The Joy of Motherhood

Mother/Daughter Tea Party!

2010-03-03T21:36:00.001-08:00

Ever since Gracelyn was born, it was always just the two of us and she was used to having my undivided attention. Then along came Faith, and suddenly she had to share! Don’t get me wrong – Gracelyn LOVES her little sister and she has never complained about having to share me with Faith. But every once in awhile, I can tell that she really needs some Gracelyn & Mommy time. Well, Gracelyn’s Girl Scout Troop got invited to a Mother/Daughter Tea Party on February 27th, and Gracelyn and I decided that it would be something fun for us to do together – Just the two of us! So, we went out and bought her a special party dress (which will be pulling double-duty as her Easter dress)! Doesn’t she look so grown up!

We dropped Faith off with Aunt Kelly and Uncle Darius and we were on our way! Once we arrived, they took a picture of every mother/daughter pair, and they gave us the picture before we left. The tables were decorated with some really nice tablecloths and flower arrangements and we actually got to use real china for our tea and lemonade!

I think Gracelyn was a little disappointed with the food that they served – Big Surprise! – But I really enjoyed it! We were served cucumber, egg salad, and peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, cookies and scones. The scones were just really hard biscuits and not that good, but the cucumber sandwiches were really quite tasty!

Everyone from Gracelyn’s troop attended the tea party, so Gracelyn had a lot of fun giggling with her friends and I got to know the other mothers a little better.

After everyone finished their tea, the girls got to play some games, which were led by some high school girl scouts from the Noblesville area. They also made a cute picture frame to put our picture in. Gracelyn had such a great time she didn’t want to leave and I really enjoyed getting to spend some quality time with just her! Since I get to spend all day with Faith while Gracelyn is in school – I am trying to make some time at least once a week where it’s just Gracelyn & Mommy time! I just started a new job so hopefully I will be able to make it work!!

Happy 10-Month Birthday, Munchkin!!

2010-02-25T15:57:00.001-08:00

Faith is 10 Months old today!!! It’s hard to believe that it has already been 10 months. It feels more like 10 weeks! My little Munchkin has been such a happy baby so far – fingers-crossed that it continues!

She has been crawling since Christmas and she is into absolutely EVERYTHING!! Such a curious little thing. . .

Her latest ‘trick’ is attempting to climb the stairs. So far she has only managed to make it to the second stair from the bottom. Looks like I’m going to have to get the baby gate out a little earlier than I had hoped!!

She likes to eat almost everything. For a couple of months, she was eating 8 jars of baby food a day!! Now, she eats 4 - plus some finger food. Bananas are her absolute favorite and have been since she first started eating solids. Lately, I have been trying to get her to drink out of a sippy cup, but so far it has not been a huge success. She mainly just likes to shake it and bang it on various things to make noise.

She got her two bottom teeth at 4 months, but on February 18th, her first top front tooth finally made an appearance. She has been working on it and drooling constantly for about 5 weeks now. The other top front tooth is also getting close to breaking through, so I expect to see it any day now!

SOOO BIG!!! ‘So Big’, ‘Pat-a-cake’ and ‘Peek-a-boo’ are some of her favorite games to play. She also likes to give kisses, which basically consists of her wiping her drool on my face – But I love it anyway!! Whenever I change her diaper, she will hug a clean diaper to her face and then whip it away with a big smile – like she’s surprising me.

She definitely knows the word “NO!” and loves to shake her head back and forth whenever I say this! She also likes it when you shake your head back to her and she will keep doing it for as long as she gets a response. We are working on waving good-bye right now and sometimes she will do it, but it’s not very often yet.

I have been giving her a bath in her little infant bath tub, instead of the big bath tub, since she was born because it saves on water and it was just faster and easier. But, the other night I gave her her first bath in the big tub and she really liked it. Her favorite part was playing with the running water and the tub spout!

And, Boy, Oh boy – Does Faith love her big sister, Gracelyn!! The first thing Gracelyn does every morning is to go and play with Faith - if she is up. Gracelyn is the only one who can get Faith to giggle uncontrollably on a daily basis. And Faith must have an internal alarm clock because on school days she will start to glance at the front door about 10 minutes before Gracelyn’s bus drops her off and she lights up and gets so excited as soon as Gracelyn walks in the front door!

