Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and will be having a Happy New Year celebration tonight!

We had a wonderful Christmas(yet again)! Christmas Eve we had a wonderful dinner with Gramps, Dabbers, Uncle Tatas, and some great neighbors Michelle and Auntie B! We all ate so much, but it was wonderful to get to spend the evening with people we love!

Santa swung by our house a little early on Christmas Eve to deliver K's new jammies! They are precious! She loved them so much, she didn't take them off until Monday! I didn't know if I'd ever get them off of her...she considers them her "Magic Jammies"! She was also allowed the yearly tradition of opening one present before she went to bed...this year it was a Fairy Princess Barbie! She was thrilled!



We woke up around 7:30 on Christmas day and unwrapped gifts and ate breakfast(Nick's Fav...Jesus' Birthday Cake!!), and then as always, we vegged out in our jammies! Christmas night we decided we were ready for something different than leftovers, so we loaded up to see what kind of food we could find...our choices...Sonic or Chinese! We picked Chinese! haha! What a very Merry Christmas Dinner!

It's New Year's Eve today, and we are planning to stay close to home! We will venture out later to the Thomas household for some time with the neighbors! All the kids will get to play and so will the parents! I am still trying to figure out what little snackies I want to make to take! :)

We hope everyone had a VERY Merry Christmas, and Have a wonderful 2010!

Christmas with Gamma!!

Kastyn has been so excited for the past week to go across the street to Gamma's to give her the Christmas gift we got for her. It's been wrapped and sitting by the front door for her, and she was about to burst because she wanted to give it to her so badly! We saw Gamma Sunday at a Birthday Party, and I was so worried, that my little blabber mouth was going to spill the Christmas present beans to Gamma...luckily she was so busy with all her friends that she didn't, but the second we got home...she wanted to go gifting. Finally last night, we went to Gamma's house so we could give her the beautifully wrapped gift we had for her.

Of course, Gamma had a couple little packages for this little princess too! She was sooo excited! Kastyn opened her gifts first, and got an adorable new outfit, that is so her, as well as some new lipstuff, and makeup! She was in heaven! As soon as we got home from school today she rushed in and opened all her "new" and started putting it on...of course she looks beautiful!!

We had a soft fuzzy blanket embroidered for Gamma with...none other than her "name" on it! We hope she loves it just as much as we loved having it made for her, and giving it to her!! :) We are so blessed to have adopted such a wonderful Gamma, and have her as a part of our lives! She is the best!!!

Sumo...YUM!!

Nick and I have been trying to get together with some friends for quite a while to go out to dinner and it finally happened Saturday night! We traveled to East Wichita to go to SUMO....a very yummy Japanese Steak House! I love this place. We have lots of these steak-houses in town...but Sumo is by far, in my opinion...the BEST!

We debated on if we should take Kastyn or not....but then decided that the $7 it cost to take her was better than the end of the night babysitting tab...so she got to go too, and she had sooo much fun! She'd been to a different one before and remembered all the little fun things they did...throw shrimp to catch in your mouth; toss stuff and catch it in their hats; make the fire volcano! So our little "chef" is almost done cooking and serving us our food, and Kastyn looks and Nick and says, "Daddy, where is our Volcano???" The "chef" overheard her, and said...shhhh....oops. I think sombody forgot the volcano, and got called out by a sweet little 4 year old! :)

Here are a couple pictures of our wonderful evening!!

Kastyn and Daddy


Mommy with Kastyn


Yummmmm!!!


Kyle and Ashley

Radio Winners!

Nick and I couldn't win a darn thing the whole time we were in Vegas, and we barely win on the occasional scratch ticket....but give us a radio contest, and we might just win that!

This morning brings the latest winning for ME! I won on B98fm this morning! I had the answer to the impossible trivia question(with a little help from my computer)! But hey, I won....and to top it off...it's a $50 gift certificate to Healing Waters DaySpa! I can SOOO use that right now!

My other winnings this year have included a $50 gift certificate to In the Bag Dry Cleaning and who can forget being the first Mooo-lah winner of the season and winning $1000 in October!

Nick has won quite a bit more than I have...a CD, he also won Moo-lah but only $100, golf gift certificate, and the biggie....Taylor Swift Tickets!

I guess we'll save our money in Vegas and listen to the radio stations here in Wichita!! I love B98fm...and he is more of a KFDI listener!! :) Both great stations!!

Edited to add: Not 30 minutes after I finished this post...Nick won again...Brad Paisley concert tickets in January! WHOOHOOO! I tried too....but I was caller 8...he was lucky #10! :)

She loves to Compete!

With everything she does! Is this good? or bad? I think it's a little of both! It's good that she has the drive to want to do good in everything she does...but there is going to be that one day when she isn't the best...and then I think it's going to break her heart!

She competes from first thing in the morning...to see who can eat their breakfast the quickest.....right up until she goes to bed, when she runs to her room to see who an be the first to get all snuggled in bed! There are often times when we "let" her win...just to make sure we don't have an issue on our hands, but I think her day is coming.

As of last week, her gymnastics teacher bumped her up to a more advanced class with 5-7 year olds. Last week was definitely a challenge for her. She is really going to have to start paying attention more in class and try her hardest, as well as practice her skills(new and old) at home! I was trying to get her to practice Monday evening...and she didn't want to. I really think she just didn't want to listen to me! Daddy came down, and she listened to him, however, neither of them were doing the "right" thing, so as I was trying to correct her...she was getting bent out of shape and just didn't want to do it anymore! She really doesn't like to be told what to do! :)

I can see we are probably going to have lots more challenges in life...especially in about...oh...10/11 more weeks when her baby brother arrives! :)

For now...here in a cute little picture of my girl...playing with ALLL of her "friends"!!

The Snow...

Is falling...

I'm so not ready for snow, or the cold, or winter. Can't it always just be NICE out? Guess not. So I'll have to deal with it. I just have SO much to do before Christmas gets here and this makes me want to just stay in bed...that much more!

25 week appointment....

I traveled across town today for my 25 week appointment! Yet another boring appt. But that is fine! I am still gaining weight, my blood pressure was perfect, and the baby's heartbeat was 148. Dr didn't know for sure if baby was up or down...but he is still kinda diagonal across my body. I am thinking head up feet down...since I am constantly getting jabbs in the bladder! I go again the 31st for another 4 week appt, and at that point I also get to do the glucose testing. I passed with flying colors with Kastyn, so he said I probably have nothing to worry about this time around either! We shall see!!

Here is an updated picture of our growing little man!!

Rock Chalk!

Kastyn went to her first Jayhawks game last Wednesday with Nick and Uncle Drew when we were in Lawrence! She had such a great time going and watching the cheerleaders! Nick said she was trying to do everything that they were doing! She also enjoyed her popcorn and Sprite! She didn't get her picture taken with Jay or Baby-Jay, but she did get to give the sweaty players hi 5's after the game!!





Heading out to play...


Heading to the Game...