The Wrestling Meet

Paige had her first wrestling meet today. She got 4th...but had fun doing it. She is so big for her age that she wrestled all 2nd graders. And most of them have been wrestling since Kindergarten.

She has already decided she does not want to go out for wrestling next year...she wants a racecar instead!




Her new friend, Wesley. Wesley's parents are on Josh's Schwan's route and Josh has known him since he was born.

New Year's Day at Uncle Charlie's

We had a wonderful lunch today at Josh's Uncle Charlie's house. We had some great food, a few card games including Liverpool Rummy (which I am horrible at) and even watched the Hawkeyes in the Outback Bowl game.

Below are a few pictures from this afternoon:

Paige and her new best friend, Brian

Sarah and Brian

Aunt Connie and Uncle Bill

Rog and Ellen...this is what happens when you try to be serious and have Rog put his arm around his lovely wife!

Aunt Carole and Uncle Dean

Aunt Nae, Paige and Great-Grandma Hohensee waiting patiently for the clock to cuckoo. Paige really wants to have a clock like Uncle Charlie's.

Grandpa, Josh and Connie having lunch.
Paige and Aunt Nae coloring.

The chefs preparing lunch. Grandma, Uncle Charlie and Ellen

Charlie has the best train set! Josh, Rog, Grandma and Paige playing with the trains.

We had a great time. Thanks for hosting Charlie!

Happy New Year

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009!!

Josh's cousin Sarah and her boyfriend, Brian came over to our house for New Year's Eve this year. We enjoyed a few drinks and a lot of food. We had so much fun! Thanks for coming over!

We HAD to break out the Wii. We have all had so much fun with that darn video game system. So glad Paige got it for Christmas!! :)

We let Paige stay up until 10. I'm not sure she wanted to go to bed yet, but she didn't put up too much of a fight. The rest of us made it until 1 a.m. Whoo Hoo! I think that's the first time in a few years that we've seen the New Year come in.

Josh and Brian boxing:

Paige's Ornament

Paige made an ornament at school. One side is "Naughty"and one side is "Nice".

Brunch and Wii-ing some more

Roger, Ellen, Alyse, Charles and Ella came over for brunch today and to try out the Wii. I think everyone had a good time playing.

Josh helping Ella play with Paige. Ella always wins no matter what place she's in. In this video they are snowboarding.

Alyse and Chuck playing. Alyse is concentrating really hard!

Hohensee Christmas

The Hohensee Family Christmas was yesterday. We enjoyed lunch, bingo and even a few games of cards. It's always great for everyone to be able to get together for the holidays.



Paige-patiently waiting for Bingo to start


Rog and Uncle Charlie-the Bingo boycotters!

Paige and Ella decided to help call Bingo numbers

Abby, Josh and Sarah. These cousins sure do love each other!

Wii-ing

Paige got a Wii for X-mas, but who do you think is having more fun?

Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas from the Hohensee Family!

Getting ready to open presents...can't you just feel the excitement?

This is a typical present under our tree. Josh buys for himself and then wants me to wrap it.


Showing some love

Trying to get a good picture of these two is impossible!

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!!

Whoo Hoo! Matching shovels! Paige was actually very excited about getting her own scoop shovel just like dad's. I did not pick these out, by the way.

The decoy present. He can tell what any present is just from the shape of the box, so I hid his DVD inside his own race shirt. Actually fooled him this year.

Getting the Step-brothers DVD



Paige wanted a Snuggie for X-mas. www.getsnuggie.com The child is OBSESSED with infomercials. She can see one once and remember it verbatim.

Santa got her a bathrobe instead!

Christmas Concert #2

Paige had her 2nd Christmas concert tonight. This one for the Catholic School. It was an awesome concert. The kids really got into it. Especially Paige. She was loud and proud!

Getting haircut before the concert.

All decked out




Below is a video of her favorite song...Celebrate!

Feliz Navidad

Paige singing along with a Christmas CD. It is her favorite song and even though she doesn't know all the words (or what Feliz Navidad means) that does not stop her from singing it......ALL THE TIME.

Sprinkles, Round 2

Paige and I made almond bark dipped pretzels today. Of couse, they HAD to have sprinkles.

Christmas Cookies

Since we had a snow day today, Paige and I baked and decorated Christmas cookies. The pictures below are a little out of order.

And if you'll notice, she's wearing the same pj's she wore to her X-mas concert. They're "Christmasy"so she thinks she needs to wear them everyday until Christmas.


Cutting out a Christmas Tree

Mmm Mmm Good!

I know, they're just beautiful.

She is so proud of her cookies.

Decorating the cookies

She really like the sprinkles

Notice the frosting on the forehead?

Cookies, check....Frosting, check...Sprinkles, check

Like the cover of a magazine

Her favorite cookie....she already ate it!