Happy New Year!

Have a great 2009!

Love, Mike, Katie, Annalise, Bennett, and Colin

The progression of the dollhouse transformation. Sami has been give my dollhouse that Grandpa Art made for me in 1968 or 1969. I have to read the bottom again. It has been repainted and new flooring has been added, as well as some new furniture. Allie still has the old stuff though. One room was made just for Sami, it is her Swamp Splash green like her bedroom. The red window trim is Tyler's room. The purple bathroom was Allie's bathroom, but it isn't anymore.

The blue bedroom is from my house as well as the cream livingroom. Pink kitchen was an after thought of Allie's that didn't ever become, but she had a bucket of paint. Janet suggested the gray for the house.

We walked thru the Rotary Winter Wonderland at the park one night. Thousands of lights and decorations. Pretty neat.

Christmas at Keith and Allie's. Played toys for 12 hours. Wiskers the cat is my friend. Don't step on her tail (Allie) or she hisses at you. Had a great time that day. Thanks Weins.

Happy New Year to all of you.

Leigh

MERRY CHRISTMAS

December Chit Chat

Merry Christmas Everyone! If you've learned anything in the past year, it has to be that Allie takes her camera EVERYWHERE! Here are some more photos of my goofy family! This is Sami wearing one of her many pretty dresses! And of course, the diva in her Glory, tiara and all! We went rollerstaking the Friday after Thanksgiving - I hadn't been on skates in almost 30 years! It was so much fun. Our kids have always loved to try new things and we have so much fun just doing things on the spur of a moment! Thus, the reason I carry my camera in my purse! Also above is toothless Tyler. All he wants for Xmas are his two front teeth, literally! Keith & Tyler recently spent several weekends remodeling our main bathroom. What a treat to have that project finished! Tyler has had quite the school year thus far, learning to read. He's doing so well! I guess that means that Uncle Jay can no longer spell out words when visiting (he always tries to keep things secret from Lydia & Dylan - funny shit!) cuz Tyler is a pretty good speller already! Here we are tonite, acting goofy in front of the Charlie Brown tree. The damn thing was cut down (yes, by hand!) on 12/6 and is already loosing most of its needles (atleast I don't dig through dumpsters in back alleys trying to find a tree like the Frodermanns! Just kidding!) I don't think it's going to last 'til the Scheibe Family Xmas the weekend of January 2-4 (you are all more than welcome to stop by Allie's if you are interested in some old fashioned family fun!). And of course, I had to slip the photo of Tyler & Leigh in there from our trip to Wildwood Park a week or so ago. It's called Winter Wonderland and they decorate the park with thousands of xmas lights. It's beautiful! I've officially taken my first FULL WEEK of vacation this week! It's only been 20+ years since graduating from high school and I've never taken a full week of vacation! I shopped from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. today! I could have shopped another 10 hours! And I HATE shopping! LOL! Well, enough about me...what's going on in all of your lives??? Anyone else out there having babies like the Jacques sisters??? Gwen??? Leigh??? tee hee - just kidding! Merry Christmas to you all! Sending you all our love! XOXO! - Allie & the Family

Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone! Since it looks like I won't get around to sending out Christmas cards this year, I figured I should at least blog! This really should be the year I send out cards since we are in a new state and new house, with new jobs and a new baby coming soon. So you will all be definitely getting mail from me sometime soon when I send out birth announcements. After 7 years in Madison, we moved to Richfield, MN in July. I'm working at a research job at the U of MN now and it's going pretty well so far. Maren is 2 and a half and she is pretty excited about getting a baby sister, but she really doesn't know what she's in for... She's in the stage where she tries to make a funny face in every picture - at least her fingers aren't in her mouth in this one!

If you'd like my address, feel free to email me at jacquebt at umn dot edu. Sorry about spelling the email out in that strange way, I just am paranoid that I could get crazy random things in my inbox otherwise! This blog is pretty popular, right?

Hope you all enjoy your holidays!
Love, Bridget

addresses

Dad's is 2416 N. Peach #5

Leigh's is 610 E. 9th st.

The question is, what is Bridget's?
Does she know the sex of the baby?

And another..

Mom told me that Jerry lives in Leigh's apartment building. His return address is Peach Ave; the address I have for Leigh is 9th St. So what's Leigh's address? You can email me the answers...

Question:

Are Mike and Carol still at their Madison address?

Bellies

Photo taken October 24, 2008
Colin born November 11, 2008
Baby Fricke #2 due December 31, 2008

Colin August

I guess I'll have to post, if Allie doesn't remember my baby's name! Colin August was born on November 11th (Bridget's birthday) at 9 pm. Take a look at my other blog for his stats and more pictures!
We're doing alright, since Mike's gone back to work. Bennett is going through a rough patch, it's hard to tell if it's just adjusting to the baby, or if he was going to be like this anyway because of where he is developmentally. This too shall pass...
Right now I'm blocking out his hysterics regarding Moon Sand. Take care all!

Happy December!

Yea...it's snowing today! I really do like snow - when it is falling so nice & slowly & looks so pretty. Then you have to shovel and the whole beauty of it ends! tee hee - plus I have a sore neck today from sleeping on the crappy pillow I have...maybe Santa Claus will bring me a new one. Cuz you know, I watched "Polar Express" last night, and I COULD HEAR THE BELL AT THE END OF THE MOVIE!! So I truly DO believe!! :) DORK...I know! Wishing you all a very merry Christmas! Our Xmas cards will be out soon. The real reason I'm on the blog is to find the name of Katie's new baby...I forgot it already. I know it starts with a "C" though! LOL! Love to you all! Take care...and come one...POST SOME BLOGS FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!