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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Rock, rock, rock...
Thanks for the present Grandma Van Dine! Hope it fits in the car to go to Dallas!
Deck the Halls...
We have had some Christmas fun this week! Our annual Emmaus family Christmas party is always a fun treat.
Addie and Elias are waiting for their presents!
Elias got his first. I think this toy includes a hammer! Oh boy!
Addie got some books. 3 of them are Christmas carols. She really likes "Deck the Halls" and tries to sing "Fa la la la la..." with me :)
Elias passed the time with Melsie. He loves riding this thing!
We also went out the play in the snow this week. There's plenty of it!
Mmmmmm...
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Our big little girl
It's hard for me to believe that more than one year has gone by with Addie. She is still our baby, but is getting so big! Here are a few pictures to show you just how big our little girl is.
And she loves to just be a big girl!
Wayne and I are leaving today for Senegal for a week, and we will sure miss her. I have lots of pictures of her to take with me, and a few of us to leave with her :)
She likes to build things now, like this tower with grandad
And she loves to walk...
...and be carried way up high!
She loves her daddy (her shirt says "My dad is the man")
And she loves to just be a big girl!
Wayne and I are leaving today for Senegal for a week, and we will sure miss her. I have lots of pictures of her to take with me, and a few of us to leave with her :)
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
Try and keep up!
Well, she really started walking this weekend! She doesn't fall too much anymore and can even turn corners (as you see in this video!)
Another exciting feat tonight. We had dinner at Emmaus and Addie walked all the way from the front of the school to the dining hall! If you've ever been there, you know that's a really long ways (it's an old Catholic seminary, and so the chapel in the middle of the school is long and skinny, and she walked the length of that). Luckily, we started out 10 minutes before dinner time, so we made it just on time!
Another exciting feat tonight. We had dinner at Emmaus and Addie walked all the way from the front of the school to the dining hall! If you've ever been there, you know that's a really long ways (it's an old Catholic seminary, and so the chapel in the middle of the school is long and skinny, and she walked the length of that). Luckily, we started out 10 minutes before dinner time, so we made it just on time!
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Fall Fun
The weather was so great this week that we went to a park with Jenna and Elias to take some pictures. The kids had a great time crawling around and exploring! Here are some of my favorites.
"Here Elias, let me show you..."
Addie loves to give Elias kisses, and he takes it pretty well too!
"Here Elias, let me show you..."
Ok, this wasn't at the park, but I thought it was cute. She loves shoes now, hers, mine, whoever's she can find. Well, we hadn't quite gotten her clothes on after her bath last night, but she wanted those shoes on! So here she is.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Family Portrait
A friend of ours recently took some family pictures for us (we need new prayer cards because Addie looks so different!) Here are some of our favorites!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
This is for dad...
Wayne is away for a couple of days, so here are some pictures of his girls for him! We love you!
Monday, October 1, 2007
It's my party...
A few pictures of Addie's first birthday party!
She now can stand all on her own, and is quite proud of herself when she does. She also has her very own cell phone which she loves too!
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
New Blog
We have a new blog, www.dennysinafrica.blogspot.com. This blog will still be up, mainly to update with pictures of Addie. The new blog is to keep people informed on what is going on with us as we prepare to move overseas. We will update it with prayer requests, how our preparation is going etc... and when we get there of course the updates will be a lot more exciting. Check it out!
Monday, August 27, 2007
Oklahoma!...where the wind comes sweeping down the plains...
Well, we've had quite the adventure in Oklahoma this weekend. As you probably know, we've been traveling a lot. This summer we were on the road for 7 weeks, flying from California to Texas to New Hampshire to North Carolina and probably a few more places I'm forgetting. Well, the last 3 times that we flew this summer, we experienced major problems...flight delays, cancellations, overnight stays in cities we weren't supposed to stay in. So, we had a trip to Dallas planned this weekend for a wedding. Wayne's good friend Tommy was getting married in Denton this weekend and Wayne was a groomsman. We decided to go as a family and then take a little vacation in San Antonio afterwards, just to unwind from the summer. We decided to drive this time and avoid all the hassles of airports and plane delays.
