Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Happy Birthday Callie Joy!
It is nearly impossible to believe that this girl is TEN.
As I wrote in her card, she is A DECADE OLD!!!
But here she is... double digits! We had a fun day. First she opened presents, of course!
Then she and I went out for breakfast so she could get BACON!
This afternoon we went to see Cinderella at a local theater.
Tonight we had the fam over (well, most of them...Pa was sick) for a Harry Potter birthday party!
Callie planned a couple games- Harry Potter trivia and Pin the Scar on the Harry!
Then Cal opened presents! She got so many awesome gifts and made so many good faces.
Then there was pizza and cake!
And then Cal got the BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER. Uncle Dan, Auntie Hanna and BABY MITCHELL stopped by!!!!! He got out of the NICU on Thursday and has been doing great! Callie and Maya were SO EXCITED to meet him! Callie held him for a long time.
Once the party was over we let her stay up until she officially turned 10...7:55pm.
Again, she was very excited.
As I wrote in her card, she is A DECADE OLD!!!
I just can’t believe it.
This sweet, smart, sassy, and super cool girl is growing up so fast...as you can see with her 1 through 9 birthday pics.
But here she is... double digits! We had a fun day. First she opened presents, of course!
Then she and I went out for breakfast so she could get BACON!
This afternoon we went to see Cinderella at a local theater.
Tonight we had the fam over (well, most of them...Pa was sick) for a Harry Potter birthday party!
Callie planned a couple games- Harry Potter trivia and Pin the Scar on the Harry!
Then Cal opened presents! She got so many awesome gifts and made so many good faces.
Then there was pizza and cake!
And then Cal got the BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER. Uncle Dan, Auntie Hanna and BABY MITCHELL stopped by!!!!! He got out of the NICU on Thursday and has been doing great! Callie and Maya were SO EXCITED to meet him! Callie held him for a long time.
Once the party was over we let her stay up until she officially turned 10...7:55pm.
Again, she was very excited.
It was a truly wonderful day! Thanks for all the birthday love!
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
A Picture Update
WE MADE IT TO FRIDAY.
Chris was finally able to go meet Baby Mitchell this week!!
The Holiday Dance Show was on Wednesday night. Maya was still coughing too much so we had her stay home (with G-ma again...thanks G-ma!) but Callie did the show!
Click here for video of the dance (one of the girls got a little confused at the beginning and also I apologize if you have “I Feel the Magic” in your head for the rest of the year).
Cheers to WINTER BREAK!
But no rest for the exhausted. A CERTAIN CHILD IN OUR HOUSEHOLD TURNS 10 ON SUNDAY. TEN!!!!!!!!
It was quite the week. Maya didn’t start to get better until Wednesday afternoon. We had a few overnights that were super rough and she became really yell-y about taking medicine and following any kind of direction. After spending the day with me on Monday, she was lucky enough to spend Tuesday and Wednesday with G-ma.
Chris was finally able to go meet Baby Mitchell this week!!
The Holiday Dance Show was on Wednesday night. Maya was still coughing too much so we had her stay home (with G-ma again...thanks G-ma!) but Callie did the show!
Click here for video of the dance (one of the girls got a little confused at the beginning and also I apologize if you have “I Feel the Magic” in your head for the rest of the year).
Luna was extra snuggly last night.
Cheers to WINTER BREAK!
But no rest for the exhausted. A CERTAIN CHILD IN OUR HOUSEHOLD TURNS 10 ON SUNDAY. TEN!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Timehop Tuesday
All I got today are the girls.
Maya is doing better but still not great... fingers crossed for a better night of sleep for all!
Maya is doing better but still not great... fingers crossed for a better night of sleep for all!
Monday, December 16, 2019
The Yearly Maya Sickness
Guys. As I have been checking Timehop all school year I have been periodically reminded of all of Maya’s yearly sicknesses. Pictures of her sleeping, miserable rosy cheeks, cuddling uncharacteristically, etc. We got to mid-December this year with only a couple quick colds and I thought (but never wanted to actually say out loud) that maybe the asthma stuff over the summer was a blessing in disguise because she now has a regiment to help her breathing, etc.
