Home Sweet Home: Meeting New Faces

On Friday October 25th, Matt's Grandma Virginia and Aunt Deb came for a visit to Kansas City. Aunt Deb lives in Hays and Grandma Virginia lives in Smith Center, Kansas. They got to hang out with all the grand kids and meet Andrew for the first time! They came over to the house Friday afternoon and hung out for a while. They told me they had a great time meeting Andrew and to spend some time with him. Hope to see them again at Christmas time!

Andrew and Aunt Deb

Andrew and Great Grandma Virginia

The next day Andrew, my sister in law Carolyn and I participated in the Step Up For Down Syndrome Walk at Arrowhead Stadium. My friend from high school Kelsea's son Issac has Down Syndrome. This is my second year participating in it with them. Their group is called Issac's Idols! Once Andrew gets older, it will be a lot of fun for him. There are bounce house, play areas and a lot of things to do for kids. Then at about noon, we go on a mile hike around Arrowhead Stadium!

This is the group that participated in the walk this year.

This is my friend Kelsea and her son Issac.

This is Kelsea's husband, Craig, and Issac.

Andrew was ready for the walk!

My sister in law Carolyn joined us for the walk.

Later that night I went to the Progressive Woman's Dinner with our church ladies. It was so much fun! I invited my friend Jean and we had some great talks. This year's theme was "He Make Us New Every Morning" and we got to wear our Pj's! What this dinner is is that we all meet at the church. We all split up into groups to ride together in cars/vans/SUV's so we all aren't driving. Then we go to the first home and have appetizers. Since we were in our pj's, it was a breakfast theme for all the meals. The three homes we went to were of ladies from the church. It was a casual laid back atmosphere.

After that we headed to the second home were we had a sit down meal. Oh and did I mention there were around 70 ladies at this dinner! Yes, all of us went to each home at the same time and yes we were all very cozy with one another! The dinner/breakfast was amazing! Lots of casseroles, sausage and gravy, biscuits, eggs dishes, bacon, juices, coffees, teas! My favorite dish was a casserole sausage and gravy biscuit deliciousness! Then after we ate, we heard a wonderful and strong woman by the name of Jessica's testimony. There was not a dry eye in the house!

After dinner/breakfast we headed to the third house and had dessert. There were pastries and sugar galore! Everything was delicious and it was so nice talking to the ladies of our church!

Last weekend was pretty relaxed. Andrew and I met up with my mom and Grandma at Oak Park Mall for lunch then ran our usual errands. Sunday was pretty relaxed also. Matt watched football all day and I cleaned up the house and did some laundry.

So happy it is November for two main reason's: 1. KU basketball has started and 2. We will be hosting our very first Thanksgiving! This year we will be celebrating it will Matt's side of the family. Matt's parents and his sister Michele and her family will be coming up from southwest Kansas. After Thanksgiving we plan to go Black Friday Shopping! This year is a little bit more special because we will be shopping for Andrew for Christmas! So excited about that!!! We have started to put a list together.