Home Life

Happy New Year everyone! We hope that this year will be as good for you as we hope it will be for us!  

Today was a very pivotal day in the life of the Halliday family.  We made the final decision that we are going to move.  I still have to talk to my Director and hopefully he’ll be good with it.  If so, we’ll put the house on the market in 2 weeks and look to move

Tonight we went with Carla’s and Scott’s family to the Lincoln park zoo to see animals and lights.  The kids really had a fun time!  It wasn’t near as cold as it was a couple of years ago when we went. The lights were really beautiful.  We also saw ice carvers making their masterpieces which

Today was spent shopping and playing.  The girls went shopping and left the little ones with Scott and me.  We took them to the park by Still Middle School and they played outside until they couldn’t feel their faces.  We then took them back home and had some hot chocolate and once they were thawed

Merry Christmas Everyone! Today we had a wonderful and relaxing Christmas!  The kids were all so excited to have Christmas morning with their cousins! … and they couldn’t wait to get downstairs to see what Santa had brought them.  It was hard enough to get the little ones to sit still for this picture!  🙂 

We had a GREAT Christmas Eve today!  Early in the day Scott and Carla and their family arrived to celebrate Christmas with us.  True to tradition, a bunch of us went over to the Oscarson’s home for dinner, went caroling, and then went to our house for the nativity play and dessert.  We had a

Sarah came home for the Christmas break today!  Yea!  We picked her up from Midway airport and were so excited to see her!  The boys were especially excited.  They have missed her so much and have talked about her all the time.  It will be nice to be all together as a family for the

Ben has bad teeth!  Over the last 6 days, he has had 7 cavities filled!  🙁  We need to get him of the sweets!  We brush and floss his teeth really well, but it’s not helping.  🙁

Kirstyn and Zach both had games today and again, they both won!  Great job kids!

Today was one busy day!  Zach and Kirstyn started out the day with their basketball games.  Both of them won!  Zach got his Basketball pictures as well. Zach and Kirstyn then helped out Anderson’s bookstore in an annual parade (not 100% sure but it was something about a Christmas kick-off).  🙂  They had a blast,