Thanksgiving

We go to Illinois every year for Thanksgiving.  I always see my high school friends on the Wednesday night before, as well as their families, and it is one of my favorite nights of the year.  We all live in different places and have a lot going on in our lives, so it is great to know that I will see everyone at least once a year to catch up.  I feel like the adults got to talk a little more this year because our kids are  big enough now to play with each other on their own, without us having to entertain them!  This year Autumn's parents hosted so a big thanks to the Feldman's!!  

Here is the best pic I have of all the kids (minus Grant who didn't want his picture taken).

Here are my girls….Ashleigh, Autumn, Meghan, Michelle, Me and Brittany.  

I did get to see Angie and Kim and their kids earlier in the day as well, but we were too busy talking and forgot to take any pictures :(  It was great seeing everyone….love and miss you all!

Here are the boys on Thanksgiving morning, watching some TV with Grandma & Papa Bruce.

 We usually are traveling on Thanksgiving and eating on the way, but this year we got to stay put so we made the boys a fun Thanksgiving breakfast….a cinnamon roll turkey!!!

 Our little turkey in his "Gobble" shirt

Landon and Adelin putting on one of their many shows for us.

 We tried to take family pics at my parents this year.  Here is a pic of all the "big" kids…Cindy, Jeremy, me and Matt!

 And here is a pic of all our kids….Landon, Adelin, Chloe and Keegan

 Another cute pic of the grandkids

 Grandma & Papa with the grandkids

 A silly pic

 Just the 10 of us!

Thanksgiving night, Ade and Chloe had a sleepover at my parents as well as us, so the four grandkids slept in the back room….Landon, Ade and Chloe on the bed and Keegan on a little bed on the floor!

 The four kids the next morning

We left Lincoln on Friday morning and headed to Sherman for the rest of the weekend.  During the day on Friday, we went to Mattoon to see Matt's family.  We took family pics there as well!

Grandma & Grandpa Sherline with most of the younger grandkids and great grandkids…Keegan, Sophia, Nathan, James and Landon. (We were missing Tyler.)

 Cara, Matt and I joined this picture with everyone.

 The whole family (minus Tim and Tyler….we missed you guys!)

 On Saturday we went to the Festival of Trees in Springfield.  The boys had gingerbread cookies, looked at trees, rode the train and saw Santa.  Last year Keegan was terrified of Santa, but he loves him this year so it was a lot of fun.

The boys with Santa

Keegan & Santa

Landon & Santa

A family pic

Here is our traditional pic at Matt's parents house…this year, Nathaniel joined us as well!!

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and are as blessed as we are.  So thankful for wonderful family and friends!!

Catch Up

The fall went by really fast for us.  We were really busy and had a lot of fun.  Here are some random pictures between Halloween and Thanksgiving to get you all caught up a little bit.  I will do the Thanksgiving post next!

This is Keegan sitting in the car with me during Landon's first piano lesson.  He told me that he was having a movie night in the car!

 The boys in their Bears jerseys one Sunday (We have since switched to Browns jerseys on Sundays)!

 Keegan shopping with Matt one day at Crocker Park.

 Cute pic of Keegan in the car one day.

 We got a few inches of snow in the beginning of November and the boys had fun playing it in a little bit.

We always go to Crocker Park the weekend before Thanksgiving to see Santa light the Christmas tree.  This year, Santa got shot out of a cannon before he lit the tree.  It was crazy and I was terrified, but it all worked out.  The weather was great that night and the boys had fun watching everything.  Here are a few selflies from the night!

 Love this pic of the boys in their Santa hats and Pj's!

 Have a great week everyone and stay tuned for the Thanksgiving post coming soon!

Happy Halloween?!?! (October Wrap Up)

This is a little late, but here are some pictures from our Halloween.  The boys loved carving their pumpkins.

Landon's Olaf pumpkin

 Keegan's puppy pumpkin (turned out a little scary)

 We made stuffed jack-o-lanterns for dinner for Halloween

 Olaf & Handy Manny ready to Trick or Treat, they got tons of candy!!

The boys ready to Trick or Treat w/ Lilli

                                     

In a Suite at the Brown's game the Sunday after Halloween.  

Hopefully now we can move on to November pics!!! hah

Firsts

We had a bunch of firsts this fall.  Landon had been looking forward to losing a tooth for over a year now.  He finally had a loose one in the middle of October.  Then one night while we were in the car running errands he just said "I think my tooth fell out".  Sure enough, there it was in his hand.  He'd been wiggling it and eating apples all week knowing it was getting close.

In the parking lot at Target right after it fell out

At home getting ready to put his tooth under his pillow.

Here's basically the same picture of Landon only 5 months old showing us his 2 bottom teeth coming in.

 The Tooth Fairy came and brought Landon $2 that were shiny and glittery with fairy dust and left him a note & receipt for his tooth.

The other first we had that very same week, was Keegan finally got his first haircut!  It was more of just a trim.  He had a pretty bad Lou-Do combover going right on the top of his head.  We had them just trim this up and they took about 1/8" off over the rest.  He was excited!

He did a great job sitting still the whole time.

His certificate and lock of hair.

We leave for Illinois tomorrow (Tuesday) night after school, so we will try and get a Halloween post up before Thanksgiving! hah!