It’s been a fun and amazing 10 months! Happy 10-Month Birthday, Faith Kathleen Rader!!

Ringing in the New Year!!!

2010-02-19T20:49:00.001-08:00

Gracelyn, Faith and I rung in the New Year with a kid-friendly celebration at home. My sister, Kelly, and her husband, Darius, and their two kids came over for a little bit to celebrate!

Gracelyn was very excited all day long about our “New Years’ Party”. Apparently, I did not do that great of a job explaining it to her the first time because she kept asking me weird questions concerning a ball dropping. First she thought some kind of ball was going to fall out of the sky. Then she thought we were going to drop a ball in our house which she proceeded to practice by throwing balls over the second story banister into the entry hall. Finally, after I explained it for the 7th or 8th time, she finally got it. Once she realized we were just going to watch it on TV, I think she was a little disappointed. Oops!!

She was still VERY excited about all of the noise she was going to get to make with the horns and other party favors. And she loved her hat, however, as you can tell from the picture – Faith was definitely NOT a fan of the hat Gracelyn insisted she wear.

Kelly and Darius brought some sparkling white grape juice with them and Gracelyn and Nathan threw a few cold ones back!!

Kelly and Darius left about 9pm so that they could get the kids in bed. Party Poopers!!

My kids, however, decided that they needed to stay up until midnight to watch the “Ball” drop. So the three of us played board games until midnight and then joined in with the countdown in New York. Which, for some reason, makes me cry every time. I think it’s the song that always does it for me. Anyway, Gracelyn also thought that it was really cool that our friend Leslie lives in New York not far from where all of the people were that we were watching on TV. She kept standing really close to the TV so that she could look and see if she could see Leslie there. It was really cute!!

On the plus side of staying up late - Gracelyn & Faith both decided to sleep in, which means that. . . Mommy gets to sleep in! Hooray!!!

Happy New Year!!!!! Here comes 2010!!!!!

Home for the Holidays!

2010-02-19T18:54:00.001-08:00

We visited my parents from Dec. 23rd to Dec. 28th for the holidays! I have a hard time getting excited about Christmas for most of December. To me the entire month of December is just stressful and we are ALWAYS busy. But as soon as I get everything loaded into the car for our trip home and we are about 5 minutes into our trip, I finally start to relax and get a little excited. I love having the entire family together for a few days without everyone having to rush in 6 different directions. I also LOVE seeing the excitement of Christmas and Santa through Gracelyn’s eyes!

Here is another picture collage of some random photos from our Holiday trip home!

Wilken Family Christmas

2010-02-19T16:53:00.001-08:00

We had another extended family gathering on the 26th of December. This is my mom’s side of the family. Again . . . I will let the pictures speak for themselves!

This last picture is a picture of my Grandpa Don (my mom’s dad) and my Grandma Jo with all of the great-grandkids that were able to be there that day. If I am counting correctly, I believe that there are a total 17 of great-grandkids in all!

Santa came! . . . I must’ve been a good girl!!

2010-02-19T16:02:00.001-08:00

I’m just going to let the pictures speak for themselves!

In the large group picture above, from left to right: Darius (my brother-in-law), Trenton (my brother), Kristy (Trenton’s girlfriend), Me, Brieanne (Bryan’s fiance), Bryan (my other brother), Gracelyn, Kelly (my sister) and Nathan (my nephew).

In other exciting news, my brother Bryan proposed to his girlfriend Brieanne on December 23rd. I am super excited about this because I love weddings and because I love Brieanne and I can not wait until she is officially part of the family! They have set the date for July 2nd, 2011 and I’m sure I will be writing about this plenty over the next year and a half!!

Christmas Eve

2010-02-19T15:15:00.001-08:00

Yes – I am still playing catch up! Don’t be confused. I’m trying to get all of the pictures from Christmas and New Years’ up before I move on to more current events. So. . . bare with me me here!

Here is a picture of the girls and I on Christmas Eve. We usually spend Christmas Eve and Christmas at my parents’ house in Illinois. On the 24th, we went to the Children’s Christmas Eve service at the church that I grew up in.

The girls in their matching Christmas dresses. Aren’t they so adorable!!!

Here is Faith with Grandma Kim!! Grandma also matched the girls with her festive red & black sweater!!

