Grandpa Dan and Grandma Sue visit!

 After the talent show enjoying a treat with Grandma!

                   Grandpa modeling his Christmas gift from us...he will wear it with PRIDE!! :)

                Giselle loving her birthday present from Grandma and Grandpa!

We loved having my parents come for a fun visit. We celebrated an early Christmas and Giselle's birthday!
They went to Chicago and enjoyed the fun of the city for their Anniversary. We love you and loved having you visit!

Genevieve's Talent show!

Genevieve and her friend Hallie practiced and tried out for the Talent show and MADE it!! They sang "Popular" from the musical Wicked!  I can't believe how quickly Genna learned ALL the words to the song. The talent show was during the day for there "Gowerpalooza".  Brett was so incredibly busy at work and couldn't come. He was so sad.  Luckily my parents were able to come up and be there with me.  I was able to take pictures and video tape the whole thing.  Before she started my heart was beating a mile a minute but she got up there and you couldn't tell she was nervous at all.  Way to go Genevieve!!!

Jolie's 1st Chorus concert!

Jolie is in Chorus at school. They practice during study hall a few times a week. She was very excited for her first concert.  She did such a great job and we are so proud of her conquering her fear and doing this in front of lot's of people!

Jacob's Preschool Christmas Concert!

 Jacob did such a great job in his Christmas concert.  Daddy wanted to come so bad..he was super sad to miss it. I taped the whole thing though so we can watch it with him later!

 Giselle waiting for the program to start..she took a self portrait!

 Jacob with his class. There was one student who was home sick!

 This is one of Jacob's good buddy.  They are both supposed to be singing right there...you can tell they are loving it!

 This was Jacob's favorite song..the donkey song!  Yee haw!!!

 Jacob and Giselle are just the best of friends and so sweet with each other. How blessed and adorable are they?

                                           Jacob, George and Giselle!

My handsome little boy who is growing up so fast.  You were fabulous!! Everyone kept telling him how handsome and sharp he looked in his suit. HE LOVED it. He didn't want to change when we got him because he said everyone likes him in his suit! Love that boy!!

Woodridge 1st "favorite things" gift exchange!

 Jacquie Korella generously hosted a fun gift exchange for the women of the Woodridge 1st ward.  There was lots of yummy goodies to try and taste!

Look at all those pretty packages!

Jacquie has the best style!

 This is just a sampling of the shoes at the front door..I don't know why but I thought it was funny!

 More super cute and pretty decorations. I really need to take her with me more when I go shopping!

 Group shots of some of the wonderful ladies there!

The gift exchange is about to begin..yes someone stole the gift I had but I did prevail and get another fab gift..really they were all fab which made it even harder to keep! :)

                            The WHOLE group...there are plenty that weren't there but were greatly missed!

 tried to zoom in but people got cut off..sorry!

 I'm not sure how this picture ended up down here..it was supposed to be in the food...but amazing hot cocoa...and yes that is homemade whipped cream and yes I did make it...and yes it is super easy!

All cleaned up and ready to head home. Thank you so much Jacquie and all the wonderful sisters that came and made it such a fun night and great start to the Christmas season!

Mendenhall Cousin pictures!!

 This was the very first picture we took..and it's my favorite EXCEPT..you can't see Jackson. He is in the back on the left...BOO!! :(

 These on the stairs are really fun. The top one is a silly face which really shows their true colors. The one on the bottom is nice and it is according to age. Jolie-11 Jackson-10 Bradyn-10 Genevieve-10 Parker-8 Wesley-7 Jillian-7 Logan-7 Jacob-4 Audrey-4  Giselle-2 Wyatt- 6 months

  I think this is my other favorite one and you can actually see them all. They are just so cute!

This is my older brother...I must put the emphasis on OLDER!! he cracks me up. I was trying to have him work on his smile...hmm  I think we know where his boys get their smile from!! Love you Jason!!!

Downtown Hinsdale Christmas walk!

 I love all the cute towns here. I've probably already said that (many times) but honestly they are just too cute and fun and just magical.  Each town has it's own little Christmas walk. Ours is so pretty and has lots of fun things for the kids to do and try and get. It only goes until 8pm and I really wanted Brett to come with us but time was ticking on and on. So I bundled them up and headed out. We didn't get there until a little after 7pm. So a lot was already being put away but luckily the most important thing..>THE TRAIN! Was still up and running.

                                                                  There they go!!!

 We walked around for a little bit looking at all the shops and in front of this bank they had some Star Wars guys. Jacob told me no thank you..i think they kinda freaked him out. Genna and Jillian said sure. These guys were great and got right into character. Too fun!

Brett finally met up with us about 7:45. So we walked around for a few more minutes than he took Jacob in his car and headed home. The girls LOVE this store...OOOO La La. It is little girl heaven. So much fun pretty stuff.