December Fun

As always December is a busy month full of lots of excitement surrounding the Christmas season as well as fun activities! We have had a wonderful month so far!

We've had the blessing of having some really great friends come to visit! Here I am with two of my good friends from college, Steph & Val. We've been friends for 9 years now! It was so refreshing getting so much quality time with them. I love these women so much!

What a great group of friends! We had so much fun hanging with the Clark's and the Bloom's!

The next weekend our good friends The Rangels came to visit from Texas. Josh is one of Dylan's best friends from college. It was such a blessing having them here all weekend we really appreciated them making the trip up north... especially in the cold temps. & snow!

Our first big snow! I love the beauty of snow!!

Caleb playing in the snow. He would not leave his gloves on so we didn't last long outside.

Painting a picture for Daddy....

Caleb's cute Christmas outfit.... he looks like such a big boy!

We love our couples bible study through the Lions. It has been one of our favorite blessings of this football season. We had a Christmas sweater party for our last study. It was a blast!

I've done a lot of baking this year, more then I ever have. It's been fun having so many goodies to eat and to share!

Oh Christmas Tree... Oh Christmas Tree...we

Last week we went and picked out our 'perfect' tree. This was the first year we didn't travel to a fun Christmas Tree Farm and cut down our own tree. We kinda felt like we were being cheated out of fun memories by going to a tree lot but with the limited time we have had lately it was for the best. We still had fun and had a blast decorating it.

Caleb made sure the lights worked

He kept walking into the tree and just standing there, almost like he was smelling it. It was hilarious.

Finished product. I love walking into the living room and smelling fresh evergreen.

Thanksgiving Fun

I was so thankful that my whole family drove up from Indiana to spend Thanksgiving with us. We had such a fun time of baking together, having dance parties and playing games. I'm so thankful for family and the love and fun that is shared when we are together!

It is tradition for the Lions to play on Thanksgiving Day so we all went to the game. It had been a lonnnnggg day for poor Caleb.

Excited to eat....

Fun times with Mimi

Dance Party!!!

Caleb busting some moves.. he is a hilarious dancer....

We went to this really cool indoor play ground

Brandie & Josh & Dylan & I were able to go out to dinner just the four of us.. it was so great getting some quality time with them.

Our attempt at a cousin picture.. not too bad

Trick or Treat

On the Saturday before Halloween we headed up to the Lions facility for a little Halloween fun. For the past couple of years the Detroit Lions have invited families up to the complex for a parade and trick or treating after the guys are done with practice. It is really fun to see all the kids dressed up.

Caleb really enjoyed all of the attention as he walked through the 'parade' of kiddos.

All of the trick or treaters. Caleb really didn't care about getting candy. He just wanted to run around the field.

His first taste of candy.

Halloween fell on a Sunday and we had a home game so we were all pretty pooped and didn't take Caleb trick or treating but we did have fun passing out candy to all of the neighborhood kids.

Fall is Here!!

On Tuesday Dylan and I took Caleb to a really nice Apple Orchard in Plymouth, Michigan. We had such a great time as a family picking apples and pumpkins and riding on the tractor around the farm. We also couldn't leave without eating some of their yummy cinnamon sugar donuts!

Mom Mom & Pop Pop Visit

Last weekend Dylan's Mom & Step dad came for a visit. We enjoyed going to an Apple Orchard that had a petting farm with them and eating some yummy cinnamon sugar donuts. We also really enjoyed the AMAZING game on Sunday! Yea Lions!! We had a HUGE win which was very exciting!