Family Time

Of course my favorite part about being back in Indiana is spending as much time with my sisters and parents as possible! We had so much fun spending a day in Shipshewana, celebrating Christmas and just being together! Thank you Mom and Dad for spending the week in Elkhart to be near us! And thanks Linds and Chris and Erin and Kordell for everything you all did for us while we were there, we had so much fun and can't wait for our summer trip! We love you all!

Cousin Time

Taylor loved spending time with her cousin Cole! We get on skype with my sister and her family once in a while but it doesn't compare to how much Taylor loved having Cole in person! Taylor has mastered saying "Cole" and has not stopped saying it since we got home! Thank you Cole for playing with Taylor and sharing so many toys with her!

Mini-Zeta Reunion

On our way back up north from Indy we stopped at one of my friends from schools house for a mini-zeta reunion! About 10 of us from my sorority and our families had a very yummy brunch and spent the morning catching up! There were a couple of the girls that I had not seen since I graduated, so it was great to see them and spend some time together! Thank you so much Carrie for hosting all of us and thanks to everyone for coming, we had such a great time!

Congrats Megan and James

The main reason we chose to go back this particular weekend in January is to attend my friend from high school Megan's wedding! Derek and I drove to Indy on Saturday night and had a great time catching up with old friends and seeing Megan on her special day! We had a great night out and are so thankful to my parents for babysitting!!

Congrats Megan and James! We are so happy for you guys!!

Playing in the snow!

I need to catch up on our trip back to IN, so I'll do a couple different blogs to break it up!

Taylor got to play in the snow for the first time on this trip. Last year it was way too cold and she was too little to enjoy time outside. Derek was such a trooper and offered to go out and play with Taylor and Cole in the snow. They lasted a lot longer than I would have guessed...probably somewhere around 10-15 minutes! Taylor couldn't really move with all of her snow gear on and because the snow was probably between 12-18 inches deep. She would just sit and put her hands in the snow and then show us the snow on her gloves. After a little while she realized she could dig in the snow and just kept digging and digging and digging!

Happy New Year!

We had a pretty low key evening around here last night. We had a few friends over for dinner and then just hung out. Taylor was in rare form and very excited for the occasion...or perhaps excited to have people over! We tried to get a picture of Taylor and Aiden, however Taylor would jump up and run screaming at whoever was taking the picture, I think she really liked the light from the flash! Thanks for spending New Year's Eve with us Kimels and Baileys!

We hope everyone has a wonderful 2010!

The missing cookie party

I had mentioned that I had three cookie baking parties this year...but the first one never got any blog time! I was horrible and didn't take any pictures, so my friend Jena sent some over. My friends Jena and Cheryl that I worked with at Dial have been doing a little cookie baking party every year for the last three years, this year we cut back the number of cookies so we would not feel as rushed and get to enjoy each others company since we never get to see Cheryl!

As you can see I really just sat back and enjoyed my time...haha just kidding, we were laughing because it seemed like I never sat down!

Thanks Jena and Cheryl for keeping our cookie party alive for the 3rd year! Can't wait for next year...