Let’s Catch Up!

Well, it has been a while again, hasn’t it?  Lots going on, but not much time devoted to posting about it here.  The month of January is flying by for us.  We celebrated the New Year with Nana and Pop-pop.  We had a lot of food and exchanged Christmas presents.

The following week we celebrated Pop-pop’s birthday.  William enjoyed helping Pop-pop open the presents.

The next week we celebrated Tim’s birthday where once again William assisted with opening the presents.

Finally, we all went up to Dubuque to visit the National Mississippi River Museum.  Unfortunately, I forgot the memory card for my camera, so all of these photos were taken on my cell phone.  We got to visit with Buddy the Dinosaur and Dan Wardell from Iowa Public Television.  William loved seeing them – his first celebrity sighting at not quite 3 years old!

 

Will with Buddy the Dinosaur

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Will and Dan Wardell

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Watching & listening to Dan Wardell

We decided to avoid the crowd and listen to the story from upstairs.  It was a great vantage point, but meant we had to start at the back of the pack to get pictures with Dan and Buddy.

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We’re there!

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Still in the car…

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…And he’s not thrilled about it.

Are We There Yet?

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Lay up!

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Will’s new track suit

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Shooting

We went out to Aunt Tilly’s old place in Westphalia, IN, today to shoot our new guns.  Jeff got something really big (not sure what kind it is, but I chose not to fire it).  I used my new Ruger that I got for Christmas!

Mine are on the black and green target – the three at 11 o'clock and the one just below that grouping!

 

Snow!

We have snow!  It snowed in Vincennes today so we built a snowman and then went 4 Wheeler sledding at the farm!

Playing on the 4 Wheelers

Today we played all day on the 4 Wheelers at the farm.  We all had a blast!  Here’s a video of Aunt Charlene and Mackenzie on the 4 Wheeler Roller Coaster!

Merry Christmas!

Santa came!  Santa came!  And he brought us so many wonderful things!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve Mackenzie mixed up a batch of Reindeer food, decorated a couple of stockings, and then we opened Christmas presents with Aunt Charlene and Uncle Jeff.

Champaign

Liz Meeks’s location@1:05pm,12/22

Illinois

http://m.google.com/u/m/xKAtBo

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Peoria action

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Peoria!

Liz Meeks’s location@10:45am,12/22

Peoria, IL

http://m.google.com/u/m/d84FsE

Visit with Santa

Today the kids visited with Santa at the mall. This year William wasn’t afraid of him and even had a little chat with him before the picture was taken!

Decorating Christmas Stockings

Today we decorated our Christmas Stockings.  We had a lot of fun and got very creative.

Christmas Decor

Today we put up the Christmas Trees and decorated all over the house!