Christmas

We are so blessed. A wonderful son, a great family, and lots of love to go around. Christmas is a great time to remember all that we are blessed with and to be thankful for everything in our lives. The magic of Christmas is never more present than with a child and this year was exceptionally fun.

Dylan helped make the cookies that we left out for Santa. He even thought of the reindeer! He was a great sport even though he had a bad case of strep throat and we missed out on Christmas Eve with the Bailey's. :(

Christmas morning excitement. 

And what is Christmas without a little dancing?!

Amazing!!

And the unwrapping begins!

A game that we play often and Dylan ALWAYS wins!

The Bat Cave! Endless hours of entertainment. It is like a barbie house for boys. :) He is going to hate me saying that.

One of my favorite parts of Christmas is the guys putting stuff together. It makes me happy! :)

"You know that there are adults that have this on their wish list, don't you?"

Uncle Steve and Dylan

Everyone came to our house this year.

Uncle Bri and Dylan

Learning to shave. 

 Bailey Pictures...

Dinosaur and battle ship. It's a fair fight.

Showing Grandma Leonard how it works.

The engineers helping to put together the lego car.

Enjoying the engineers working together :)

Grandma L's tree is so pretty!

There are a bunch of cool ornaments.

New jacket from Uncle Brian and Aunt Sarah

Chillin' with the Lindsay's

Serious Wii action going on here.

Hours...literally of entertainment.

Awww! So cute! Dylan loves his uncles. 

Family night at school

We had Dylan's family night at school and it really was a great time. We feel so blessed to have him at such a wonderful school. It is really hard to believe how much he has learned in such a short amount of time. His teachers, Mrs. Grimm and Mrs. Strahl are so wonderful. He loves rules so school is like a dream come true. :) I love when he comes home from a long day and recaps everything that happened in full detail.

I'll get better...

Ive been terrible about blogging. I'm going to work on catching up before Fish Fish gets here. I'm putting this in writing to hopefully hold myself accountable!!

Big Brother

We are so excited to finally be able to announce that Dylan is going to be a big brother!


There isn't a more difficult secret to keep for me and holding it in for 3 months was crazy hard! Especially when my cousin and Roger's cousin both announced during thanksgiving that they were expecting and due the same day as me. :)

















We are thrilled and have our own team of superheroes to welcome the newest edition to our little family.

Thanksgiving

The Bailey's do Thanksgiving all out! That is that we eat 2 full meals on Thanksgiving. When else can you do that? We feel so lucky that we live close enough to our families and that they live close enough to each other to make this a possibility. Honestly we feel a bit like the stuffed bird by the end of the day but it is worth it!

Here is a picture of the kids table:
Dylan being silly with mashed potatoes...
The not quite adults table: 
And the adults table. :)


 This is Isabella. My cousin's daughter. I'm sure she was worn out by the end of the day! She moved non-stop!

 Then we headed out to the Bailey's for Thanksgiving dinner. I was triptophanning a little bit so this is the only picture I got. All the cousins with Aunt Lisa.


 We were lucky to be able to see the Gralton's over thanksgiving. Naomi really liked Angelina's wig :)

Halloween

Let's be honest, I love this time of year because our child that loves wearing costumes (everyday) looks so much more normal. He just loves dress up and paying certain characters.This child also hates getting messy...so naturally when we are carving pumpkins his choice of clothing would be...underwear:

Since this is the year of the pirate, who else would Dylan go as but Capt. Jack Sparrow?

Just had to try out the crazy teeth/sucker from Aunt Bear

Grandma L got into the fun as well!

We decided to T or T in Rothbury this year because of Halloween being on a Monday. It was a lot of fun to be able to walk around our neighborhood and see all of our neighbors.

Dylan's costume was purchased because I tried to make one and couldn't convince him it was Sparrow. He held on to the hair I made from a knit hat and yarn. Probably one of the cooler things I've made so I'm glad he kept it on!

Poor Ellie always gets roped into the fun of dressing up. He is a really good sport. We couldn't ask for a better family dog!!

First day of school

I wish we could bottle the enthusiasm that Dylan has about school right now and be able to give him a shot of it each day in high school. He almost couldn't sleep last night because he was so excited for today.

 On our way to school! (Don't judge the back of the van...I was in the middle of move-in at GVSU)

 Dylan's buddy Issac riding to school with us!

He is attending Good Shepard Preschool in Montague. It is such a great program. His teachers are Mrs. Grimm and Mrs. Strall.