a visit to see Santa...

Maryn loved seeing Santa and was quick to tell him exactly what she wanted...a yellow bike with a helmet.  Theo on the other hand, was less than thrilled with the big guy in red :(  Oh well, the memory has been captured!

35 weeks and counting!!

Maryn keeps asking when the baby is coming and we keep saying soon, but hopefully not too soon!  Cannot believe we are at 35 weeks...it won't be much longer till we meet our little boy!!

bring on december!

Maryn got to hang the first ornament on the tree!

Theo hanging his first ornament!

Oh, I like this!

checking out the tree from underneath :)

Our tree!!

It's time to make a gingerbread house!

Let's hope they don't eat it before it's finished!!

Hard at work

Even Theo got in on the squeezing of icing!

The almost finished project :)

I've been ordering most of our gifts online so we have had a bunch of boxes come to our door.  With all those boxes of  course we needed a train!  All aboard the Maryn and Theo Express!!

our annual trip to the tree farm!

 Over Thanksgiving weekend we made our annual trip out to Piney Acres Tree Farm to pick out our Christmas Tree.  So much fun to take Theo this year for the first time (last year we had to skip the farm because he was so little).  It was actually a pretty mild day, perfect for finding just the right tree to bring home!

A quick stop to say "hi" to Santa on our way out ...Theo was less than  thrilled to see Santa :)

All loaded up in the wagon!

After much wondering, we found just the perfect tree!

Hooray!!

What can we do to help Dad??

Ok, well if you don't need our help we'll just take it easy :)

While waiting for the wagon to come back and get us we took a few pics :)

Giving thanks for so much this year!

Happy Thanksgiving!  

Yep...this is the only picture I took at Thanksgiving!  I did get a side profile of Theo, but it was quite blurry :)

Butler weekend extravaganza!!!

It's was that time of year again when we have our Ornament Party with our Butler crew!  It has gone from a one night event to a weekend extravaganza :)  Cannot believe that we have kept the tradition going for 10 years!! The fun started the weekend before Thanksgiving with a Butler game on that Saturday against Louisville.  Unfortunately, the Bulldogs just couldn't pull out a win, but I think fun was had by all that attended.  Next stop...our place for dinner, a craft, book exchange for the kids and ornaments for the adults.  So there are 7 couples, 14 kids (ages 5-1) plus 2 due in January...yep that 's a little bit of chaos!  Actually though they are all for the most part at an age where they don't require our attention so it was pretty nice this year :)  We had a great time!  On Sunday, we had brunch at the Burnett's to end the weekend.  What an awesome weekend to spend with such great friends that we just don't see as often as we would like to.  So glad we are all committed to keeping the tradition going!

The kiddos (minus 2 this year)
If only you could see the parents on the other side trying to get all the kids to look :)

The mommas
(wish we would have taken one more when Lisa got there )

The dads :)

Weekend Getaway

It's hard to believe that back in June, Jeremy and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary.  What's even harder to believe is that we have been together for 15 years total!  Since we were unable to get away this summer, we decided to take a quick weekend getaway to Chicago in early November.  We drove up on a Friday night and stayed through Sunday just a block off of Michigan Ave.  Lucky for us it was actually pretty pleasant weather!  We enjoyed sleeping in, meals out, a little shopping, and just being able to enjoy our time together.  On Saturday afternoon we bought tickets for the architectural boat tour which was really cool and we would highly recommend.  It was neat to learn how long some of the buildings had actually been in the city and then to just learn some of the historical background of Chicago.  

On the boat tour

City skyline (looking from Lake Michigan)

On our way out of town we stopped at Sprinkles cupcakes...yummmmmmy!!!!