The girl is MISERABLE and I don’t know if I have never seen her nose so congested. She is coughing like crazy and also has a fever that won’t quit.
So we sat most of the day with her angrily demanding things and me bribing her with Sour Patch Kids to get her to do big nose blows and take her temp and drink down Tylenol and do her nebulizer and take a hot shower and anything else I could think of to help her be less miserable.
I can pretty much guarantee three of us in our house will not be sleeping tonight.
You can probably guess that this isn’t a “Hooray She Is Still So Healthy!” post...
The girl is MISERABLE and I don’t know if I have never seen her nose so congested. She is coughing like crazy and also has a fever that won’t quit.
I took her to the doctor this morning and it is likely a sinus infection, but nothing I give her to try and fix anything seems to do anything at all.
So we sat most of the day with her angrily demanding things and me bribing her with Sour Patch Kids to get her to do big nose blows and take her temp and drink down Tylenol and do her nebulizer and take a hot shower and anything else I could think of to help her be less miserable.
I can pretty much guarantee three of us in our house will not be sleeping tonight.
The girls have a magical way of getting super sick either while we are on vacation or right after, so it is par for the course I guess!
Any healthy vibes sent out way would be appreciated!
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Weekend Wrap-Up: The Surprise NYC Weekend Edition!
Holy Moly guys, this weekend was FULL of surprises for me. On Thursday night after I got home from seeing Baby Mitchell, Chris had a suitcase partially packed and this note in it: "Pack your bag for the weekend. 40-50 degrees. 1 semi-nice clothes for 1 evening. 2 days worth of regular clothes. Anything else you need." He told me he was going to pick me up from work the next day at 2:00, to which my response was, "But I have a 2:30 meeting!" He had already thought about that, and worked with the people at work to cover my meeting. So sneaky!
So yesterday afternoon we headed to the airport! There were a few panicked moments thinking our plane was going to be delayed for at least 2.5 hours (see Chris frantically texting below while I just sat with a glass of wine!) but it ended up only being an hour delayed. They had to check on a dent and do some de-icing.
We landed at Laguardia about 8pm NYC time. It was rainy and we got a first glimpse of the traffic. We made it to our hotel (the New Yorker) and around 9:45pm wandered down the street to a tiny and AMAZING Indian restaurant (Pataiala). It was the best Indian food I have ever had. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
We woke up early Saturday morning and headed out around 8am. As you can see, it was very cloudy and misty, and continued to be so most of the day. We went to a little diner in our hotel for breakfast (The Tick Tock Cafe) and then wandered a bit around the city looking for a specific coffee shop Chris wanted to go to.
Turns out we were wandering around because we had a little time to kill before JOHN AND JENNY showed up at the coffee shop!!! We had gotten there about 10 minutes earlier and were just sitting at the window watching the people go by outside. All of a sudden THEY were the people outside the window! I had no idea!
Then we all headed out for a day of sightseeing. We started by heading towards the Hudson and went up inside The Vessel. We got all the way to the top! There wasn't much to see up there because of all the fog, but it was really cool to look down from the inside.
Then we walked the Highline, an elevated walkway that used to be a railroad. It was really cool to see all the architecture and crazy looking buildings.
The Highline took us to Chelsea Market, a fun indoor market filled with unique shops and other vendors.
For lunch we found a little local pizza shop (Pizza Italia) and it was SO delicious.
After lunch we continued wandering and passed by a Puppy Store. The puppies were all so cute and it was totally depressing to see them in cages. But it seemed like the puppies were taken out a lot and played with so I really hope that is the case.
John and Jenny went to a show in the afternoon so Chris and I got some time to do the truly touristy stuff- first we walked to Rockefeller Center and saw the tree and Radio City Music Hall.
And then looked at the windows at Saks 5th Avenue. A lot of them were Frozen II themed, so I took pictures to show the girls.
Then we walked to Times Square and then Bryant Park. It was SO busy, as you can imagine. The traffic was nuts and there were police officers at every. corner helping with traffic control.
