SCHEETZ FAMILY: November 2009

CASTS COME OFF TOMORROW!!!!!! YAYAYAYAA!!!! We are all so excited for the casts to come off... Mikayla is on the countdown!! We have an appointment tomorrow(Tuesday) at 2:45pm! Have been very busy! Not sure if I have even written on here about my job. I started November 2nd with a financial consultant in Goodlettsville (about 25 minutes south of our house). I work Tuesday and Thursday while Mikayla is in school. It is great! I was a little apprehensive about giving up my two days alone (one being my cleaning day) but it has been good so far! It will be nice to bring home a paycheck. It is a little strange to drop Mikayla off at school and go to work.

We have had LOTS of things going on lately... Mike's grandparents came in town from Pennsylvania 2 weeks ago. His grandmother got to spend her 80th birthday with us. They got to spend lots of time with Mikayla, which I am very glad of. Last Friday Mamaw, me and Mikayla went to Christmas Village at the Nashville Fairgrounds. We got there around 10am and it was slammed! There were sooooo many people there... even some we knew. The whole way there Mikayla was so excited about seeing Santa. Well, when we got there and she layed eyes on him... she had a different perspective of the situation... and not a good one. She freaked out. She did NOT want to get near Santa. However, when we got back to the car she wanted to see him again. I guess the car was far enough away to forget how scary he is. We will try again in a couple of weeks. Saturday, Mikayla and mommy went to have lunch with some new friends. We met with Faith and Christy. Faith has Spina Bifida like Mikayla... with lots of similarities in the two. From very early in Mikayla's life, we have heard how much Mikayla and Faith are alike but we never met. Well, after talking on the phone and on facebook we finally arranged a meeting. The girls were instant best friends. Christy sent me a message on Sunday telling me that Faith is already asking when she is going to play with Mikayla again. I am really glad that God brought our families together... it will be really nice to have each other. Sunday was our busiest day of the weekend. That morning we went to church as usual, then to Lebanon for Thanksgiving at my Memaw & Papa's(dad's family), then back to this area for Hometeam meeting. Very busy but good weekend! I love thanksgiving food so I am super pumped that it is this time of year!! I am cooking Thanksgiving but I love it still!!! Have started my Christmas shopping and am finished with Mikayla except for stocking stuffers. I cannot wait for Christmas morning this year!!! She is already aware of Christmas stuff... she gets so excited whenever she sees Christmas trees. She picked out and bought her ornament for this year... Handy Manny. She had a choice of that or Tinkerbell and she picked Manny. We talked about decorating for Christmas and her response... "I help". I have so much excitement for Christmas this year... it is so exciting to see things through her eyes!

I have added just a few pictures. The first one is for Mike's grandfather. Neither one of his grandparents had been to Hooters before so that was one of our restaurants we visited during their visit. He looks pretty happy here!!