It's Christmas Time!

Christmas was coming! Our wall was filling up with Christmas cards.  Love seeing all the pictures!

Also it's not Christmas without "It's a Wonderful Life!"

"Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!" 

Christmas morning Tommy got up to see the Christmas Magic!

Yes I apologize right now. I ALWAYS forget to turn my phone.  AAHH! Drives me nuts! 

Then it was time for family to come over.

 Our house was clean! For a few minutes!

The basement was ready for shredding!

And shred they did!!

Again, this would have been way better sideways but you get what you get and you don't throw a fit. :) 

It was loud. We need to insulate something somehow.  Wow.  Awesome shredding being done though.

We opened our presents on Christmas Day for the #KeiperThornburgXmas and guess what my parents got all the RCHS graduates? State Champion T-shirts! Yay!

I had my mom go ahead and use the continuous shooting setting that snaps 10 shots and then told everyone to move.  This equals the best gif ever!!

Our living room was a complete disaster area after we were done opening presents. 

While the kids watched Shrek together...

We played Cards Against Humanity.  The tagline for the game is "A Horrible Game for Horrible People."

This is true.

On Friday after Christmas we were all pretty tired.  The only thing we had strength to do was put Charotte's hair in a tiny 80's record producer mullet-tail.  Too funny and too cute.  Look at how long it's getting!

Andrew went down to B-town to see some friends who were in town for Christmas.

You better twerk!

On Saturday I woke up to this.  Charlotte had blueberries the night before.  Great! She wasn't feeling good but we decided she was feeling well enough for Christmas number 2 with the Thornburgs!

 Banjo came down from Chicago for Christmas.  He had a great time!!

 It was a real dog party! Banjo and new puppy Cooper had a GREAT time together! It was fun to watch them play.

Tommy and Charlotte aren't used to dogs so they were a little scared but they did fine.  We had a lovely Christmas at Erin's.  Good food, good dogs, good times! The kids got a LOAD of presents! They were so excited!!

Charlotte cashed out early and ended up sleeping the rest of the night.  Poor babe was so tired.  Look at her little belly! Just love it.

What a lovely week of Christmases! Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy 8th Anniversary, Thornburgs!

Today marks our 8th anniversary of wedded bliss! We decided after a LOONNGG weekend for the us and the kids... to take all of us out to eat to celebrate.  Everything was going pretty well at the beginning. 

 Family selfie! Tommy's smiling!

 Tommy was having a great time!

 Tommy took my phone and started taking selfies too.  Nice ketchup cheeks! :)

He also turned on some effects and took 23 pictures of Charlotte which I turned into a gif.  Heehee. 

 Charlotte loved it! She had some of Tommy's oranges at dinner.  DELISH!

Now you can see this is a very peaceful picture.  I wish the night would have ended this peacefully.  But no, we had to extend the kids as far as they could go because we needed wipes and milk.  We went to Meijer and tried to hurry.  We hurried a little too fast because Andrew accidentally left my purse in the cart in the parking lot and we got home before we realized it.  So we had to race back to Meijer to try and find it.  Don't worry, it only had like 7 debit and credit cards, a couple gift cards, a drivers license, business cards with my work address, health insurance cards, and $20-some in cash in it.  No biggie. 
So we went to where we had left the cart. 
Didn't find it. 
Went inside to where the dudes were bringing in carts and asked if they had found a purse. 
Uhhhh, nope. 
As a last resort, I went to customer service and asked if they found a purse in a cart.  She turns around and then hands me my purse.  I almost cried.  EVERYTHING was still in it.  Holy good karma, Batman. 
Reunited and it feels so good.  So with that little event, we need to pay it forward to someone.  Let me know if you have any ideas.

Also... I'm thinking... fanny packs forever.

So then we went home totally relieved but it was too late.  The kids had been overextended.  Tommy had a massive meltdown. He got so worked up, he threw up in the tub.  Fantastic.  It took some major work but I got him to bed. I came downstairs and Charlotte was with Andrew in the same condition.  We got her to bed with some work too. 
PHEW.  Our 8th anniversary is now coming to a close.  It's a LOT different than any other anniversary we've ever had.  But I wouldn't have it any other way.  There's no one else I would rather work through massive meltdowns.... or chase down a missing purse... or celebrate our anniversary at the Indy 500 race every year. 
Happy Anniversary to my dear hubby.  You make eight great as my mate. 

