Off to Chicago!

We're off to the airport in the morning for a much needed Thanksgiving getaway to Chicago! Have a great Thanksgiving week!

Old News

This is a really long post and by now this is all old news, sorry. I really wanted to document our great visit with my family here and the amount of pictures to go through was daunting, plus I didn't get one good one of the kids in their costumes, which I'm really sad about. But we had a great Halloween, the best ever! My parents came:





We played in the leaves a lot. We have A LOT of leaves. At this point, most of them hadn't even fallen yet. There were still a ton.











Kate was not at all sure about all of this...she stayed like this with her arms up the whole time. Pretty funny!







The weather was really nice and the girls had so my fun playing with my mom outside...









...and my dad inside.





{hiding in a bucket and playing peek-a-boo}









And then, Steve, Tina, Noah, and Seth came to celebrate our little Kate! The Baptism was in the morning and then we had everyone back at our house after. The whole family was here: All four grandparents, Uncle Mike, Aunt Carly, Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Lauren, Aunt Bonnie, Uncle Bill, Holly, & Little Luke!



Godfather Uncle Jimmy and Godmother Aunt Tina:



Kate's behavior during the ceremony was described by the priest as "spirited". That's an accurate description. She kept pushing him away when he tried to get near her! I guess that's why usually 2 month-olds are baptized, not 15 month-olds. We did it our way though and she was pretty funny.













The Baptism was on Halloween, so when it was trick-or-treat time, everyone suited up!

I made Jane's mermaid costume. My first attempt at making a costume! I didn't use a pattern, just winged it. I was very nervous that it wouldn't turn out and I'd be scrambling for something at the last minute, but it actually came out good!





And Kate....Kate was a gnome. I made her costume too. Very homemade-looking. We couldn't get any good pictures, she moves too fast. We were just happy that she wore the hat and the BEARD!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!







This blurry shot pretty much sums up how much our gnome roams...everywhere...



Noah was the UPS man...hilarious! This is the only picture I got.



The kids had SO MUCH FUN trick-or-treating! Here's Jane with Holly in the Minnie dress.



I was so disappointed in the pictures I got because we were very rushed to get the kids dressed and get started, plus all the kids were so excited and didn't want to stand still for pictures. I really wanted to get one of all the kids together....but that probably wouldn't have happened anyway...they're 3, 2, 1, 1, and 1!!!

The next day there was more leaf-jumping:











We are very lucky that everyone could travel all the way here to celebrate our sweet little Kate's Baptism and Halloween too! It was so much fun to all be together. We are spending the week after Christmas in Michigan so we can't wait to see everyone again soon!