Pretty, Pretty Princess...

A few weeks ago I found a pink princess bath robe in Eva's closet. It is clearly meant for an infant.....but Eva quickly fell in love with it and insists on wearing the robe almost every day. This girl is obsessed..and refers to herself as a princess while she has it on.

The other night while the boys were at Home Depot (doing manly things) I decided Eva and I would have a girls night. I painted her fingernails and we had a tea party...of course she had to wear her princess robe. I snapped a few pictures while I was painting her nails..but didn't get any of the tea party :( Maybe next time!

Here are a few pics of the princess....





It has been a while since I posted last so I will try and catch everyone up on the family happenings from the last month....

Trev has been working very hard on the basement! He just finished all the trim work last weekend..and now we are trying to decide what to do for flooring. This topic could be a whole post on it own! I will try and get some good pictures of Trev's work and post them later. Jak has been daddy's little helper..and even has his own work bench downstairs in the clubhouse... if you ask him what he is doing at his bench he will tell you that he is "building a basement" too cute...





A couple weekends ago we went with the Rott's to Exploration Place. The kids loved everything about that place...but I'm pretty sure they could have spent hours at the water table. Afterwards we went on a walk to check out the Keeper of the Plains. It always amazes me that we have lived here for over 2 years now and still have sooo many things we haven't done or seen.







Last weekend we attended Emmy and Heath Harp's 30th Birthday Party. It was an 80's themed party.. and was totally awesome :) Of course I waited until the last minute to come up with an 80's outfit...but thanks to Kylie, we made a trip to Claires where we hit the 80's jewelery mother load! Who knew 80's was back in style? Not me! Kylie and I even managed to get the guys to dress up! Kylie broke out her old crimper...I put my hair in a side pony tail...add some neon clothes and jewelery..and we were ready to go!





AND...last, but not least... :) This last sunday I realized I was 14 weeks pregnant...ALREADY?!?! It is funny how fast time goes by! I thought I would put a picture up to mark the second trimester. I know..I'm huge already! I'm going to be as big as a house by the end of 9 months!!!!




(thank you to kylie for some the pictures from Exploration Place and the 80's party!!!)

Jak Krehbiel...aka Pablo Picasso

Jak has always loved to draw. In just a few short months Jak has gone from drawing squiggly lines and scribbles to drawing cars and people. I was amazed when he brought his magna doodle to me and said "mommy, look! I drew Jak!!" I might be a little biased...but I think his drawings are pretty good for a 3 year old!

The two drawings below are the first two pictures he drew of himself. Trev and I kinda laughed cause he looks a little bit like Wall-E





This is supposed to be Mommy, Daddy, and Jak... LOL!

December...its been a busy month!!!

Wow...December has flown by!! It has been a busy month for the Krehbiel family. So far we have to traveled to Nebraska, Texas, Kansas City, and next weekend we will be going back to Nebraska to celebrate christmas with the Sweet family. We have yet to spend one weekend at home this month! I will try and touch on a few of the high points from this holiday season so far...

The first weekend in December I took the kids up to Nebraska to visit my family. Some of our highlights from the weekend included a trip to see Grandma Evelyn on the farm and a Christmas light tour through Candy Cane Lane in Lincoln Park and around Superior. The kids LOVED the christmas lights!! I also was able to help my dad and sisters hang christmas lights outside my parents house. It has been almost ten years since I've been home to help hang the lights! It has always been a tradition to wrap the tree in the front yard with as many christmas lights as possible. My dad is the poor soul that gets to unwrap the tree afterwards...but he never seems to mind :) Here are few pictures from christmas light hanging.









Since it has been so busy this holiday season I was VERY late getting our tree up and decorated. I decided to let the kids decorate the tree this year. They were very excited!! I showed them how to hang the ornaments on the tree branches then let them take over. Jak quickly became a pro..but Eva just couldn't quite figure it out. She decided that she would just hand Jak the ornaments to hang up. They were quite the team! Even though all of the ornaments ended up in a small cluster at the bottom of the tree, it still looked good! Jak and Eva were very proud of their work!!







and the finished product...if you look close, you can tell all the ornaments are at the bottom!



One last note..... it looks like we have one more thing to be grateful for this christmas. Baby Krehbiel #3 is due in July!!!

Thanksgiving Fun...

I am very thankful that I was able to take the entire Thanksgiving weekend off to spend with my family. It has been a nice, relaxing weekend...so far.

These are pictures of Jak and Eva helping me bake for Thanksgiving. They helped me pour ingredients in the bowls and stir...then they were rewarded with the beaters and bowl to lick clean. They thought that was the greatest thing ever!!







I was in charge of making the cherry pie for our Thanksgiving feast. I decided to attempt a latice for my top pie crust. My Aunt Pam always makes the prettiest latice designs on her cherry pies...so I was bound and determined to make mine look just as good! To my surprise, it actually turned out pretty good!! I think Pam would be proud of me :)

before baking...



finished product!



Saturday morning was soo beautiful! I decided that it would be a great day to go to the park.....and maybe try and take pictures for our christmas cards! We had a nice little picnic..tried sooo hard to take some good pictures, and then went and played at the Sunrise Playscapes...they love that place!!!

Off Roading....

Yesterday I walked into the living room to find that Jak had made a "road" out of his books..and was driving his dump truck on them. He thought it was pretty hilarious!




Jak has also taken up photography. He learned how to take pictures with my camera and thinks he needs to take a picture of everything!! Well, I guess he gets that from his mommy :) Here are some samples of Jak's pics....

Jak says "say cheese mommy" then after the picture he says "awe, mommy that was a good one!" thanks jak!


Baby Shawn..one of our daycare kids


I had just taken a picture of him with the lion mask on...so he made me do it too! Not a bad picture though..other than the fact that I look like a dork!! :)

My Whiz Kid!

I am so impressed with Jak's puzzle skills!!! Today Aunt Kylie brought over two, 25 piece puzzles for the kids to play with. Jak was so excited! He sat at the table and started working on them. About 30 minutes later he started yelling "mommy, mommy come look!!" I went in the kitchen..and WHOA!! He had finished both puzzles! He must be a natural at puzzles, just like his Great Papa Bill!!







This is Eva with her 3 favs...... pink cowgirl boots, cookie pillow, and Cookie Monster book. What more could you want?

A girl and her boots

Eva loves shoes....especially her pink cowgirl boots that were handed down from her cousin Lilah. Sometimes I have to hide the darn things because she wants to wear them constantly. Almost every morning she will go find them and put them on over her pajamas!! I think the her favorite thing about the boots is the sound they make as she is walking across the hardwood floor. She will stomp around watching her feet with the biggest grin on her face. She even discovered that the boots can also serve as a koozie for her sippy cup. What a crazy little girl!