By about 2:30pm we were so exhausted so we went back to the hotel to rest for a couple hours. Jen had told us that this weekend was Santa-Con in NYC, and we started to see a whole lot of Santas and other crazily dressed people out and about. After resting, we met back up with John and Jen and took the Subway to an amazing restaurant downtown (Extra Virgin). I had butternut squash ravioli and Chris had the New York strip steak. We also ordered sides, like this TRUFFLE MAC & CHEESE TART.
We said goodbye to John and Jen on the Subway and I had no idea what was next. We got off the Subway at Times Square and walked a few blocks until I saw the Waitress theater and we seemed to be heading toward it. I started squeezing Chris' had really hard and freaking out. I LOVE the show Waitress. I went in Minneapolis a couple of years ago and I listen to the music often (did I mention the music was composed by my fave musician Sara Bareilles, who I just saw in concert in October and she did a whole Waitress section in her concert?!?!). So I was just over the moon excited. We were given little pies "by the producers" too! I put that in quotes, because there was still one more surprise.
After the show, as everyone was exiting the theater through the doors that were near our seats, Chris wouldn't let us exit. Instead we went to stand in the back of the theater and just watched everyone else leave. I had no idea what to expect. Once it cleared out, a woman came up to us, asked if we were Chris and Kati, and then proceeded to bring us backstage to give us a tour (my Uncle John has major connections in the theater world and made a call...again I was gobsmacked)! It was so cool to see the behind the scenes stuff and listen to her tell stories about the show.
We went out the stage door (disappointing many who were waiting for members of the cast) and walked back through Times Square. Once we got back to our hotel shortly before midnight, I checked my Fitbit and we had walked 11 miles (25K+ steps) throughout the day.
This morning we woke up early because we had to get to the airport by 9am. Before getting a Lyft to the airport we found an authentic bagel shop near our hotel (Liberty Bagels). I got a Santa bagel with the most amazing homemade vegetable cream cheese. Chris enjoyed a very large bacon, egg and cheese bagel sandwich.
Our flight home was easy breezy and we were able to see the city as we flew home.
While we were busy walking all over NYC, G-ma and Pa had the girls. Maya and G-ma didn't feel that great all weekend, so they got in lots of snuggles.
Today Boom took Callie to The Christmas Carol at the Guthrie for the second year in a row. It is becoming a tradition!
We went to pick her up from Boom's house after picking Maya up from G-ma and Pa's house. Maya still has a super awful cold and is pretty miserable. Chris and I are happily exhausted, and this pictures just about sums up the Sunday evening feelings. HA!
I can't believe all that just happened and we took such an amazing trip in a short amount of time and he pulled off such a big surprise! I'm so grateful to family back here for being there for the girls and taking such good care of them so we could fully enjoy our NYC experience. I feel SO spoiled and grateful.
Have a great week!
So yesterday afternoon we headed to the airport! There were a few panicked moments thinking our plane was going to be delayed for at least 2.5 hours (see Chris frantically texting below while I just sat with a glass of wine!) but it ended up only being an hour delayed. They had to check on a dent and do some de-icing.
We landed at Laguardia about 8pm NYC time. It was rainy and we got a first glimpse of the traffic. We made it to our hotel (the New Yorker) and around 9:45pm wandered down the street to a tiny and AMAZING Indian restaurant (Pataiala). It was the best Indian food I have ever had. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
We woke up early Saturday morning and headed out around 8am. As you can see, it was very cloudy and misty, and continued to be so most of the day. We went to a little diner in our hotel for breakfast (The Tick Tock Cafe) and then wandered a bit around the city looking for a specific coffee shop Chris wanted to go to.
Turns out we were wandering around because we had a little time to kill before JOHN AND JENNY showed up at the coffee shop!!! We had gotten there about 10 minutes earlier and were just sitting at the window watching the people go by outside. All of a sudden THEY were the people outside the window! I had no idea!
Then we all headed out for a day of sightseeing. We started by heading towards the Hudson and went up inside The Vessel. We got all the way to the top! There wasn't much to see up there because of all the fog, but it was really cool to look down from the inside.
Then we walked the Highline, an elevated walkway that used to be a railroad. It was really cool to see all the architecture and crazy looking buildings.
The Highline took us to Chelsea Market, a fun indoor market filled with unique shops and other vendors.
For lunch we found a little local pizza shop (Pizza Italia) and it was SO delicious.
