Breakfast Chef

Harrison loves to help me flip pancakes. He helped me this morning and just after breakfast as I was cleaning the griddle Jeff said, "Stop! Go sit down and I'm going to bring you your anniversary gift." He brought me this neat reversible griddle/grill that comes off of the warmer so that you can wash it in the sink or even in the dishwasher. As we were admiring it on the coffee table Harrison ran and grabbed the leftover pancakes from breakfast and threw them on. :)

Lincoln is Eight!

Happy Birthday to Lincoln! His birthday falls on Thanksgiving this year, so we had our party last night. He wanted to invite his whole class so we had a very large group! I know the picture is terrible, but Jeff set up his 20x10 screen in the backyard so that the kids could watch Megamind. It gets dark by 5 o'clock right now, so it was a fun way to enjoy the dark. The all bundled up and we brought out popcorn, corn dogs and cocoa to keep them warm and happy. Everyone made it through the whole movie out there! Afterward we attempted to play a few games (kids were too hyper and crazy!) and had cookie ice cream sandwiches (Lincoln's request! - so easy) It was crazy, but a lot of fun. Lincoln had a blast.

Also worth noting: a few days before the party Lincoln started asking to change the movie to a church movie, create a wordsearch with "things that make you reverent" and give out Books of Mormon to all of his friends. He is a much more bold missionary than I am!

More Visitors!

On Sunday Spencer, Aimee and Hunter joined us for Thanksgiving week. It has been so fun having them here! We have been doing lots of relaxing and chatting along with preparations for Lincoln's birthday party and Thanksgiving. Yesterday we took them to our favorite little hike to the beach. We are having a record breakingly warm Thanksgiving so we are enjoying the outdoors a little! Hunter is such a sweet and calm little guy. We're all in love. Harrison especially loves being bigger than someone and is always looking for a way to help him out.

Christmas Parade

Last Saturday we went downtown to enjoy Milwaukee's Christmas parade. We had a great time watching the floats, marching bands and costumes of all kinds. I loved watching the wise men on camels, Jackson loved the man in the giant rolling ball, Lincoln loved the Star Wars characters. Most entertaining was the man next to us who yelled out to each character and got their attention so that they looked our direction.