Our December

Our December was a busy one and we had so much fun.

 



Snow Day after Thanksgiving!!

 

Each year we do a fancy Unti Christmas dinner at Coopers Hawk. This is the only picture I took this year.

 

I had a girls night where we did an 80's/90's "Mom" theme....

 

My Mom and I had a date to go see Pentatonix Christmas concert. It was a lot of fun!!

 

Brooke had her annual Goddard Christmas musical. It was grinch themed this year

 

At the TodSquad annual chili cookoff Louis won the prize for best first album. He got a Die Hard Christmas book!!

 

We started a new tradition of matching PJ's for the cousins (thanks to Joni!)

 

Brooke and Piper went to a Christmas cookie decorating class

 

We kicked off winter break with seeing the BumbleBee movie

 

Christmas Eve at Papa and Grandma's

 

Tracking Santa

 

Santa brought Blake a Nintendo Switch

 

Dude Perfect gear

 

Brooke and her Hatchimal

 

Playing with Granddad's train and car set on Christmas

 

Wisconsin Dells Wilderness Resort after Christmas is becoming our tradition

 

Brooke's first time on the go carts- She was a fan!!

 

Sean at the Cabana



The Grinch

Back in the summer I bought tickets to see The Grinch musical downtown Chicago. I even got most of the #TodSquad to get tickets and join in our city fun. 

I surprised the kids with Grinch PJ's and let them know we were going to the show

Their "Grinch" faces

Watching The Grinch movie

The kids LOVED the train ride. 

Pat, Louis and Blake

#TodSquad Girls (Evive, Ellie, Sophia, Piper and Brooke)

 We stopped by Marshall Fields (never MACY's haha!) window displays

The girls were getting tired so Daddy's to the rescue with shoulder rides 

It was a long, but fun day in the city and the kids all seemed to really enjoy it. The adults might have needed more drinks though ;)

Life Lately

Brooke loves to come help me grocery shop but sometimes it is too hard to stay awake!

Uncle Sean gave Blake Windy City Bulls tickets for his birthday present and we brought Brady along for the fun. 

When you randomly walk into Wal-Mart and see Santa

Melanie, Adam, Maddie and Jack were in town (Chicago- celebrating Maddie's 7th birthday) so we had to jump at the chance to see them since it had been forever.  We went to lunch in the city at Safehouse

 When you ask 1st graders to take a picture....sigh.

 Reunited!!

Halloween

The kids were really into Halloween this year and couldn't wait to carve pumpkins and to trick-or-treating. 

Blake carved his own pumpkin for the most part this year

Getting the guts out of the pumpkin is never fun!

Scary Halloween faces!

Each year Goddard does trunk-or-treat and all the kids go car to car and trick-or-treat. All cars have a theme and this year I did a "Donut Grow Up". The kids loved it. 

Brooke and Ross

Evie and Brooke

Christeen was my unicorn partner in crime!

Blake's school does a parade so we got to see him walk by

These kids loved trick-or-treating and went out twice (before and after dinner). And their favorite part- it was dark out and they were trick-or-treating still. ha!