Ladies and gentlemen, my niece, Jillian and my son, Aaron. She is an Island Princess, he is not.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Christmas 2008
3:15 am, December 18th...Left Kyle, TX
7:00 pm, December 18th...welcomed back to IL with an ice storm making the last 30 minutes take over an hour
9:30 am, December 19th...after spending the night at my brother's house we drove to my mom's house and slid right back down the hill of her driveway almost into a ditch. Canceled the visit to mom's and drove back to my brother's.
9:31 am, December 19th...Greg and I start asking ourselves "Why doesn't everyone just move to Texas?!"
Yes, it's no secret...we don't like the cold, ice and snow. But, we love seeing our family and we were glad we were able to see most of them on our visit. We had "jammy" Christmas fun at my mom's house in our pajams and got to hang around a lot with Tyler, Susan and the girls due to canceled plans. We were very disappointed we weren't able to go to Iowa on Sunday due to a blizzard and we had to leave Greg's mom's early due to another ice storm coming through the midwest. Seriously, Christmas in Texas next year!
Here are a few pictures from our Christmas 2008.
Jaedon's first drum set, ear plugs not included.
This picture gets harder every time!
Puzzled with Grandma Gloria.
Santa brought Aaron a big firetruack. Aaron calls it a "woo woo". 
7:00 pm, December 18th...welcomed back to IL with an ice storm making the last 30 minutes take over an hour
9:30 am, December 19th...after spending the night at my brother's house we drove to my mom's house and slid right back down the hill of her driveway almost into a ditch. Canceled the visit to mom's and drove back to my brother's.
9:31 am, December 19th...Greg and I start asking ourselves "Why doesn't everyone just move to Texas?!"
Yes, it's no secret...we don't like the cold, ice and snow. But, we love seeing our family and we were glad we were able to see most of them on our visit. We had "jammy" Christmas fun at my mom's house in our pajams and got to hang around a lot with Tyler, Susan and the girls due to canceled plans. We were very disappointed we weren't able to go to Iowa on Sunday due to a blizzard and we had to leave Greg's mom's early due to another ice storm coming through the midwest. Seriously, Christmas in Texas next year!
Here are a few pictures from our Christmas 2008.
Jaedon's first drum set, ear plugs not included.
This picture gets harder every time!
Puzzled with Grandma Gloria.
Santa brought Aaron a big firetruack. Aaron calls it a "woo woo". 
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Happy New Year!
Thank you to my faithful 3 or 4 blog readers for hanging in there until I got back to the computer. I know you've been anxiously awaiting a new post :) 2008 has been another amazing year with blessing beyond our wildest dreams. We started the year not knowing what our next step was going to be and finished it moving into our new home. Thank you Lord!
This is how Aaron comes down the stairs most mornings, with an armful of his "chars" aka, cars.
He loves his "chars". He just saw the Disney Movie Cars. It was a lifesaver on the 16+ hour drive to Illinois and back. So, we decided to do his bedroom in a cars them. I painted the wall with the window seat and put up a sticker border and car picture. We were also finally able to put up the toy antique cars that Greg's grandfather collected.
This is the outside view of the house. Right now we are the only house on the street, so we have a nice little country view for a little while.
This is the view when you walk in the front door. This is the dining room which we will be using as a playroom for the forseeable future. I just painted the walls last weekend and haven't had time to do much decorating, but you get the idea!
The study where I will hopefully be giving voice lessons. It's mostly a "catchall" room right now as I await some bookshelves and a desk to put it together a little more.
The kitchen...
And the living room are one big room.
This is how Aaron comes down the stairs most mornings, with an armful of his "chars" aka, cars.
He loves his "chars". He just saw the Disney Movie Cars. It was a lifesaver on the 16+ hour drive to Illinois and back. So, we decided to do his bedroom in a cars them. I painted the wall with the window seat and put up a sticker border and car picture. We were also finally able to put up the toy antique cars that Greg's grandfather collected.
This is the outside view of the house. Right now we are the only house on the street, so we have a nice little country view for a little while.
This is the view when you walk in the front door. This is the dining room which we will be using as a playroom for the forseeable future. I just painted the walls last weekend and haven't had time to do much decorating, but you get the idea!
The study where I will hopefully be giving voice lessons. It's mostly a "catchall" room right now as I await some bookshelves and a desk to put it together a little more.
The kitchen...
And the living room are one big room. Thursday, December 11, 2008
Moved in
We are finally moved in to our new house! It's been whirlwind week and a half. We love having much more space and seeing things of ours we haven't seen in a year. The community of Kyle seems very friendly and family-oriented. There are so many things to do here, we just haven't had time to do many of them! I love our backyard and being able to open it and let Aaron run around as he pleases. I love the front yard and our quiet road (we're the only house for now). Today it was about 70 degrees. After nap time I sat outside while Aaron road around on his tricycle.
We visited a church right down the road and enjoyed it. It's a smaller country type of church, but seems to have a good vision and purpose. We'll definately be visiting some others, but it was a good start.
We are still waiting for the cable company to get here to connect our phone, internet and cable. After finally using some "force" on the phone today, I finally was able to get them to schedule an appointment...for next week. Long story, don't want to get into it. But, I only have internet in the evening with Greg's broadband card borrowed from work.
Aaron is begging for my attention. I'll upload pictures when I have more time!
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