Monday, December 29, 2008

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!








































We had such a crazy fun week this past week~ as we celebrated Christmas! The week started off with lots of snow~ Addisyn even made her first snow angel in the snow after we brought around cookies to our neighbors! Then a fun activity that Jeff and I did was to go to The Trans Siberian Orchestra with Derrick and Lisa while Grandma and Grandpa VerWys babysat late into the night! The next day was a run around day with Addy as my sidekick as we did some last minute shopping and getting ready for our Murder Mystery party with the Huizenga fam! It was a really fun night~ and I'll let the pictures explain! On Christmas day we had a very nice morning just the 3 of us, and then we jammed packed our car and headed to the Leep's house for our 4 day get away! We all (the VerWys fam.) all stayed together at Becca and Jeff's house and did life together for 4 full days! We had such a great time~ it was great having the whole family home to hang out and chat with, play Wii with, and stay up late with! Evey night we played a game late into the night (I think I saw at least 1 am every night!~ Addisyn did great sleeping here and there and in a pack and play at night! I was so proud of her!! Here are a "few" (yeah right) pictures to share with you about our past week!!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Time to let go!

Just this past week Addisyn has decided that she does not want to nurse anymore. I am actually pretty sad about this because I personally have enjoyed my time with her nursing. I love taking that short time to just stop life~ cuz you have to just stop and sit~ and I would use that time to pray and think about life! I know I can still do that, but when nursing it just happened! Addy just refused and screamed like crazy when I would try any time this week! Who knows why~ other than she loves to drink from a bottle, and since I've gone back to work she has been on the bottle. I think she knows that it comes to fast and easy that way~ so needless to say, yesterday was my official last day of nursing. I will be ok and so will she~ but I just needed to be sad for a few minutes!!

Christmas Party Time!

MERRY CHRISTMAS SMILES!
Rosso and I smiling nice for once!
Daddy and Addy match!
Grandpa and Grandma doing what they love!
Cousin Lindsey and Hayleigh!
The Christmas book that Grandma gave Addisyn~ my favorite as a kid!
Me and My Girl!

Uncle Rob!!
The other end of the table
Dinner time at the VanGrouw party

Megan and Chris are home from Cali~ for good!
All the Brink Grandchildren and spouses
Grandmas and Addy


Addisyn's 1st Christmas will be packed full of fun and family time! We already celebrated the Brink Christmas on the 13th, and the VanGrouw's celebrated last night! Her first gift was a pair of Christmas books from Grandma VerWys~ and one was one of my favorites as a kid! It's a scratch and sniff book which I scratched the heck out of mine~ this is a brand new one, so she will hopefully get to do the same! How fun and HOW WEIRD! To have a book given to my own daughter??? Wow!(sorry, it's sometimes still crazy and overwhelming to think she's mine!) Well here are some pictures to share in some of the festivities! We are looking forward to this coming week with the immediate Huizenga family~ we are doing a murder mystery! I am a rock star groupie and Addy is my illegitimate child!(kidding on her part!) Then on Christmas day, the R VerWys' are celebrating~ and the California kids (Ryan, Rachel, Malachi,Abram and new baby VeWys) are going to be home here! What a fun time of year! At crazy busy times like these~ I have to stop and thank God for blessing us with such a great big FAMILY!