Christmas in Delaware

Well, Christmas day was so much fun, we so enjoyed spending time with my family. We leave tomorrow to go spend some time with Chris' family and have a whole other Christmas! I just wanted to share these few pictures with you all!

Best 12 days of Christmas

This is such a fun 12 days of Christmas I saw the other day. I thought I would post it as my way of wishing a Merry Christmas!! Have a great day! (Again, don't forget to mute the slideshow before watching or you won't be able to hear it)

Clash of the choirs

Chris and I have been watching the Clash of the choirs this week and last night we were pretty impressed by this choir! Having been in choirs all my life, I enjoyed this a lot. They say that they learned 7 songs in 3 weeks! Great. PS We will be leaving for DE tomorrow so I may not get to blog very much cuz we'll be having so much fun with the fam!

Check out my Slide Show!

We got quite the snow storm on Saturday night. Snowed in all day on Sunday, in our are over 350 churches cancelled services. Crazy! Anyway, we spent most of the day hunkered down and staying warm. Since we were mostly recovering from our sick and crazy couple of days. Saturday I went up to Kalamazoo with Wyatt to see some old college friends, so fun, but on the way home it had started snowing a little harder and I, without thinking, tried another way home. Long story short, I ended up coming around a corner and fishtailing and couldn't get control. I ended up completely facing the other direction in a ditch. I was praying as I couldn't get control "Lord, please don't let us hit anything" and He didn't. I was completely stuck. As I rummaged through my stuff trying to find a number to call to get a tow truck, 2 pickup trucks pulled over and told me to stay in the car and keep warm, that they would pull me out! Praise the Lord, He was watching over us. They pulled me out and we were on our way, there are still good people out in the world! So anyway, we are recovered. Chris went out and dug us out this morning, Wyatt was dying to go out with him, so I bundled him up and out he went to help daddy. Mow the snow! Love to all! Here's a little video of Wyatt and Chris too. I apologize for me....its the first time my kid was playing in the snow.....sue me! I sound like an idiot!

Its going around

Well, Wyatt is all better. He doesn't have his full appetite back yet, but he is back to his normal self. Getting into everything!! The bad news, Chris has got it now. I don't know if he got it from Wyatt or if he got it from a student. Hopefully I don't get it, I'm supposed to go see friends from my Cornerstone days tomorrow. I haven't seen most of them since I left and I don't want to miss it!

The flu....take 2

Make that 6 times....i barely got the computer out of the way

The flu....

Well, the flu has hit our house. I got a call at work today that Wyatt was throwing up. I picked him up at 1:30 and since then he has gotten sick 5 more times. There's nothing left in his tummy but he keeps either dry heaving or bringing up snot. Appetizing I know. So it seems that instead of going to my office christmas party at the Essen Haus I will be staying home with my pukie kid.

Christmas Cookies!!!

I have been inspired lately by all my blogging friends and their pursuit of Christmas traditions. So, tonight we made Christmas cookies! All three of us, and by that I mean me :) Chris wrangled Wyatt, because he really wanted to eat all of it. He had tons of fun playing with the measuring cups and spoons! We couldn't get them iced fast enough and he wolfed it down! We iced a few and then it was bath time. There is nothing better than a kid who has a good time in the bath so I had to add those pictures! Our tradition was somewhat successful, so we'll see if we keep it.

Little Drummer Boy

Our Christmas concert went so well! I have no voice left, but at least I got through the weekend. Why do I always get sick for Christmas concerts? Anyway, we are in the middle of an ice storm! We got home from church and couldn't get up our driveway. I finally drove through the snow on the grass to get into the garage. Our driveway isn't really on a hill either. Crazy. We watched the neighbors slide past their driveway and then take a couple of attempts to get up the drive. No church tonight, which has been really nice. I needed the rest! It was a great weekend though! Here's a little video of Wyatt showing off his rhythm skills!

