Let the 2011 holiday fun begin!

This weekend we went to the annual Holly Jolly Light Parade in Baraboo. It's a really cute parade and the kids really do love it. I took Mitchell when he was one (seven years ago...that's crazy!!) and three years ago we started the tradition back up again with us, my parents, the Lane's, and Koenig's. We weren't quite sure if the parade was going to be on with the rain that we had during the day but the rain stopped just in time for the parade to begin and started again right at the end of the parade. This is always such a fun way to start the holidays. It definitely gets us in the holiday spirit. I didn't get pics of all the kiddos but I got a few of them. Sorry Mas. I know Grandma has some great pics of you posing in the street...sorry I didn't capture any myself :)

What a great time of year to reflect on how thankful we are for all of the wonderful people in our lives. I know I say it all the time but we sure are lucky. We hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving and enjoys the anticipation Christmas as much as we do. Wait until you see Tessa's face in the pic below...her first glimpse of Santa in the parade. One of those moments in life that I want to remember forever.

The four of us. Getting three out of the four of us looking at the camera is actually pretty good :)
Santa's coming and I'm a little nervous.

There he is....WHOOOOO HOOOOOO! :)

Hanging out with Mitchell under the umbrella on the soaking wet blanket!!

Sadie, Tessa, and Marah being goofy.

Evan and Nolan taking a break from jumping off the little curb to get a quick picture taken :)

Door County

This past weekend was my first time traveling to Door County. I've heard it's a neat place to visit and I was lucky enough to find that out for myself this past weekend. A friend from work, Rach, has a gorgeous lake house there that belongs to her family. It was an absolutely beautiful house and the four of us (Jess, Leah, Katie, and myself) were super lucky to be asked by Rach to join her there for the weekend. The weekend consisted of eating, laughing, playing games, chatting about lots of different topics :), relaxing, hiking, and going to two different wineries (which was my first time ever!!). Thanks girls for a fabulous weekend :)


As much fun as I had while I was gone, it's always great to come home to my munchkins. Derek had a great weekend with the kids. They had a busy weekend of running around to stay busy but my favorite is where he took the kids on Saturday morning. He took the kids to "Kids in the Rotunda" at the Overture Center where they had a ballet show for kids. Super cute. He dressed Tessa in her ballet outfit and black tights and took Nolie and Tessa there for the show. What a good daddy. I wish that I could have seen that...I bet Tessa was in love watching the ballerinas. The picture below is what he sent me on my phone. The pic didn't turn out great but it captures her cutie outfit that she wore. Overall we all had a great weekend :)