Bed Hogs

Most nights Ellie and/or Dax sneak into my bed and I wake up to something like this:

So precious to see! And so annoying to sleep with ;)

Love my babies!!

Caterpillar city

Our mall finally got a play place! Unfortunately, it's the outdoor mall so it's outside. Seriously, who put a play place outside in Illinois? The freezing temps didn't stop my cute kiddos from playing though! After all, who can resist a Caterpillar tractor?!

Snow!

It's snowing!! The first real snow of the season. It's a little too early for me, but it's still so pretty...and exciting for the kids! So I guess let it snow!!

Star of the Show

Today was parent watch day at dance. I was excited to get to watch my little ballerina! Surprisingly, her brothers were also excited and sat and watched the entire time!

We love our cute little dancer!!

Mad Scientists

Lowe's Build and Grow never lets us down! Today the kids built science labs. They were super excited to have Gma and Gpa Coombs here to help!

Now, off to experiment!!

Hibachi!!

Gma and Gpa Coombs took us to a super fun Hibachi restaurant called Hakkaido to celebrate Daddy's birthday! It had a really fun atmosphere and delicious food! There were even fish swimming in the floor that the kids loved!

 The hibachi chef was funny and super talented! It was very entertaining! We all loved it, except Dax and Ellie who were really scared of the fire.

 The kids all loved the chopsticks though :)

 They all got a turn hitting the big gong drum on the way out to let everyone know the dinner was delicious!

Thanks Gma and Gpa!! That was a fun adventure!

The Pettit's for the Weekend!

We were so lucky to get the Pettit's to come visit us this weekend! They came Halloween night, late after trick or treating. Danna, Ryan, Ben and I stayed up half the night talking! We were exhausted the next day, but Danna and I had big plans to decorate our house, so we sent the dads and kids off to Jumping Jax while we spent the day shopping :) Ben got a few pictures of Cole and Ellie helping Dax climb the slide, but I think he pretty much slept the rest of the time they played :)

Danna and I had a successful shopping trip though! She designed my entry way table and wall collage, as well as gave us an idea for the old window/shutter look in the kitchen. I'm not sure our house would have gotten decorated before we moved if Danna hadn't come!!

  

We tried out a fun restaurant called Sugar that night. It was yummy and we all had a blast!

Danna insisted on taking new pictures for us before they left. So after church Sunday she dressed us (mostly in their clothes) and did our hair so we were picture ready. It was freezing and overcast, but she is an awesome photographer and somehow managed to get some cute pictures:

We sure lucked out having the Pettits as our friends! Thanks for the great weekend Pettits! And a super big thanks to Danna for being our designer, decorator, stylist and photographer :) I don't know what we'd do without you!!