Fall Miscellaneous

All of our bits & pieces from last fall...

Sept. 1:  Shopping with my Boys

Sept. 1:  Just like Dad!

Sept. 3:  Messy!

Sept. 11:  Best Buds

Sept. 11:  We Love Lindsey!

 

 Sept. 12:  Surprise Gift from Marc

Sept. 13:  Go Bears!

September:  Our family sold 65 ornaments to raise money for a mission our church supports called "Heart for Africa"

Sept. 15:  Girl's Night with Erika

October 4:  The kids (and adults) wrote on the back of the carpet squares for our new church building.  I didn't even realize that the kids were doing this also.  Our secretary sent me a picture of this one...

October 6:  Dentist Visit with my (not so little) Boy!

October 8:  Caramel Apples!

October 20:  Check out this grown-up young lady...

October 21:  Dollinger's Farm

October 22:  Future Hair Stylist?

October 23:  Cookies for a friend's baby shower...

October 26:  Checking out Big Brother's Halloween Costume!

 November 7:  Museum of Science & Industry

 

 November:  Baby Vance... 1 Month Old

 November 8:  Starbucks Date with my Big Girl

November 10:  Dinner Date with Lindsay

 November 13:  Babies! (Callen & Gwen)

 November 14:  Running with Kinnick

 November 16:  S & K Making Dinner

 November 20:  Bookworm!

Party Time

November 28:  We celebrated Kinnick's birthday along with Jersy & Henry this year (3 of the 4 November cousins!)  Jersy & Henry had a Minnie/Mickey party and Kinnick asked for a Harry Potter cake.  We had fun opening presents, eating cake, and hanging out!   

Vance, Jadyn, Kinnick, Jaren, Jersy, Carver, Sadie, Henry, & Macey

Happy Thanksgiving

November 26-27:  Over the last several years we have enjoyed hosting Thanksgiving with a variety of family and friends and joining us.  This year we traveled for the first time since Kinnick was born.  We went to Burlington to spend a few days with Marc's family.  We left on Thanksgiving morning and made the drive.  We had fun eating a delicious Thanksgiving meal prepared by his mom, followed by some fun time hanging out and relaxing.  Kinnick got to open his birthday presents.  Marc and I did some Black Friday shopping.  We had lunch at Great Wall Buffet (a favorite when we are in Burlington).  We watched the Hawks win.  Another fun thing we got to do was shop for a family we adopted from my parent's church.  We chose a family that 3 kids (2 girls and a boy) similar ages to our 3 big kids.  They each had fun helping pick out some items.  It was a great break for our family and a fun time away from home.

Kinnick's Birthday:

Hawkeye Game on Black Friday:

Presents for our Adopted family: