While I was on vacation, Memaw and I took Luke and Anna to the Shedd Aquarium.  

Luke and I worked on building all of his new Lego sets!

Christmas Day!

We spent Christmas Eve at Memaw’s house.

We started the day with Sunday school, did a little shopping and had dinner at Uncle Lee and Aunti J’s…

Luke’s class Christmas party!  I went to Luke’s party to help with the games and crafts.  The kids had a…

Today we set up Luke’s new track.  It is quite the mesmerizing contraption!

I thought this was a nice picture of my parents.  I thought I would share it.

Luke, Dana and Memaw made Christmas cookies today.  Then we hung out and played!

Luke and I started the day out in my work shop and later played in the snow.

Arya in December.  Merry Christmas!

Luke and I had fun doing a little of everything today.  It was also one of the first snow falls…little…

It was Djedo’s Birthday today!  We started the day by going to school, then later playing in the yard, and…

Luke helped with the final touch on the Christmas Tree!  It gets harder and harder for me to hold him…

More sleeping in the car pictures…

Happy Thanksgiving!  We all had dinner at Baba’s house.

Luke and went to church today.  Afterwards, we stopped at a local pet shop to check out the puppies!

Today was the food drive at the Genesis center in Gary.  My fellow INR board members and I worked with…

With my fellow INR board members, we did a little shopping for a Thanksgiving Food Drive.  Fortunately, one of the…

Luke was “helping” Baba pick up leaves.

Luke helped me fix a Christmas ornament for Memaw.

Luke and I worked on his Christmas wish list today.  We went shopping and I let him take pictures of…

Today, we celebrated Layla’s Baptism.

Layla and Anna joined us for Trick or Treating!

Today we carved the pumpkins!

Luke and I finished up the last bit of the Halloween decorations.  

Memaw got in on the sleeping-in-the-car pictures!

I love these asleep-in-the-car pictures 🙂