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  • Thursday, December 16, 2010

    Big Sister...

    Yup, that's right, Hannah is going to be a big sister!



    We are very excited about the new little addition to our family. I am 19 weeks and 2 days pregnant. Chuck and I went for an ultrasound this morning, everything looks perfect and we are having a boy! I have no idea what I am getting into with a boy but I was so thrilled this morning to count all 10 fingers and all 10 toes! Now we just need to get ready to meet this little guy!

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  • Wednesday, December 15, 2010

    A Christmas comparison...

    I had to get a couple pictures developed today for Hannah to take to school for a craft they are working on. I brought them into work to pull the ones to send to daycare. I don't change my pictures at work all that often so I still had a picture from Hannah's very first Christmas in 2008 on my desk. Take a look...
    Christmas 2008
    and Christmas 2010
    It's amazing how much Hannah has grown, but what actually caught my eye is I do believe that Chuck and I are wearing the exact same thing in both pictures....maybe we need to do a little clothes shopping for ourselves!!
    Only 10 more days until Christmas!!!

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  • Wednesday, December 08, 2010

    2 Year Stats and skating pictures...

    Hannah's 2 year check up was a couple weeks ago but we have just been so busy I haven't been able to share them. Hannah is doing great, she is

    33 pounds (95%)

    36 inches (90%)


    Hannah has grown so much in just a year! It is so weird that we can sit down at dinner and actually have a conversation, I am amazed at something new she does or says everyday!!

    So, last Friday night, Chuck was coaching a hockey game right after work in Carmel, so I picked Hannah up from daycare and we headed over to watch. Apparently after the game it was open skate!! It was getting late so our original plans were to just grab a pizza and head home but I decided to ask if they had skates small enough for Hannah!! Sure enough, they did and she loved it! Since this was not planned I didn't have my camera but I did snap a few pictures on my phone.



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  • Tuesday, December 07, 2010

    Breakfast with Santa...

    Saturday morning we woke up to our first snow fall of the season, but that didn't stop us from going to breakfast with Santa! We met Grandpa and Grandma Dodge downtown at the Skyline club to have a wonderful breakfast, make some ornaments and see the big guy! Hannah was not a big fan of Santa last year....


    This year was a bit different....Hannah loved Santa...until we put her on his lap! Look how big she has gotten!!!!





    Besides the sitting on Santa's lap part, Hannah really enjoyed herself...especially the candy!





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  • Thursday, December 02, 2010

    Last dance class...

    Last night was Hannah's last dance class....at least for this year. Both Chuck and I attended and it was a blast!! Unfortunately, I forgot a camera again but Chuck had his phone so we got a couple shots. Each dance class had a theme, and last nights theme was "Princesses". Well, it appears every little girl except for Hannah owns some sort of princess costume! No worries though, last night Hannah was the Lady Bug Princess and loved it!!

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  • Sunday, November 21, 2010

    Hannah is 2!!

    I cannot believe that Hannah is turning 2 today! I cannot believe how lucky we are and how much I have fallen in love with her! We had a birthday party for Hannah this weekend and it was a blast, it was so fun watching all the kiddos play together. I will post more about it with pictures later but here is a video of her blowing out her candle! (Sorry about my singing!)

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  • Saturday, November 13, 2010

    Growing up so fast....

    When we moved to the new house back in April we decided to go ahead an make Hannah's room her "Big Girl" room plus the crib. So we went to IKEA, bought her a dresser and a full size bed, set it all up but continued using her crib. Lately Hannah hasn't been sleeping great in her crib and she kept pointing at the big bed so last Friday night we decided to go for it and it went great!!

    I think she likes it!!

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  • Sunday, November 07, 2010

    Trick or Treat...video...

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  • Sunday, October 31, 2010

    Halloween 2010....

    It has been a fun couple of weekends, that is for sure. Halloween is my favorite holiday and I would really like to share that with Hannah. Last weekend we were fortunate enough to have a decent Saturday morning with no hockey, that combination has proved to be very difficult this October!! Anyways, we piled into the car Saturday morning and headed over to Stonycreek Farm in Noblesville. This is the same pumpkin farm that we took Hannah to last year but this year she could actually partake in most of the festivities!!



    They had an enormous pile of hay that kids could just run and jump in. This took Hannah a little bit to warm up to but after a while she was hanging out in the hay just like all the other kids!



    Hannah and Daddy were checking out a tree with pumpkins hanging on it...



    The pumpkin train was a big hit.....we got to the pumpkin patch very near the time that they opened and the weather wasn't beautiful so we could really go wherever we wanted and didn't have to wait in any lines...





    And Hannah met Simon, she has never been on a pony before so we were not quite sure how that was going to go, but she rode Simon all around the corral without Mommy or Daddy holding on to her and loving every minute of it!





    Think she likes Simon???


    This weekend was also full of Halloween festivities. Daddy and Hannah went to ZooBoo on Friday evening, I got to meet up with them a bit later but she had lots of fun. It was kind of like a trick or treating warm up, we got to see all the animals at the zoo and get candy along the way.
    Saturday evening we headed over to the Lee's house for a fun kid's Halloween party. Lots of kids in costume!!
    This was our first Halloween in our new house, we live in a great neighborhood with lots of great kids. Chuck and I took turns walking around with Hannah, she was having a good time collecting her candy, by the end of the evening she was dragging her candy bucket down the street because she was so tired, but was a pretty happy camper when she sat down on our front door step and I opened up her first tootsie pop of the evening!

