Happy Birthday to Brigham! I was going to mail you a cheesecake, but in the 100° weather, the postal service just wouldn't accept it with it's "perishable" condition. I guess you'll have to come up here to get it. How does July 19 sound?
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This past weekend my in-laws had a "women's weekend" where in all 9 adult females of the family spent the weekend together (no boys) at the Nelson's place. It was way fun but I am way exhausted: a joint baby shower for my sister in-law and myself (we are due a week apart), pedicures, going out to eat, shopping, ice-cream shop, going to see Wicked, etc.. It was way fun (most of these things were things I would never spend $ on myself so it was nice to be spoiled). But after 2 nights in a row of only 4 hours sleep I'm so exhausted! Meanwhile, the males of the Nelson family who didn't have kids yet stayed at our house with Steve and Kiera and had some male bonding time (all while watching Kiera). I'm glad that Kiera lived to tell the tale. The broadway production of Wicked was really entertaining-- I recommend it (well, behind Les Miserables of course).
It's official. Kiera is currently the cutest little girl in the world. there is no competition (although in a few months that might change as we are getting 3 additions :-) So yesterday, I went to go watch Kiera for a couple of hours so Steve could go play with his brothers and me and little kiera had a blast! When she woke up from her nap, we read some books together and I asked her for some kisses. She very promptly said "no"....so I then proceeded to tickle her mercilessly. She must have thought it was a fun game cause after I was finished, she then said "no" again. After a while I realized I had to get this on video so I recorded a portion of it on my phone. So here is the grand debut of the "no" game. I'll have you know that after I was done recording the video, it then turned into the "bye bye" game. we then proceeded to play the "no" and the "bye bye" game until steve returned. She is one fun little g...
Not that we're counting down or anything... but we're officially on the Christmas Advent Calendar Countdown as of a few days ago. I bought a couple of discounted ($0.25 each) Christmas advent calendars when they were on clearance after Christmas. It is now less than 24 days until the wedding -- giving us the right . . . no . . . responsibility to use such calendars in the countdown. Lest we should forget the upcoming events... You know how it goes. And hey, we even get a nice cheap piece of chocolate every day 'til it happens! Katie had her bridals done today too. If anyone cares to take a peek, here are the photos, and here are a handful of slightly or significantly edited versions of the same pictures. We now need to choose from the group to see which ones we want printed. Anyhow, enjoy.
Kiera has a new fascination with tummy's and belly buttons (suprprisingly, she can still identify my belly button although it is almost non-existant and my g-tube site is very prominant). She has to see everybody in the household's tummy at least 3 times daily. I've been telling her that there is a baby in my tummy for a while now, but I think she may finally understand because now whenever I talk about it she comes and gives my tummy 5-6 kisses and occasionally hugs it. It's cute, I'll have to get it on video. In the past week Kiera has mastered the use of the word "please" (although she says it "pease") she always signs it as she says it (rubbing chest in circular motions). One of Kiera's favorite foods is peas so I started heating some up for her last night. She got excited when she saw the bag of frozen peas and said "peas!!!" while signing 'please'. So I guess for Kiera the sign for please not only helps us ask ...
Update on Groneman Reunion - I took the trailer up last night (and a couple of tents just in case...a guy can hope can't he....can I tempt you with ATV rides?...but alas, it looks like Brett & Chad won't be coming...dunno what Christa's plans are) and the road going up is in the best shape it's ever been as it's been graded all the way. You can easily drive your car right to the camp site. There's a couple of rocks sticking up to watch out for, but they can be easily avoided. If it's going to be just Marilyn & I at the reunion, I'll only take two ATVs up instead of three. I'm going up to the Mountain property tonight after work to de-winterize that place so it's ready for anyone that wants to go up there. I'm going to stay the night. Tried to call Marilyn last night to find out her final plans, but only got the message machine. I'm assuming you're still coming home Friday (??) but no clue if Christa & kids will be coming...
Yesterday, Benjamin and I and Jacob were out on the patio. Jacob was playing by his sandbox, and Benjamin and I were reading a book about tornados and how they form and what kind of damage they do. We were sitting in their free standing poarch swing (like ours). There was mostly just a breeze, quite pleasant, really. But every few minutes a big gust of wind would hit, that Benjamin thought fun...and it went right along with the book we were reading about powerful winds and such. But then, a really strong gust of wind hit all of the sudden, which was strong enough that I was worried aboout Jacob getting blown over backwards (he was standing), and he started to cry cause it was blowing sand in his eyes, so I ran to go pick him up and hurry into the house, but no sooner had I picked up Jacob but Benjamin began to cry. The wind had blown the swing over on top of Benjamin, and he had done a faceplant on the cement. He had bit his lip which was bleeding, and given him a pretty good size goos...