"Let there be Light"

Tonight is our church's Christmas concert, "Let there be light" http://fbcelkhart.org/music/index.htm Chris didn't get to be in it b/c he has a basketball game tonight, but it turned out to be a blessing because he's been able to stay home with Wyatt this week while I had rehearsals. I am excited about this, its nice to get back to singing. Pray for the hearts of the unsaved coming that they would be open to hearing the gospel that will be presented. Christmas is such a great opportunity to get people into church, so we need to take advantage of that opportunity. Pray for all the technical makings that they run smoothly and lastly please pray that the snow/ice/sleet that is expected tomorrow holds off until later in the evening. We don't want anything holding people away.

Chris has a game this evening so Wyatt will be coming with me. Hopefully he'll do great! Its been a busy week, but it is making time fly by so fast and we're anxious to see our family at Christmas!

Love to all!

Wyatt can talk

Well, I thought I would shoot a little video yesterday. He seemed in the right mood so I gave it a shot. This video will make the hearts of my family ache a little more for the next 16 days to go by a lot faster. Mom, its a nice long one, but it will probably take a little longer to load. Enjoy! (These are just the words I could think of. Some of them are really quiet so you'll have to listen carefully, turn up the volume)

5 kids

We had a fun filled night tonight. Beccah and Michael are out of town are we are watching Kayle and Kyle for the night. No problem, just two more. Then on Monday I got a call asking if we could watch two more, the Perstrope kids. The kids of our new music pastor Chris. They were going to a class party and I know that I would want someone to help me out, so I said sure. They have Tyler who is almost 3 and Chloe who is one month older than Wyatt. We had a great time. The Perstope's just live down the road so Chris just took the kids home and put them to bed and I took care of the rest. Is is now 10:00 and all the kids are in bed and Chris just got back. A nice quite hour before we can't keep our eyes open anymore! Here are some pictures.

Our living room is very small, so if you look closely you can see the different playing stations, Kyle playing a video game, Chloe playing with something, Kayle and Wyatt playing with blocks and Tyler playing with cars, it was a bit crowded.

The crew (l to r) Wyatt, Kyle, Tyler, Chloe, Kayle

They grow up to fast

I was feeling nostalgic last night so I made a slideshow of pictures from when Wyatt was a newborn...about the first 6 months. Its amazing to me how fast they grow! I love being a mommy! You can find the slideshow in the sidebar.

I love this kid!

Wyatt has just been playing in his room and I keep going back to make sure he's staying out of trouble. I just went back and this is how I found him.

What a riot, he literally was playing with his clothes for at least 20 minutes. Having the time of his life!

Thanksgivings over......here comes Christmas

Well, our thanksgiving went great! Chris' parents, brother and new sister-in-law all arrived Tuesday afternoon. They had left Clarks Summit at 4am, these people are crazy. They were a little sleepy, but ready to have fun with the Wy-man, and boy did they ever. Tim had brought Wyatt some new blocks that he had made, Wyatt had so much fun tearing down everything anyone made.

They also brought him a backpack full of books, at first he wasn't so sure what to think of the backpack, but after a while, he didn't want to take it off.

We really enjoyed just laying around the house and playing with the kid. Thanksgiving day was great. I put the turkey in the oven around 8 and then continued preparing everything else. We had green bean casserole, corn casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry relish and croissant rolls. I casually got that ready throughout the morning and then when the turkey came out I started running a marathon. Everything turned out wonderful. All the food was finished at the same time, and Chris cut the turkey beautifully! The only glitch in the day was that Wyatt only napped for 1 hour, unlike the day before when we slept for 4. Crazy kid. After dinner, we cleaned up the kitchen and I took a nap :)

After dinner walk with Nana! Boy was it cold!

Friday we took the family to the new American countryside farmers market. We walked around and tasted the food and bought some really yummy kettle corn, perfect blend of salty and sweet! So good! That night Tim and Stacy took Chris and I out for dinner while nana and pop babysat for the first time. Thanks guys! Here's a couple of pictures of Wyatt with Uncle Tim and Aunt Stacy, the first one is Stacy and Wyatt looking at the snow, I know we can't see it in the picture, but...

They left at 4am on Saturday, seriously what's wrong with these people 4am is an ungodly hour! :) We then crashed all weekend. Wyatt had been a little sick and couldn't go to church on Sunday so we really had a great time relaxing! Sunday we put up our Christmas decorations, tis the season! Here's to hoping Wyatt doesn't break all the ornaments!

