Here is a picture of Jeremy and Tamica during the ceremony. We were pretty far away from the podium site as it was more important for our group to be placed by the bar. We could see and hear everything just fine, just a long shot for the camera.
Here is Abby doing the Cha-Cha slide. She had the stomping and hopping down, it was quite a site. You can also get a better view of Tamica's dress. It was very elegant, Abby followed her around pretty much all night, I think she liked the dress as well.
Abby and Tim having a dance. This was getting closer to the end of the night. A little while later Abby came up to me and said "done" so we headed home to crash.
Here is a photo as the carpet installers are putting in the carpet on Friday. The carpet pad is on the stairs and the actual carpet is on the landing at the bottom. We'll have more photos of that to come in the next couple of days. It looks great and we're happy with how it turned out.
Here is a before photo. Tim and I were putting up trim until about 10:30 on Thursday night to get it all done for the installation on Friday morning. That part went pretty smoothly actually. There was a little bit of clean up with all the dust, etc. from this whole process but we're very happy with how it turned out.
Here is the downstairs hallway. Please note the lovely stair skirt on the left that Tim spent too many hours working on and developed a colorful vocabulary when discussing the skills of our original contractor. After some modifications it was successfully installed and the carpet installers were impressed with it as well and it looks great so we're all happy.
Here is a picture of Grandma Papke helping Abby put together her Mr. Potato Head pumpkin. It was a little more difficult to get the pieces in than we originally thought. Abby is already wearing part of her duck costume and it was only 3 pm.
Still working on the face.
Here's the finished product. Abby's is the pirate and mine is the traditional carving. She wasn't too excited about helping me clean out the pumpkin, it was "yucky".
Here is the duck ready to go with her bucket. She had enough of the picture taking as was ready to go.
Heading off to Barb and Frank's house, our first stop for the evening.
Here Abby is checking out her "loot". She actually hasn't eaten any of it yet, just likes to inventory it. She likes to hand it out and then get it back in her bucket.
The duck got a little too hot in her outfit so here is how she finished up the rest of the night. She would run to the door to check out the kids in their costumes, but some were just a little too scary and she would run right back.
The next evening Tim had a bachelor party with our friend Jeremy who is getting married next weekend to Tamica. So the men went to the comedy club and all the ladies who were on kid duty went to Bonker's so the kids could run around. Here is a picture of Abby playing "Whack a Mole", but with sharks. I think she was more entertained by the lights and music. We played this game quite a bit. She actually did hit the sharks all on her own. She was quite proud of herself.
Still whacking.....probably for the 10th time that night.
Here Abby is trying to show Landon how it's done. He was more content to just hit the one on the corner with his hand.
Ben and Sarah (Pinkston) Schmidt
Abby had no intention of sitting through a wedding after spending 3 hours in a car seat in the truck so we spent our time going up and down the stairs during the wedding at Fr. Henry's house. Fr. Henry is the priest for St. Johns and the rectory is right next door to the church. Se we enjoyed his wind chimes and porch swing. Abby needed to be on the move, and her voice echoed quite nicely in the church so we made a quick exit.
Another point of entertainment for Abby was watching the ushers put together the wedding party's transportation. The sign was a challenge with all the wind and the barrel didn't quite work out as planned as Ben had to work with it after moving about 10 yards.
Ben and Sarah had some fun toys for the kids during the reception. They had these bands that glowed and you could make necklaces or whatever you wanted to out of them. You can't tell, but this is Abby glowing and dancing.
More photos of her dancing, there was no stopping this party animal, not even for cake!
She's still working the dance floor and anywhere else she can get to. We had wanted to get a nice family picture but that would not happen. If you tried to pick her up off the dance floor there was a small temper tantrum. So we just let her go. Abby and I lasted until about 9:30-ish and then headed back to the hotel. Considering she didn't really have a nap it was a long day for her, and made for a longer day on Sunday. She slept the whole way home which doesn't often happen.
Here is Abby inside the log cabin, you'll notice from the photos she was in there quite a bit, she was having tea parties with other kids that would come in.
Here she is in the maze. I'm not sure what it was growing other than she kept saying "Ouch" as she walked through. I doubt she was really in pain, she just likes to say ouch these days.
There were some very small baby kittens that Abby had to keep checking on. The mom was in there for a while to feed them and then went off. Abby made it her quest to find her and try to bring her back. She ran around saying "Meow - where are you?". It was pretty cute. She wasn't too thrilled to find the dad cat, he was a little bit bigger.
More action in the cabin, just checking out to see where we are at, and to see the donkeys.
This was Abby's view outside the window of the cabin. The McCoy's have a small herd of donkeys.
More time in the cabin, she really didn't want to leave that part.
Tim thinks he can build one in his free time.....
Photos of the basement - this is the hallway. The door on the right leads to the great room and the door on the left is the bathroom, closet straight a head. This actually only has primer on it, a darker color is on it's way this week.
Here is what is going to be the spare bedroom downstairs. It actually does have the second coat of paint on it but looks a little funny with the flash, it's just beige, nothing exciting there. Especially when it's in all three rooms, you get a little tired of it.
Decisions, decisions......
Just a cheesy pose.
TOUCHDOWN!!!
Everything was there that we were supposed to see; hands, feet, fingers, toes, organs, etc. Tim and I didn't have a clue on the sex of the baby even though the tech went over the area multiple times and said she knew what it was within about a minute of starting the ultrasound. We just get excited about seeing feet. Plus with all the movement we saw it was entertaining. #2 is currently in the breech position not that it means anything at this point since he/she will probably move around quite a bit more while there is still space to do it, but everything is looking healthy.