Barbie Bunco Party!

This weekend I attended my first Bunco party! Traci, a wonderful friend of mine threw a Barbie themed Bunco party for all the preschool mommies, we had a fantastic time. A few bottles of wine, a fun game and and lots of friends! Ran out of great ideas and went as Sleepover Barbie, there were some amazing costumes there- we think our next one will be bridesmaid dresses;)

We also had a preschool birthday party on Friday where we stayed late and played cards with our super friends Megan and Mike (their daughter Lillie is Hanna's other BFF at preschool), we lost but had a great time. I need to really brush up on my 'hold em...card games may become a very regular thing for preschool mommies and daddies. We hope everyone is having a great week, we are looking forward to the Super Bowl --go Eli!!

Masterpiece!

Hanna and Daddy finished her jewelry box last night and she is so proud of it! She has it stuffed full already. We also thought it would be fun to make something special to go inside, so we made necklaces too. Mommy, Hanna and PB all get to match:)

Yesterday was Hanna's pizza field trip, it was so much fun. I will get pictures up soon, she liked the tossing of the dough the best. Big shout out for Noble Roman's on 10th St. I am having so much fun being Field Trip chairwoman....I think I might even add it to my resume, for that unforeseeable time when I might actually venture back to the working field :)

Dresses and jewelry....

We had a wonderful time in Evansville over the weekend. I love the bridesmaid dress, not the price, but I do love the dress!! We all got fitted for everything, talked some fun wedding stuff with Christie, but the best part of all was finding a $30 flower girl dress for Hanna!!!!! It was exactly what Christie wanted and is truly fabulous! As an added bonus it even came with a matching little dress for a doll or in Hanna's case Pink Bear.

Christie also got us Christmas presents! Hanna loves her "paint your own jewelery box"! She and Daddy worked very hard on it last night and can't wait to finish it tonight. Will post a picture when she is finished. What a great present that was.

The games were exciting, but I just can't stand the dang Pats! I am rooting for Eli all the way...it is sure to be a great Super Bowl game!

No Pants....!

About 3 months ago Hanna was starting to get very upset if she didn't have any skirts or dresses clean! I thought it may be a fluke...definetly not.

She has fully boycotted pants all together! So for months now she will only wear skirts or dresses and an array of special tights! I have accepted it and no longer suggest outfits to her, there will be no more morning battles and no "I think it is too cold for skirts today". Hanna picks out everything she wants to wear and sometimes it matches and sometimes.... it is a pink shirt, stripey tights, leopard skirt and silver sparkly shoes (this was todays outfit). I love her creativity and will never have to bear the rebuttle of "mom- why did you dress me like that??" I will have the joy of saying "you picked it our yourself"

*I am now listing all of her excellent condition, never worn, pants on ebay!! ha ha

Good Game!

We had a great weekend at our birthday parties, happy birthday Kenzie and Cassie! I always feel anytime we spend with friends is time well spent.

Joe had an even better weekend with a surprise invitation to the Indianapolis Colts' playoff game!! A friend of ours has season tickets and found himself with an extra , he invited Joe and they had a wonderful time...15 rows up and and a day with the guys--Joe definetly deserved it! Even though our team lost, it was a really exciting game, and an all together great season. Hanna and I enjoyed watching the game and looking for daddy...(didn't see him- did you?)

We will be in Evansville this weekend being fitted for bridesmaid and flower girl dresses for Christie and Brian's wedding this summer. The whole family will be involved, Joe will also be an usher. Hanna is very excited that one of Christie's colors is pink:), other than that we are hoping to get around to painting the scary fish bathroom as well! Hope everyone is having a truly wonderful day before the snow comes here in the Midwest....

Birthday parties keep me busy!

We are having a laid back week, I am trying to stay focused on the house and getting organized---this is not an easy task! After preschool today we need to go buy 2 birthday presents. Friday we will be going to Chuck E Cheese to help celebrate Kenzie's birthday and Saturday we will be off to Worthington for Cassie's birthday party. We are really looking forward to both things!!

Other than that I am finishing up my college alumnae work for the year and looking forward to helping plan our 5 year reunion this spring! SMWC Class of 2003, I can't wait!!

Pink!

We finally painted Hanna's room on Sunday! Bye bye Calvin and Hobbs mural, she is one happy girl now! With the new year we are trying to get organized and cross things off of our perpetual list:) We still have some work to do as far as hanging pictures and things, but we are almost there with her room. Ha- lets see it only took us about 5 or 6 months!! Thus is life....
We have other things to tackle as well and are trying to get to them slowly, I think next will be Hanna's bathroom- boy does it need painting!! What do you think?! Scary right?!

Preschool starts again tomorrow and Hanna is very excited to wear her new dresses Santa brought and see her BFF's Emilia and Lillie. Things are going very well right now, as Joe is enjoying his new job and car and we have decided, for atleast a year or so, to stay here in Plainfield and see what may come of Joe's job. They have been very supportive of his commute and are giving him flexible hours, they also mentioned a "sweet deal" on building a home with their lumber if we decide to ever move north. We shall see....

Boy it's been a while...

Sorry for not posting in a while- busy as usual! We all enjoyed a wonderful Christmas time!! It was much more relaxing not traveling this year, and so nice celebrating in our new home! Hanna's favorite present from Santa has been the Disney Princess cash register and her little digital camera courtesy of Aunt Amy. I think she has taken a picture of everything in our house atleast twice--ha! as far as I go-- there are just too many cute pictures to post.

We have also been busy with fun activities during Hanna's Christmas break, before Christmas we took Hanna to Christmas at the Zoo. It was fun to go to the Zoo at night and see the beautiful lights, I think it will be a new tradition.

Friday we had a play date with some preschool friends at Jump n Play! Hanna got to expel so much energy that was much needed. It seemed to be a a really fun place for the kiddos, I couldn't believe how brave she was going down the huge slides... she seems so big these days!

And yesterday we all went to the skating rink- we hadn't been skating in ages and both Joe and Hanna have been bugging me to go. (Joe used to be on a speed skating team-he is amazing) So, I think she may be just a good as daddy some day. Towards the end, she refused to hold our hands or on to the wall, ha-sometimes she is so Daddy's girl:)