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Our attempt at a Thanksgiving picture

I was looking so forward to Thanksgiving Break.  I needed some time to relax and get so much needed sleep.  Yeah right!!!  That did not happen!  We spent Thanksgiving day with our family.  Thanksgiving night mom and I went to Walmart at 9 to shop for some good deals.  We got home around midnight then headed to Lafayette around 5 Friday morning for some more shopping.  I can't say I got tons of great deals, but I got a lot of shopping done and found some good stuff on sale.  I enjoy going more for the fun of it than to find good deals.  Friday was also Bart's 31st birthday.  I can't say we did much celebrating on his birthday because I was exhausted!  Yesterday, we spent part of the morning with Leah, Lydia, and Abel.  It was good to see them since we don't see them too often.  We also got together with the Leman family to celebrate November birthdays.  We then ventured to Valpo to do some shopping and go out to eat.  This morning we got up, went to church, then went to my family to celebrate Bart's birthday.  We then headed to Miller's tree farm to get our tree.  I had good intentions to get our tree up and house decorated, but the weather got in our way a little.  I'm kind of glad since I needed some time to relax before having to go back to work tomorrow.  This time of the year gets so busy, but it's always a good time. 

This reminded me so much of Bart and his typical attire in high school

What a lovely day to get a tree..still managed a family photo with our tree

Kyra was sleepy, but still not too fond of Santa

Progressive Dinner

This past Sunday we were in charge of hosting the main meal for the Progressive Dinner for our church youth group.  We decided to have haystacks, which went pretty well despite the mounds of rice that we had leftover.  The kids came, ate, played a little football, had a devotion, and headed off to desserts at the next location.  We had a great time with the kids and are looking forward to hosting again next year.

Fall festivities

It was made known to me that my last post said stay tuned for lots of updates....that was a month ago.  It's been crazy busy with me going back to school.  We have done some fun things this fall.  We carved pumpkins, which is one of my favorite things to do since mom never let us do it growing up (it was too messy!!)  I also took the kids with mom to Kent's pumpkin patch in Brookston over fall break.  We went through through the corn maze and then picked out a pumpkin to take home.  It was a lot of fun!  We took the kids trick or treating, too.  Now it's time to start getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas! 

Cleaning out the pumpkin

Pumpkin guts

Posing at Kent's Pumpkin Patch

In the corn maze

Being a big helper

Our little bumblebee and future football star