Here is a picture of the girls with Grandpa Rick right before bedtime. After this picture was taken, we set out some cookies and milk for Santa and the reindeers and then it was bedtime for the girls and time to get to work for Mommy!!

And, here is a picture of the girls in their matching Christmas Eve jammies. This picture was taken at Sears about the middle of December.

Rader Family Christmas

2010-02-08T22:10:00.000-08:00

This is a picture of Faith with Great-Grandma "Gumdrop", my dad's mom. I started calling her Grandma "Gumdrop" when I was little because she always kept a crystal bowl of gumdrops on top of her fridge and the name has stuck!

Here is a picture of Grandma with all of the grandkids that were able to make it this year. If my counts are correct - There are 21 grandkids not counting anyones spouse! I didn't get a picture of Grandma with all of the great-grandkids but I believe there are currently 26 great-grandkids with one more on the way!

Here is a picture of my Grandma with all 7 of her children. Everyone was able to make it this year, which doesn't happen very often. Clockwise from the top left: Gary, Danny, Doug, Steve, Rick (my dad), Sandy, Grandma & Debbie.

Here is a picture of me and the girls. Gracelyn, 'The one who took my youth', is 6 1/2 years old and Faith, 'The one who took my figure', is 7 1/2 months old. Wow - do I make some super cute babies, or what!!!!

Here is a picture of Darius, my brother-in-law, and Nathan, my nephew, decorating Nathan with some Nativity stickers!

Playing Catch-Up. . .

2010-02-08T21:08:00.000-08:00

I must apologize to my 5 faithful readers who have been waiting so unpatiently for me to share more of my super exciting life . . . Sorry it's taken me so long to update my blog! December was extremely busy and I fell so far behind that I just didn't know where to start. So . . . The next few posts will be mainly pictures until I get caught back up! Enjoy!!!!

So many things to be Thankful for!

2009-12-06T22:58:00.000-08:00

This year we celebrated Gracelyn's 6th Thanksgiving and Faith's 1st Thanksgiving! I have been very blessed in my life and there are many, many things that I am thankful for. One of the things I am Most Thankful for are my two children. They bring much joy (and lots of worry) to my life. Some of other things that I am thankful for are:

1. The happiness and pride that my oldest daughter, Gracelyn, has brought me over the past 6 1/2 years and the patience and love that she has shown both me and her new baby sister during the last 7 months.

2. The perplexed expression that Faith gets on her face that makes her seem wise way beyond the 7 months that she has been on this earth.

3. The cute bibs that you can buy to celebrate each and every 1st milestone that your child will hit in their first year. Horray for cute holiday outfits!!

4. The beautiful dinner table that my mom, Kim, and my daughter, Gracelyn, set with my mom's wedding china.

5. The awesome turkey that my dad, Rick, carved and all of the fixings that my mom slaved over all morning that were eaten off of the nice wedding china.

6. The tolerance that my mom has for the highchair and all of the other baby crap and kids toys that my sister and I store at her house to make it easier for us to make the occasional trip across the state line to visit for the weekend.

7. The HUGE smile that appears on my baby girl's face EVERY SINGLE TIME I walk by her, talk to her or look at her.

8. My younger brother, Trenton, who always makes me smile and who was able to make it home for the holiday even though he lives in Florida.

9. My mom and dad who have ALWAYS been there for me with their unconditional love even though there have been times where I'm sure I have made this a trying task.

10. My brother Trenton's choice of such an awesome girlfriend, Kristy, who fits in so perfectly as a member of our family.

11. My other younger brother, Bryan, who also always brings a smile to my face and who was also able to make it home for the holiday even though he lives in Iowa.

12. My brother Bryan's choice of also choosing such an awesome girlfriend, Brieanne, who will make a great sister-in-law one day.

13. My favorite sister and my best friend, Kelly, and my brother-in-law, Darius, who I get to see whenever I want since they live 10 minutes away (5 min if you don't hit any red lights!)

14. My niece, Katelyn, who is my very first niece and who is such a sweet little baby girl and who will hopefully not only be just Faith's cousin but also one of her best friends for life.

15. My only nephew, Nathan, who has such a fun imagination, who is already a joy to have conversations with at the tender age of 2 and who still gets excited by the littlest of things like the backhoe he gets to drive by every time he comes to Aunt Lindsey's house.

