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This is a long post, so please Brrr with me (get it, Brr because its cold outside, I just crack myself up sometimes) Anyway, What an exciting week the Gingerich's had. With the snow keeping us home for a couple of days, to making the front page of our local newpaper. Here is what happened: Over the weekend Matt sent me a picture of a duck in the local newspaper. I looked at the picture and I thought, "it couldn't be", so I gave the phone to Grace for her to look at and she said "Yup, it's Moey the MoeyHawk". The newspaper ran a picture of a duck with a strange feathers on top of his head, somewhat like a mohawk. So, on Monday I sent an email to the editor and she forwarded it on to the lady that first ran the story on Saturday. Well, she called me on Monday to get a few more details, so I just thought that they were just curious and didn't think anymore of it. Until I called Matt on Tuesday to see if the roads are clear and he said "Nope, but I am reading something very interesting about a duck". What, we made the paper.
He said that our story was on the front page along side Moey the Moeyhawk's picture. For some of you, you probably are thinking, "it couldn't be", "how do you know". To answer your question: We just know. The feather pattern is the same, even the placement of the Mohawk is the same, and just the way he looks we could just tell it was once our family pet.
If you do not get the Washington Times Herald here is the link with our story: http://www.washtimesherald.com/archivesearch/local_story_026211423.html
Also, here are some pictures of the girls with Moey the MoeyHawk duck when we first got him:

Gracie and Moey Best BuddiesMoey The Moeyhawk Duck Getting his first bath

I have other pictures of Moey the day we took him to Matt's uncle's house. It was bittersweet, since he was truly part of our family. The days that Moey was up in Bramble, he spent following Matt's uncles choring and fishing. When we heard that he went missing we were sad and didn't think we would see him again, until I saw a picture on Facebook of a duck with a mohawk. I was shocked...Matt swore that it wasn't him until I brought a picture back and he couldn't get over the resemblance, but Grace and I were sure it was him. He made a home away from home with his little duck friends and now everyone can enjoy Moey the MoeyHawk duck.
Here are some pictures of the girls playing in the snow. Izabelle didn't really know what to think of the snow. She was very careful when walking and when she fell to her knees she cried for help. Grace, well she just took off running and went start to making snow angels. We didn't have any snow attire, so we improvised and made our own with extra, extra layers of clothes and alot of Daddy's socks over boots.

Ready to slideTouching snow

Walking through snowMy lil snow angel

Until Next Time...


God Bless...


Jess

Just playing Catch Up…

I haven’t really posted on what has been going on in our lives (well besides dancing and ruining my gas tank). Last Monday, we buried my Great Uncle Floyd “Hoppy” Harper. He had been sick for a couple of days, but unfortunately his body wasn’t strong enough to fight the infection.
A little about this man Uncle Hoppy is what we all called him: I really don’t know why they called him Hoppy….need to get the whole story for my grandpa sometime. He was my mom’s uncle, her dad’s brother, and one great guy. I don’t really remember much of him when I was little; it wasn’t until I got older that I came to know a little more about him. He was very nice and loved children. I guess he needed too, to survive his 8 nieces (my mom and her sisters). He is a Vietnam War Veteran. He had a military funeral services. At the burial there were several veterans that were there for honors ceremony: Which includes the Flag folding, Flag presentation to his brothers, and the playing of Taps (which is the song that is performed with the bugle, in our case a recording), and the gun salute. I got very emotional just to think that they (the veterans) were there to salute and show their respects to their fellow soldier (veteran).
The rest of the week was calm and relaxing. Friday we were to have company for supper (baked spaghetti), they were unable to come to due to last minute circumstances, which is okay, we just played and watched Hannah Montana.
Then Saturday, my mom, my girls, and I went to Vincennes to take back some shoes and did some shopping, while Matt went to the Buggy Bowl.
Then Sunday after church we headed to my parent’s house to visit with my family. Grant made Lasagna (he is such a good cook). Unfortunately we didn’t stay to eat it (don’t worry I took carry out), because we went to Matt’s parents’ for pizza with his family (we have missed their Sunday suppers for a couple of weeks, so we thought we needed to be there last night). We don’t really get to see much of Rob, Greta, and Brynnlee, so it was fun to watch B and Izabelle playing together…well lets just say, they love wanting what the other one has, which is what we all did when we were little. Izabelle is usually the rough one and making someone else cry, but last night she was the one getting the rough end of the deal. But I don’t think Izabelle even had a clue what was going on, because she didn’t let out a holler or cry, so apparently B wasn’t too rough with her. At the end of the night, they were best friends giving hugs and kisses to one another…Ah!!!
Now it is beginning of a new week and boy are we hoping for some SNOW…enough to keep us home:)

Until Next Time…

God Bless…

Jess

Izabelle's First Dance Performance

For your entertainment...Izabelle's first dance performance.

Oh, watch out for her break dancing skills.

Enjoy:)

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Performance By the Vikettes

Last Saturday was the B-R vs. Loogootee game and Boy was it a good game (from what I heard). I was kind of busy making sure that the Vikettes were ready for their big number.

