My Three and Me: January 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Saturday, January 24, 2009

After a hard week of "hitting the books" & "frying our brains" ~ we took a field trip to the Museum of Science & Industry. Thankfully the month of January is free admission & we even found free parking on a nearby street. What a big museum! Megan brought her friend Andrea and they were able to go on their most of the time - so they really had a good time without us hanging around. : ) We ended the day early enough to miss rush hour traffic - once through the Windy City, we stopped at an Oasis and the let the kids eat.

I am not sure why alot of the pictures are blury - maybe the camera, the museum lighting, or the photographer???

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Special Dinner

This past weekend, Caleb really wanted to make a dinner for us. So with a little assistance from mom - he made "goulash", corn & I toasted buns with butter & garlic. He used Italian sausage, tomato sauce, Chili powder, brown sugar, basil, Italian dreesing seasoning pouch & a few other ingredients - Yum it was good!

Caleb & Jacob really love to help in the kitchen. Maybe one of them will be a chef someday.

When Jake caught wind of Caleb making diner - he so badly wanted to use Aunt Virginia's special china. Thankfully, we had recently unpacked them from a long stay in the basement. Jacob used a piece of fabric for the table runner -good idea, huh?!?!

I planned all of this while Megan was at a youth activity - goulash, helping in the kitchen & china are not her "cup of tea" - so I knew she wouldn't miss out on anything.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Belated Christmas memories & pictures

I know that I am REALLY late in getting these Christmas photos on the blog ~ but I couldn't just skip over them either. So please bear with me. We really had a nice Christmas and wanted to share some pictures with you all. We were able to bake and take goodies to a few shut-ins, watch Megan in a play called "Eyewitness News From Bethlehem", our Christmas Program at church, attend the church Christmas parties & activities, spend an evening with George & Jan, spend Christmas Eve with the Rehfeldt's, go to Grandpa & Grandma's for Christmas Day, game night at Aunt Juliet's, and enjoy extra time with Rick ~ he had of 12/24 - 1/5. Oh, we also had two bouts of the flu as well! Eeeks ~ what a way to spend some of the holidays. : )

I hope & pray that you all have a very happy & blessed New Year!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Winter is "SNOW" much fun!

Finally! It has been so long since I have been able to post. Today, we took a break from busy-ness in the house and went outside to build "snow forts". Rick and Caleb worked on a fort for the boys to play in and Jake and I dug tunels for the rabbit to run in. Megan hesitated in coming outside, but finally did enjoy some wrestling in the snow. We love winter!