The Mitchell Family Blog

Mitch turns 37!!

We started the celebration for his birthday at his favorite location - The High Life Lounge!  There were 10 of us.  After we had our fill of High Life, we headed to El Bait Shop to finish out the evening.  

 

New Year's Eve

We started a tradition last year...we got a group of friends toghether and went and fed the people at the Central Iowa Shelter.  After we fed them dinner we returned to our house and had our New Year's celebration.  When we started to talk about this New Year's Eve plans we were sure we wanted to serve the people at the Central Iowa Shelter again.  So the plan this year was take a group to feed the shelter and then come back to our house and celebrate the New Year!  This year I stayed at the house with the kids and any other kids whose parents wanted to go to the shelter.  That meant I had 7 kids.  Crazy!  

Here is Mitch's blog post about the event....

http://www.mitchgroup.com/2009/01/central-iowa-shelter-dinner-a-huge-success.html

Gavin looses his first tooth!

We have been asking him for weeks if anything was loose. But there hasn't been. I was even at his school yesterday (1.16.09) helping out until 2.30 and he didn't mention anything. When he got off the bus at 4 he showed me the hole. He said he was showing the kids his tooth was loose and a girl pushed on it and it popped out and landed on the bus floor. He lost it on the bus. I tried to look for it, but didn't find it. We will be writing a note for the tooth fairy tonight and hope she remembers to come.  :)!

Georgia is ready...

We were getting ready to head to a playgroup...Georgia was dressed, her hair & teeth had been brushed, but she was still upstairs.  When I yelled upstairs to see what she was doing, she yelled back "getting ready".  I was puzzled since when I left her she was ready.  A few minutes later she emerged like this....

Christmas 2008

We had a quiet Christmas this year...the past 3 Christmas' have been shared with Mimi and Papa Ken visiting from Alabama, 2007 Christmas we also had Tante Debbie from California.  Grammy & Grampy from Ohio joined us for Christmas 2006.  It was wonderful to have them with us and we were getting spoiled with their love every year.

2008 Christmas eve we spent at Tom & Gina's house.  Christmas day we shared with Tom, Gina, Isabel, & Sean..and a fabulous prime rib!!  

Here are some pictures...

Christmas Eve:

Christmas Day: