing and laughing and it was cute.

The other pictures are after getting ready for church that sunday, and Mia just cracks me up because if she isn't doing a cheesy smile in a picture than she love to do this face...I don't know why but it makes us laugh!

Thanksgiving

So I'm a little behind on postings but here's our Thanksgiving pictures! We had a fun and ate WAY too much and the next day after some serious "Black Friday" shopping we had fun decorating the tree.

Maddi 7 Months Old!

Little Bit of Sunshine

Despite the cold weather we've been having lately Mia has found her little bit of sunshine in her new found sunglasses that we pulled out of a drawer the other day. Funny how they were never that interesting during the summer!

Little Mommy

Mia has been SO into being a "little Mommy". It totally brings back some of my little girl memories and so fun to see her mimick some of the "good" things I do. We won't talk about some of the other things she mimicks! So the first picture is how I find baby dolls in my house, Mia loves to put her babies down for naps just like I put her and Maddi down for naps (complete with blankies and books) and it just cracks me up to walk in a room and find this every now and then. I included some pictures of Maddi sleeping so you can see how right Mia actually got it and also because I think little Maddi sleeps so funny.... just relaxin! And much to Maddi's dismay at times Mia likes to practice her mommy skills on HER....like the day I found Mia "pretend" feeding Maddi. Maddi was not having the whole spoon in mouth with nothing on it thing!

Family Pictures 2007

We got our new family pictures taken this last month. Thanks Lindsay! She does an awesome job. These are some of my favorites

Family Pictures....continued

7 Random Things...read at your own risk

Since I have now been tagged twice (thank you Rachael and Kylie) I guess I will take the plunge write a few random (but probably mostly just weird) things about myself.


1. Stubbing my toe, (or anything else that involves hurting myself by own clumsiness) makes me extremely ANGRY! Lance thinks it's absolutely hilarious to see me try to restrain myself after one of these incidents, from screaming, yelling, or trying to inflict pain BACK on the inanimate object that started the whole thing! Come to think of it I hurt myself a lot lately! I think in the last 6 months I have walked into a store window in the middle of the mall once (really embarrassing) and into my own bedroom door twice (it was the middle of the night)


2. I'm obsessed with Pottery Barn. Well maybe obsessed isn't the appropriate word but I really really love it! If I could have my whole house look just like a pottery barn catalog I would. This goes right along with the fact that I am a total copy cat! I can attribute any good idea I've ever had, any great recipes someone has asked me for, or anything else that goes in the category of me and cool, to someone else! I always say I'm not a very creative person with very creative ideas, but I am REALLY good at finding the people who DO have them. My favorite person to copy...My big sister Jen! She is always coming up with great ideas and passing them along to me. OK so back to Potter Barn, along with decorating ideas, I've also gotten both of my children's' names while looking through the Pottery Barn kids catalog. (How sentimental is that!)


3. I'm scared of the dark. I always have been since I was a little girl and while I'm getting a little better (Like I don't HAVE to turn on a light when I walk to one of the kids' bedrooms in the middle of the night, or have ALL of the lights in the entire house on when Lance is gone) its definitely still an issue. And maybe it just goes along with my other top fear: being kidnapped. And No that's not a fear of my Children being kidnapped, it's a fear of MYSELF being kidnapped. I have this fear that when its dark, someone could come out of nowhere and take me and I'd be powerless to do anything about it. So when you put the two fears together like in the morning at 5:30 am when I'm getting out of my car to go into the gym (that I go to at insane hours because there is no way in a million years I would run through my neighborhood in the dark) it involves something like me getting out of my car and, (if no one else is watching) literally running to the door which really can't be more than 200 feet away. Bet you didn't know THAT about me.

4. Okay that leads me to number 4: Lance and I just signed up for and plan to run/walk the Indy Mini Marathon in May. We are NOT runners and have never done anything like this so its a big deal for us. This explains the getting up at 5:30 am to go running at the gym. I have managed to get up and go at least twice a week and can now run 2 miles straight. Now if I can just do that about 6 times in row I'll have it down!

5. I have become an avid scrapbooker. I've contemplated switching to digital scrapbooking (as I see how baby number two has put me further and further behind) but still get the most satisfaction out of creating a whole page by hand. I LOVE pictures and it makes me feel good to know I'm doing something with all the pictures I take and keeping track of our life.

6. I LOVE reading and always have, but have just recently started doing more of it again. I love any love stories, but I also really like self improvement books from marriage, to parenting, to cleaning and organization, to nutrition, you name it, if it can improve my life in any way shape or form I'll read it. I love good book recommendations.

7. Okay so I'm running of things....let's see.... I haven't taken a plan trip or even taken a car trip over 5 hours in over a year and half. That's a long time for me! Which also means I haven't seen anyone in my family (except for my Dad) in over a year...also a long time for me. I'm thinking about this because I am so excited to see my youngest sister Jill in November and my Mom in December! YEAH!

Well there you go. There's my boring but random self!

Oh and I tag, Jen, Tiff, Lindsay, Becca, Mandi and Amy How many am I supposed to tag?!

Oh the things that make them laugh!

I wanted to try uploading a video and it worked! Yeah. Maddi was just cracking up the other day and I was lucky enough to catch some of it on video. Just excuse my totally wierd voice. I was going to try and say it was Lance talking in a high pitched voice but figured that wouldn't be very believable. Anyway...as nerdy as I may sound Maddi somehow thought I was hillarious!

After all the Halloween stuff I had taken Mia to all week (and washing her Halloween costume at least 7 times) I thought we might all be burned out by the time the big day actually arrived, but the night turned out to be a blast for all of us! Lance and I as usual ended up throwing costumes together for ourselves about an hour before we left! (Mia's the fairy princess and Lance is her prince...get it? and I am supposed to be flower and Maddi is the bee On the flower...if you couldn't tell) We had a great time attending our Stake's trunk-or-treat and then hitting a few of our friends' houses in our neighborhood! This year Mia finally understood the concept of candy and has been asking me all day for some Gum!