We were joined by members of the Band playing "Fresh Trash"...they performed this number with trash cans (hence the title "Fresh Trash"). We only had about 2 practices with the band. It was a little different to hear the song live compared to the CD we had. About 1/2 way through they speed up just a tad, but I think it was actually better faster than what we had practiced before. Thanks to the everyone that participated in that.

The other half of the dance was a hip hop number...it was completely different from what we did the first half. We wanted something that everyone liked. We only had about 2 practices for the girls to learn and they did AWESOME!!!

Did I tell you how proud I am of these girls, they really worked 100% on these dances. I never heard a negative word or bad attitude from them, they are very much have a "let's do this" attitude.

Now for you Entertainment The Vikettes:

My Montage 1/22/09

Until Next time...

God Bless...

Jess

My True Color...Blonde

It has been a couple of days since I have posted anything and I can't believe I am going to post about this, but I did tell Matt this was "TOTALLY" Blog worthy. Just a good for a laugh, just one:) I will post more at a later date (especailly the video of the Vikettes performance at the BR vs. Loogootee game, which they did a great job).


I have been off of work for a couple of days and my mom called me to come and clean her house on Friday. I took the kids to the babysitter and I headed out to their house. Well instead of taking the highway, I decided to just cross the high way (the road across from Odon/Cannelburg road), you know the road, the one with all the coal trucks.

Well, I saw something in the distance what seemed small enough for me to stradle, since there were coal buckets coming, I could not dodge this. So, I did my best to miss it, but instead I think it nipped my tire and hit the bottom of the van. So, I pulled onto Old Hwy 50 and checked my tires, no damage, so I decided to take a look underneath. And what did I discover, fluid flowing from somewhere. I touched the ground and smelled the fluid (I know, gross) and it was gas. So, I tried to call Matt, no answer, so I called Jake and he said he would come and check it out. Well, at that point the gas was coming out alittle more, so I pulled into the next driveway, so it wouldn't be anyone's way. And Jake took me back to the shop.

Matt was there and I was so SCARED to tell him what had happened, because I figured it would get mad. To my SURPRISE, he wasn't, so we left to go back to the van for him to check the damage himself. The first thing that came out of his mouth. "WHAT DID YOU HIT????"...Um, it looked like some kind of wood, but I think it was metal. Oh, my!!!! There was a BIG dent in the gas tank. So, we called Kevin to see what if we could get it in to get fixed and had the wrecker to pick it up.

Below are the pictures of my poor van being hoisted up on the wrecker:

The dent in the gas tank...It should be straight across but you can see the BIG U in the middle

Starting to load her up.

Poor Girl

You really can't see him, but Matt is in the drivers seat. Being Silly.

So, the van will be in the shop for maybe throughout this week and possibly next week, depending when the part (the gas tank) will get here.

For now, me and the girls will be driving Daddy's Truck.

Oh, I am taking donations for the Blonde Fund...Just in case I show my true colors again...Just kidding:)

Until Next Time...

God Bless...

Jess

Forgot to Mention about Izabelle's Misfortunes

Oh my...I can't believe I didn't post about Izabelle's misfortunes this past week. Last Tuesday, Memaw watched the girls while Matt and I went to the ball game. When got back to Memaw's I tried to upload the video of the dance, so that Memaw could watch it, when we heard Kaycee and Matt shouting "She's throwing up"...What??? Who??? We run in and Izabelle is just standing there getting sick (Sorry Memaw about the carpet). Remind you that she was just fine a minute ago, laughing, running around, and being herself. So, I ran her to the bathroom, stripped her close off and cleaned her off. Memaw of course had extra pjs, so we put those on her and waited to see if she was going to do it again before putting her in the van. I figured we were going to be up for the rest of the night, but to my surprise after rocking her to sleep, she slept throughout the night. Weird, uh????

Then on Wednesday, Matt came home to get something, so he came in to say "hi" to me and Izabelle (Grace was at Preschool). Well, I went to the bathroom and I heard a thump and a cry. Came out and Izabelle fell and busted her mouth. She was fine after a Hello Kitty ice pack was applied to her lip.

Wednesday Night (I know what else could happen) while I was at dance practice, I went to check my phone during break and heard it ringing. It was Matt...Here is what was said:
Me: Hey, What's up???
Matt: You need to get home!
Me: Why?? What Happened??
Matt: Just come home, Izabelle fell out of bed!
Me: Okay, be there soon.
Me to the Vikettes: I have to go home, Izabelle fell out of the bed...practice alittle more and you can go home.

At this point I thought she fell out of our bed. So, I rushed home (trying not to exceed the speed limit to much).
Ran inside into our bedroom and say Matt laying in bed with Izabelle fast asleep on his chest.
First, thought was wake her up, if she fell on her head she might have a concussion.
So, I picked her up, which of course she started to cry...

I asked Matt what had happened and he said:

I put her in her crib (wait she was in her crib) and I went back to our room to watch TV with Grace and I heard a loud "THUMP"...Ran to Izabelle's room and she was standing outside her crib.