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  • Tuesday, October 26, 2010

    Marathon Weekend...

    Ok, I know I always say this but we have been BUSY!! I have a lot of catching up to do. We need to begin with Chuck running the Columbus Marathon on 10/17/2010!!! I can't believe he took this on but he did and he finished all 26.2 miles of it and he did amazing!!! I originally thought when he told me that Kevin wanted him to do the Columbus Marathon with him that he was completely crazy, I am all for running half marathons but half marathons aren't nearly the time commitment that a full marathon is, I realize that many busy people run marathons, but Chuck is BUSY and 26.2 miles is REALLY REALLY far!! Between traveling for work, spending time with Hannah and I and coaching hockey, finding the time to put the training in that you need to do to complete a marathon was nearly impossible.
    We headed over to Columbus on Saturday morning. We went to a beautiful park, met Aunt Cathy, and Hannah participated in the Diaper Dash. This was hilarious and I think she enjoyed herself. After the diaper dash we met up with Kevin and Kayt and headed over to the expo to pick up bib numbers, shirts and to check out all the fun booths!
    The awesome thing about this marathon was that since it was in Columbus, Ohio we had lots of friends and family already in the area, plus since it was a pretty convenient location we had lots of friends running!!! Saturday, early evening a big group of us met up for a pre-race meal at Bucca, we did some catching up, then all headed home for an early bed time!
    Sunday morning was early!! We were very nervous about having to wake Hannah up at 5:45 but I think she knew it was a big day for Daddy and popped right up ready to go. We piled into the car and headed downtown! We hit very little traffic heading down there and parking was easy, unfortunately the starting area was a bit of a cluster. Chuck wasn't able to meet up with anyone he knew and had the hardest time even getting into his corral to actually start the race. Hannah and I gave Chuck a kiss, wished him luck and lost him in the crowd.
    Like I said, we knew a lot of people running this, which also meant we had lots of spectator friends!! I told Chuck that Aunt Cathy, Steph, Hannah and I would be at miles 9, 12, 19 and the finish. Kayt, her friends and family were at miles 5.5, 10, 15, 20 and the finish. My Uncle who is completely crazy got up at 4:30 in the morning to drive back from Canada to see Chuck finish, so he was at mile 23 and the finish, so needless to say the boys had a lot of support!! It was an amazing day and we are so proud of Chuck for doing it!
    I don't have very many pictures from the race, I was more worried about not missing Chuck running by and then getting him the things he needed, but here are a few!


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  • Thursday, October 07, 2010

    Hawaiian night....

    At dance.....





    It is so hard to get a good picture of her during class!
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  • Monday, October 04, 2010

    Sticker Time...

    Yesterday while I was getting a few things done around the house Hannah decided she and Rudy should play with stickers! I think she had a lot more fun then Rudy did, especially when I had to pull the stickers off!



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  • Thursday, September 23, 2010

    Second Dance Class....

    Tonight was fairy night and I forgot my camera again!! Thank goodness for camera phones!













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  • Tuesday, September 21, 2010

    Long overdue...Vacation......

    I have been a blogging slacker but we have been busy and I have been tired but enough excuses.

    We went on VACATION!! We flew out to California to visit Dad, Nancy, Julianne and Nicki and had a blast. As we all know Hannah turns 2 in November so we figured we needed to head out one more time before we had to buy her a plane ticket too!
    So Hannah and I flew out early Saturday morning, Chuck was already out there due to a work trip. Our first flight left at 6:30 in the morning, which meant I woke Hannah up about 4 and she was not happy! Anyways, after the shock of getting up so early, we made it to the airport and on our first flight for the day. Any normal person (including the poor girl I was sitting next to) would want to try and sleep on this flight considering the time, but an almost 2 year old on an airplane for the first time in a long time wants to do anything but sleep and she also wants to make friends with everyone around us. Hannah was great on the flight except for keeping up perfectly nice strangers.
    The next flight we were fortunate enough to get to sit in a row just the 2 of us, it was a smaller plane but it wasn't full so Hannah and I were quite comfortable. Hannah was awesome on this flight also, the one thing I learned is that smaller planes do not have changing tables and the bathrooms are tiny!! Anyways, Hannah and I arrived to the Orange County airport right on time, Dad and Chuck picked us up and we headed to Lake Arrowhead. Hannah was so excited to see her Dad and Grandpa but as soon as we hit the road she was asleep for the trip up the mountain!
    When we got to the lake house Nancy, Nicki, Julianne and Julianne's roomate Britt were there to greet us and Hannah was up and ready to go. We spent 3 fun filled days in Lake Arrowhead!
    Nicki, Julianne and Britt had to be back at school after the relaxing Labor Day weekend so the rest of us also headed down the mountain to hang out at the pool in Glendale for a few days. We had great weather for the most part. We did alot of swimming and we also took Hannah to Universal City, she is way to young for Universal Studios but she thouroughly enjoyed Universal City and ended up with some great shoes!!

    We spent the last couple days in Newport. We have never spent any time in Newport and it is beautiful. We went to dinner in the Duffy which was awesome and we took a boat ride to Catalina!! Catalina is kind of like a completely different world!! Chuck, Dad, Hannah and I took a golf cart tour which was pretty fun!


    The whole trip was wonderful, I was very thankful Dad and Nancy could put up with us for 6 days straight!! Now we are back to the grind and getting ready for fall!

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