Marla November 30, 2011

I broke Eric coffee maker so, we had to buy a new one (he loves his coffee). We decided to go with the one cup at a time machine.

Miranda November 30, 2011

Home made pretzels

Maureen November 30, 2011

Shelby's karate class was working on some self-defense moves today. It's nice seeing the teacher ask Shel to help the younger kids.

Maureen November 29, 2011

We spent a little bit of time at our fort in the woods, today.

Miranda November 29, 2011

Gianni made a fruit parfait for breakfast this morning!

Maureen November 28, 2011

Annie likes to make all of our musical decorations go at once.

Miranda November 28, 2011

There is a house near us that you tune your car radio to 88.5 and the lights "dance" to the music! Check it out - it's near Route 38 and Anderson Road

Jen November 27, 2011

Today my Dad helped me put up my tree and some of the lights on the house. It was nice having my Dad there for the holidays. The kids loved it and so did I.

Maureen November 27, 2011

Got the Christmas tree up & decorated today.

Miranda November 27, 2011

The start of Christmas decorating - Gianni is fixated on this Santa who plays music!

Miranda November 26, 2011

My friend, Leavey's, 40th surprise birthday party

Marla November 26, 2011

Cousin's day Colorado style-We went skeet shooting. Cole, Vaughn, Eric and Dylan have all done it on previous trip to Colorado with Uncle Scott. I had never been with on these other trips and they convinced me to try it. So now I can check "shoot a shotgun" off of my bucket list (even though it would never have been on mine)

Maureen November 26, 2011

Trading beans & growing crops. It's a card game called 'Bohnanza', but they like to play it cooperatively, instead of competitively. So, it's more like they're just playing 'Bean Farm'.

Jen November 25, 2011

Today James and I woke up to a weird siren outside so we looked out the window and people we outside looking too. So I grabbed my robe and took James with me and saw Santa in a firetruck waving to all the kids. James ran up to him and shook his hand and then got candy canes they were handing out. Then later that day we saw Santa at the mall and took pictures this Santa took time to talk to the kids while we were picking out the pictures.

Miranda November 25, 2011

Brendan's basketball game - he is number 44

Marla November 25, 2011

Breckenridge

Maureen November 25, 2011

I worked overnight at Carson's for the black Friday sale, so I was wiped out tired all day today - didn't do much of anything & couldn't sleep. I had to go out to pick up our copy of the Willy Wonka DVD tonight, so I decided we'd walk, to get us all some fresh air & exercise. It was such a nice night for walking!

Jen November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving with Grandpa! James loved watching the food bake in the oven and he loved how it smelled. My favorite was the brown sugar sweet potatoes they were sooo good. Emily also loved playing with Grandpa, she just kept piling up toys on him and usually Daddy never lets her do that so she was happy Grandpa didn't mind.

Miranda November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

Marla November 24, 2011

Getting in some football before dinner.

Maureen November 24, 2011

Annie had so much fun playing with Madi & Natalia today. She wants me to invite them down for a sleepover sometime, but I told her that it would probably have to wait until January, after everyone's done working their seasonal jobs.

Miranda November 23, 2011

Gianni has toes/feet like me! : )

Maureen November 23, 2011

Annie rode with me to pick Allison up from the dorms, today. She's done with school until January, now!

Marla November 23, 2011

We are road tripping to Colorado for Thanksgiving. We are going to miss the Farrell clan...we hope you have an awesome day.

Miranda November 22, 2011

Race track fun!

Maureen November 22, 2011

Delivering the spelling bee participation packets to all of the students who signed up, at all of the different district schools. So far, 70 students are registered to participate, but there are still two schools that I haven't collected registrations from, yet. And, of course, I'm sure there will be latecomers, too.

Marla November 22, 2011

Cole getting ready to deposit a few checks that he got for his birthday.

Maureen November 21, 2011

After the orchestra concert tonight. This was Annie's first orchestra concert!

Miranda November 21, 2011

Happy boy at dinner

Jen November 20, 2011

Today is Emily's bday! She missed her daddy but her best friends were there and a big surprise came! GRANDPA!! She was so happy!

Miranda November 20, 2011

We had a visitor! : )

Marla November 20, 2011

Cole was bored for a little while today...until he got out the Philosophy for Kids book that his brothers got him for his birthday.

Maureen November 20, 2011

Worked my first shift at Carson's today.

Miranda November 19, 2011

Happy breakfast

Marla November 19, 2011

Secret Colours at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago.

Maureen November 19, 2011

We didn't have birthday candles, so we used these tapers that we found, when it came time to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Jim.

Miranda November 18, 2011

Scrap yard fun

Marla November 18, 2011

Did you see that "Secret Colours" was featured on one of MTV's websites today?

Maureen November 18, 2011

Annie & I helped organize the Girl Scout singalong event for her Service Unit. It was lots of fun leading the songs & seeing the girls have a good time singing them all.

Marla November 17, 2011

Dylan's new winter jacket arrived today. What I don't understand are these sticky notes. Now, if I were a thief and I were going to steal the package that is sitting outside of our door, I would also take the sticky note. Then the owner of the house would not even know that the package had been delivered.

Maureen November 17, 2011

Annie helped me out at the dineout night that we had at McDonald's, to raise money for Shelby's school PTO.

Miranda November 17, 2011

Since the rest of our week consisted of laundry and getting life back in order, I don't really have any pictures to share (unless you wanted to see the stack of mail we had or the laundry machine - I will spare you!) Instead, I thought I would share some other pictures from our vacation