Happy Holidays

Well, Christmas has come and gone-whew!

To start off the Christmas holidays I began my trip at Grandma Lewis's, that was the weekend before Christmas. Of course Michigan had a Blizzard-basically all weekend! We played games and cards, drinked and laughed good times, good presents, good people! Trying to get home was fun, again a blizzard but with ice this time yipee! Chris joined me this year at Grandmas so that was nice beign able to spend time with him, his famly actually got to take off to Flordia and enjoy the beautiful weather and Phil and Tabs company! :)

Chris also got to join me for midnight mass at our church-he is methodist and needless to say he didnt understand why all of the stand up sit down keel stuff. Or why the choir sang so dang long but at least he made it through all right! We came home from church-lo and behold-Santa had come Horray!!! So we did stockings had some snacks and then off to bed.

Christmas day was wonderful!!! We woke up had breakfast and waited for Grandma Lewis to join us for presents. Ryan and Alissa and the fam were also coming over for presents. While we waited for them, Ryan sent us some pic messages of the boys and their gifts then we got a call about 12:15-30ish, it was Ryan, he todl mom that they were heading in to the hospital-ALISSA WAS IN LABOR!!!! :) Well, Ryan and Alissa brought over the boys, and the gifts and away they went.

While they were gone having a baby, we opened gifts the boys were SO funny! One gift then on to the next as quick as possible, it was great. We finished opening gifts, ( all the while the phone woudl ring here and there, we thought it was Ryan with good news, but it was other family members seeing if she was in labor yet!!) Todd and Erica(Louies sister and brother in law) came over for dinner. Ben and Britta and the kids joined us too.

So 6:45pm rolls around and we got THE PHONE CALL!!! It was Alissa, She and Ryan had a baby girl, MYKENNA AUDREY!!!! She was 7 pounds 5 ounzes, 19 1/4 inches long and was born at 6:06pm!! She is beautiful and looks liek Cayden did :)

The boys ended up staying the night with us, which was so great to have them here, I just love them! So Congrats Ryan and Alissa on the addition to your family! :)

Chris and I went to see Alissa and Mykenna on Friday, we were on our way back to the thumb, Chris has the Leipprandt christmas party at his Aunt Deb's on Saturday.

All in all the holidays couldn't have been any better, I got great stuff for christmas including my niece!!!

check out some pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Kimsinanutshell/Christmas08?feat=directlink

Katie and Dereks Wedding

December 6, 2008 Not only is my big Brother Ryan's birthday, but it is now the anniversary of Katie and Dereks wedding!! Congrats you two!!!

Their even started off with Rehearsal at the church in Pewamo and dinner at the Oakwood. The girls got our jewelry for the wedding and a cute purse that matched our satches for our dress. I had a horrific head cold so I missed the decorating of the hall-which turned out so gorgeous! Saturday was the big day. We started it off at the next level salon, where Katie works, we got our hair done and had the option to have our make-up done. It was nice being able to all be together the morning before to get our hair done! On the way to the hall Katie lost her veil somewhere to mother nature and Big Kate would NOT allow her daughter to get married without one so while we had someone running to Becker's to get another veil, Katies future brother in law Tyler found it!!! So great now she can get married. It was a beautiful ceremony followed by the CRAZY TRAIN bus for bar hopping and then the reception which was awesome! I went home early because my head cold was so bad that I was actually holding the bridge of my nose to stop it from hurting so bad, but I had a great time and I couldn't behappier for my friend Katie and her now husband!! -Derek!

They are now in Aruba warm bastards!! :)
Check out my pics here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Kimsinanutshell/KateWedding#

Thanksgiving and Florida

Alrighty!! Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, I know this is a little late but I have been a very busy girl! I spent the day before Thanksgiving at the Oakwood, bice little time kinda liek a class reunion for P-W and Portland!

We hadThanksgiving at home with the family Chris was with me as well, in fact he was with me for quite awhile!! :) We had a nice dinner and then looked through ads at Aunt Sams until way too late!

On Friday Chris and I got up way too early! We went to Younkers, Dunhams, Menards and Wal-Mart all before 7:00am! Yeah I am training him pretty well. Later on that night Chris and I had a wedding in the Detriot area, we were both really tired and kinda snippy toward eachother, but we got through it! The wedding was for Dave and Lynn Jarasomething (I think its Polish) anyways it was a very beautiful wedding. We headed home that night and got some sleep before we were off to FLORIDA to visit Phil Jr and Tabatha (Chris's brother and sister-in-law). Our flight took of at 9:30am so we were tired for a along time!!!! Phil and Tab's house is beautiful and it was so nice there. Well, it rained one day and it was about 60's for temperature, but still it was better that being in Michigan. I really didn't take hardly any pictures but I did manage to get a few while we were at the beach one day. Unluckily we were only in Florida for a few days then we had to fly back :(

But check out the pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Kimsinanutshell/Florida#