Kate and her new cowboy boots (when she walked in them she looked like she just got off a horse) 
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Isn't it suppose to cool off in the fall?
Being in Wisconsin made me realize that I like seasons. I like the fact that you get to wear long pants and long sleeves and not be sweating and roasting. I left Milwaukee on Tuesday morning and when I drove by the clocktower it said that it was 54 degrees, when we landed in Houston it was a humid 95. I just don't get it, it is almost October and it seems like it is still August. It just doesn't seem to make sense. This weekend is the first home football game and there is something about watching football in shorts and a t-shirt that just doesn't make sense. I am hoping that is starts to cool off, I would be happy with somewhere around 80.
Well I left you on Thursday and we still had a few more days of our trip. Friday was spent in Germantown with the Janetzke clan. We went to lunch for Grandpa's birthday and Christina came with us too. We then just hung out at the house and talked and got to visit with ones we don't see often. Saturday was some more volleyball at Martin Luther watching Alex play. Maybe it was because it was so early in the morning, but they didn't do as well as they did on Tuesday when I saw them. Cousin Ben, Aunt Amy, and Uncle Joel met us at ML and then we happened to run into Cousin Kate, Uncle Alan, and Aunt Tracie at Kopps on the way home. Once home, Kate wanted to play while Ben and Maddie slept, so we took Kate to the mall to distract her and let the others sleep. It was also Aunt Jana's birthday, so we went to the nail salon and had a pedicure, that felt good. Then they went out and I went home to relieve grandpa of babysitting duty. Sunday was our first trip to Miller Park. We watched a good game, but the Brewers lost. We almost got poured on, but made it into the stadium with just a few seconds to spare. Then Monday was an exciting day with Ben, Amy, and Joel. We took Ben to Chuck E Cheese to let him run around. We wanted to go to the Zoo, but the weather wasn't helping us out. He loved playing the games, especially skeeball and the ducky game. It was a fun time and then we all went to dinner that night before they headed back to IL. We were suppose to be back here on Monday night, but we changed our flight and headed out early Tuesday morning. We then just hung out yesterday at home and today it was back into the swing of things with school and athletic period. This weekend is homecoming, but more importantly, it is the Michigan/Michigan State game, so I'm sure we will be watching that somewhere.
We are surving the heat, but hoping it breaks soon. I'm getting excited for basketball which starts on the 17th. Then life will be even more hectic than it already is. We can't wait to be back in Wisconsin and that time it will be for a little bit longer time.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Safe in Wisconsin
Well let's just say that I never thought that I would have to think about a hurricane coming towards where I live. At the beginning of the week I was wishing that I was there to get everything ready, but as the week has gone on I have realized that I am glad that Maddie and I are there. I am still not thrilled that Chad is still there, but he is at this moment on his way to his aunt and uncle's in Dallas. Chad is a lot more at ease I think that we are here and safe and not having to deal with everything. He was great and got everything ready and packed everything I asked him to.
Back to our Wisconsin trip:
We have been doing lots of visiting with family and friends. We took a trip to Chicago on Tuesday to see Alan, Tracie, and Kate. We got to watch Alex (my cousin) play volleyball and eat dinner with Amy and Ben. We have been in the car a lot, but Maddie doesn't mind since she usually naps in the car. We got to each lunch with Jana yesterday and today we might just hang out at home. I try to keep myself busy, so I don't have to think about all this Rita stuff. Tomorrow is Grandpa J's birthday and Aunt Kathy and Uncle Scott will be here the whole day, so we will be hanging out in Germantown for the day. We are looking forward to seeing everyone and getting a chance to catch up with them.
That is all for now. We are suppose to be heading back to Houston on Monday, but we could be delayed a few more days. We won't be going back if we don't have power or if there is severe damage. We are hoping to be able to get back sooner than later to be able to see Chad and to make sure everything is okay.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Just One More Week
Until what some of you ask? Until Maddie gets to make her first trip to Wisconsin, that's what. I am really looking forward to our trip coming up. I am trying not to think about the plane ride and just hope that she doesn't scream the whole time. Grandma and grandpa Heff will be here on Thursday and then on Sunday Maddie and I fly home with them. I am at least thankful that I don't have to fly by myself for the first time with her.
The dust seems to be settling around here. At school we have about 20 new students with the possibility of a few more from the New Orleans area. We have a new teacher that was a teacher at New Orleans Lutheran and we are still always trying to find ways to help those families.
Chad had freshmen retreat last night, so it was just Maddie and I. We did pretty good, we took a short trip to Target for a duffle bag for our trip home. Then it was just hanging out and doing laundry. Yesterday morning Chad had to sing at Living Word (one of the association churches) and they were honoring a pastor who was celebrating his 60th anniversary of the ministry and it was actually Mr. Dobberful's (M.O. principal) cousin and a classmate of grandpa Bickel's. Chad went up to ask him about grandpa and then I asked about Mt. Olive. So that was a little out of the ordinary, but cool.
