This and That!

Adlee has been having fun lately playing dress up! It is so cute seeing her prance around in those pink plastic high heels:) She also has started wearing nightgowns, which again, are so cute to see her wear. Her Daddy wanted to get her something nice, so he got her a new bicycle. She looks so grown up sitting on her bike! Now that Daddy has done such, we now need to inform Santa of some ideas for Christmas, since Santa was possibly going to be bringing the bike for Christmas.

On Friday, October 12th, my friend Erin, her Mom and I all went on our annual trip the Covered Bridge festival in Indiana.  We enjoy going and shopping and eating yummy food!  Of course Adlee made out from my purchases at Covered Bridge this year, most of what I bought was for her!

October 4th

I am posting this not because it gives me great pleasure to talk about but to journal and be reminded of the events that occurred. On October 4th, 2012 Jeremy and Adlee were involved in a serious car accident. Typically I take Adlee to daycare as it is on my way to work, however, I was home sick and Jeremy took her that morning. Thankfully he was able to call me, but I still freaked out! I was sick and emotional and just the thought of what could have happened just made me sick. They were stopped because a car in front of them was turning. A truck pulling a trailer with a water tank came up behind them and failed to slow down in enough time and rear ended them into the car in front of them, which then sent them back to the truck behind then, which then sent them in to oncoming traffic which they were hit head on by and HHR. They went by ambulance to Carle Hospital Emergency Room where they were treated and released. We are very thankful for many things, firt and foremost, the angels above for looking over then, the fact that Jeremy drives a large vehicle, Adlee's Britax car seat, that they were not hurt seriously, and just everything in general. Adlee had bruises on her legs from her car seat and has talked about the accident and is still a little scared at times to ride in the car. Jeremy had major soreness throughout his body, some scrapes, and what we thought was a fractured foot. He had to wear a boot for a week. He will probably also have to make a chiropractor visit as he is still having some back trouble. He could not get his door open from the impact so he had to take both legs and really use all of his might to push it open. He was in a hurry to get to Adlee and make sure she was ok. She was seated in the middle of his truck as well. We had so many people praying for them, phone calls, text messages, facebook messages. We had people bring over gift cards, balloons, dinners, treats for Adlee. Everyone's care and concern was so generous and we could not thank people enough. It has made us really think about life in general and just to enjoy every minute because you never know when something may happen. One thing we were able to do was actually say Thank you to the President of Britax car seats. Jeremy's sister works for a company in which Britax was one of her clients. She put us in contact with him and Jeremy and I emailed him back and forth. He asked for our family picture which he put on the wall at Britax as well as mentioned us in a company wide meeting. We know it is the law to have children in car seats but the car seat withheld a lot that day and for that we are very thankful.

Pumpkin Patch Fun!

We went to a great pumpkin patch in our area a week or so ago. I have a few pictures to share. Adlee had so much fun at the pumpkin patch! We found pumpkins, she played in little playhouses, she rode on a little tractor train, saw animals in the little petting zoo, had an apple cider slushy and a pumpkin cookie (sugar overload) and had a great time!  We love going to Rader Farms each year now!

We had a great weekend! Friday was Jeremy's Birthday! He was traveling to Iowa to attend a friend's family member's funeral, so we celebrated his Birthday Thursday night and Saturday. We are continuing to pray for the Einck & Merrick Families who lost their loved one Mitch at the young age of 26. We had a garage sale this weekend so Jeremy's parents came over to work the garage sale Friday while I was at work and Jeremy was out of town. Adlee went to daycare like normal and I went to work like normal. We had a great turnout at our garage sale. Adlee and neighbor friend Kate enjoyed playing for about an hour in the dog kennel we had for sale! It ended up selling so we had to have them get out! They loved it!

Sunday we just enjoyed a nice quiet day at home as we were exhausted from the week before.  We went on a long walk and stopped by the park and played!  I made Jeremy a birthday cake that looked like a golf green.  It was fun!

Birchbox!

I decided to subscribe to Birchbox. It is only $10 a month and it seems fun to receive samples of beauty products in the mail. I received my first box this weekend and it was so fun! I love the Kate Spade perfume I got. I am excited about the blue nail polish, I can wear that for Illini games. The hair tie is awesome. I got some of those in Florida and like them a lot!

Shedd Aquarium!

On Sunday we decided to take Adlee to Shedd Aquarium since we were in the Chicago area anyway. We got there first thing and were first in line. We did not know how busy or hectic it would be on a Sunday morning. It was perfect but by the time we were leaving there were lines out the door. She loved all the fish in the tanks that she could look at. We went to a 4D Dora Experience. It was really cute. It was only 15 minutes long but we only lasted about 10 minutes. They actually mist you with water and blow air on you which she did not like. It made her mad:) But all in all we had a great time!

Wedding in the Burbs!

This weekend we had Jeremy's cousin Ryan's wedding in the Chicago Suburbs. It was a really nice small wedding. We had a great time!
The wedding was at 10:30 on Saturday and the reception followed promptly at noon.  It was very nice.  We were able to take Adlee back to the hotel for a nap before going to Ryan's parents house for pizza Saturday night!

The bride and groom...Cloudette and Ryan!

The bride and groom with their parents!

Jeremy, Adlee and I at the reception!  Adlee was so cute, there were two little boys that were Ryan's cousins from his Mom's side that Adlee really wanted to dance with but they really wanted nothing to do with her:)

The back of Cloudette's dress!  Very pretty!

The reception was at a banquet hall and looked really nice!

They got married in a Catholic Church and this cross with Jesus on it was just beautiful!  I can't imagine how much it weighed because it was all glass!

Since the wedding was at 10:30 on Saturday, we left home pretty early to get to the Chicago area and allow any time for traffic, etc.  This was Adlee before leaving the house!

We stayed the night on Saturday night and took Adlee to Shedd Aquarium on Sunday!  She had a good time.  I will follow up with a post on that next!