Meet in the Middle Weekend

My parents planned a super fun weekend in Indianapolis for my sister and her family, our family and them! We called it "Meet in the Middle" as we met pretty much in the middle of Chicagoland and Nashville.  

The first day started at the Indianapolis Children's Museum. Such a cool place, with stuff for everyone!

After the museum we gathered at Panera for dinner and then headed to our rental house for a birthday celebration for Jade and Cruz! Mom and Dad rented the perfect house for the weekend, including a room just for the kids with 3 sets of bunk beds!!

The next morning we spent time playing games and relaxing at the house before heading to the Circle Centre mall for lunch and glow golf!

We rounded out the day with games and Pizza at Chuck E. Cheese!

The next morning Grammy and Grampy prepared an Easter Egg hunt for the kids, which they loved! We played a little more before heading to our farewell lunch at Freddy's!

A super big thank you to Mom and Dad for this very fun weekend! Can't wait to do it again!

January & February Recap

I have been so super slow at keeping up the blog lately, sorry! These cold winter months are notorious for lots of indoor play that doesn't often get photographed!

Jemma trying on my sweatshirt!

First snow! The girls had a blast helping daddy shovel and making snow angels!

February was the Daddy Daughter Dance through our Pre-School's affiliated church. Nate has taken Jade the last two years, so we figured it would be nice for him to just take Jemma this year! The two of them had a blast going out to dinner together and dancing the night away! Jade and I had a fun dinner date at Culvers followed by a stroll through the toy aisles at Walmart!

While Jade is at school, Jemma is our project helper and shopping buddy!

During Valentines week Jemma drew this picture at school of Jade, me and her playing together!

Jade's decorated box for her class Valentine's Day party! One of Jade's favorite things is scotch tape. Haha ;)

The girls are both enjoying their outside of school activities! Jemma is having a blast with Ballet class and is anxiously awaiting her big recital in May!

Jade is still having a blast with gymnastics! I love watching her during her class, so much energy and such a great attitude! She also attends weekly art classes, which she loves!

We even got outside, once or twice! :)

That wraps up those months, I'll be posting more soon! :)

Better Late Than Never, Christmas Addition - Part 2

With Christmas Eve falling on a Sunday this year, our church held services as normal and did not offer a Christmas Eve Evening service which we traditionally go to. We did however, enjoy our second annual Christmas Eve dinner at our favorite pizza place, Little Italian.

When we got home, the girls excitedly put out milk and cookies for Santa! Oh, and carrots for the reindeer, too!

Santa came!

Christmas Day tends to be a little hectic for us! Nate had to work on Christmas Eve, so we waited for him to get home to open presents! Some highlights for Jade were a big Art Set, Scooter and the Shopkins Grand Mansion. Some highlights for Jemma were a Doc McStuffins Baby Cece doll, a Peppa Pig house, and a play camper for her L.O.L. dolls.

Afterward, daddy got some sleep and the girls and I headed out for our first celebration of the day! We had a great afternoon of food and fun with my parents, my sister and her family, my Aunt Marianne and my Grandpa!

Next we headed to Nate's Aunt and Uncle's house for more food and fun! Nate was able to meet up with us there, before working again that evening! This is the only picture I managed to take the whole time we were there. Jade and Jemma with Nate's little cousin Michael!

The next day we headed to my parents house to celebrate with my mom and dad and my sister's family! It was so fun having everyone together, especially seeing all the cousins have such a blast with each other.

Our last celebration was on the 27th with the Obermayer extended family!

Whew, only 2 months late! Here's to keeping better updates going forward! ;)