Play hard... then relax!

I've been slacking on updates lately. Sorry!
Here's a cute pic of the girls from the week before Thanksgiving...

As you can see, the living room is a mess of toys. They work very hard at getting every possible thing to play with out and then leave it lay... moving on to the next thing. After all that hard work it was time to sit on Jared's bean bag chair and watch a movie. Life is tough!!!

Go Vikings!

The kids were dressed and ready to cheer on the Vikings for
the Monday Night Football game against the Packers.

     

     
Too bad it didn't turn out in our favor. =(

New Hiding Spot

I couldn't figure out where the giggles were coming from until I went into the living room and found these two behind the couch. There are a bunch of blankets back there so it's the perfect little hiding spot.

Family Photo Shoot

I asked our friend, Rachel Hoffmann, to come over and take our pictures. The last family picture I have of us is the one they took for church when Morgan was 6 weeks old. It was a perfect day... except for the 30-40 mph wind. We headed for the grove behind our house and lucked out... no wind! I love the trees back there and it turned out to be a great backdrop. She asked her sister-in-law, Nicki, to come over and help with setting up the poses and getting the kids' attention... which is quite the task! The girls were a little leary of the 2 strangers so you'll see it in their blank looks on a couple of shots. All I wanted was one good picture and we definitely got that and more. We LOVE how the pictures turned out!

Our favorite...

     

     

     

 

Halloween 2011

Darth Vader, Pretty Lil' Witch and Vikings Cheerleader...


Great Grandma Lappe, Chloe and Great Uncle Daryl...

Added Jared, Great Aunt Lois and Morgan...

Waiting for daddy to get home from work so we could head to town to trick-or-treat...

  

We got to Great Grandma Cele's at the same time the Brennans did...

Jared, Ava, Chloe, Cele, Morgan, Alec and Lily

Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Kral...

Chloe was being shy and wouldn't go to Grandpa so mommy got to be in the picture.

Grandma Deb and Grandpa Jim...

In case you're wondering... I'm holding Chloe up (little stinker wasn't cooperating again:))

Family Picture...


Keith dropped Jared and I off by Turner Hall so we could go down State Street. After 12 or 13 stops at family's houses the girls were done... and hungry. So, while we did more trick-or-treating, they went to McDonald's and got some food. It worked out perfectly!


One of Jared's classmates was Darth Vader too...                    There were lines at almost every house...

  

Grandma Patty and Grandpa Roger...

Chelsey had a hat to match Morgan's outfit and Jared gave Ryan the scary mask...

This was the pile of goodies that we dumped out of their buckets and bags...


Whew! What a busy night! Everyone did really well and behaved (even Keith! Ha!)