16. My friends - both new and old!

17. Both my immediate and my extended family.

18. A warm and wonderful roof over my head and more than enough food to fill mine and my two children's bellies for 3+ meals a day.

19. Love, laughter and all of the joyful and sorrowful tears I have shed in my 28 years.

20. That God gave his only son to save me from my sins.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Fall Fun!

2009-11-24T18:34:00.000-08:00

All Summer I was complaining to my sister, Kelly, because we only have one mature tree in our yard to provide shade from the hot sun. Now that Fall is here, I am extremely grateful that I only have to rake the leaves from one tree. It has taken awhile for enough leaves to fall to make raking worthwhile, but last week we were able to create a large enough leaf pile to jump in for the first time at our new house. Faith sat in the middle of it all for a good 45 minutes while I slowly raked a large pile to surround her with.

She spent the majority of the time tasting the different leaves and then constantly sticking out her tongue in order to get out the pieces stuck in her mouth.

Gracelyn really had no interest in the raking of the leaves. She preferred to ride her bike with some of the neighbor kids. However, as soon as the pile was big enough, she invited all of her friends over to jump in the leaves with her. Pictured above is Brianna Reinoso, Alyssa Reinoso, Sydney Richards, Gracelyn & Faith.

This is Faith deciding that her tummy is full from all the leaves and she has had enough. What perfect timing though! At this point, all of the leaves had been gathered into a pile and all I had left to do was bag them up for the trash man. It was such a beautiful 60 degree day and we took full advantage of it by spending most of it outside! I love warm and sunny Fall days!!!

Slumber Party!

2009-11-22T21:01:00.000-08:00

This past week has been a busy week so I'm just now getting around to posting this from last Friday. Gracelyn and I decided to settle in for a girls' only night filled with movies, popcorn, matching jammies & a slumber party in Mommy's room. This is one of Gracelyn's favorite things to do, so we try to do it a couple times a month. Gracelyn likes to bring all of her "special" blankets and her menagerie of animal friends into my room and make up a little nest on the floor. She wanted Faith to lay on the floor with her and Faith was all smiles as soon as I placed her in the middle of all of the animals.

About 20 minutes into the movie, both girls ended up in bed with me. Faith fell asleep about halfway through, so after I moved her to her crib, Gracelyn and I were able to cuddle like we used to. I didn't realize how long it had been and how much I had missed cuddling with my first born until that moment. We used to do this all of the time, but it became uncomfortable about 5 months into my pregnancy with Faith and after the baby was born Faith usually ended up with the prime cuddling spot because either she was eating or I was rocking her to sleep. Oh, how Gracelyn has grown in the past 11 months! My petite, little kindergartner is now this long-legged, beautiful girl. It won't be long before she's as tall as I am!

So. . . . Movie Night was a success and I was reminded of all the wonderful changes we have gone through in the past year that have turned our family of two into a beautiful family of three!

The Gypsy Mama

2009-11-14T20:36:00.000-08:00

I'm sure each of us has come across at least one situation in our lives where you have a choice to teach your child a real life lesson that will draw alot of opinionated public attention or to skip over the lesson so as to not make others uncomfortable. Where do you draw the line? Do you do what you know in your heart is right, or do you allow others to influence you? I was reading one of my all time favorite blogs today and I came across this story. I applaud this mothers courage and I pray that I would choose to do the same in this situation. Please read her blog and let me know what you think.

The (Not So Easy) Easy Bake Oven

2009-11-13T21:26:00.000-08:00

Today after school, the girls and I decided to throw Gracelyn's Webkinz, "Mittens", a birthday party. Well every birthday party needs a birthday cake, so we busted out the Easy Bake Oven. Here is a before picture of Gracelyn in her apron, all of the Webkinz party attendees and the unopened package of graham cookie smores that we substituted in lieu of an actual cake. Take note of how the cookies are supposed to look.

Step 1 of the instructions says to mix the cookie graham mix with 2 teaspoons of water. Thinking it was easier if I just did this part, I added the water and then Gracelyn stirred everything up.

Once I looked at step 2, I realized that everything was NOT as it should be. I, being the brilliant chef that I am, had accidentally added 2 Tablespoons of water instead of the called for amount. So, basically we were one step in and I already had to alter the directions to accommodate my screw up. Opps! Apparently, The Easy Bake Oven is made easy for 8 year olds and NOT easy for 28 year olds! I'm absolutely positive that Step #1 was a trick to make sure that I was paying attention to Gracelyn while she was cooking. I'm also pretty positive that I am not the only one in the world who has screwed this up - At least that is what I am going to keep telling myself!!