After lunch we continued wandering and passed by a Puppy Store. The puppies were all so cute and it was totally depressing to see them in cages. But it seemed like the puppies were taken out a lot and played with so I really hope that is the case.
John and Jenny went to a show in the afternoon so Chris and I got some time to do the truly touristy stuff- first we walked to Rockefeller Center and saw the tree and Radio City Music Hall.
And then looked at the windows at Saks 5th Avenue. A lot of them were Frozen II themed, so I took pictures to show the girls.
Then we walked to Times Square and then Bryant Park. It was SO busy, as you can imagine. The traffic was nuts and there were police officers at every. corner helping with traffic control.
By about 2:30pm we were so exhausted so we went back to the hotel to rest for a couple hours. Jen had told us that this weekend was Santa-Con in NYC, and we started to see a whole lot of Santas and other crazily dressed people out and about. After resting, we met back up with John and Jen and took the Subway to an amazing restaurant downtown (Extra Virgin). I had butternut squash ravioli and Chris had the New York strip steak. We also ordered sides, like this TRUFFLE MAC & CHEESE TART.
We said goodbye to John and Jen on the Subway and I had no idea what was next. We got off the Subway at Times Square and walked a few blocks until I saw the Waitress theater and we seemed to be heading toward it. I started squeezing Chris' had really hard and freaking out. I LOVE the show Waitress. I went in Minneapolis a couple of years ago and I listen to the music often (did I mention the music was composed by my fave musician Sara Bareilles, who I just saw in concert in October and she did a whole Waitress section in her concert?!?!). So I was just over the moon excited. We were given little pies "by the producers" too! I put that in quotes, because there was still one more surprise.
After the show, as everyone was exiting the theater through the doors that were near our seats, Chris wouldn't let us exit. Instead we went to stand in the back of the theater and just watched everyone else leave. I had no idea what to expect. Once it cleared out, a woman came up to us, asked if we were Chris and Kati, and then proceeded to bring us backstage to give us a tour (my Uncle John has major connections in the theater world and made a call...again I was gobsmacked)! It was so cool to see the behind the scenes stuff and listen to her tell stories about the show.
We went out the stage door (disappointing many who were waiting for members of the cast) and walked back through Times Square. Once we got back to our hotel shortly before midnight, I checked my Fitbit and we had walked 11 miles (25K+ steps) throughout the day.
This morning we woke up early because we had to get to the airport by 9am. Before getting a Lyft to the airport we found an authentic bagel shop near our hotel (Liberty Bagels). I got a Santa bagel with the most amazing homemade vegetable cream cheese. Chris enjoyed a very large bacon, egg and cheese bagel sandwich.
Our flight home was easy breezy and we were able to see the city as we flew home.
While we were busy walking all over NYC, G-ma and Pa had the girls. Maya and G-ma didn't feel that great all weekend, so they got in lots of snuggles.
Today Boom took Callie to The Christmas Carol at the Guthrie for the second year in a row. It is becoming a tradition!
We went to pick her up from Boom's house after picking Maya up from G-ma and Pa's house. Maya still has a super awful cold and is pretty miserable. Chris and I are happily exhausted, and this pictures just about sums up the Sunday evening feelings. HA!
I can't believe all that just happened and we took such an amazing trip in a short amount of time and he pulled off such a big surprise! I'm so grateful to family back here for being there for the girls and taking such good care of them so we could fully enjoy our NYC experience. I feel SO spoiled and grateful.
Have a great week!
Friday, December 13, 2019
A Picture Update
Happy Friday everybody!!!
I got to go see Baby Mitchell last night! He is doing great and working on getting better at eating.
And then we have our silly elves.
I’ll leave you with a funny comparison of my elf “creativity” versus what certain much more creative people on the internet post of their elves:
Have a great weekend!
I don’t have too many pictures from this week...but here we go:
G-ma and Pa got new floors so the girls got to play around a big empty room!
I got to go see Baby Mitchell last night! He is doing great and working on getting better at eating.
And then we have our silly elves.
I’ll leave you with a funny comparison of my elf “creativity” versus what certain much more creative people on the internet post of their elves:
Have a great weekend!
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