extended girls weekend-o-fun!!

I'll try to recap the weekend's events in a post (along with some pictures that I'm having a hard time putting in the right places, so bear with me!)....

Friday after school April and Trisha were here and I met them at the repair shop so April could get her breaks fixed. We then headed out to eat at El Portal which is a local favorite. It was complete with some of good conversation over some amazing cheese dip, and yes we each ate a meal too! We then started to work on the wedding invitations for April.

Saturday morning we went to David's Bridal to get bridesmaid dresses, which are really cute! Then we came back and went out to Applebee's for lunch, did some shopping at WalMart and came home and finished April's wedding invitations! They turned out so cute. I'm impressed with our skills. We also headed out to the Marshalltown Mall and to HyVee for groceries.

We woke up Sunday morning with no one going anywhere because it was a few inches of slush followed with some thick, wet snow and everything was canceled in town. We spent the day eating nachos, watching a movie, playing with Jack, and talking. It was a nice relaxing day. Too bad April and Trisha weren't able to leave town, which I was secretly glad because Steve was stranded in Wisconsin on the Winter Extreme High School trip.

Monday morning we woke with FREEZING temps and glare ice/snow drifts which made for no travel (or school) today! Steve and the youth group made it to Iowa City today and are crashing at Linda and Gary's house. We attempted to play the Wii, watched another movie, chased Jack around the house and by the end of the day we're starting to go a little stir crazy. We're hoping tomorrow the roads will be okay for people to travel on. I'm also hoping that we don't miss any more days of school or it's going to be a quick trip to make it to April's wedding after school gets out.

I will let you know when everyone makes it home safely. I think April and Trisha are hoping they'll get out of Iowa by the 4th of July!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day from the Stepecs!

Sorry, I had high hopes of getting a card in the mail with Jack's picture but that didn't happen. Things around here have been REALLY busy...Steve has been gone in the evenings for the past 4 nights and leaves again tomorrow and will be back late Sunday night. With Jack being such the great helper that he is, somethings just don't get done. I will admit that I tried to get out some card making things last night and he proceeded to empty the door of craft things out and open and empty many containers of things. My bedtime is also more on the early side, like 9 o'clock at the latest since I get up at 5:00. So there is a long explaination of why cards don'e flood your mailboxes! But thank you to all the treasures and funny cards we got in our mailbox!

This weekend with Steve being gone April and Trisha are heading down for some fun girl times. We're going to David's Bridal on Saturday to get fitted for bridesmaid dresses...well, Trisha and I are! Who knows what else we'll get into this weekend...I think maybe some shopping, eating and making invitations for the big wedding!

Hope everyone is having a great day and eating lots of candy! (Sorry these pictures are placed funny on the page, I can't seem to figure out how to get them right next to each other)

ear infection

just wanted to let you know that Jack has another ear infection (it's only his 2nd one ever) but he's on meds for it, which I hope will help all of us get on a better track of sleeping through the night!

Yippee...tomorrow's Friday!

Snow day!

YES! No school in Marshalltown! We got about 8 inches of heavy, wet snow and since we live in Iowa that means they cancel school. It's amazing how long it takes them to clean the streets. I think they have all of 1 working city snowplow. It's so annoying. The other thing that's annoying is that every snow day we have gets tacked on to the end of the year so we just have to go to school that much longer. At the rate we're going maybe we'll be out by July 4th!

However, even if we have to go longer I am enjoying my day at home with Jack and Steve. Poor Jack still has his cough and runny nose and without being able to give him any over the counter medicine for coughs he has to go back to the doctor tomorrow to rule out pnemonia (sp?) and ear infections. He's kept us up at night with his coughing and isn't able to take very long naps (which he really needs!). I'm praying the doctor will be able to give him something besides just more nebulizer treatments. We'll see...

Super "Flu" Bowl!

Yes, you guessed it...we have all had the flu this past week. It started with Jack on Monday night not able to keep anything down, which is ever so lovely with not being able to hit a bucket or the toilet. Steve was hit on Friday morning and finally started feeling okay on Saturday and I was hit on Saturday night and am just coming around today. Needless to say, I stayed home from the Super Bowl Party and Steve and Jack went and I'm going to try to get a little more rest while I watch the game from home.

The good news is that I made it through conferences last week at school, which made for a LONG week and I don't have jury duty this next week. I have to call back in on Friday to check out the schedule.

Here are some pictures of Jack today (yes, we dressed him in his Vikings outfit)!





Here is a picture of Jack and Steve heading out to the party, they decided to walk since it was just a block away! Way to save gas, boys!