Monday, January 3, 2011

I should be 400 pounds

Complements of Uncle Kevin and Aunt Amy I eat McDonalds at least 10 times a day!

Yep that's right, Carter serves us up a cheeseburger, fries, McNuggets every 20 minutes. He also throws in other play food like a hard boiled egg, a piece of toast or corn on the cob every once in awhile. All meals end with an ice cream cone and washed down with a beer. He thinks all bottled drinks are beer. Wonder where he got that idea from? All meals cost $3. He rings it up in the cash register and if you're lucky you might get change. Thanks Kevin and Amy we will never go hungry again!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Christmas

I hope you had a great Christmas. Despite the entire Meek family being sick, we had a wonderful holiday. My in-laws gave me the greatest gift. They printed my blog in a hardback book. Every post from the last 3 years were in it. The book makes an awesome family keepsake and it's motivated me to keep blogging. If I decide to continue making annual books of my blog I had to hold off on all posts until 1/1/2011 so they would be in 2011 book. So long story short, that's why I haven't posted anything in a while.

Getting back to Christmas....

Christmas Eve, Nonna and Papa Big (Grandma and Grandpa Fearrin) came by to open gifts with the kids.Carter loved opening presents. It's a good thing Ryan preferred watching Carter because he opened all her gifts too!
The night of Christmas Eve we headed to Uncle Todd's for dinner. We spent time playing with toys and hanging out with Aunt Lisa, Uncle Vince and cousins Morgan and Mitch.
Christmas morning they kids woke up to see the house full of gifts from Santa. Carter ripped through the packaging in a matter of minutes. He was so excited about opening presents I think he's still discovering everything he got.

After the presents were open and the toys were played with, we loaded up the car and drove to Evansville to spend the rest of Christmas with the Meek family.

There were even more toys to play with....
And even more family to play with too....The kids (and grownups) practiced their wrestling skills...

and Ryan got to wear her Christmas dress for a total of 20 minutes before we put her to bed.Kyle and I loved watching Carter and Ryan throughout the holiday season. Carter learned about the birth of Baby Jesus and who Santa Claus is. Carter seemed to love everything about Christmas. He loved outside Christmas lights and the giant blow up snowmen and Santa Clauses in almost everyone's yards. He loved Christmas music and can now sing Jingle Bells. He loved decorating the tree and would have preferred to keep it up all year. He had so much fun with his friends and family. I can only imagine how excited he will next year when he's 3. Ryan was as sweet as can be and took the holiday in stride. Although she was sick for most of the month of December she had a smile on her face. All Kyle and I wanted to Christmas were two happy little kids and we certainly got them!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

New Family Member

I want to officially "blog" welcome our newest member to the family, Gaelle Wells.Gaelle, 9 years old, was adopted in November by my sister (Colleen) and brother-in-law (Rick). She was born in Haiti and moved to the United States after the earthquake. Gaelle is a very confident child with a lot of spirit.

Gaelle and her new brothers (Yacob and Ayalkbet) spent some time this month in Indianapolis while their parents were in the process of moving from the family from Tennessee to Bloomington. We spent a couple days getting to know Gaelle and spending time with our nieces and nephews.

At my sister Lisa's house we made Christmas cookies.



Gaelle loved holding Ryan. She is very fond of babies.
We took a trip to Indianapolis to see the circle and play at Jillians.
It was a jam-packed trip full of activities and new memories. All of the cousins had a great time. Welcome to the family, Gaelle!

Friday, December 17, 2010

his and her seats

Front row seating to watch Polar Express

Carter loves that movie, but Ryan may like it even more.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Christmas Cookies

Decorating Christmas Cookies is so much fun. Be sure to get just the right amount of green frosting.
Don't forget the sprinkles!But the best part of decorating cookies is..... EATING THEM!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Let it Snow!

Let it Snow,
Let it Snow,
Let it Snow!

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Hello Out There

Oh my has it been awhile. I guess when I don't have pictures to share I'm not much of a blogger. I'm back in photo action, baby! Just in time for the Christmas season.

This is a picture of Ryan sitting in the puzzle box. Kyle and I were cracking up when we walked into the toy room and saw her in there. She is one busy lady who is always on the move. She is cruising the furniture and will stand 5-10 seconds on her own.

Ryan is finally sleeping thru the night. She was waking up several times a night, see us sleeping and demand to be picked up, fed or brought into our bed. This had to stop. So, Mom and Dad have been sleeping on the couches for the last couple of weeks trying to teach her how to fall back asleep without our help. It finally worked. She's sleeping 8:00pm-5am and Mom and Dad are back in the king size bed. Hopefully we can transition her into Carter's room soon.

Carter had croup a couple of weeks ago and he is finally better. No more coughing, runny nose or medicine for his ear infection. Knock on wood our kids can stay health for some length of time this winter. Caring for sick kids is tough!

Lately Carter has been busy playing with his cars and watching the Polar Express. His all time favorite movie. Kyle and I had an impossible finding it on DVD and Carter was NOT going to wait to for us to DVR it this weekend. After checking Wal-Mart, Target and Babies-R-Us, we finally tracked it down at Best Buy (they only had 4 in stock). If you haven't seen the movie, I recommend watching it on ABC Family this weekend. It's a great Christmas movie (for all ages!).

What else, Carter finally went #2 in the potty. I know, how gross to share on the blog, but we are so excited. One step closer in the potty training process. We are ready for it to be over!

Would you like to hear the top 5 phrases around our house these days?

5. Where's baby sister? (said by Carter)

4. Carter, get off the baby/Carter, don't squeeze around the baby's neck/Carter, put the baby down. (said by Mom and Dad)

3. Look at me! (said by Carter)

2. Dad, come here! (said by Carter)

1. What happened, Mom? (by Carter)