Heading Out

Tomorrow we leave for Iowa! I'm very excited, and the boys are definately ready to leave. It's all Hunter's been talking about. He even practiced how he was going to hug grandma Mary this morning. I set out the kids clothes today and packed them in a suitcase and set it in Callie's room, and as I went in her room tonight to get her pj's, I saw that Hunter had packed his little Cars bag full of stuff to take to gma's and had set it right next to the suitcase. I'm sure I'll have to answer the question of "Are we going now" all day tomorrow. It is kind of nice, though, that he's old enough to know where we are going and that it takes awhile to get there. (And thank the Lord Almighty for portable DVD players! I don't know how my parent did it...although I would think girls would be less hyper than boys) We'll be heading out as soon as Brent gets home from work tomorrow. It'll be a long night b/c it will most likely be dark before we leave. We'll come home on Sunday. I'm looking forward to seeing my family, seeing my sister's pregnant tummy, eating pumpkin pie, seeing friends, and HOPEFULLY some Jaarsma bakery goods. We are celebrating our Christmas, too.

Speaking of Christmas, I am SO excited to get the decorations out. I already have my new blog layout picked out for the holiday, and, as I'm usually bummed to come back home after seeing all my family and familar things, I am so excited to have decorating for Christmas to look forward to. I anticipate it being not as fun this year b/c of Miss Get-into-everything. Callie does pretty well with the word No, so hopefully she doesn't pull the tree down on herself too many times. She was playing in the boys room today(as she does every day) and I check on her every few seconds it seems, but I saw her get up on the boys little green chair and stand on it. She was jumping up and down rocking it back and forth and yelling at the top of her lungs. It was a sight. I would have gotten out the video camera, but I was afraid for her safety, so I took her off. She also likes to get into the diaper wipes now, so they are up high now. This morning she wanted to be daddy's little helper while he was making (me) scrambled eggs. I thought she looked so cute and tiny standing next to Brent:



Tate has been talking more and more and has the cutest way of saying things. He said "baking soda" today while we were making bananna bread and it had me in stitches.

Happy Thanksgiving!