This week there isn't too much going on, volleyball and football are away, so we don't have too many afterschool activities to attend.
Maddie has started to roll over, so that is always exciting. She gets mad though when her arm is stuck underneath her. She loves to talk and has also started squealing when she wants to be noticed. Well I am looking forward to seeing many of you in the next couple of weeks. We are looking forward to visiting with everyone. We'll see you soon.
Sunday, September 04, 2005
A Night Out With The Girls
So I got a night free of Maddie, well for about 5 hours. Last night we went over to Paul and Christa's for dinner (shrimp boil- I had a hamburger). Then Christa and I left Maddie and Isaac with Paul and Chad and headed out to pick up Kim and we went to this place called Papa's which is pretty much an old metal barn that has been turned into a bar. We just sat and talked and made fun of the other people there, especially the dancers, one guy even asked Kim to dance. I got home about 12:30 and had a fun time. It was nice to be out of the house not running errands and out with friends. Chad had an okay night, Maddie gave him a little trouble, but nothing he couldn't handle.
Friday was suppose to be football at Northland, but we ended up not going. We had gone over to Kim and Andrew's to cookout and by the time we were done with dinner and talking it was already 8:15 and the game started at 7:30, so we decided not to go and play cards instead. So we have had a pretty eventful weekend and are just grilling out with Pete and Luke today and probably just hanging out tomorrow. Chad got to watch football yesterday, so he was happy. Maddie watched the Wisconsin game and hung out with dad.
On the hurricane side of things, it has been a long week with all the news coverage and just all the people pouring into Houston. At school we are allowing students to come for no tuition and it looks like we might get one of the teachers too. We are helping them with clothes and just everyday things. One of the families have already said that they are probably just going to stay here. New Orleans Lutheran probably won't be able to get back into the building until 2nd semester and even that is wishful hoping. We are all trying to figure out ways to help.
This week looks pretty uneventful, 4 days of school, a few volleyball games, Isaac's 1st birthday party and then Chad has Freshmen Retreat, so that means I am home with Maddie for two days straight. Hope everyone is doing well and that with school starting has gotten back into the groove of things.
Shout Outs:
Isaac is turning one on Friday
Amy's birthday is also on Friday (I won't say how old)
Can't wait to see a lot of you in just about two weeks.
Monday, August 29, 2005
Sunday, August 28, 2005
More posts as promised
Well I did promise more posts and I am actually following through on it. I have Maddie sleeping on the boppy pillow in my lap right now, so I have figured out a way to do all of this with her and I have come to realize that I can do lots of things one handed now. This weekend hasn't been filled with too much excitement. There was no varsity football game, so we went to the JV game on Thursday night (Michael Wilke) plays JV. They won by a good handful. It was pretty hot, but Maddie liked being outside and all the parents gushing over her, students too. Friday night we invited Luke over (the student teacher who roomed with Chad's brother Josh at school) and we went out to eat and then came back and the boys played video games while Maddie and I went to sleep. Saturday brought laundry and grocery shopping and then Chad went over to school to do some work on the baseball field. We also watched lots of baseball this weekend, with the Braves at the Brewers, we were able to watch them on TBS all weekend long. I thought it was going to be an alright weekend with the way we played on Friday, but I was wrong and was disaapointed both yesterday and today. Today was church. Usually it is a circus trying to get all three of us out the door in time, but Maddie has been sleeping until about 7:30am (from 10pm) the last couple of nights and so I was able to get myself ready before she was even out of bed. I am praying that she keeps it up and continues to sleep through the nights. For the last couple of weeks she has been sleeping till abotu 6/6:30ish and now this weekend it has been 7:30. This week is a shortened week with Chad having a half day on Friday and then no school on Monday, so that makes life a little bit easier.
Maddie has been babbling for awhile, but loves to talk to her ceiling fan. It seems that she is a morning person, because that is when she talks the most. She was talking to grandma on the phone last night. We are getting into a routine and mom is really enjoying that. We can hardly believe that she is going to be 3 months old next week.
Shout Outs:
Mom Heffelfinger Happy Birthday Wednesday( Hope dad at least takes you out for dinner) Sorry if the present is late we aren't going to get to the post office until tomorrow morning.
Congratulations to my cousin Eric on his engagement to Jackie(sorry if it is spelled wrong) we'll have to go out and celebrate when I am home
Have a great week
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
I Promise to Blog More Often
Well it has been awhile and I could give excuses of why I don't blog as often as I should, but you have all heard them before. So all of you who do read my blog, I am vowing to you this 23rd day of August 2005 that I am going to begin blogging again on a regular basis.
