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 

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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).

Go Green! Go White!

 Will has been asking to go see a football game at Michigan State. We've been watching for good weather and decided last Saturday would be a perfect day to tailgate. It was also the MSU vs U of M game. Sparty kicked butt and won!

 We told the kids that the rules were that they could only go to a football game when they were 6. They both seemed okay with the MSU rule. So instead, we spent a few hours walking around campus and visiting friends and their tailgates.

The weather was 60' and sunny, a perfect fall afternoon. The kids were excited to see Sparty riding on a golf cart (even though Will cried when we were leaving because he didn't get to give Sparty a high-five).

 We also got to see the football team as they were headed into the Stadium. They were all dressed in their warm-ups and football helmets. We heard the drumline practice (Will plugged his ears the whole town because he said it was too loud).  

The quote of the day came from Erin. We were walking past the library and I told the kids that was the library.

Out of no where Erin said, "football players don't go to the library. That would be silly!"  Mark and I had a good laugh at that one. 

The kids have an MSU boardbook. It shows some of the highlights of MSU. On Saturday, we were able to show the kids some of the things from the book.  

After we were finished tailgating/touring campus, we went to cousin Eric and Julie's house to watch the game. It was fun spending time with them. Eric's been giving me a hard time because of my lack of blogging. I appreciated (and need) the prodding to get moving on my blog again. Eric, I hope you enjoyed the blog entry. 😉

It was a perfect fall afternoon. I had fun showing the kids my almamatter. Go Green! 

School Pictures

 3 year old preschool
Teacher- Miss Debbie
Aide- Miss Karen
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Preschool!

Will and Erin started 3 year old preschool last week. We've been talking about going to school for months now. The kids were excited for the big day. Mark took the morning off so that he could take them to their first day of school. It was a special morning for all of them. He got the kids ready and they were out the door early. I heard a little tap on my classroom window and W & E were standing outside in the flower beds.  They had big smiles on their faces and were excited to go to preschool. 

Mark said that when he took them to school they both did great. Erin was a little sad, but Will took her by the hand and led her to the carpet. They both said that they wanted to cry when the other kids cried, but they didn't. How is it possible that they are already in preschool!?