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These were the ladies that I trained and ran my half marathon with in September. 

Fire fighter Willy to the rescue!! 

Waiting in line at Aavra's gymnastics party in August. We didn't plan to dress them alike sometimes it just happens. 

Will and Erin thought they were so funny 'driving' (or as Will says 'sriving) the van. They laughed and laughed and laughed. 

Will and Blueberry were camping with grandma Melanie. 

This boy loves to bake and eat the batter. 

Erin and Stinky are twins! And yes, you read that correctly, her Bitty Baby is named Stinky. :-) 

So pretty! 

Erin was so excited to decorate the house and set up the tree. If you look closely you'll notice that Will has turned the ornament box into a ramp for his cars. 

She was ready to go to Meijer. 

Chicago!!

We made a quick trip to Chicago to see Aunt Krysten on our way home from Milwaulkee. The kids loved riding the bus, seeing the chicks at the zoo(Will didn't want to see the penguin statue) and we got to see our cousins. It was a fun trip! 

Chicago! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

We went to Milwaukee again this year. We leave early Thanksgiving morning so that we'll avoid the traffic in Chicago. This year our neighbor let us use his iPass which was so convient. 

We usually spend Thanksgiving at Uncle Joe's house. His health has declined and he now lives with his oldest son. They've put his house up for sale which means our Thanksgiving tradition had to be changed. Cousin Jeff (who Uncle Joe is living with) graciously opened up his house to all of us. We had dinner there and used his house as our home base. We all stayed between three houses. It was nice to see everyone and spend time together. I'm glad that we were able to continue the tradition.

Will thought it was pretty cool to watch football in the garage with Cousin Eric, cousin Jeff, Grandpa Bikl, Uncle Marc and daddy. 

Both kids fell as lore before dinner. It worked out for us because we were able to gorge ourselves without the kids getting in our way. 

Cousin Eric made the local news! He was at the grocery store buying snacks for the Thanksgiving football games. The clips they used made it appear that Eric was earring pizza rolls, chips, beer and a really big sub sandwich for his Thankagiving dinner. Lol. 

And this is what happened when I left my phone unattended. Jack and Malcomb

Cousin Julie had fun playing games with the girls and Will. 

Snow Days!

Yes, you read that correctly it says Snow Days. Yesterday, Novemeber 18 was the first Snow Day of the 2014 school year (and W and E's first one). Over 12 inches of snow fell yesterday. It stopped for a few hours and started up again. It looks like the middle of January or February outside. I have to admit that I missed the excitement of a good snow storm. We've been living in a snow globe for days. It's beautiful, even if it's only yh middle of November. The kids and I put up Cheistmas decorations yesterday. Today we played outside for a while. We've also watched too much TV (Paw Patrol is the current favorite), drank hot chocolate, played, made projects with glue and paper and did a little bit of cleaning.  It's been a fun couple of days. I would love another day at home tomorrow, but we only get 6 snow days a year and I don't want to use half of my days in November. 

At this rate, we'll be in school until July. 

The kids stayed in their jammies all day! 

Will used his bulldozer to help plow the driveway and sidewalks for daddy. 

Monday 

Wednesday 

An afternoon nap because Will woke up at 5:30 am. I guess that he was excited about the snow days too! 

Pumpkin Fun!

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We went to get out pumpkins at Weesies Brothers farm. The kids had fun seeing Spookley the pumpkin, riding the tractor to the patch, and riding the wagon thingy about four times. 

Happy Halloween!

Will had been telling anyone who asked that he was going to be a fireman for Halloween. I decided (because I'm his mom) that he and Erin would have coordinating costumes again this year.  She already had a pirate costume so we got him one too. Will agreed to be a pirate for Halloweeen at school and a fireman for trick or treating. I took the morning off and went to their Halloween party at school. It was fun to meet their friends, see their awesome teachers and some of my old friends (because their preschool is in my district).