Busy Busy

I don't know what he's doing here, but I don't care...he's just cute!

We are looking forward to the next couple of days ahead. They will be a busy, fun filled end to a stressful week! Sean finished his second to last semester of school yesterday. He has been busy working and studying for finals this week and he's now got a much needed 3 1/2 weeks off of school. It will be a busy, but fun few weeks! Tomorrow Tate has an appointment for his ginormous tonsils and we'll probably be scheduling his surgery for January. He is a drooling mess and has pretty bad sleep apnea so we are ready to get those tonsils and adnoids taken out ASAP! It will be so sad to see him in pain, but he'll be so much happier once he's healed and can breath through his nose for the first time possibly in his life!

When I get off of work tomorrow, we are heading right to Muscatine for a jam packed weekend. Saturday we are going to Davenport to see the DeCooks and help to celebrate Ava's 2nd birthday! We miss the DeCooks SO MUCH and cannot wait to see them. Also, Kay will be there!!! I haven't seen her in close to a year I think...I cannot wait to see her again too! We won't be able to attend a whole lot of the party, but we plan to go a bit before so that I can help in any way with preparations and Tate and Ava can see each other and we can see Lora, James and Kay. Then from there, we're heading right over to do our Christmas celebration with Tate's birth family at his Grandma and Grandpa Shingledecker's new house! Tate's birth father and his girlfriend will be there and his Grandma and Grandpa. It will be so special to get together with them...we are really looking forward to that.

Chris, Brenda and Bode will be in Muscatine too and we'll all hang out after the kids go to bed over at Paul and Cassie's I'm sure. Sunday we will all be hanging out (I'm sure it will be busy with preparations) and at 4:00 is the Water For Christmas party at Geneva! It is going to be so wonderful! Everyone involved has put A TON of work and effort into it. There is going to be great music, food, a silent auction, raffles and all for an amazing cause. We cannot wait and hope to see many of you there! Following that, we'll all head home and be back to another work week! Ugh. We'll be back in Muscatine the next weekend for our Christmas gathering too. So many fun times will be had in the next couple of weeks! If only this weather was not so icky!