Thanksgiving and Aunt Sy Sy

We had an amazing Thanksgiving this year. It was the first time I made my own turkey and meal. It turned out really good. Mike helped a lot with the turkey, so he thinks it was all him. Mike participated in the Turkey Bowl again this year. Our ward does one every year and this year was REALLY muddy. Mike's sister Sariah came this year. We had a blast hanging out with her. Ben loves his Aunt Sy Sy and he is still asking where she is.

We went down to the city on Friday. We played downtown and had a ton of fun seeing the sites at night. The city looks so different at night. We then stayed in the Palmer House Hilton right off of Michigan Ave. It was a beautiful hotel. We had so much fun and we even did room service for breakfast. You have splurge once in a while.

The rest of the weekend we played lots of games, watched tons of movies, and talked about life. Sariah has become one of my closest friends. It is so nice seeing eye to eye on things with someone other than my husband. Thank heaven for Eternal Families!!

Waiting at Union Station

This was in the lobby at the Hotel. It is made out of gingerbread!! It smelled SOOOO good!

Ice Skating and stuff

So, the other day I found Dennis the Menace at the store for only $3.00 and thought it needed to be added to our DVD library. Ben wanted to watch it and I thought, why not. I gave him his "san-wech" and "milt" and let him eat lunch and watch the movie. I handed it to him and then went into my room for about 20 minutes. When I came back, he was in EXACTLY the same position. I called his name three times before he looked up at me and smiled. Good purchase!

I tried to give Ben a haircut with just scissors and not the buzzer. I put his new movie on and handed him a tootsie pop. The haircut didn't turn out nice, so I used the buzzers anyway... at least the sucker was a success.


Mike's school will hold social events every once in a while and this time it was ice skating! Ben actually enjoyed it A TON! He was pretty upset when it was time to take off the little skates and put his regular shoes back on.

Please forgive the 80's hair-do...I was extremely bored the night before and braided my hair in a ton of little braids...I didn't have time to wash it out before we left. Aren't these skates the cutest things you have ever seen!

Silly Goat!

So, our family finally made it up to Kroll's Farm this last Saturday. When we pulled into the parking lot, no one was around. We thought they were already closed for the season. We got back into the car to leave and the guy came out of his house and said, "Today is our last day open."

We were pretty sure they were already closed, but it was nice of him to let us walk around and see the animals. Ben was LOVING himself some baby goats! He was going crazy. His favorite part was letting them lick his hands. We had a blast!