5 Years and Counting!

Greetings! Things are going well here in North Liberty. Yesterday, Chris and I celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary! Neither of us can believe that it has been 5 years. I guess time really flies when you're having fun! For our anniversary celebration, we went for family dinner at Texas Roadhouse. There is really nothing more convenient for parents of a toddler than their "Call ahead seating". That helps to decrease the wait time, which is especially important when you're already feeding your toddler later than he would like! We had a wonderful dinner and Carter loved the peanuts and bread which helped to keep him satisfied until his chicken and taters came. After dinner, we put Carter and Addy down to bed and then each had a piece of "Slice to go" cake from Yummy's. For those of you who are not from this area and have never had Yummy's, it's unbelievably good! I had a piece of German Chocolate and Chris had a piece of Strawberries and Cream (as a tribute to his strawberry "8" grooms cake). We got to sit and talk for a couple of hours before Miss Addy needed some attention, which was wonderful and long overdue! We look forward to spending many, many more years together!

Alice got to come home yesterday after having her girl parts removed on Thursday. She did really well and was unbelievably well behaved when Chris picked her up. The surgery doesn't seem to be bothering her much and she is acting pretty normal. In 10 days Chris has to remove her sutures and she'll be good as new--without the ability to procreate, of course. :-)

Miss Addyson has finally started to sleep without being held by her Mama. Thank goodness! She sleeps from about 11 until 2 consistently every night. From then on, she's a little less apt to sleep, but at least it's a start. I'm pretty tired, but I try to get a little nap in when she and Carter nap in the afternoon (even if it means that I have to hold her to get her to sleep--I'm willing to do anything to get a few minutes of sleep lately!).

Carter has been having fun getting a few minutes outside to play whenever he can. With all the rain recently and the rain in the forecast, we do our outside play as much as possible because he does not tolerate being inside all day very well! I don't think that we'll be able to play outside today. The Hogrefe household was awakened to a torrential downpour at 5 am today and our backyard is still flooded. We got over an inch of rain in about an hour and it's supposed to rain more today. Boo hoo.

Well, Miss Addyson calls. Here are a few recent photos of all of us.






Amy