Weekly Post

We started the week at the Orthopedic Surgeons office trying to figure out what is wrong with Ethan's knee.  He has a severe case of Osgood Slaughters Disease causing lots of pain.

Liv and I did lots of baking.  We also went to a restaurant this year for Thanksgiving and it was awesome :)  We've done it a couple of times and it is definitely one of our favorite things to do for Thanksgiving. 

The kids put this tree up and decorated all it all by themselves.  They did a good job.  We got our ornaments for this year also.  Shawn got another Christmas Vacation ornament, I got Jordy Nelson (Packers wide receiver), Ethan got Salvador Perez (KC Royals Catcher),  Cole got a cool singing penguin, and Liv got a cinderella glass slipper.

Shawn and Cole working out.  Cole was getting ready to run a few miles.  

He has to find the right music first :)

Liv and her friend made a gingerbread house and pretty much ate it all gone before the night was over!

We finished getting out all the Christmas decorations and are officially ready for Christmas.  I even did most of my shopping online on Black Friday and got some great deals!

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We celebrated Shawn's birthday last week.  He and I went away for a spa vacation up north at the Kohler Water Spa.  My mom stayed back with the kids.  We relaxed, ate, swam and spent lots of time at the spa. We stayed in the carriage house and it was beautiful.

Futsal season started for Cole

Fun night at open gym with the boys

Liv had two big meets this week.  We spent a lot of time in the car driving (Liv napping).  We drove up north to Oshkosh and Greenbay for the weekend.

The boys came with us to Greenbay and had fun at the hotel pool.

We had parent teacher conference also this week and we got our first round of snow.  

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Grandma is visiting this week.  Apparently, she doesn't like my dog.

Liv had a meet Friday night.  It was almost 5 hours long!  She did well and took 2nd all around.

I know it seems crazy, but we went and picked up the boys ski and snowboard stuff for the season this week.  The boys are excited.

Liv and Grandma worked on a few sewing projects and crafts.

I put the boys to work in the yard :)

We went to a movie.  Here are the only two pictures I got of that night.

Last soccer game of the year! (until indoor starts next week)

Beautiful Sunday afternoon walk!

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Soccer is almost over.  One more week.  This week when I picked up from practice it was pitch dark.  There are kids out there practicing in the picture below and you can't even see them!

Enjoy wings and dancing with the stars :)

This picture looks like we are boosting cars.  But it is really just Ethan and Shawn checking out cars they like late at night.  We do this a lot!

Ethan was grounded (due to some school work that was not complete & a little bit of a bad attitude)  He got to hang out with Shawn and I on our date Friday night.

Hanging out at the mall with the kids.

I worked in the yard a lot this week getting it ready for winter.  While cleaning out my flower pots I found tons of sweet potatoes.  I planted some sweet potato vines not thinking that they would actually produce anything, but apparently I am a good gardener after all!

Halloween Fun!

Liv was a hippie for her school party.

Spooky Halloween Dinner

Funny story about getting dry ice this year.  Everywhere I usually get dry ice was sold out, so I had to get a little creative and went to a gas supply/welding company.  They had some dry ice, but I was the only person in the warehouse not driving a truck and in work boots.  I was definitely a little out of place, but I wasn't about to miss making my homemade root beer this year.