Chatty Kathy

I know that I said my next blog would be after Mexico, but I thought I'd do one quick update in between. When I picked Nadia up from Daycare yesterday, Julie told me "It's official. Nadia has moved to our bedroom for naptime." Apparently, when everyone is trying to go to sleep, Nadia stands up in her crib and tries to talk to everyone. She won't go to sleep and no one else can with her chatting. We're in trouble! :)

Nadia and I had a girls weekend while Darren was down in Dundas with Dion. We spent Saturday hanging out with our friends that we met while in the hospital. The babies are all growing so fast! As you can see, Nadia didn't like the cute headband that I bought for her. Dang!Nadia LOVES to play with other babies and crawled right up to Ryder and gave him a hug and a kiss. Baby Love!

We spent Saturday night at Lisa and Meg's to celebrate Lisa's 32nd birthday. We had a great night of hanging out with the girls and having a few glasses of wine. Nadia and Nora are getting to the age of acknowledging each other!

Darren spent the weekend with Dion. They went to a wild game dinner at the VFW. It was right up their alley and it sounds like they had a good time. I asked Darren what his favorite wild game was and his answer was "Buffalo." Is that really 'wild game' still???? :)

My next post will include pics of white sand and beautiful sunsets! We leave for Mexico on Feb 3rd. My parents are coming to watch Nadia and Nora...wish them luck!

Christmas part 2...FINALLY!

Once the fun was over in ND, we hopped back in the car for the 2nd part of our vacation. Thankfully, it's only about 5 hours to my parent's house from Lefor.

This is the 2nd year in a row that we've been with my family over New Years Eve. I actually made it up until 1 a.m.!! All of my cousins and Aunt and Uncle were over for dinner and games. We ended the night with a Wii Tennis tourney where my cousin Skylar beat Darren 2 times to claim the championship!

We had a great time hanging out with family and being able to see my brother and Heather. We sure do wish that they would move to MN and live closer to us! :)

We also ventured down to Evans Plunge which is an indoor, hot spring pool. It brought back many memories for me and was fun to take Nadia swimming.

Nadia is saying so many words now and has 'Papa' and 'YaYa' down...Grandma was just too hard!

Christmas part 1

We had a 2 part vacation over the Xmas break and were able to spend a lot of time with family. Our plans were excellerated by a few days due to the storm that came through the midwest. Luckily, Darren and I were able to get more time off and leave early to beat the weather.

We made it to the farm just in time to get snowed in for a few days. I haven't seen that much snow in a LONG time! We had a great time playing cards, taking naps and taking Nadia out to the mudroom to see the deer heads. She was OBSESSED with them and would have us take her to all 5 of them numerous times.

We also spent a lot of time EATING. Ugh. Don't get me wrong...it was all good, but UGH! Darren, Dorita and I spent one morning making noodles for soup. Everything is homemade on the farm!

We spent a day in Bismarck at Linda and Levi's house for the Kuhn family Christmas. It's always so much fun to get together with everyone. On our way to Bismarck, Dorita and I stopped in Hazen and met a friend of mine out for lunch. She also got to experience Hazen taco pizza which is by far, the best pizza in the world!

Here are some pics of our ND vacation. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

Darrell in his Snuggie...

Here is a video of Darren and Nadia playing ball. She loves to play catch!