Here are just a few pictures of our crazy boy, what a riot he is!

So Tired!

I feel as if I just had Wyatt and just brought him home from the hospital. I am that tired right now, and its his fault, mostly. Chris and I stayed up a little too late cleaning and getting ready for his family to come and then Wyatt decided that 3:20 was a good time to wake up for the day to start. He was literally in his bed jumping and ready for the day. Mommy however was nowhere near ready. I didn't feel well and hadn't slept well until that point. I was not a happy mommy, I probably said some things I didn't mean. But we finally got back to sleep at almost 5am just in time for me to get up at 6:40. Lord, help us all!

Days fly by too fast!

Well, we have enjoyed our time since the play ended. Not so crazy, but still busy. Getting ready for Thanksgiving this week. Chris and I are hosting his parents, his brother Tim and his Wife Stacy. We are so excited to have them come, but the more I think about it the more nervous I get about fixing Thanksgiving dinner! It will be fine though. Wyatt is becoming a little stinker, I have no idea where he gets it :) He climbed up onto a chair in the kitchen so he could get a box of cereal the other day, here's the face he made at me.

He thought he was pretty funny! He reminded me of my brother in this picture, David used to make a face very much like this one. Saturday we went to Chris Knafel and Rachel Peterson's wedding. It was really nice! Kaley and Kyle were the flower girl and ring bearer, they did so well! Kyle even helped Kayle down the asile, as she lagged behind. They were so sweet. I asked them after the wedding if I could take a picture of them for Grandma and Grandpa Geshay and this is how they posed. For those of you who know these two, you will completely understand this picture.

And then here is another one of Kayle being Kayle, little super model/princess/I need a nap.

We worked in the walker nursery on Sunday morning, and we had 19 kids with us. 4 adults, 19 children! CRAZY! We were exhausted. Wyatt fell in the nursery, his poor little nose.

Well, on to another busy week, hopefully I'll be able to keep up, but no promises! Love to all!

Its finally over!

Well, the play is finally over, the kids all did great! We even had to deal with our lead puking in the back and then going on stage! Chris almost got to play a new role! They all stepped up and did a great job in the end! Ad-Lib and all! It involved many late nights and some extra special patience, but it turned out great in the end. We had the most wonderful parents involved in this production, they brought dinner and snacks every night and never once complained about the demands put on their kids! They were amazing! It was great to get that support from them! After the last show we had to take down our entire set so they could use the stage for Sunday morning, we had so much help that we were done by midnight! This could have been really tricky becuase the set was 17' high! We get to enjoy a date night soon because the kids gave us a gift card for Texas Roadhouse and a coupon for free babysitting, they all loved Wyatt so much!

Here are some pictures of the set and some of the kids!

Our set (with 3 of the girls on the couch)

Some of the cast and crew (Donald, Kolenkof, Grandpa, Gay W., Stage Manager)

Three of our girls (Penny, Essie, Gay Wellington)

Hair and Makeup (Tony, Reba, Alice, a J-Man and Lesley our Hair Dresser)

A cake one of the parents had made with part of the poster on it!

Weigh In

Sorry I haven't posted about my weight loss progress. I'm doing ok, still not coming off as fast as I would like. I have lost 3 pounds to date. I've been walking and doing strength training at night. Let me just tell you last Tuesday I did lunges and my legs hurt until Saturday! A good pain though. I will try my best this week but we will be at the church every night this week, so I have to eat what I am given (with in reason obviously) The play is Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I'll try to get some pictures of the process!

Some new pictures!

Here are some pictures of our fun October! I took these with my film camera and I just got the pictures back!

Picking out our pumpkins!

Wyatt and Aiden playing outside on a 80 degree day in October!

Wyatt showing what rhythm he's got, snapping, clapping.

Wy-Man showing how he's gonna help with yard work, and wishing he could play on the playground with the big kids.

This is our Wyatt, silly as ever!

A very cool sunset one night. It was actually yellow outside, then pink. Really cool!

Wyatt giving his daddy some love!