Sunday, January 25, 2009

Party Arty

Last Sat night Mark and I went with our friends Steve and Beth to the 2009 Party Arty at the Nelson Atkins Museum. It's an annual fundraiser for the museum sponsered by young friends of the arts. The night featured a fashion show and music by the Nadas. The Nadas are a band from Iowa that plays at ISU frequently. Thus the main reason we went. We also got to look around at some of the exhibits in the new Bloch bldg. Of course the open bar was a big draw as well.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Rough morning


Julia fell asleep this morning in her highchair.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Just Chillin...

Nina and Julia hanging out.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Twilight

i haven't written in quite a while solely because i have become addicted to the Twilight Series. Have you read these books? They are written for high schoolers so it make them such an easy read that you can't put them down. Plus it's a very entertaining story. There are 4 books total that the storyline follows from page one of the first book straight thru the last page of the 4th book. So it is so hard to stop reading!! You just have to find out what happens next. Also some of my coworkers are reading the books as well so now we get together and talk about it. So addictive. :) I finished the last book last night so I thought i better up date the blog.

All is well and busy to start the year. Nina got all A's and B's on her 2nd quarter report card. yeah. She is doing very well in school. She also scored 97% on her MAPS test for math (that would be the basic skills test we all took many moons ago). So i couldn't be more prouder of that. I'm guessing she'll be in pre-algebra next year. Basketball season is in full swing now too. Her team is still learning and growing. They have won 1 out of 4 games this year so far. And that is already better than last season. Nina also went to vball camp over Christmas break and she is serving over hand already. Wow, I couldn't do that 'til about 8th grade.

Julia is just perfect. We're waiting for those two top teeth to break thru any day now. She sure is chewing on everything right now too. She is still stationary, content to sit and watch everyone and the pups. No signs of crawling or moving around but I'm sure our days are numbered. She does love to stand and hold our fingers. Just this week she has been holding on to us and taking steps. No balance yet but again, our days are numbered.....

Mark and I went to his holiday party last weekend. I like that they do this in Jan. Gives us something to look forward to. Plus his party is still small enough for an open bar. :) haha

That's about all for now. I'm crazy busy at work waiting on the economic stimulus plan to get passed. Our DOT clients all have big aspirations if this goes and of course it gives us quite a bit of work too.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year

Wow what a great year 2008 was and I'm so excited for 2009. We celebrated New Year's Eve with a fabulous dinner at home with Mark's family. Nina was excited to be having her friend Lauren over for the night too. Mark's parents volunteered to babysit the girls for us while we went out for New Year's Eve, including getting up with Julia at the crack of dawn the next morning. Wow, a whole evening without kids to do whatever we want with no expectation of getting up early with Julia. Whatever should we do???? :) The wild crazy people we are, we partied 2minutes away at the neighbors house. Our friends Chris and Jane hosted the annual New Year's Eve party again this year. They have been busy this year finishing their basement and was all too happy to have us there last night to break it in.

Our hosts Chris and Jane

Neighbors and friends at the party

On New Year's Day we had brunch at our friends Mike and Margie's new home. We had so much fun spending time with our best friends and their kids on this day. Margie's home is just beautiful. With a little boy on the way, they will have many happy years together in their new house.


Julia and Skylar

Margie and Gretchen

Amelia and Gretchen

Our sad news of the new year is that the Vasko's are moving to Manhattan, KS. Yea, it's not that far away but still makes us sad to see them leave KC. Todd has taken a new job at Ft Riley developing homes for the troops and their families. They are very excited about this new opportunity. We wish them well and remind them that the spare bedroom is always open for them!!

Finally, i finished off the new year by going to see Annie at the Music Hall. Gigi and i have season tickets. Just odd that this show was New Year's Night. It was a very good production.