Summer in Texas 2005: First off I have to say that I was very happy to know that we were not going to be moving this summer. I'm not sure what I would have done if we would have moved for the thrid summer in a row. This summer has seemed to fly by, I can't believe that this is already the third week of school. I have been going in again for Atheltic Period (8th hour) every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. We have two girls from the 8th hour study hall who watch Maddie and they are all still getting used to each other. It helps that that time is just about nap time, so she usually ends up sleeping for some of the period. I have been trying to adjust to the life of a stay at home mom, but am still not used to it. Some days seem to fly by while others seem to go on forever. We have been keeping ourselves busy with volleyball games and other events going on at school. Football season has started, but there are only 4 home games this year and Chad is so lucky to be on supervision duty for all of them. The first home game isn't until the 23rd of Sept. which just happens to be the week that I am home in Wisconsin. What else has summer brought us? Baseball. We have been to a few games and are still planning a few more. Last week we went to two, the Cubs and the Brewers. We are planning on going to Miller Park when we are home too, so Maddie will get to go to a real Brewers game. The summer also brought lots of visitors. We enjoyed each visit, but must say that it has been nice getting into a routine and being able to just be the three of us. I'm sure I won't be saying that come November, but then it will be Christmas soon. Basketball is just around the corner and we are already in the planning stage. Paul Keiper (the A.D.) is actually going to be the Varsity coach and I will be the JV coach. We might still get an assistant Varsity coach, or it might just be the two of us. Chad is also coaching basketball this year, the freshmen boys, so we will see how the winter goes with the suffling of Maddie around. We have already had lots of volunteers for babysitting, so I don't think that will be a problem. Summer doesn't seem like it is over for most people, but for us it has been over for a couple of weeks now. We are looking forward to next summer when we can make a trip home and escape some of this heat.
Maddie update: We like to be in a sitting position, but don't know how to on our own. When we try, we end up folded in half with our face near our feet. We babble all the time and love to talk to the ceiling fan. We have a bouncy saucer with all sorts of lights and toys and love to stand in that and turn ourselves around in it. We like to watch and listen to our Praise Baby DVD that has cool colors and good songs on it. We love going to school and having all the girls gush all over us. We like when they take us in the student section and hold us. We are getting used to mom and so sometimes give dad a rough time when it comes to naptime or bedtime. But most of all, we miss everyone and can't wait to see them in September. We also found out yesterday that we are going to have another boy cousin. Cousin Ben is going to be a big brother to a baby brother in January and we have another cousin coming in December whose big sister will be cousin Kate. We are looking forward to meeting cousin Kate, uncle Alan and aunt Tracie in September.
That is all the new news from here in Tomball. I will try to be more consistent and pictures I put up will not be the same as Chad's (or at least I'll try). Have a great day.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Where has the blogging been?
Well for most of you, you know to look at Chad's blog to see what is going on in Maddie's life and that is pretty much what our life is right now, Maddie. If you don't have Chad's blog address here it is http://misterjntexas.blogspot.com He actually has been really good at updating especially with pictures of Maddie.
As for us, like I said our life is Maddie, so whatever she is doing, we are doing. Her and I have been practicing for the school year with being home by ourselves and it has been going rather well. Chad would go into work for a couple of hours here and there, but last week he had basketball camp that went from 8am-4pm, so it was kind of like a school day and so this week he has been at work by about 9am and home somewhere between 4 and 5. Maddie and I have been getting used to each other's schedule and actually this has helped her get into a little more predictable routine. Today we did walk to school and had lunch with him, so that always breaks up our day. Maddie and I like to take walks in the morning when it is cooler and she seems to enjoy them a lot by sleeping through all of them.
It really has been a long time since my last blog. We have had more visitors here since then and we also got to take a little road trip to Oklahoma City with a stop in Dallas. In Dallas we saw Chad's Aunt Kathy, Uncle Dave, cousins, Michael, Christina and Eric. We also got to hang out with Adam a little bit and then to OKC. There we met his parents, Kathy and Scott, Josh, Lydia and Kurt. They got to meet Maddie and see her before they all come next week. We also went to a wedding last week for one of the teachers at school.
We are just waiting for all our visitors to come next week. It starts with my mom on Monday the 25th and ends with my Aunt Susie, Uncle Kip, and cousin Jared on Monday the 8th. There will be someone here for those two whole weeks. We are making another trip to Dallas, without Chad. Maddie, my sister Jana and I are going to drive up there with my mom, dad, sister Amy, brother-in-law Joel, and nephew Ben for the Rangers game on the 2nd. They are then flying out from Dallas and Jana will drive back with me to Tomball and stay until Friday. Maddie is having the reaffirmation of her baptism on July 31st, so that is why everyone will be here. She was baptized while she was in the hospital, but wanted to make sure that the families got to be around for her also. That is the last month in a nutshell. We are getting ready for school to start. Chad starts meetings on the 1st, classes on the 10th. It looks like I might be doing athletic period again, but we still aren't sure. Basketball starts in October, so it looks like Maddie and I are going to be taking a trip to Wisconsin in September for about a week. So if you are around, we hope to see you then.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
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