Once I figured out how to correct my mistake and the graham cookie smore cake was finished baking, we were finally ready for the birthday party to start. Gracelyn invited all of her Webkinz, Faith and Grant - her friend from the neighborhood - over to celebrate. We lit a birthday candle and stuck it in the cake and everyone sang "Happy Birthday" to Mittens and Gracelyn blew out the candle. . . . Then we had to do it all over again so that Grant could have a chance to blow out the candle too.

I'm pretty sure that Mittens had the best birthday party that any Webkinz has ever had. Here is a picture of what the cookies were supposed to look like and of how the cookie/cake actually ended up looking.

And, here is a picture of Faith's favorite part of the birthday party. She spent most of the party trying to eat "Star", one of the party guests. My guess is that Star won't want to come to another one of our parties ever again. Oh well - Her loss!

Six Months & Standing!!

2009-11-13T16:38:00.000-08:00

No - You do not need your eyes checked. Yes - You saw it right. Faith is 6 months old . . . . . AND STANDING!! She reached this milestone yesterday on Nov. 12th and boy was she thrilled. She had this huge smile on her face and she took 3 little steps along the edge of the little black footstool that she was holding onto. And then she let go and did a total faceplant - Oops! Luckily, I stuck my hand out and caught her before her face smashed into the ground. Gotta love those mommy instincts!

She is also working on mastering the skill of sitting up unassisted. Right now she can sit up for about a minute before she looses her balance and falls over. This is such an improvement from the 10 seconds that she could sit up last week though.

Although Faith has not shown much enthusiasm for eating Rice Cereal, she does enjoy a good cereal bottle once a day. This seems to fill her up pretty good and it gives her a chance to get used to feeding herself. Here is a picture - She took to holding her own bottle from the first day I tried to give her one at around 4 1/2 months.

And here is Faith's favorite new game. One-by-one, she likes to stuff all of the toys on her excersaucer down through the leg holes of the seat - while her legs are in it. Sometimes they get stuck and create quite a toy-jam but she doesn't seem to mind. Every once in awhile I will pull a few of them out and put them back on the top of the excersaucer and she will continue to be entertained as long as she doesn't run out of toys to stick around her in the seat.

Playing with Nathan

2009-11-12T23:42:00.000-08:00

I babysat my Nephew Nathan this morning while my sister took Katelyn for her 6 month well baby appointment. Whenever Kelly asks me to watch Nathan, I really look forward to playing & spending quality time with him and we always have alot of fun when it's just the two of us! I usually keep a basket of toys at my house that are just for him. Today, we painted a picture, played catch, lined up all of his tractors, sang the ABC song, watched Play With Me Sesame and built a really interesting car with lots of "lights" out of Lego's. Oh yeah - AND he locked me in the garage. That wasn't as much fun for me but he obviously liked it since I could hear him giggling through the door. After he stopped laughing he must have gotten pretty worried because he kept wiggling the door knob and he said "Help Me, Lindsey." I explained to him how to unlock the door and he got it on the first try - Pretty Impressive for a 2-yr old! I wasn't too worried about it though, because I knew that if he couldn't figure it out I could just open the garage and go in the front door. Anyway - Crisis Averted.

Here are some pictures of Nathan playing with his tractors and Faith laughing at Nathan.

Sweet Potatoes & Spelling Tests

2009-11-12T23:14:00.000-08:00

Gracelyn has really been struggling with her spelling this year, but last Thursday she got her first A+ on a spelling test. Yay!! Each week when she brings home her new list of spelling words, I am so full of optimism that this is the week the complexities of spelling will finally click for her. We work on it a little bit every night and every time we are in the car I quiz her on the words. She usually starts off the week by getting most of them right. However, by the end of the week it seems as if she is struggling with the ones she knew just a few days ago. I decided that my anxiety over her getting a good grade was rubbing off on her. So last week I just decided not to stress over it as much. We still did the same amount of work, however, I did not push her as much to focus on the words she was having problems with. Instead, we just spent the same amount of time on each word and I just prayed that most of it would stick with her for the test. Apparently, It worked. I am SOOO proud of her and she could not wait to get home from school to tell me how good she did. Now that she knows what it feels like to get an A+, I think that she will be trying a little harder to get another one!

