Weekend Fun!

The guys had their first base ball game of the season on Saturday, and everyone had SO much fun! Of course, the weather being 70 degrees with a nice breeze helped out!!! They played at Craig Park, which is their "home field" here in Indianapolis, against the Hoosiers, and they won both games (and decidedly so, I might add)!

We made it until about the third inning of the second game before the kids had reached their "boiling point" and we couldn't put them off anymore to go to the playground. So off we went, and I got a few good pictures!

Aren't they all so cute??? :)

Helping Jordan climb all the equipment (she's such a good big sister)!

Everyone playing in the sandbox (Meggan and Rachel working on building their sandcastle)!

These two really just crack me up when they're together ... they just LOVE spending time with each other!

Of course, Jordan saw them and had to play copy-cat!!!

The Barretts came over to our house after the ball games and ate supper with us and played outside for a while before they had to drive back home to Ohio. We really do so miss them being here and enjoy it so much when they come to town for a visit! Thanks for the late night we're sure you guys had and for spending some time here with us and having a little more of a chance to visit a bit! :)

We went to church and Sunday school and Meggan sang in choir on Sunday morning. Then we just enjoyed hanging out the rest of the cold and rainy Sunday together at home until ChristCare Group in the evening. Another fun and busy weekend!!!

Hope everyone is having a great start to the week so far!

Meggan's "Bob" Haircut!

Meggan informed me a couple weeks ago out of the blue (we weren't even talking about hair or anything of the sort) that, "If we went and had Grandma cut my hair, I wouldn't care if she cut it in a bob." So since then she's been talking on and off about getting her long hair (it was at about the middle of her back at least) cut off to her shoulders, or in a bob.

Yesterday afternoon was the perfect time to get this accomplished, so here are the pictures!

She's loving her new haircut!

Here's a picture of the back, "right at my shoulders, Mommy!"

Here are also a couple of pictures of Jordan "helping" me with some of the filing. That bottom drawer has our taxes folders - he's just reminding everyone that tomorrow is tax day... :(

Sorry about the snot-nose there ... kind of a given for the poor little guy!

Hope everyone's week is starting off well!

Easter Weekend!

So Jason and the kids survived without me last week while I was in Las Vegas for work (I knew they would)! :)

Easter weekend brought Grandma and Papa to Indy for a visit - and they had FUN!!! They got here early in the afternoon on Thursday and picked Meggan up from school, so she LOVED that! Any time she gets to leave school and not have to go to after-school care (you'd think that was the torture chamber or something, according to her) makes her more than happy! Then they played outside a while and then walked up to Nancy's to pick Jordan up. They got to go to Chick-Fil-A for supper because the school was having a fundraiser that night and then back home for a little more playing!

Friday was no school for Meggan and Grandma and Papa stayed home with the kiddos. They went to the mall and looked around and hit the playground, got some cinnamon pretzel snacks, and then hit McDonald's on the way back home for some lunch. It was a rainy day, so they must have played inside with Barbies or something with Meggan while Jordan took a nice nap. Then they headed to the airport to pick me up and ran to my open arms when they saw me! We hit O'Charley's for supper and then headed home to play a tiny bit before heading to bed!

Saturday was a busy day with swimming lessons and an Easter party at the Julian Center that our ChristCare Group was hosting. It's a center for women and children dealing with domestic violence, I believe, or if they need a place to stay, so that was an interesting one to explain to Meggan. She understood, of course, but it was a little difficult to know how to really put it into words for her to know enough information but not know too much information... We hit Kroger for a few things for Easter dinner on Sunday and to make an egg casserole that I volunteered us to bring to church Easter morning and then headed home to play a little more.

Meggan wanted to show Grandma and Papa her big bike (without training wheels), so we got it out and I was jogging with her. She seemed a little more sure of herself than she has before, so I let go down the sidewalk. She went down the sidewalk one house the first time, then made it down the sidewalk a couple houses, and then I told her to just keep going. She made it to the stop sign at the end of our street!!!!!!!! She is now officially a big-girl bike rider. She even went around the big block yesterday afternoon with Jason! He told her that now she can ride while he runs in the neighborhood, and you should have seen the look in her eyes! Now he will just have to let her try once we get a little more free time and the weather stays nice (it's pouring down rain again today).

It's Monday again now and Grandma and Papa have taken off for Iowa this morning. Meggan always hates to see them go and cries when they leave, but at least it's just until next month this time since her birthday is coming up soon! It will only be a little over a month before they will be back for her 5th birthday party, so it wasn't quite as hard to say good-bye as it is some other times. :(

We love you, Grandma and Papa! Thanks for coming to visit us and for all the love and all the fun!!!

Happy birthday to Grandma! She loved her 50th Anniversary Barbie!!!

She loves her new capris outfit from Grandma and Papa! Now if it will just be nice enough to wear them (although she is wearing the shirt at school today with some different pants)!!!

Happy Easter to all!!!!!

Getting Ready for a Roadtrip!

As I sit here listening to the thunder and the rain, it's hard not to think about all the things I need to get done before we can take off to go to Iowa for Crystal's baby shower this weekend! The good thing about being a freelance court reporter is that you have some flexibility in your job and the days and hours you work. What this basically means for me is that I sign out and don't work on the day that we're leaving for a trip anywhere and I run all the last-minute errands and stuff that we've forgotten to do in order to be able to go on our trip. I usually also pack that day and whatever else we think of that needs to be done.


