Today was a day of building stuff! Ben is really into his blocks and building castles and such. He loves to build stuff and then when he is finished, he finds us and wants a picture taken… Once the picture is taken, he then wants to see it to make sure it’s OK and he […]
This year, we are trying to take things a little lighter and not buy as much as we did last year. We want to spend more time this season contemplating the true meaning of Christmas and not spend it shopping! We got a large chunk of our shopping out of the way today and were
Today we had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had a couple of families over to celebrate with us. Initially, Angela had said it would be very low-key, but I think my definition of low-key is a LOT different than hers! 🙂 We cleaned like crazy, cooked like crazy, and prepared like crazy to get ready for
Recently, Angela entered to win a Just Dance 2 Party and won (she seems to be winning a lot of this stuff lately)! She got the Wii Just Dance 2 Game for free along with a bunch of other stuff to host a party. She and the girls invited over friends and had a girls
The boys had a very creative day today! They got out Zach’s Thomas the Tank Engine track set and built a person on the floor of the family room. They were SO proud of it! We had to take some pictures because we knew that shortly thereafter, the wrecking balls (a.k.a Ben and Zach) would
As we mentioned in an earlier post, Kirstyn applied for and was accepted to a girls engineering program at Northern Illinois University (Naperville Campus). It’s called NIU EEP (Northern Illinois University Enhancing Engineering Pathways) and is designed to get middle school girls interested in engineering fields of study. Today was her first day and she
Today, Zach and Kirstyn had a Primary party at the church that they went to. After that, I stayed home with Ben and the rest of the family went to Savior of the World. It was a great production put on by the Naperville Stake. It was a musical drama presented with a live chorus
Tonight, Kirstyn had her first middle school chorus concert and did a GREAT job! Zach and Ben came too and we were floored that they also did a great job sitting still and quiet. Right after Kirstyn sang, I took the boys and we walked home while the rest stayed and enjoyed the singing of
Today, we had the Grant Thornton Thanksgiving party. Our division was assigned to bring the main dish, so I signed-up to bring meatballs. Little did I know that my boss had just given the event planning group some money to buy all the stuff. 🙂 From the list, I looked like I was the only
Yesterday (Brittany and I) and today (Angela and Kirstyn), we went to the high school and watched Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night performed by the students. The cool thing was that Sarah was in the production as the musical talent between scenes! 🙂 She did a great job and had a lot of fun doing it! She
Tonight, Angela and I went to Drury Lane Theater in Oakbrook and saw Seven Brides for Seven Brothers! Angela surprised me with tickets and we were very excited to go! It was 20 years ago that we first met, got together, and this was the first film that we watched together at a ward leadership
Tonight was round 2 of Parent Teacher Conferences! We visited Still Middle School first and talked to Kirstyn’s teachers. She’s doing great and her teachers really love her! We then went up to visit with Sarah’s teachers at the high school. She is doing very well and we are proud of her also. With a