Our plan was to leave Thursday night around dinner, drive through the night and then rest on Friday before the rehearsal. Addie usually sleeps 12 or 13 hours a night, so it seemed like a great plan, and would have been too. We ended up leaving a little early, made a couple of stops for her to get out, and by 8:30 Thursday night were well on our way and ready for her to sleep the rest of the way to Dallas. I got to sleep from about 10:00 on until Wayne woke me up at 2:30 am to drive. We were making great time! I drove for a couple of hours and then started to get sleepy. We had gone through several small towns in Oklahoma and were just about to McAlester, a decent sized town, and I was going to have Wayne wake up and drive. Just as we came over a hill and saw the city, the airconditioner starts to feel warm and the car gets sluggish. I looked down and the temperature light was on, so I pulled over at the next exit, yelling at Wayne "Wake up, there's something wrong!" and before I can get around the corner onto the street, the car dies. Well, it is 4:30 in the morning, we are on the side of the road with no gas station in sight and our car won't do anything. At this point, I start crying (I'm a cryer) and Wayne calls AAA. A few people go by, one person stops and looks at the car for us and says "Oh, that looks really bad." Thanks, that makes me feel better. Addie is up now, so we get her out and stand on the side of the road. Wayne says at this point, "Maybe someone will drive by and hit it and total it so we won't have to pay for repairs." The tow truck comes in about 15 minutes and takes us to the next exit where there is a dealership and mechanic. It's now only 5:30 and the place doesn't open until 7:30, so it's 2 hours in Dennys for us.
Addie was having a great time, enjoyed her breakfast, made friends with the waitress, was just plain giddy. Well, at 7:30 we went back, they said they would have someone look at it right away, and let us sit in the waiting room. Addie, after a short nap, is still giddy and crawling all over the place. She's filthy from the floor, but we were too tired to care at that point. Two hours later, we were on our way to Dallas in a rental car with the promise that we would have our car Monday morning for a mere $1,000. Well, there goes San Antonio. We decided to just head back north and stay in Kansas City Monday and Tuesday, go to a Royals game, swim at the hotel and just relax.
The weekend was great, we had a great time at the wedding, got to see my sister, went to church and saw a lot of people, ate cheese fries at Snuffers.
Wayne said last night "It was such a good weekend, I don't even care that we have to pay $1,000 for the car." We stayed in a hotel about 1 hour south of where we had to pick up the car today and planned on taking it easy on the way up to KC. Well.....
Monday morning, about 8:00, Wayne calls the repair place to make sure the car is done. He tells them his name and says he is calling about the car. They pass him to someone else. He goes through it again. Again, someone new. "Yes, Denny, D-E-N-N-Y" I hear him say. He's getting a little frustrated. Finally on the 4th person, he gets the story. The car was finished, but when they took it to test drive it on Saturday, they totalled it! As soon as he hung up the phone and told me, we started laughing! What else could happen?!?
Well, to make an already long story shorter, we are now the proud owners of a minivan! They traded us our old high mileage car for a bigger car with fewer miles worth $1,200 more, plus we didn't have to pay for repairs to the old car! They didn't want to have to file insurance, we needed a car to get home, it worked out for everyone! They gave us a few choices of car we could pick from, and it was fun to go car shopping without having to spend any money! So we are now a minivan family.
We finally made it to KC tonight, we'll go to a Royals game tomorrow and get home Wednesday or Thursday. Hopefully the rest of the trip is uneventful!
Our plan was to leave Thursday night around dinner, drive through the night and then rest on Friday before the rehearsal. Addie usually sleeps 12 or 13 hours a night, so it seemed like a great plan, and would have been too. We ended up leaving a little early, made a couple of stops for her to get out, and by 8:30 Thursday night were well on our way and ready for her to sleep the rest of the way to Dallas. I got to sleep from about 10:00 on until Wayne woke me up at 2:30 am to drive. We were making great time! I drove for a couple of hours and then started to get sleepy. We had gone through several small towns in Oklahoma and were just about to McAlester, a decent sized town, and I was going to have Wayne wake up and drive. Just as we came over a hill and saw the city, the airconditioner starts to feel warm and the car gets sluggish. I looked down and the temperature light was on, so I pulled over at the next exit, yelling at Wayne "Wake up, there's something wrong!" and before I can get around the corner onto the street, the car dies. Well, it is 4:30 in the morning, we are on the side of the road with no gas station in sight and our car won't do anything. At this point, I start crying (I'm a cryer) and Wayne calls AAA. A few people go by, one person stops and looks at the car for us and says "Oh, that looks really bad." Thanks, that makes me feel better. Addie is up now, so we get her out and stand on the side of the road. Wayne says at this point, "Maybe someone will drive by and hit it and total it so we won't have to pay for repairs." The tow truck comes in about 15 minutes and takes us to the next exit where there is a dealership and mechanic. It's now only 5:30 and the place doesn't open until 7:30, so it's 2 hours in Dennys for us.
