Saturday, February 6, 2010

Might as well blog while I'm waiting....

So I'm sitting here waiting for Travis to get home and thought I'd pass the time writing a new post here on my blog. We're heading over to Fairbury to Aaron Rickett's race party - the two of us, Trevor & Nicole and Joanne even decided to join in on the fun! I know Travis is very tired - he worked a 14-hour day yesterday and was back out in the plow truck at 6:00 this morning until Noon-ish. I'm looking forward to going though! A lot of our friends will be there and I can have my whopping handful of beers, eat some good food, perhaps bust a move or two and then leave early enough to pick up Kiegan and Maddie from my mom's house (it's Lexi's turn to spend the night with Mamaw since Kiegan stayed there last night). I'm sure I'll probably spend most of my time keeping Nicole under control - she's such a party animal and I'm sure she'll drink way over her limit.....just kidding - she's pregnant. :o) Tomorrow we're heading down the road to Todd & Jen's house for the Super Bowl. I doubt I'll really bother watching the game and will instead feed my face and chat with my girly friends. That's more fun than watching football anyway!

We ended up trading in our camper for a much, much newer one that has SO much more room in it! I am ready to go camping NOW!! Check out the pictures below...it has two slide-outs, an outdoor kitchen, 4 bunks - I love it! We thought our 1999 camper was awesome until we realized that we had to take turns walking around inside of it and that there was NO space for Maddie to crawl around. Our new camper is a 2010 and there is SOOO much room inside of it - we can all walk around and Maddie can crawl/walk all over the place! LOVE IT!

This Thursday Lexi has an appt. with an eye specialist b/c I guess the layers of her cornea or something are peeling which our family eye doctor said usually isn't a problem, but she has just never seen it in someone so young. Hopefully it's nothing serious! Next week I meet with Kiegan's teacher, speech teacher and his special needs group to go over the results from the testing he had done in Peoria and to discuss what it is that he's doing at his sessions in Bloomington. I think we are starting to see an improvement thanks to those Blm. sessions and the extra help he's receiving at school - so far this quarter he has nothing below a C! He's typically at D's and F's so I hope things just keep improving for him.

What else....oh - Maddie has been wearing a lot of her 3T's here lately - the kid's gonna have to take a break from this growing business she keeps doing! Patrick is in wrestling which is on Mondays and Thursdays so as usual I won't be able to go b/c I'll be in Blm. On Valentine's Day we're going to a hockey game as a sort of birthday celebration for the boys. Their names are going to be up on the big screen, they each get jerseys signed by the players and I think they get to go down and meet the players too. Should be fun! At the end of March, we're heading to Indiana to the indoor water park for the weekend. This is Grandma Joanne's Christmas gift to the grandkids - they are so looking forward to it! While we're there, the boys are going to Ride Makerz to build/design their own remote control trucks while the girls are going to Build-A-Bear. FUN!!

Ok - here comes the man - home at last! Enjoy the pics!!

Yummy pizza!


Camper pics:

This is the outside door that goes right into the bathroom. This will be nice b/c the kids and friends won't have to trek all the way through the camper just to go potty!


Outdoor kitchen - fridge, cabinet, sink, double burner


Closets/entertainment center in the kid's room....ladder takes kids to bunk on top on entertainment center.


Opposite from the kid's entertainment center....fold down bunk, Kiegan/Maddie on a bed and then there's a pull-out bed underneath.


View from the kitchen/living room into the kid's bedroom....dinner table on the right, fridge/freezer on left, open door leads to bathroom.


Couch folds out into a bed, dinner table folds down and that area is also a bed. Camper sleeps 10...


Kitchen sink, oven/stove, TV which swivels around so that we can watch it from our bed if we want to.


Our bed...