Jets vs Miami

Well, the Jets dropped another one...two in a row...kind of a bummer...but on a fun note, we had some friends from Georgia come visit over the weekend, Matt and Alisa!  We had a fun date night in the city on Friday night at "Abe & Arthur's".  On Saturday we went to Carlo's Bakery of the show "Cake Boss" in Hoboken, NJ and Sunday was the game.  All the crowd left today, my parents were in town as well.  It was a weekend full of fun despite the loss.

P-Dub

Oh my goodness!  We got to meet the Pioneer Woman!  She was in the city at Chelsea Market doing a magazine launch and signing autographs.  And we (me and Ben) got to meet her.  And we (me and Ben) were very excited!  She was very cool, very beautiful, very nice and very...just like you would think she would be.  We, on the other hand, were total dorks.  But, oh well, I got my autograph and picture...if you're not sure who the Pioneer Woman is, I have a link to her blog on my blog, over on the right.  If you're into cooking, cattle, cute things, food, photography, laughter, or any or all of the aforementioned, or even things that you wouldn't ever expect, like recorded burps, then her blog is the spot for you!  She is hysterical!

Whitney's PreSchool Christmas Pageant

We were so excited to watch Whitney in her school pageant last night.  She has been practicing hard for a couple months now and we've seen glimpses here and there of what they were working on, some sign language, some dancing, whatever information she was willing to divulge to her snooping parents.  She didn't disappoint.  There was some crazy, free ribbon dancing to some Sawyer Brown Christmas music and a whole song done in sign language, my personally favorite.  She was very definitive with her movements.  Her Aunt Abby would have been proud!  (For those who don't know, Abby is an ASL teacher.)  We were very proud of our little girl.  She's growing up way too fast!  Great job Whitney Grace!

Some shots at home all dressed up

Here we go...

Santa!

So we took the girls to visit the big red guy.  Whitney couldn't wait to tell him that she wanted "wind up bugs and a unicorn pillow pet."  Lindsey was completely oblivious to what we were doing, but Ben and I knew once it was time to get up on his lap it was going to be meltdown city.  Sure enough, it was, but we love it because the picture just summarizes where we are in life with these little girls and their personalities.  So funny!  It makes me laugh just thinking about it.

Waiting in line.  The only good picture of Lindsey :)

Talking with Santa.  I love her shy excitement!

Let the meltdown begin!

Precious girls!  I love it!



Thanksgiving Weekend

Since Ben had a home game on Thanksgiving night, all of his family came here for the game and Thanksgiving as well.  It was a ton a fun seeing all the little people together.  Unfortunately, that doesn't happen very often, so it was a special time for them to play together.  They all did very well and had no major meltdowns or sharing issues.  We tried to let Whitney and Ava sleep in the same room at night, but after about 45 minutes of talking we decided we needed to separate them.  It was funny to listen to them talk though.  They each took turns telling stories and just gabbing.  Really cute.  Lindsey, of course wanted to do whatever Whitney and Ava were doing and little Andrew, the lone boy, blended right in and held his own with all these girls.  As usual, we have much to be thankful for this year and these little ones are a huge part of it! 

Yowza!  Look at all those groceries!

There was lots of playing in the leaves

Yummy lunch time!

Lindsey and Andrew riding Uncle CJ's horse

Hooray for Uncle CJ's McDonalds!

 Hanging with Uncle CJ again

 Grammy and Grandpa with all the grandkids

 Aunt Abby and Uncle CJ with all the kiddos

Celebrating Ava's 4th birthday

 Lindsey was ready for cake 

Ben cutting the turkey.  We had our feast on Friday since he was at the hotel on Thursday.



Turkey Trot

It was time to step up my race running...this time instead of a 5k, I did a 5 miler.  I felt pretty good about it since I have been running that 2-3 times a week.  I was excited to see at the end that I finished about a minute faster than I had been running at 52:32.  I have my eyes on a 10k next...

Me and the girls before the race.  It was freezing and windy!

The girls played with daddy on a playground while the waited for me.



A Cold Thanksgiving Game

Thanksgiving night against the Bengals.  There was supposed to be a 100% chance of rain and cold.  We were prepared for The Flood, but fortunately, "they" were wrong about the rain.  We all sure looked great though!  And, the Jets won! 9-2 baby!

Texans

Win! Win! Win!  At the last second, but a win!

Ice Skating

Whitney has been wanting to go ice skating for a few weeks now, and yesterday we went!  There's an indoor rink just down the road from us.  She loved it!  She definitely got better the longer we were out there.  And she attempted to do it herself a few times per her own request, but it only took a few falls for her to realize that she still wanted mommy's hand, which at times, I'm not so sure was the safest place to be.  She kept wanting to do what the other kids were doing and turn in circles, but I reassured her that she wasn't ready for that yet.  She lastest about 45 minutes, then she claimed it was making her "tired".  I'm sure it was hard work for that little body.  I know it was for my old body! :)