From Christmas until Today

It's been a week or so, but know I'll catch you up on the few days following Christmas.

December 25, 2008
Christmas day we headed to Grandma Ficklin's house. We skated our way to the front door and then headed toward the basement for mass quantities of food, family and presents! I enjoyed taking pictures of the kids in attendance and we look forward to two more little ones next year. Unfortunately I'm having a hard time uploading the pictures to the blog. But if you have a snapfish account you can check out all of my holiday pictures here

December 26, 2008
The day after Christmas Trever went back to work and I stayed home to put away all of our gifts. I met Mike & Ria for lunch in Gibson City and Mom, Dad and Kirk ended up joining us too. That night we headed back to Greg & Kathy's for dinner with Grandpa Kuipers, Dee & Marshall.

December 27, 2008
Saturday was a baby shower for Kyla and baby DeOrnellas. It's hard to believe that our new niece will be here in a little over a month! She got lots of cute, and useful, things. However, most of the group didn't get to see them since the electricity was out for the majority of the unwrapping.

After the shower, we headed to Trever's Great Aunt Sue's house for the extended Ficklin Family Christmas. She had a houseful even though we couldn't see much of each other. Trever is blamed for electricity going out. We still managed to have our gift exchange by candle light and flashlight and had a great time.

December 28, 2008
December 28th was Trever & Mom's birthday. We hit church early in Onarga, did a little post Christmas sales shopping and headed to the Illini game. We watched Illinois beat Eastern Michigan and then went to Jupiters for a birthday dinner.

December 31, 2008-January 1, 2009
New Year's Eve we made a stop at the Guth's and then proceeded to Kevin and Nicole's to ring in the new year. We hit the sack around 2 a.m. and Trever had the alarm set for 6 a.m. Those darn cows got fed earlier on New Year's day than they do most weekends!

That afternoon we headed to the Rademaker's for our last celebration of the season. We gathered with good friends and again ate lots of good food. Their new house was filled with kids and I made Trever practice his baby holding skills. I will admit, he is improving!

Since then...
We have been pretty low key. We went back to work for a day on Friday. Saturday we both ran errands and then headed to Champaign for date night. We hit our usual spot, Lowes, and then did some browsing for baby before using our Biaggi's gift card for dinner.

Sunday Trever was the fill in preacher as our's was called away to a family funeral. After church I spent the rest of the day in bed fighting a terrible cold. Yesterday was back to work for a full week, neither one of us is sure if we can handle another 5 day work week!

That's about it. I know blogs with pictures are more fun, but hopefully I'll do better next time. I'm not sure that we have too many exciting events coming up but I'll do my best to keep everyone posted on what's going on with us!