Michigan Trip

So here is a quick view of our trip to Michigan. We went home for Thanksgiving this year instead of Christmas to try to beat the weather. It worked. We had great traveling weather, and not too bad there either. We squeezed in Thanksgiving and Christmas with both sides of the family and even a joint birthday party for Lyvinia and Nora. It was very busy, but good, as always. I sure wish we lived closer to all of them! Coming home, it was weird to think that Christmas was still weeks away since it felt like it had come and gone. Now that we've decorated and brought out the Christmas CD's, it feels a little more like Christmas is coming. It will be very strange to wake up Christmas morning in CT. I have never been away from my family at Christmas, so it will be a new experience. I hope it don't get too sad. We are going to plan some fun events with the kids the week we all have off so we don't go crazy in our house! This will also be the first Christmas that we'll get to go to our church's Christmas Eve service. I'm looking forward to that. We also just saw something in the bulletin for a New Year's Eve Party for couples at the church, so I think we'll do that :) Its nice to have something set up for that already, so we don't just sit in our house wishing we had plans.

As an update from my last post, Nora hasn't really jumping on the "potty train" which is fine with me. Every once in awhile she'll ask, but she never goes. Eben had his first follow-up appointment for his tooth, or lack-there-of, and it went well. He'll get the spacer put in on the 17th. All is well :) Enjoy the pics!

Oh yeah, I should probably explain a picture for you - the one with pink all over Nora's face... While at my cousin Nicki's house, she explored the lipstick of Nicki's foreign exchange student. What you see is what she did. We hadn't heard from her in awhile, (which is kinda rare since she's often stuck to my side), so Jared and Nicki when searching. Let's just say they were very much in shock when they found her. What a rascal! And let me tell you, lipstick is very greasy, and certainly not the easiest thing to get out. Now you know ;)