Elli Bday

For Elli's bday we took her out to lunch and to the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum.  It was so fun to have a date with our little girl..  

Elli and Steve have a civil engineering connection....They love to build together.

Overall it was a great day!  Jen makes these birthday days happen and I love it that she is so flexible in making these days happen!

Geoff's Wedding!

At the beginning of December we traveled to Austin TX to celebrate Geoff and Cassie. It was a great weekend reconnecting with some AFA friends!

some of the kiddos got tired at the wedding....

like I said, tired...

Our AFA clan....Minus Brian (he was having a baby!) and Geoff...he was getting married.

Felicity is the cutest!

Overall it was a great weekend.  We loved spending time and catching up with old friends, and can't wait till some of them move back to COS with us!

Kirsten Doll

For Christmas this year we gave abby my old American Girl doll.....Right now it is in storage with all of our stuff in Colorado Springs, but for the short time she got to play with it, she loved it!

Christmas

Christmas was so great this year.  A bit different with our pending move, but was the first time we were able to relax because our house was all packed up...

Katie bug.

Sugar cookies!

I made Sam and Elli pencil cases and coloring books this year.

Nana got all the girls mini american girl dolls (and real ones...) 

Abby wasn't feeling great on Christmas Eve and spent some time in the kitchen by herself playing....She wasn't so interested in presents....

Elli was the champion bow remover!

Super Dad!

Sammi LOVED her doll.

Jen wrote a book....A beautiful story and made it personalized with abby's name.

Abby got a bean bag chair and she LOVES it.

Abby loved Sabrina!  Loved her...

You can't have a family occasion without wrestling.

My beautiful cousins

With more to come!

Abby saw a picture of Elli's silly face....Made her own.

Merry Christmas!

Andy and Brit are so creative!  Loved the cards!

Finding Omaha Steaks in the basement freezer!

Grandma and Grandpa got great books for Christmas!

Potty!

Christmas is the best.

No joke....This is what Steve started driving to CO in....

One last family picture before we move to CO....Minus Brit :(

Overall, Christmas was great.  I loved spending Christmas Eve with the Kacins, Christmas with the Kacin/Klenke's and Paul's bday with the Klenkes....Even with things like IVIG on Christmas and Steve and Paul driving to CO on Pauls bday, it was a great few days!