The Bangerts

Monday, January 28, 2013

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Cousins Weekend

The weekend before New Years Stef, Lily, and Hayden came to visit. Our cousin Djuana from Wisconsin came down. We all hung out at my cousin Don & Sherawn’s house Saturday evening.

We all made a pot of soup and had more than enough to eat! It was fun to see all the kiddos sitting at the bar, so grown up!

After supper we took advantage of having the girls together to get a picture of them in another set of their matching Christmas PJs. Getting a picture of these 2 busy girls isn’t easy these days…

This is about the best we could get! Not sure what is up with Adelyn & her tongue!

The boys wanted in the picture too!

“Mama said don’t take your socks off…I had another idea!” Silly Lily!

Stef, Lily, & Hayden spent the night at our house that night. Lily didn’t sleep so well and us adults stayed up way too late, so Stef & I stayed home from church and took it easy with the kiddos.

Another opportunity to get a picture of the girls in their matching Christmas dresses…again Adelyn with the tongue, silly girl!

Hayden wanted to take a picture too. I thought it was so cute how he put his arm around Adelyn!

We tried to get Lily in the picture…but didn’t have a lot of luck. ha!

Adelyn had to show cousin Hayden all the fun games she plays on Mommy’s phone!

Lily says, “Look guys, I have a phone too…!”

“…but Aunt Darci’s look much more fun!”

We headed up to see Grampo for lunch at his apartment. It was a little “busy” with 3 kiddos, but I think Grampo & all his friends enjoyed the “extras” at lunch. Hayden had to help Grampo un-wrap his Christmas present.

After lunch at Grampo’s, Stef & the kids hit the road and we had quiet afternoon at home.

31 weeks

How Far Along: 31 weeks, 3 days {1.6.13}

Size of baby: Baby Bangert #2 is the size of a pineapple

Heartbeat: 150bpm at 32 week appointment

Maternity Clothes: Mainly all maternity! I’ve been trying to layer with some of my regular cardigans & sweaters.

Gender Predictions: It’s a boy!

Movement: He is a busy boy! Its fun to watch my tummy dance around when he really gets moving.

Sleep: No complaints in this department, thankfully!

What I miss: When everything in my closet used to fit me and sleeping on my back.

Cravings: Little Debbie Swiss Cake rolls….random!

Symptoms: Unfortunately this baby boy is on my sciatic nerve. Randomly throughout the day I get this shooting pain down my left side. I’ve done a few chiropractic treatments, but nothing has helped.

Best Moment this week: Adelyn started her new daycare and has done SO well! Its like she’s been there this whole time!

And a certain little someone insisted on getting her picture taken…in Mommy’s necklace!

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Christmas Happenings

I finally have all of our Christmas posts done! Instead of scrolling through our blog, you may use this post to easily open each Christmas post I’ve done recently.

Christmas Day

This was Adelyn’s first sight in the living room Christmas morning…might I add EARLY Christmas morning! Let’s just say she was excited for Christmas!

I wish I would have been in a better spot to get her face. It was pure awe! She ran right to her new kitchen and played for a LONG time! It made all “Santa’s” work the night before worth it!

Santa also brought her a table & chairs set {Santa had to get a rain check on 2 pink chairs that were out of stock at Ikea}.

After Adelyn checked out her Santa gifts we had some breakfast and got ready for the day…and then opened presents from Mommy & Daddy!

The tape kept getting stuck to her foot and she wasn’t a fan of that at all. This is her trying to “kick” the tape off her foot! Silly girl!

And what do you do after un-wrapping all your gifts Christmas morning? Play with all your new toys! We got her the Melissa & Doug ice cream set. She knew just what to do with that ice cream cone!

And she made Mommy a 2 scoop ice cream cone! Yum! Smile

She loves her Little People fire truck from Grandpa & Grandma Bangert!

Mommy & Daddy also got her a tunnel and a tent!

“Daddy come play with me!”

Love these two smiles peeking through the “window”!

Kyle and I decided no gifts to each other this year. We bought a new TV for the basement in November and Kyle got a new road bike, so those were our “gifts”. Well…except for one Adelyn had to help Mommy open.

Kyle didn’t abide by the rules! Him and Adelyn gave me a shiatsu massage chair! Read = great gift for a prego Mama with a hurting back! Adelyn loves Mommy’s new chair…and the remote!

After we were finished playing with all our new toys we packed the car and headed an hour north to Kyle’s Aunt & Uncle’s house for Christmas dinner with his extended family on his Mom’s side. It is always a fun time with family with food, games, fun, and gifts! {sorry I didn’t take any pictures}

Overall Christmas was wonderful this year! Adelyn makes it extra special and I’m sure next year will be even more special with two little ones! Hope you enjoyed the recap of our Christmas season!

Christmas Eve

On Monday, Christmas Eve, we headed up to Kyle’s parents house for lunch with them. Sharon made an awesome meal, as always! After lunch it was present time! And Adelyn knew just what to do after lots of practice over the weekend in Omaha!

Notice her Under Armour shirt under her dress. Daddy insisted! Smile with tongue out

One thing on Adelyn’s wish list was a stool she could use in the kitchen to help Mommy or anywhere in the house. As you can tell, she loved it! She totes that thing all over the house and the handle is perfect to help her balance.

“Let me help you Aunt Laura!”

Uncle Travis got a discman from his parents. I didn’t even know they made those anymore!

All us kids went in on Kyle’s parents’ gift. We got Sharon a tablet and Jim a fancy tool…some sort of grease gun!

After all those gifts Adelyn was wore out. So I put her down for a nap, but since it was an unfamiliar place she wasn’t interested in staying down for a nap, so Mommy joined her! While we were napping the rest of the family enjoyed an afternoon of games.

Adelyn, Kyle, and I headed out late afternoon to get home, eat a quick supper, and head to Christmas Eve service at church. It is one of my favorite Christmas traditions. Adelyn was a little busy during the first half of the service, but thankfully kept quiet and finally fell asleep during communion. Usually she is in bed by 7pm!

After service we put our sweet little girl to bed and “Santa” got to work finishing up a final gift! Santa, aka Daddy, still had to put Adelyn’s new kitchen together. An hour and a half later we finally had the 1,000 {exaggerating, yes!} piece kitchen put together and ready for Christmas morning!

Omaha Christmas Weekend {part 3}

Sunday morning we all got up & headed to church. I always enjoy the services at Stef & Geoff’s church. Afterwards we headed back to their house for lunch before hitting the road.

Great Grandma Donna read to Adelyn while Stef & Mindi were getting lunch ready. She was listening so intently!

Auntie M not only got the girls matching Christmas PJs, she also got them dresses too! Unfortunately we were running behind before church to get a picture and Lily napped from the time we got home from church until after we left to go home, so we didn’t get a picture of the two together. Still cute though!

Adelyn sure loves her Aunt Stef or in Adelyn’s words “Aah Ste”!

Before hitting the road we had to get some quick family pictures! My pops and his 4 girls {plus baby boy!}.

Then we switched out Dad for Grandma!

And then we got everyone, Uncle Kenny, Aunt patty, and their grand daughter Angela {minus the sleeping kiddos & our hubbies}.

We also did some other family pictures…

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Enjoy!

I had seen ideas on Pinterest for printables for a Christmas photo booth which is what I was originally going to do. Then I had an idea to shop the dollar store. I spent about $10 and used a few things from around the house and had lots of fun props for our photo booth. It was a hit!