Painting... Birthday Celebrating... Showering

We accomplished quite a lot this weekend.  Friday night Adam and Steph came up to visit.  We went out to eat at Villa Macri and then went to see Jackass 3D. 

I gagged... scratch that, dry-heaved, at several parts.  But the worst by far was the "Sweatsuit Cocktail".  Andrew almost ended up with barf in his lap.  He kept saying, "LOOK AWAY!" but I just couldn't.  I had to see what happened.

It was funny though because when we were telling my parents about it, I gagged again just thinking about it. 
Probably looked a little something like this...

 Ugh, gross.  But parts of it were very entertaining... and completely stupid. 

Anyway, my parents came that night too after the the Bomber football game.  We were ready to get up nice and early to start painting the nursery.  Too bad we didn't start until 2ish.

But look at how FUN this looks!!

 I really like the old color and new color together.  They're kinda fun!

 But alas that wouldn't match our brown and blue turtles.  So we continued painting. 

 When six people are helping, it goes really fast.  The first coat was done in about an hour. 

 Dad did an excellent job with the ceiling! He has quite the steady hand. 

Mom painted the closet.  It looks 10 times better.  Thank goodness!

The second coat took half the time and we were able to quit early to go to dinner.  It was Adam's birthday weekend! 
(How nice that he wanted to spend it with us, painting! I think he has an ulterior motive.  He wants to break the record for youngest wakeboarder so I think he's lining up Baby T for that job. Watch out!)

So we went to Soho, a Japanese Bistro with hibachi tables.  According to Wikipedia, I should be saying Teppanyaki instead.  Whoops.  Anyway...

Here are Mom and Dad about to enjoy some FIIIIIIRE!!! The guy behind them lit the grill and Dad ducked like WHAT THE HELL??  Are they setting this place on FIRE?? It was pretty funny.

 Andrew and I, looking serious. 

 Andrew and I trying to photobomb Adam and Steph. 

 Then I decided to go it alone and photobomb Adam and Steph.  :)
My eyes don't cross like a normal... eleven year old.  

 ONION TOWER ON FIRE!!!! That onion tower was only two stories.  Kinda disappointing. 

 Here's our chef preparing our delicious meal. 

 This is the beer that Adam and Andrew decided to order.  Red Rice Beer.  YUM!
(Warning: It's actually disgusting and causes headaches the next day. Just thought I'd fill you in. Cool bottle though.)

 Adam and Andrew decide to do a sake bomb.  Here's the video...

Adam won! But it was his birthday! Plus he's 6 years younger so he should win. :)

 Then the chef heard that it was Adam's birthday so he decided to give him another sake shot... which ended up being like 3 shots.  He drooled a little on the carpet.  :)

 And finally the Birthday Sundae! A Japanese pound cake with ice cream rolled into it and chocolate syrup and other stuff on top.  YUMMMMM!!!!

On Sunday, we had another shower in Warsaw.  It was lovely!

 Look at how CUTE that tiny little Purdue jersey is!!! Awwww!! I told Andrew Baby T can wear it when Purdue goes to a bowl game this year!

Moving on... it was a shower for us and also Jess and Mike.  She is due a couple weeks before me. 

It was fun to see her open cute girlie stuff.  There's been such a boy baby boom that I haven't gotten to see a whole lot of stuff for girls so that was exciting. 

The shower was thrown by Andrew's parents group of friends which they call the Card Club. I had to post this picture of Andrew with the men from the Card Club.  They look completely enthused to be in my picture! Haha!

What a blessing this weekend was.  We were showered with gifts. Thank you again everyone! Plus we have a painted nursery thanks to the Keiper Paint Crew.  We are so lucky!!! 

I know you are wondering where the finished nursery pictures are.  I apologize but I won't be posting the completed pictures of the nursery until we get our furniture AND carpeting.  That might be a week or two.  I'm sorry! It'll be worth the wait, I promise! :)