Grateful

Grateful for my family, immediate and extended. Thankful for my friends, near and far. Thankful for our health, the warmth in our home and tummies. Thanksgiving rolls around every year and gives us a reminder of all the things we are thankful for. I'm not a huge fan of the holiday itself but am grateful for the oppurtunity it allows us to see our family that we may not see often enough. Thanksgiving eve we spent time with Lateaf's side of the family at Aunt Jeanine and Uncle Randy's house with Grandma Cindy, Grandpa Frank, Uncle J.R., cousin Megan & finance John, Great Grandma Sintek, Great Aunt Lucille, Uncle Todd, and Uncle Blake. On Thanksgiving we headed to Aunt Patti and Uncle Tom's house where we spent the day with cousin Ian, cousin Erik & girlfriend Emily, Tom's parents Fran & Norm, Kelly, and Grandma & Grandpa Dorsey. What a wonderful time we had both places. Unfortunatley I only snapped photos on Thanksgiving eve:(

Grandpa Frank isn't a fan of getting his pic taken:) Most of the time neither does Harper

The men after dinner

Uncle J.R.

Grandma Cindy

Great Grandma Sintek

Mommy's crazed attempt...

It's funny the lengths we will go as parents to get our kids to perform for us. Even when the camera is not rolling, our voices and facial expressions are hilarious working to get those sweet smiles and giggles. Here is an attempt to catch the footage on video. Of course she was more focused on that thing in front of her (the camera) instead of me.


Harper even tries... She usually gets her to smile and giggle but of course when the camera is on.. NO such luck;)

Smiles..

Lil miss Liv is such a happy baby. Now that we have the reflux managed, she is so much happier about life:) She still isn't a fan of tummy time and screams the ENTIRE time we have here there but she is just full of smilies and giggles otherwise. She makes my heart smile so many times everyday. Look at this peanut:

Series of events...

Now I know she has a big head from genetics, I mean I have a big head and so does her daddy, but this kid right here bonks her head ALL the time. She recovers well and always ends up doing this...

playing her little heart out:)

Smarty pants...

Today while driving we pulled up next to a Lowes truck. There were letters that spelled "improvement." All the sudden from the back seat I hear lil smarty pants saying "o", "i", "m", "p"..this little girl was identifying letters from the Lowe's truck. I don't think it was a coincidence because she didn't throw any letters out there that weren't on the truck. Whoa.. she's growing up way to fast! We have a little smarty pants on our hands!

Kansas meets Nebraska:)

Our dear friends Pete & Diana came to Nebraska this past weekend to visit. I was in Kansas the weekend before for a Child Life Conference, so I got a double dose of good times with the Moyers. I just love them and am so thankful they are in our lives. They arrived Friday night after trucking through the first snow of the year. Saturday we headed to Lincoln for a day full of tailgating and Jayhawk whoopin:) Here is some footage of the fun that was had...

Our Birthday girl...

I can't believe our first born turned 2 yesterday. WOW how times flies. I know I probably say that a lot but it has really set in now that I am a mother of two beautiful growing girls. Harper celebrated her birthday last Wednesday at Chuck E Cheese with 25 or so of her biggest fans. (all adults but four..one being her 3 month old sis,her cousin Mireya who is in Kindergarten, and her twin 4 month old cousins Ian & Owen) She had a blast eating pizza, playing games, eating cake, and opening presents. It was princess themed and she raked in a TON of princess gifts. We don't let her watch the actual movies because of the villans (because of they are the "s" word...aka SCARY)but we get our fix daily with the sing a longs. Her actual birthday was low key. We went to an indoor playground in Lincoln with Grandma D and Aunt Amy. 2 years ago was the start of a new life for me and I wouldn't change it for anything. Happy 2nd Birthday to my little stink who brings constant rays of sunshine to my life.

A mouth full

Pure Bliss

Some of the tasks that we dread the most, Harper loves the most. Lateaf raked some of the leaves at Grandma & Grandpa Dorsey's house in Lincoln Halloween weekend. Harper was his little assistant. She came back inside with leaves in her hair and was happy as can be. Of couse she had to wear her pink snow boots for such an occasion:)

Our Lil Bee & Lil Frog...

Trick or Treat

We started out our Halloween fun at Bruce & Linda's house (Aunt Amy's parents). We then headed to Grandma Jeanette's house (Aunt Amy's Grandma) and then to Lateaf's Aunt Jeanine & Uncle Randy's house. There is where Liv thought that she was going to die from starvation so we headed back to Grandma Dorsey's house to feed Liv. (Somehow we were not prepared for this:) While Liv was eating, Grandma D took Harper around her neighborhood. We then headed to Aunt Kate & David's house to get more treats. The last stop was Grandpa Mark & Grandma Cathy's house on our way out of Lincoln. We packed a lot of stops into one night and Harper loved every minute of it. She ate a whole lot of candy but is not used to that so on the way home she said "my tummy hurts." Luckily it passed and both girls snoozed all the way back to Omaha. It was a fun filled Halloween...


Grandma D with her cuties

Bruce

Linda

Grandma Pincsak

Aunt Jeanine


Our pumpkins shining bright:)

Happy Belated Halloween

from our family to yours:)

*our little bee wasn't too thrilled about taking the family photo
**check out those pumpkins.. aren't they awesome?! More on Halloween coming soon:)

Adult Only Weekend

The Huskers are doing fairly well this season. (if you haven't noticed:) The only loss thus far was to Texas, the game Lateaf and I tailgated at. That same weekend the girls headed to the lake with Grandma & Grandpa D while we had an "adult" weekend. We went to Teaf's buddies wedding reception Friday night in which we danced our tails off (the next morning Teaf looked at me and said "I thought we were the couple of the night honey:)...Saturday we tailgated, watched the game with some dear friends (the entire Pincsak crew), and played a great sharade type game with good friends that night... and Sunday we relaxed and recovered from a weekend of being kid free.. GOOD TIMES!! Although we missed the girls dearly and woke up Saturday morning singing princess songs to each other, we had a great weekend! Here are some pics that were captured of the their weekend away at the lake:


I love how they are looking at each other...

Liv is yellin...GO BIG RED!!






Thanks to Grandpa & Grandma D for a fantastic kid free weekend. We really enjoyed spending quality adult only time with each other! (and our friends:)