Addie was having a great time, enjoyed her breakfast, made friends with the waitress, was just plain giddy. Well, at 7:30 we went back, they said they would have someone look at it right away, and let us sit in the waiting room. Addie, after a short nap, is still giddy and crawling all over the place. She's filthy from the floor, but we were too tired to care at that point. Two hours later, we were on our way to Dallas in a rental car with the promise that we would have our car Monday morning for a mere $1,000. Well, there goes San Antonio. We decided to just head back north and stay in Kansas City Monday and Tuesday, go to a Royals game, swim at the hotel and just relax.
The weekend was great, we had a great time at the wedding, got to see my sister, went to church and saw a lot of people, ate cheese fries at Snuffers.
Wayne said last night "It was such a good weekend, I don't even care that we have to pay $1,000 for the car." We stayed in a hotel about 1 hour south of where we had to pick up the car today and planned on taking it easy on the way up to KC. Well.....
Monday morning, about 8:00, Wayne calls the repair place to make sure the car is done. He tells them his name and says he is calling about the car. They pass him to someone else. He goes through it again. Again, someone new. "Yes, Denny, D-E-N-N-Y" I hear him say. He's getting a little frustrated. Finally on the 4th person, he gets the story. The car was finished, but when they took it to test drive it on Saturday, they totalled it! As soon as he hung up the phone and told me, we started laughing! What else could happen?!?
Well, to make an already long story shorter, we are now the proud owners of a minivan! They traded us our old high mileage car for a bigger car with fewer miles worth $1,200 more, plus we didn't have to pay for repairs to the old car! They didn't want to have to file insurance, we needed a car to get home, it worked out for everyone! They gave us a few choices of car we could pick from, and it was fun to go car shopping without having to spend any money! So we are now a minivan family.
We finally made it to KC tonight, we'll go to a Royals game tomorrow and get home Wednesday or Thursday. Hopefully the rest of the trip is uneventful!
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Reunion
Ben, Jenna and Elias are home! They came over to see us on Sunday after they got back and Addie was so excited to see Elias.
She kept taking his toys though, and that didn't make him very happy. He's learned to hold his own with her now though. She used to squeal at him and he would get a little nervous. Now he just yells right back at her (which made her a little nervous :) It's so fun to watch them together.
This is one of my favorite pictures of my handsome nephew.
Wayne was gone this weekend too, so Addie and I were both excited that he came home yesterday!
Other exciting news, her hair is long enough for a bow! (sort of) It has to go right in the middle of her head, and she pulls it out as soon as she can find it. We're making progress though!
She kept taking his toys though, and that didn't make him very happy. He's learned to hold his own with her now though. She used to squeal at him and he would get a little nervous. Now he just yells right back at her (which made her a little nervous :) It's so fun to watch them together.
This is one of my favorite pictures of my handsome nephew.
Wayne was gone this weekend too, so Addie and I were both excited that he came home yesterday!
Other exciting news, her hair is long enough for a bow! (sort of) It has to go right in the middle of her head, and she pulls it out as soon as she can find it. We're making progress though!
Friday, August 17, 2007
Ice cream!
We got a new camera yesterday so I took a lot of pictures today! Hopefully this will help me get more pictures posted.
Here is our day.
After her morning nap, I decided to take the camera in to get her up. I heard her talking and moving around, and here she was! She always greets us like this when she wakes up.
Addie and I then decided to go outside for a bit before lunch. She had a great time crawling around in the grass. I happened to catch her mid sneeze in this one.
And this is the face she always makes after the sneeze.
After lunch with daddy at Buffalo Wild Wings, we spent the afternoon cleaning our apartment. I won't post any pictures of that, it wasn't much fun.
We ended the day by going to grandma's softball game and then ice cream afterwards. Addie loves going to get ice cream with grandma and grandpa, and they love taking her!
Addie is now in bed, worn out from the excitement of the day. We're going to relax by watching Die Hard 2 (I love those movies!) Wayne is on another trip this weekend, so we'll spend some time with grandma and grandpa, and my grandparents who are here visiting from Arizona.
Here is our day.
After her morning nap, I decided to take the camera in to get her up. I heard her talking and moving around, and here she was! She always greets us like this when she wakes up.
Addie and I then decided to go outside for a bit before lunch. She had a great time crawling around in the grass. I happened to catch her mid sneeze in this one.
And this is the face she always makes after the sneeze.
After lunch with daddy at Buffalo Wild Wings, we spent the afternoon cleaning our apartment. I won't post any pictures of that, it wasn't much fun.
We ended the day by going to grandma's softball game and then ice cream afterwards. Addie loves going to get ice cream with grandma and grandpa, and they love taking her!
Addie is now in bed, worn out from the excitement of the day. We're going to relax by watching Die Hard 2 (I love those movies!) Wayne is on another trip this weekend, so we'll spend some time with grandma and grandpa, and my grandparents who are here visiting from Arizona.
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