At this point I was kind of getting nervous, so I sat Izabelle on the counter and started to look her over. No bumps or bruises on her head...She was following my fingers...No bruises or crying when I checked the rest of her body. Which turned to giggles when I got to her tickle spots. So, I knew she was fine. I rocked her to sleep and she slept all night.

Thursday Night: What else??? She woke up with a cough (I posted about this in my last post) in the middle of the night, we stayed awake and played for 2 1/2 hours and went back to bed. Then Friday morning we went to the Dr.'s Nurse Practioner and she has the Croup Virus (after 3 days of antibiotic she is fine).

Sunday: I swear, I am not neglecting my childern...us girls are not that graceful...ask Matt, we are always tripping or running into something (we blame our imaginary dog for tripping us). Anyway, we are getting ready to go to Nana and Papaw's she slips and hits her head on the corner of a wall. Gets a goose egg (not big) on her noogin, along with a tiny bruise. Mommy to the rescue with lots of hugs and kisses.
Then later in the afternoon she throws a HUGE fit and I try to pick her up and she does the "stiff, straight out" move, I lose the grip and back she goes against the toy box. After a few "SCREAMS", she is fine when our HEROS Papaw, Grant, and Daddy rescue us with what else, FOOD, with our favorite of course, PIZZA and breadsticks. So, that made it all better.

As for this week, we have been injury free, she still has a lingering cough, but all is well.

Now for Grace and Matt, they both have colds, so hopefully it will run its course with no problems.

Until Next Time...

God Bless...

Jess

What a Blessed Weekend

Where do I start...I guess I will start with last Thursday. Thursday afternoon Matt and his dad left for a 2 day tractor pull in Columbus, Ohio. Leaving us girls at home. Usually we would end up shopping or buying something (when the boss is away the mouse will play), but instead we just stayed home. Thursday night, Grace had dance class, so when we got home it was baths and bed time. Which Grace was really happy to be able to sleep in Mommy and Daddy's bed, since Dad was gone. Izabelle started coughing Thursday night, and it wasn't a clear your throat cough, more like a barking cough and of course she woke up at midnight and didn't go back to sleep until 2:30am.
So, when we woke up that morning she was still coughing and started to run a low grad temp. So, a quick call to the doctor, we dropped Grace off at preschool and off to the doctor's we went. The nurse practitioner saw Izabelle and said she had the Croup virus and gave us a prescription to take the next 3 days.
What a good start to the weekend without Daddy? So, after that we went to get Grace, fill the prescription and did a little bit of shopping, we were headed home for lunch and naps. The rest of Friday was just resting, playing, and movies. Friday night my mom and dad and cousin Jayce came over for a quick visit. My mom's uncle is in the hospital with a blood infection and pneumonia (please say a quick prayer for healing).
Saturday, we went to pick Jayce up and she watched the girls while I went to dance practice. Then I took her home, hoping that the car ride would put the girls fast to sleep. Well Grace was still wide awake and Izabelle fell asleep, but as soon as I pulled in the garage she was wide awake and wouldn't go back to sleep. At this point, I was really tired and ready for a nap, but that didn't happen. Which is fine. So, with Izabelle being sick, she really wanted mommy at her side the whole time. By time bedtime came around I was ready for much needed sleep.
Oh, Matt did pretty good on Friday at his tractor pull, came in 11th out of 100 some tractors in the pro stock category. He did go out of bounds with the other tractor, so he was disqualified:( Then Saturday he placed again in the super stock category:) He came in 3rd in the finals and got a plaque and money...GO Matt!!!
Matt got home Saturday night at midnight...I think. I was so dazed that I didn't even know he showed me his plaque. Poor thing thought I was mad at him.
Oh, did I mention that I needed my rest, because Sunday was the big day...My baptism.
Yup, Sunday was my baptism and three others. I know you all were praying for my nerves and I was okay, until I got up there and the mic went into my hands. My paper was shaking, my voice quivering, and I don't even know if anyone was able to really hear my testimony or not (I think I was more nervous Sunday, then at my wedding). But after all that was over (speaking portion), I felt a peace coming over me. Whew!!! Shawn then asked the group various questions, then the baptism (during this time, Shawn prayed for us and Chris poured water in his hands and Shawn released the water on top of our heads) The whole experience of its self was truly amazing. I felt so loved and blessed. Once everyone was finished, then Shawn had the congregation stand to welcome us as a member of the church.
If I missed something, I am truly sorry, I was in such awe, that I don't think I know everything that went on.
After church they had a receiving line, for the members to congratulate and welcome us to the church. I felt so loved and blessed to have all these wonderful people welcoming me, with open arms and love. Words can't express how I felt. I am glad to be part of such a wonderful family.
We headed home and I took somewhat of a nap (I ended up with a bad headache), then it was off to my parents house, this was my dad's weekend off, so we were able to visit longer than usual. Also, Amanda came up from Evansville to see us all. So, we couldn't resist the visit with her.

Until Next Time...

God Bless...

Jess