The first weekend in December we had a wedding to attend. My uncle Steve got married to my new aunt Jennifer. It was a very nice wedding. We went up early on Saturday b/c my parents were there and we wanted to see them before we had to get all dressed up and ready to go to the wedding. But in the meantime the weather turned pretty awful, and my siblings couldn’t make it b/c the closed down interstate 65. The wedding was a bit longer then I thought it was going to be it was about a 2 hour ceremony which we sang Christmas carols we sang 12 actually ALL verses. The reason why is b/c part of the ceremony they had a contract for all the members of the audience to sign so that took awhile for everyone in the audience to come forward and since this huge poster board contact thing. So that took awhile. Lehna & Terry went for a walk during the ceremony so that was nice that I only had to bounce one baby back and forth between my mom and me. The reception was beautiful the hall was decorated very Christmassy. It had white satin draped all over the chairs with big red bows. So that was really a lot of fun. I really enjoyed myself at the reception. I had no idea there were so many dancers in our family.
Here are some pictures of the wedding.
Maya and Lehna
Lehna was VERY tired with all the dancing
Maya was pretty tired too!
The second weekend in December we had kind of an interesting weekend. On Friday afternoon I was on my way back from lunch during work and I was driving down the road when this 79 year old lady turns RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY CAR! I didn’t have any kind of stopping distance whatsoever. I mean seriously I couldn’t stop it was awful! My airbags went off and my chest was killing me. I had some burns on my hands from the air bag but my chest hurt from the seat belt. I went to the hospital after calling my husband and work to let them know where I was. Kaity (my coworker) took my straight to the ER just to get checked out and to make sure that I didn’t have any broken ribs or anything like that I came back clear of anything like that. So I spent the weekend resting. I was pretty sore. But I was lucky that I didn’t have my children in the car.
Picture of the sunfire
So the third week in December I was searching for a new vehicle. I was driving the Corsica everyday to work and that car was starting to worry me as far as dependability b/c the first day I tried to go to work it took three times before it would turn over…. Soooooo can have a job and not have a car! Soooo I was looking on the internet for a new van actually. We decided long ago that if we could get a van that would really be easier for us as far as traveling and since the SUV is a piece of crap a van would be so much easier. So I knew what I wanted: bucket seats in the second row, automatic doors, and a DVD player. So that’s what I hunted for, the only thing that came close to that that was in my price range was the town and country so I found a couple of them and went to see them on Wednesday to a local dealer here in Lafayette. I loved the car he showed me it was totally was I was looking for so I found out that they want 15,000 well that was our CEILING price… sooo I started doing some comparisons and I found a van that was very similar to the van that I looked at but it didn’t have as many amenities. It did have one door automatic, DVD player, and the second row as bucket seats. So they were starting at 15,000 so I talked that guy down to 12,000 then I went back to the other dealer to see if I could get him to move at all… and he wouldn’t move. Soooo I went with the guy in Indianapolis. We got the new van the third weekend and Trent watched the girls when we went to do that.
I don’t have pictures of the van so enjoy some of the girls instead
Maya looking REALLY cute!
Another picture of Maya Looking Cute!
The 4th weekend in December was of course Christmas well Christmassy so that’s always exciting. We had our Christmas for the Girls a little early. Santa came during the day on Thursday so we had the girls open the Christmas gifts on Thursday night. Talk about a mad dash home, Santa doesn’t always wrap the presents he leaves soooo I had to HURRY home to make sure that they were all wrapped; most were NOT wrapped so I got to wrap. We told Lehna when she got in from daycare that Santa came when she was gone and we wanted to see if she would like open presents… she thought that Santa was still at the house and so then REFUSED to go inside the house when we got home… and she kept peering around corners just making sure Santa wasn’t still in the house. She’s VERY afraid of him. I didn’t force her to see Santa this year. She HATES clowns so I figured Santa would be in that same boat, every time I asked if she would like to go see Santa she goes “no he’s too busy,” when I would ask her follow up questions like what is he busy doing she would reply “shopping” so apparently Santa shops rather than building toys.
Christmas After all the Unwrapping!
Lehna Looking Pretty
Looking REALLY Pretty!
Christmas Eve (Matching PJs you don't know how hard it was to take this picture!)
Maya opening her Stocking
We had a last minute change of plans b/c we found out that one of my high school teachers passed away unexpectedly. I had heard she was sick and she did pass away it was a very fast thing. Her name was Janice Nowling and she was the Consumer and Family Sciences teacher at the high school. I LOVED her class. Tait knew the family as well b/c the golf pro at the Peru Golf Course is Bob Nowling and so he knew the family through golfing. I have known of Mrs. Nowling for YEARS she knew me back when I was a very young child through the Baptist Church and she knew my dad and step mother very well. I was very sad to hear of her passing. She always told me that I should go into teaching specifically Consumer and Family Sciences I always wondered what it would have been like to teach that or to teach at all so she did plant that seed in me. So once we got to Peru we went to the viewing. We decided not to go to the funeral. I was very sad at the viewing. There were lots of people there so I know she was well remembered.
We managed to see all sides of the family this year for Christmas (well except my parents and they didn’t come down from Wisconsin) they will be coming down later in January. Usually we normally just see Tait’s family and my family but this year since Tait’s grandparents had Christmas on Sunday before Christmas it allowed A LOT more people to come to it. Which is FABULOUS? Tait’s grandparents crack me up, Dick and Alta are so nice and they are super funny. Dick still cracks jokes and he’s always going ‘Tait I bet you haven’t heard this one before’ but he only addresses Tait when he gets ready to tell a joke so it’s kind of funny. They had LOTS of people in their quant little house though so we kind of rotated from the bedrooms to the front rooms since there were sooooo many people. I liked to be able to see them though.
Lehna and Landyn Dancing Lehna LOVES to dress up and once she's dressed up she likes to dance!
Deklyn in her Prisoner Dress!
Maya singing her pretty song
Helen didn’t disappoint with the food supply. Always when we come home she always cooks and makes super good meals. It’s nice not having to cook or clean up for the matter. I do nothing but eat when I’m at their house though they always have candy and good stuff like that so I always come home with a full belly. She made Ham and a FULL turkey for Christmas and along with that she made egg rolls and noodles and mashed potatoes my favorite things! It was really wonderful. I love eating Helen’s cooking. If I could rent her to come and cook for me on a daily basis I would be like a size 30 but damn it I would LOVE it!
The girls made out like freaking bandits they got soooo much stuff from Tanna, Helen, us, Santa, and the grandparents it was insane. I’m glad we got the van though or we wouldn’t have been able to get everything home. I have heard that Santa dropped off a load at my mom’s house too in Wisconsin!!! Which Tait and I kept telling people… they really don’t need anything they have so much already but we didn’t even listen to our own advice.
So I’m putting some pictures up here for you to enjoy. I don’t know which pictures to include and which ones not too. So I’ll add until I get tired.
Enjoy!
We are all working on New Year’s Eve so that kind of sucks but it should be a good time for New Year’s Eve I mean we will probably stay home and put the kids to bed at normal time but at least we get the next day off!
Well hopefully I’ll update sooner next time but if I don’t… look forward to another month long update!!!
Last picture... Lehna LOVES her baby sister and Maya LOVES her big sister
