Mike's Golden Birthday :)

Fun filled weekend with the Rabe's

Our friends the Rabes invited us to come the a marriage conference through their church for Friday and Saturday. While Grandma Rabe and Jason's sisters Julie and Jessica stayed at their house and babysat Fox and their son Kaden...free babysitting...overnight, how could we refuse! The conference was in Des Moines, so we went there for the night and had a great time. We met Jason's other sister Jen and her husband Jordan...yes that is a lot of J's in one family :) we went to their house for dessert and she made some really yummy pies! It was a lot of fun to get to know the Rabe's more and have an adventurous drive back home in a snow storm! There were at least 15 cars in the ditch but our trusty driver Jason got us home.
I had the Rabe ladies...as I like to call them :) pick up a Dairy Queen ice cream cake for Mike and we surprised him when we got back to their house! It was a lot of fun. Thanks so much to Grandma Rabe and Julie and Jessica for watching Fox!! We know he had lots of fun with you guys and it was really nice to have a special time away!

Sleeping Foxy

Fox had a cold for about three wks and was pretty congested.
I peeked into his room and heard him snoring...poor guy!
The video is a little dark but you can hear him snoring :)
Fox and all his buddies!
Two foxes, a bear and
a zebra!
















3/25/09

Lunch on the deck

It was the most beautiful day, so we had lunch out on the deck! Mike came home for lunch and we all enjoyed the wonderful weather. 75 and sunny on St. Patrick's Day. It was great to have some warm weather...even though it has gone away and it's snowing today. It was wonderful while it lasted!
3/17/09

Reading with Daddy

We usually read to Fox every night before he goes to bed and lately we've been reading the Easter story. It's very sweet because now he's started to say "Gigi" for Jesus! He points to him on all the different pages, even in other books. It brings joy to our hearts to hear him start to recognize Jesus. He always sleeps with his fox...or two. Lately he's been wanting to bring "blue bear" to bed as well :) So that night we practiced swaddling blue bear like baby brother and Fox held him while Mike read! It was a really sweet moment.

3/16/09

Quick visit to Fairmont

Mike had to travel to Minneapolis so we went to Mom and Dad's on the way home and stayed over for a visit! We had a great visit which involved going to Shopko with Mom, Taco John's for lunch and we got to go to a movie while Grammie babysat Fox :) Also went to Jake's for pizza, made a trip to Walmart and watched Australia on the big screen in Dad's media room! Sunday we went to Grandma Tharp's church and Foxy wore a tie that Papa loved! We had lunch at home and then headed home. Grandma Tharp had hemmed some curtains for me so we stopped there on our way out and met her sweet (very big) cat! It was a fun weekend.