That will be what my day tomorrow consists of. I'll sneak in a run first at the Y hopefully and then will be running a few errands before I pick Meggan up at Nancy's house at nap time and head home to get everything all packed and also loaded into the van. We are picking her up at nap time because Jordan is staying behind this weekend with Daddy and I don't want him to be awake when I come to get Meggan and leave without him. :(


With it being Spring Break this week, we have had a pretty laid-back week. We've been at home hanging out every night other than Monday night when we went to Target and got Jordan's 18-month pictures taken, and it's been really nice! Though the week started out on an interesting note Saturday morning when Jason's Jeep was stolen (yes, right out of our own driveway), we've managed to have a pretty normal week and recover quite nicely. The good thing is that everyone is safe and they didn't even try to come into the house even though the garage door opener was right there for them to use if they chose to, and as valuable as the Jeep is, it is also replaceable if worse comes to worse. It is such an odd feeling to know that there's people like that and that they came in our neighborhood and stole OUR car. But there's really nothing we can do about it anyway, so we just wait to see if we ever hear from the police that it's been found...


As always, Meggan and I are very excited for our trip to Iowa and Jason is excited to hang out "just the boys" this weekend too! Not that he doesn't want to come along, but since he has to work Saturday morning and Jordan is NOT a fan of 8-hour car rides quite yet, they're perfectly happy to stay behind and hang out at home together. Although it will be pretty short-lived and busy and tiring, it's going to be very fun and there's nothing more exciting than celebrating the upcoming arrival of a new baby (especially when said baby is no longer taking over MY body and it's someone else that gets to experience the joy of pregnancy and I just get to enjoy the tiny baby)!!! :):):)


Hope everyone has had a great week and that everyone here in Indy enjoyed their Spring Break if you've been out of school this week!


Here are a couple pictures of the kids riding the horse this week and wrestling with him too!

Whose Crazy Idea Was THIS???

It has been a pretty busy week around here. We enjoyed the weekend - Jason was off on Saturday, which is ALWAYS nice! It just seems to make the weekends more fun to have him around the whole time. We hung out with some friends, made it to church, the guys had base ball practice (the first of the season ... and it was a GORGEOUS day outside for it), and then had ChristCare Group in the evening. Then the week started up again way too soon, as it always does.

Here is Meggan's latest bed. She now "camps out" with Jordan in his room on the floor instead of sleeping on our floor. We wait until he goes to sleep and then she goes in there and lays down on the floor and goes to sleep. This was all her idea ... hey, whatever works; right?!?!?!?! I'm thinking they will be sharing a room with bunkbeds here in the next year or so...

Testing it out!

Sunday before Jason left for base ball practice, we were outside playing for a while. The neighbors had a skateboard ramp set up, so we had to try it out. (Don't worry - Jason was right beside them both the whole time). First, Meggan went over it with her bike, and then Jordan had to follow with the stroller he was pushing around at the moment.

Monday we had dance class. Tuesday I went to dinner and baby shower gift shopping for my little sister, Crystal. Yesterday I was stuck in my job that started at 9:00 a.m. and ended around 6:30 or so. Then tonight we got home and played outside, which was when Jason got the great idea to take Meggan's training wheels off of her Barbie bike. We thought she was pretty close to ready, but I'm not so sure now... We'll see! She did only start today.

One of the first trial runs!

Just gearing up for another fun weekend now, although Jason does have to work this Saturday (bummer)! It's not supposed to be nice weather, so maybe we'll even get some things done inside the house (sorting through closets, drawers, etc.) We just all love to be outside and could stay out there for hours at a time. We'll see on that one too!

I don't have a job tomorrow but have one that I need to work on getting done. I think I might just pick Meggan up in "early car line" at 11:45 and we'll enjoy the afternoon until Jordan wakes up from his nap at Nancy's and go grab him a little early too! Hope everyone has had a great week and is looking forward to the weekend! :)

Silly kids! Don't even ask...

The Finished Product!

I'm finally getting around to snapping a few pictures and posting them. I got all the new bathroom accessories put together on Monday afternoon and then Jason, Micah, Jer, and Mark were here on Monday evening and got the couches and big-screen TV and the piano and all that fun stuff put back together. It's so nice to have it all done ... and we're just so pleased with how it all turned out!!!

The kids after their bath on Monday night! I put Meggan's towel around her like this and then Jordan wanted to do the same thing ... I just caught a picture before he decided he was done with that idea! :)

Other than that, this week has been pretty much the same old, same old. We had ChristCare Group on Sunday evening and had lots of fun getting the group back together again. Then we had dance class on Monday night and then the guys came over and helped lift all the heavy stuff back in so we had our friends here to play until it started getting darker out and was time for a bath and to get to bed. Last night was another beautiful night and so we played outside until it was time to come in as the kids were getting worn out and tired from a couple later nights of playing! Tonight is choir practice at church, and then we'll be doing baths again and getting to sleep.

The kids' new bathroom decor (if you just could have seen their faces when each of them saw it ... they were priceless)!

Our new tile bathroom!!!

The living room and front room floor!

The new kitchen floor (we still need to get a new window blind there above the sink)!

Hope everyone is having a great week so far! Hope you enjoyed the pictures! :)

Looking Good!!!

Here are a few pictures of the new flooring! We're so thrilled with how it all turned out!!! Now if we can just get this house put back together...

Little bit bright with the sunshine today, but this is the new kitchen flooring into the living room!

Here's the living room/front room and the laminate flooring!

Here's the kids' bathroom (it has a sage green countertop, so this fit perfectly)! The decor will also be changed soon, so don't mind the fact that our poor almost 18-month-old son has been bathing with the Disney Princesses...

Finally, our new bathroom tile!!!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Ours is quickly passing by, as always...