Happy Birthday!!!

This past weekend we celebrated Kurt's 32nd (12/12) and Daniel's 18th (12/11) birthday. We enjoyed eating out, seeing Santa of course, and cake.

Addie is still not so sure about Santa. She has so much confidence when he is not around. She'll say - "Santa is a big guy. He won't hurt me." Then when she sees him she stops in her tracks and screams at the top of her lungs. In the photo below, Santa had to sneak around at first so we could capture a photo. She asks for new mittens from Santa - note that they are mittens and not gloves as Addie will certainly correct you.

Sad news to share ......

We have had the unfortunate event of a second miscarriage this past week. Stephanie was about 6-1/2 - 7 weeks along. The baby stopped growing at just over 5 weeks. It is a very sad time especially just before the holidays as well as occuring again within months of the last miscarriage. Stephanie will have enhanced blood testing done later in the month to see what the potential cause might be given that the statistics of being a fluke twice is unlikely.

Kurt's grandmother is also not doing well. Mary Jean is in a nursing home in Stonghurst, IL. They believe she has suffered from another stroke. Her kidneys are failing also and the family has decided to stop her feeding tube. She will be seeing Grandpa Webster soon.

A future builder, designer, architect, engineer....??

Here is one of Adeline's first attempts at building a tower crane! She is also wearing her hard hat - safety first! Mommy and Daddy are so proud!!

I am a mess!

Oh, the weather outside is.....

Frightful. Last Friday, we received about 5" of ice and 12" or so of snow which drifted to about 2-3' in places. Mommy was out of town in sunny Phoenix for work until Saturday to welcome her buried car at the airport. Luckly there are angels out there. Several people offered their hand to assist. Addie enjoyed the snow but now it is too cold to play out in it. The snow will be here for a while so there will be more opportunities I am sure. This certainly puts us all into the Christmas spirit!

Thanksgiving 2006

We made the rounds this Thanksgiving enjoying lots of company and lots of turkey and pie!! We all enjoyed each others company as always.

Just a quick little vacation

Just before Thanksgiving we took a quick trip to the indoor waterpark at Grand Bear Lodge near Starved Rock State Park. The indoor waterpark was amazing. We all enjoyed it. We also went downtown to Chicago. We went to the Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium. Below is a photo of us in front of a life size gingerbread house (which smelled incredible!).