Snow day!

Thursday we had about 6 inches of snow, so Hannah and I went across the street to play in the snow with our buddies Calla, Carter and Cedar! Here are some cute pics from the 15 minutes we were outside :)

November 2010

November was another great month for us... Eric and I both have birthdays in November (two days apart!), so we always do something super fun. This year, Eric decided to surprise me with tickets to see Wicked in Tulsa, but as usual... I figured it out beforehand :) I have a habit of always seeing his email at the most inopportune time (for him at least!). Anyways, we went to Tulsa on the 19th to see our awesome friends, the Beams, for the last time (at least for awhile) because since November, they have moved to Toronto!! We met them at Spaghetti Warehouse and then they watched Hannah while we went to the show. The show was so awesome - I was so excited that Eric thought about buying me tickets. I've been talking about wanting to see it for the past couple of years!






We love the Beams, so we are really hoping they will be coming back to Tulsa in a couple of years!

For Thanksgiving, Norm (Eric's dad) came to visit and we had a lot of fun with him while he was here. Hannah loved seeing her Pepere! Eric and his dad got the huge project of redoing the floor of our shed, so that was awesome! When we moved it this summer, the floor was definitely in need of repair, and now we are able to fill that sucker up! It's great :) Thanks Norm!!!

December 2010

So, this December was very busy for us (which would be the reason why we didn't send out any Christmas cards this year!!)

Eric started a new job at the VA... he is now the Lead Inventory Management Specialist. (Everyone say it with me..."ooooohhh"). Basically, this means he is in charge of making sure stuff gets ordered for the whole hospital. So, needless to say, he was super busy trying to learn the job before the previous person retired at the end of the year.

I helped a lot at a new Walgreens in Tahlequah, and so Hannah and I stayed a few nights with my parents so I didn't have to drive over there everyday from Fayetteville. It was fun, but it was very nice to get back to my store!

We went to look at lights on the town square with people from our community group and Hannah rode a pony for the first time!  We think she liked it!  Then we went to dinner and Hannah wanted to sit with the "big girls."  It was really cute :)

Right before Christmas, Hannah had her very first ear infection ever! She made it 19 months without antibiotics, so I feel pretty good about that!!! And let's hope it's another 19 months before she has to have them again because ear infections are no fun! Hannah, who is usually awesome at taking oral medications, screamed and refused to swallow her medicine unless we added it to yogurt. And she didn't sleep very well either, which mean Eric and I didn't sleep very well. Then, to top it off... she made both of us sick also! We were supposed to go to CT the week after Christmas, but God definitely watched out for us by us not going! We would have had to fly the day that all of the Northeastern US was shut down because of snow, and the flight would have been terrible on all of our ears! So, we ended up having a staycation and it was awesome :)  It was really warm that week after Christmas, so we went to the park a couple of times!

Christmas was great this year - Hannah got a play kitchen from us and she loved it!! She plays with it everyday now and it's so funny because when you put certain pans on it, it makes different noises (water boiling, frying, etc)... so we can tell her to go "boil some eggs" and then pretty soon, the boiling water noise comes on. So cute!

We spent Christmas Eve at my aunt's house, playing a game tournament with my whole family. It was a lot of fun and we all had a great time.

Christmas day was spent at my parent's house, where Hannah got this cute slide and swing -and then proceeded to go down the slide about a million times!

Here is Hannah opening presents (I couldn't find most of the pictures, hopefully I can find them when I organize my photos!)

Apparently, we've been busy....

So, every week at least I think, "I really need to blog" and then I get busy and forget until the next week. This has been going on for the past couple of months, so that would explain our lack of blogging in the last few months of 2010. So, I'm just going to make a couple of really big posts, because we really did pack a lot into 2010!!!

In September, we went to Dallas with my parents and my cousin Ashlea to see the Dallas Cowboys play the Chicago Bears. Now, I am a HUGE Cowboys fan, and Eric is a HUGE Bears fan, so when we found out they were playing at the new Cowboys stadium, we just knew we had to go!!! Ashlea babysat Hannah while Eric, my parents, and I went to the game... which was a sad day to be a Cowboys fan (of course, that is pretty much every day this football season!). Even with the loss, it was still fun and we had such a great time all weekend!

In October, we went to Connecticut and New York for 10 days... it was definitely a great trip!!!

My parents also drove to New England to see the foliage and for my dad to go to a work conference in Boston, so it was great that they got to see where Eric grew up and to see a part of the country that they'd never been to!

We went to church with Eric's brother Gary and his wife Katie, and made our annual Nordic Lodge trip! It was so yummy and we all really enjoyed it!

We took Hannah to a petting zoo when we were there, and she liked petting all the animals (although I had to refrain from dousing her in hand sanitizer the whole time!).

We went to Gram and Gramp's house a couple of times when we were there and hung out with them and Bill and Betsy and I got to meet Eric's Uncle Charlie for the first time. He and his family live in FL, but he was up helping his mom and dad with some stuff, so we had a good day hanging out and talking about all things geneology (ok, so it was more fun for Eric than for me!).

Saturday night, we went to my friend Sarah's wedding and it was so beautiful! It was without a doubt, the fanciest wedding I'd ever been to... Sarah, you did such an amazing job! And you looked amazing as well :) It was a great night of hanging out with Duke friends. There's a reason why we are all still friends 9 years after graduating college, even though we rarely get to see each other. There is just something that happens when we get together that makes me realize how much I love them! (Ok, now I'm going to cry!)

Sunday, we went a fun post-wedding bruch at a restaurant in Grand Central and it was the first time some of my friends had met Hannah, so that was great! Then, we went back to Katie's house (by this time, Hannah was a pro at riding the subway/train) and drove back to CT from there.

Needless to say, we were super exhausted from this whirlwind trip!

We did a few other things but I didn't get any pictures... we had a fun date night out in Hamden (home of Eric's alma mater, Quinnipiac), we went on a double date with Eric's best bud Bill and his wife Melanie, and we did LOTS of shopping!

Then, for Halloween, Hannah was Minnie Mouse! It was such a great costume....

We didn't actually go trick-or-treating, since we don't let Hannah have that much candy, but we did our usual walk around the neighborhood with the Bowlings!