Saturday, February 21, 2009

1st Trip to Appleton, WI

February 8, 2009 – The kids and I joined Andy for a trip to Appleton, WI for the first time. It was nice to see the area that we will be moving to. We spent the day driving around to all the little towns and deciding which towns we liked and which towns we definitely don’t want to move to. There are several paper mills along the river and we decided we didn’t want to be near them because of the smell. We did go through one house in Greenville, WI that was beautiful but a little out of our price range.
I was finally able to see where Andy works and see the products that Vande Hey Raleigh manufactures. This is the most challenging position that Andy has ever had but I know that he will success and do great!

Andy and the kids at his desk in his office.
Noah at Daddy's desk.

The kids were tired of being in the car so we went to Build-a-Bear in the mall. Andy and I built a bear for MaKayla before we were even pregnant with her. We never made it to Woodfield for Noah’s bear so we finally were able to complete his today. We carried on the tradition of writing a special note to him and putting it in his bear. MaKayla even added her own special touch to her brother's bear.

Here we are putting our note and heart in the bear.

MaKayla helped stuff "Hope" the bear.

Here is Noah with his "Hope" bear. There are many reasons why we named Noah’s bear “Hope”. We hoped to have another child. Noah gives us Hope. We Hope to be the best parents possible. We have Faith, Hope and Love!

Next, we took the kids to Chuckie Cheese. MaKayla had a blast! Most of the games were too big for her but they did have a section for smaller children.

To finish off the day, we went to the water park that was in the hotel. It was smaller but the perfect size for MaKayla. She had so much fun! She didn’t care that her teeth were chattering and that she was turning purple. We had to make her come out and give her a warm bath. Noah was not too trilled. I just dipped his toes in the water and he cried. I just wrapped him up in a towel and we sat and watched Andy and MaKayla play.

We had a very busy day and were all tired!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

That is one full day!! It sounds like a lot of fun and you made some great memories! :)