Faith started eating solid foods 10 days ago. Since she does not really care for the Rice Cereal, I have decided to move onto other more interesting flavors. Yesterday, she tried Sweet Potatoes for the first time. While she didn't seem to love it, she doesn't hate it. I usually have to trick her into smiling by making funny noises in order to get her to open her mouth enough to fit the spoon in between her lips. She still spits more out than she swallows, but we seem to be making progress. Here are some pictures of her eating cereal last week and of her eating sweet potatoes today.

Kids Say the Darndest Things!

2009-11-06T07:38:00.000-08:00

Over the years, Gracelyn has grown from my sweet little innocent baby into a little girl who definitely has a mind of her own. Sometimes the way her mind works simply amazes me. We were on our way downtown to visit the ZooBoo Halloween Exhibit at the Indianapolis Zoo the other day, sitting stopped at a light, when out of nowhere she says:

"Mom, do you see that wall with all of the colors?"

Well I looked around and all I could see was a large monochromatic brick building. I said "What colors?"

Sure enough, She pointed at the brick building and says "Those colors on that wall".

Then she says, "I've been collecting those in my mind"!

Once I figured out that she had been counting all of the brick buildings that we had passed in her mind, I couldn't help but laugh. After that, she kept counting all of the brick buildings we passed on the way to the zoo. (According to her, there are 67 - Just in case you were wondering.) I am so proud of how far she has come with her numbers. At the end of Kindergarten, she was still struggling to count to 20. Now, just one quarter into first grade, she can count almost all the way to 100.

Here is a picture of Gracelyn when she was 4 years old.

Also, here are some pictures that we took at the zoo:

This is the first year that we have gone to ZooBoo! The zoo was decorated for Halloween and there were alot of fun Fall/Halloween activities to enjoy. Almost all of the kids there were dressed in their Halloween costumes, which made the sport of people watching my favorite part of this trip. We also went trick-or-treating through the Plains Exhibit, watched the penguin feeding, petted the sharks in the shark tank, jumped in a haunted bounce house, went pumpkin bowling, saw the Spooky Dolphin Show, rode the 4-D Dinosaur Ride twice, and took a ride on the Abracazebra Express Train. The train ride was pretty neat. It stopped three different times and at each stop they put on a little Halloween skit with full costumes. We probably spend more time at the zoo on this trip then we ever have on one trip to the zoo before. We were there from 2:30-7pm but it was definitely worth it!!

Thought I would share. . .

2009-11-03T08:08:00.000-08:00

I found this blog by the Gypsy Mama the other day and I really love hearing her take on life and being a mom. This is a post that she shared as a guest on Like a Warm Cup of Coffee.

Happy Birthday to Me and My Blog

2009-11-02T20:59:00.000-08:00

Well. . . I've finally decided to start my own blog instead of living vicariously through my sister's! I really want to document the day-t0-day joys and struggles of raising two unique, wonderful little girls and this seems to be the best way to go about that. Today is my birthday and I'm going to kick-off my 28th year by trying something new. Here are a few of the new things that took place today:

Faith had her 6-Month Well Baby Appointment and she has finally started to gain weight. She is now in the 9th Percentile! Hooray!
I decided to treat myself to a pedicure and took Faith with me for her first spa experience. She spent the first 20 minutes trying to squirm off of my lap and into the bubbling water at my feet. Fortunately, She did NOT succeed!
My 6-Year old, Gracelyn, threw her first birthday party ever. She invited all of her neighborhood friends over to sing me "Happy Birthday" and they all gave me cards and pictures that they had drawn. (I'm pretty sure that she made them do this - but it was really sweet!)
My neighbor invited me and the girls over for dinner with her and her two kids for the first time since we moved to this neighborhood. It was a great evening full of good conversation. She even surprised me with flowers, a birthday card and a really tasty chocolate cake! Let me just say - I LOVE MY NEIGHBORS!!!
Faith tried cereal for the first time! She was NOT a huge fan. She mainly just gagged on it and spit it back out. I'm hoping it will just take a little bit of time and then she will start to like it, so. . . we will try again tomorrow, and the next day, and again the next day. . .

All in all, It was a great day! I will post some pictures once I get a chance to upload them.