Christmas Card Out-takes

I love her face in this one!

Getting ready for Christmas

Yep, we're excited about Christmas.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was great this year. Brigg got to play football for the first time in a few years, and we didn't get on a plane! We stayed put for the first time since we have been married. We spent the holiday in Maryland at the FP farm with all my cousins. All of our Aunts worked so hard to have this beautiful and delicious meal for all 80 of us. We loved it!

Ice!

We had a great Thanksgiving holiday. One of our favorite things we did was go to "Ice" at National Harbor. It was this huge production with everything made of ice. They kept the place at 9 degrees, and it was so cold! They even had an ice slide for everyone to go down. It put us all in the Christmas spirit.

Gracie's take over

We enrolled Jack into a Soccer class this Fall for 3-5 year olds. Jack was one of the smallest and youngest- but we knew he wouldn't care. On the first day, I sent Jack out to play with the kids and brought a stroller and toys for Gracie (since she hadn't even turned two yet), thinking she would just sit quietly on the sidelines. However, she watched for about five minutes the first week and then marched right in the middle of practice, and never considered coming back to the sidelines again. It became HER class even though some of the boys were more than twice her size. She became the little mascot very fast and everyone called her "peanut." She played the whole season barefoot and happy.

Christmas in October

We got so lucky! Our neighbors were cleaning out their garage one day and we were at the right place at the right time. A few of the boys on our street have these Jeeps, and Jack has been drooling over them since we moved here. However, one of these boys decided that he was too old for them, and gave it to us! Jack now rides it everywhere, and we take it with us when we go to my parents, the farm, or anywhere he can ride it. When we go for walks now, I push Gracie in the stroller, and he rides behinds me. He looks like and old man running his errands. Nothing could have made Jack happier. Gracie will only ride with him if she has her helmet on. Smart girl.

Halloween

We love Halloween! We have enjoyed it everyday this month. We are sad to see it go.

Race Car Driver and Pink Piggie

Brigg and I were the Blue Man Group (thank you Wing and Alli)

Passing out candy after Trick-or-Treating was just as fun. Jack told everyone to "say thank you" after he gave them candy.