Cam & Tara's Wedding!

We headed to Iowa for the weekend to celebrate with my brother, Cam and his beautiful bride, Tara's wedding day!  It was a beautiful ceremony filled with love and close family!  I am blessed to have such a wonderful new sister-in-law!  My camera did not agree with me so I didn't get that great of photos but I will share a few that I did get!  On Sunday, we celebrated Christmas with the cousins before heading back home.  When we got back home, we quickly unpacked and got Marissa to her friend's birthday party at Pump It Up!  It was a whirlwind of a weekend and I can tell both kids are super tired today! 

Here's some pics of our weekend!

MARISSA'S HAIR ALL DONE FOR THE WEDDING!

SIDE VIEW!

DAD, CAM AND I!

MARISSA WITH HER DADDY!

THIS IS RIGHT AFTER TARA WALKED BY.  I LOVE MY NEPHEW, LUKAS'S EXPRESSION!

THIS IS DURING THE PRAYER!  TOTALLY CRACKS ME UP!  SHE IS GIVING ME THE LOOK LIKE AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE PRAYING?

FINALLY MR & MRS!

THANK YOU TO BRODY FOR PUTTING DOWN THE CRACKER TO TAKE A PICTURE!

LIMO RIDE!

THE BEAUTIFUL NEWLYWEDS!

FAMILY PIC!

BED BUDDIES

LISTENING TO THE CHRISTMAS STORY

COUSINS!

Today, Tony has the day off so he surprised Marissa at school and ate lunch with her!  She's one LUCKY girl!

American Girl Doll Birthday lunch

To help celebrate Marissa's 6th Birthday, our BFF's came with us to have lunch and do some shopping at the American Girl store.  The girls had a great time and I was impressed at how good the food was!  I think we'll have to do this again soon!

On her actual birthday, we got kicked out of the house because of this whole flooring nightmare going on at home so we headed to Caribou for some hot chocolate, then met up with Grammy for lunch at Bonfire and then went back to Grammy's house to make cake pops and play.  She got to go to Awana Sparks and have a special dinner date with Daddy.  All in all, I think she had a great time celebrating and we are super proud of our big SIX year old! 

Caribou time!

Making her own pizza at Bonfire!

Birthday Cake Pops!

Thanksgiving, Birthday Parties & More catching up!

It's been a very busy few weeks around here and my blog is falling behind again!  We enjoyed a few days at my Grandma Allyn's in Iowa over Thanksgiving.  We had good food, went for a beautiful walk around the lake, took the kids to the park, played games, had a girls Black Friday shopping trip, a few sick kids and husband, a flood in our kitchen, Christmas tree & house decorating and a 6th Birthday party!

Marissa enjoyed celebrating her 6th Birthday at the local bowling alley with her friends & family.  This afternoon, we went downtown Minneapolis to fulfill our tradition of the Hollidazzle Parade & 8th floor Macy's display.  More celebrating will be happening around here the next few days and more posts to come on that!  Marissa got an American Girl doll for her birthday and it's been fun watching her enjoy it already.  We've been told it's her sister and her name Calissa.  The doll hasn't left her side since she opened it!  She's thanked us endlessly for it so I'd say she is one happy birthday girl!


I'll let my pictures do the talking :)

Playing with big cousin Natasha

My mama!

Playing UNO with Lydia

These two spent a lot of time playing PS3

Great Grandkids....Brody wanted nothing to do with this picture!

Self Portrait of our black friday shopping trip!

Walk around the lake!

Playing trains with Great Grandma

Marissa and Great Grandma

Setting up the Christmas tree

Helping!

Now for Birthday Party Pictures!

Now pics of the Hollidazzle.....