Congrats Chris & Leslie

Congrats to the new couple!  Welcome to the family Leslie. Thanks for hosting such a wonderful weekend in Illinois, and inviting us to be a part of your special day.  We hope that you're enjoying your honeymoon and hope to see you again sometime soon.

Road trip to Illinois

We were given a key to the city...uh, well...I actually mean a key to a Hampton Inn in the state of Illinois.  The Hampton Inn was quick to welcome us to Illinois, but the hotel guests on either wall of our hotel room on Friday night (the room containing one small rug rat to be left unnamed *Reesing*) may not have welcomed us so much as the state of Illinois did. We made the trip to Springfield to help Chris and Leslie celebrate their union of marriage.  It was a great weekend and despite one terrible night that Dad describes only as "his worst night ever as a grown adult," due to the antics of my baby sister Reesing, it was a great trip. There will be lots of posts to come over time reflecting on the trip because there was simply too much that happened within four days to be captured in one blog post.

This is Reesing on the car ride up to Springfield. This became the "norm" for Reesing over the weekend - usually 1/2 dressed.

The first stop once we got to Springfield was the tux shop.  Here's the groom trying on his tux in preparation for the big day.

Reesing was all smiles to be out of the car.  She also enjoyed watching daddy and the rest of the boys model their tuxedos.




Next stop was the race car shop at Uncle Steve's. Home of Urish Racing, the Springfield, IL division.



Here we met some friends.  This one is named Jack. How can anyone turn down these big puppy dog eyes?

This dog's name is Pepper. Another sweetie.

See Reesing run.  See Jack run.

See Jack catch up to Reesing.  See Jack give Reesing kisses.

Reesing also loved checking out the race cars and wanted to know when it would be her turn.

Reesing sharing the couch with Jack.

This is what happens when you try and share Jack's couch...more kisses.


Next stop was to Chris and Leslie's house where we hung out with yet another friend, Tucker. Tuck-Tuck, as we like to call him is a very friendly and lovable dog.  He's fun to play with and I asked mom and dad repeatedly if we could bring him home with us. The only way that was happening was if we traded out Duce and Chris said "No" to that.

Once we got to the hotel the next day, some time to swim was on the checklist. Reesing and I ready to go swimming.


No need to show Reesing the way.  She'd been watching all of the kids head to the pool and was quick to run that direction.

Dad had the honor of standing up with Chris as a groomsman in the wedding, a very handsome groomsman at that.  I wasn't for sure at first who that man was dressed up disguised as my dad, but it turns out that my dad cleans up pretty nice and looks good in a tux. Mom, Reesing & I did our best to cheer him on as he did his job. 

 

While dad was doing his gig, mom spent a lot of time chasing my sister.  I was kept busy with the many cousins running around and was thankful for the break from having to hang with my sister too much. Thanks to Aunt Raegs, Uncle Nick, Uncle Mikey, Uncle Willie & Aunt Jen who all helped by giving my mom an extra hand and set of eyes on me and my sister while my dad was busy. 

  

Our family photo.  Thanks to Tracy for taking this. How you got everyone to look at the camera is simply amazing. 

 

The Urish family- all divisions and branches, but not complete with everyone.  There were some people missing from the picture. You all were missed. 

Urish family - Rod's branch, again missing some people. All in all, good times were had and lots of laughs took place. 

 

Move over Tony Hawk...

There's a new sheriff in town.  For Christmas Santa brought me a very cool customized skateboard. I'm anxiously awaiting the spring weather to get outside and start perfecting all my new stunts. But until all the snow melts and all of the mud goes away I've been rockin' it out inside the house.

 This is my best move - The penguin slide!

It's never to late to say

Happy Valentine's Day!  

So sorry that we're a day late.  We hope that you all had a wonderful day spending time with those you love.   Our family kind of celebrated Valentine's Day a little early and We We and I got our Valentines from mom and dad on Sunday night. 

We We got a puppy dog that wags it's ears and talks. 

 I got a lucky Shamrock green Zhu Zhu pet.

 

 We We got some bling.  She loved it.  Can you tell by her puffed out lips?

Then we had a Valentine's Day party at my school and swapped valentines with all of my friends.  Super cool!

How can you tell that mom has the camera in my face too much?  Maybe by the plastered on fake "I've had enough pictures" smile I was flashing my teacher?!  Hmmm.

 

Mrs. Huffman and I going through my goods. What a fun day.  It's always nice to stop and take the time to tell those around you that you love them.  Hope that you all had a wonderful holiday!

While mom's away we play, play, play.

Mom's gone for the week. She's down in Orlando and is representing her organization, GCSAA and the magazine she works for, GCM, at the Golf Industry Show. We can't wait to have mom back and mom can't wait to be back.

The  GCM booth that my mom is working on setting up today.

The magazine she works for.

While mom has been away I've been having fun at school.  For the month of February we're learning about all different kinds of careers.  Yesterday we learned more about what goes on in a grocery store and our teachers let us have some fun playing "grocery store."  It was a lot of fun and my classmates and I learned a lot.

Doing a little grocery shopping.  I usually go with mom when she goes grocery shopping and I'm always a superstar helper, so I was an expert on this day at school.

Very typical...long lines at the grocery store.

  

Then last week we got to learn more about train engineers.  We each got a ticket to ride on the Friendship Forest train.  Again, our teachers made sure we had a really good time.

16 months and growing strong

 Reesing has been growing and learning new things everyday. She can say momma, daddy and bad dog.  The word she says the clearest is bad dog.  Although she says bad dog, she really loves Duce dog and loves on him every chance she gets. 

She steals Manning's chair every chance she gets. She loves this chair because it's just her size and it's light weight so she can drag to wherever she needs a chair.

 

Pretty in pink. Mom gave Reesing a nice pink pedicure the other day. Reesing loved it.

She helped me celebrate my 4th birthday and I even shared my new toys with her. 

Breakfast, lunch and dinner have been a lot more pleasant lately.  Notice the high chair in the background of this picture?  That's right, we've moved Reesing to the table and put her in a booster seat, and she's been a lot happier.  That's all she wanted...just to be a part of the family sitting at the dinner table.

She enjoys going outside whenever the weather allows, and she looks so stinkin' cute in her winter hat, don't you think?

Reesing is always representing and cheering for our beloved Jayhawks. Reesing still loves to dance whenever there's music on.  Her favorite move is the twirl.  Reesing is getting better now that more of her teeth have come through.  She's up to 12 teeth and lovin' it!

With all of the snow that has come this winter she has spent a lot of time watching dad and I out the window.  She's too little to come out and play with us, but next winter she'll be old enough to come out and enjoy it with us.