Loving every second

Friday we met with the extended Pingel family. It was very nice to see old faces and meet some new ones. We were then going to go see Christmas lights. By the time we were finished with dinner it was 8pm. When we got to the exit they were not allowing us to turn the direction we needed to go. The line was backed up all the way to the highway, so with that and cranky babies, we decided to try another night.

Saturday was filled with hockey, Fast Eddies and a Christmas party. So we didn't have ANY time for lights.

Sunday morning we woke up to a beautiful snow covered ground. I know I am crazy, but winter is my favorite season. I just LOVE snow. I don't like the cold, but I LOVE, LOVE the snow!!!

We have decided until we sell our house and move that we are going to go to church close to home. We have found a really nice church that is about 3 minutes from our house. We all seem to really enjoy it. I was really proud that we all got dressed and ready to go in 45 minutes. Our 3 minute drive did turn into a 5 minutes drive due to the snow on the roads.

We then headed to Culvers for a baseball meeting. This is the part where Dan makes me very, very mad. He had told me the other day that I could either stay at home with the kids or if I wanted to go to the meeting to get some one to keep the kids. So I arranged for my parents to get them. On the way to the meeting while trying to work out the hand off of kids Dan asked me why I had a sitter. He said the meeting was only going to be 15 minutes. With the meeting being only 15 minutes and with the babies sleeping I told my parents to go on to their lunch plans and I would just sit in the car with the kids. Well I guess I should have known better because Dan's meeting went from 15 mins. to 30 mins. to 45 mins to an hour. I sat in the car for an hour. As the minutes went on I felt my blood start to boil more and more. I was very proud of myself though, once he got in the car I didn't yell like I really, really wanted to. He asked if I was mad and I simply asked him, "if I had told him I would only be 15 minutes and it took me an hour, would you be mad". He replied, "yes". That was his answer. I was mad, very, very mad.

We then headed to the in-laws for some football, like we do every Sunday. Maxx was standing at one section of their couch and wanted to get something from the other section. He took his first step. Without even thinking he just let go and took a step. My baby, my last baby. It was my last first step I will see. I'm so happy he's becoming such a big boy, yet so sad he's not going to be my baby for much longer. I know Maxx will always be my baby, but still. He's just growing too fast! When we realized there was no hope for the Rams to catch up and win, we decided to leave and go look at lights.

On our drive to look at lights we passed by St. Johns Hospital. They have white lights in all their trees. As we passed by Josie said, "nose trees daddy". (Notice the trees daddy.) As we journeyed on she would then start yelling, "more wights, more wights". We tried to explain that we were on our way to go see more lights. As we approached the exit there was no line. I thought that it was strange there was NO line on a Sunday night. As we got closer and closer we realized it was closed. CLOSED! What a disappointment. We were driving by where the lights should be Josie starts yelling, "more wights, peas, PEAS"!!! (More lights, please, PLEASE!!) It was too cute. We decided we had nothing else to do, so we just drove around to try to find lights. We did pass a group of homes that were all decked out and by that time Josie had fallen asleep.

I have to admit it did make for a fun night listening to Josie wanting to see the lights so bad. I now can't wait until she does get to see them! She is really proving to be a ton of fun and I am loving every second of it!





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