Devyn & Jacob - BFF's

Natalie is definitely one of my favorite people _ I hope I tell her that enough!! She is so amazing with the kids and we are so lucky to have her in our life!! One of my favorite things she does is sends pictures throughout the day! Here are a few of Big D and the J-Man.



Jacob got an AWESOME new table for Christmas! I am totally jealous and I really want one for Devyn! I am going to have to talk Brant into it!

Natalie got the kids a ton of art supplies so that they could play on the new table! She is much braver than me becuase they were finger painting today and doing all kinds of other fun stuff!!

And they even ate their snack at the table!! I love this picture because they kind of look like an old married couple! Or maybe they are on their first date _ not sure which.

Merry Christmas! We are heading to Libertyville in the morning and I am so excited! I haven't seen my family in a while_we live so close but we only see each other for about an hour at a time so I am excited to spend more than an hour together!

Santa is coming!!

I can not believe that Christmas is only 4 days away!! CRAZY!! This year has flown by! I hope it snows so Devyn can use her new sled that Santa is bringing! Well really that Baba got :-)

Brant got a new phone and I love to play around with it. I found this picture and thought I should post it! It's Devyn during our Christmas photo shoot!


When it is cold out its kind of hard to entertain a child with as much energy as little miss Devyn McVay. But we try! On Saturday we went to the play McDonald's which was a complete failure. She hated it and there were about 9,000 kids there playing tag and it was rowdy. So we left and went to Target. And the picture below pretty much explains what we did for 45 mins. Devyn would find a bike and put a helmet on and sit on the bike. Then decide she wants a different bike grab that from the shelf with a different helmet and sit on that one. It was pretty funny. How easily entertained she is!

Yesterday after gymnastics we went to the Children's Museum at Navy Pier. This was our second trip to the there! The first time she was too young but this time I think she actually had fun. Here she is playing in the water room. She was soaking wet when we left this room. We had better pictures but I was in them and decided not to torture any of you!

And we fell asleep in the car on the way home! She was tired!

And this is our new slide that is in the middle of our living room. Again - it's tough to entertain a 1 year old when you can barely walk outside! She LOVES it!! She climbs up on the top and just smiles.

Jane - If you are reading this how do I make my old layout go away? I stole your shabby blog layout and it is laying on top of my old one! But I can't get rid of the old one!!

Little D!!

Nina just sent me the cutest picture! I have never seen this _ and I started to tear up the minute I opened it!! Thanks Neen!!!

I can't believe how little Devyn is! My hand looks enormous next to her little body!!

It's FREEZING here!

I feel like December is flying by!! Christmas is only 9 days away!! CRAZY! I have finished with all of my Christmas shopping too so that makes me very happy!!

Devyn has been such a character lately. I picked her up from Jacob's house yesterday and she completely freaked out. TEMPER TANTRUM!!!!!!!!! I don't know if it was because I said hi to Jacob first or if it was becuase I left and went to work but for close to 20 minutes she was throwing Jacob's toys around. Then she went into his room and was throwing his clothes all over the floor! It was a nightmare! And bless Jacob's heart _ he went in to check on Devie and then when Melissa and I were laughing Jacob was laughing at her too! Sorry D _ but you were being so out of control that it was a little funny.

So this is our new thing. We love to climb on the kitchen chairs and then on to the table. She knows she isn't supposed to do it BUT she does! And when I catch her in the act she gives me a look and laughs!


I put D in a new Iowa Cheerleading outfit! Adorable. A friend of mine saw a picture of Devyn in a Bears cheerlearding outfit and asked me if that was her Halloween costume. NOPE _ I just like to dress her up as a cheerleader sometimes.

Bath time! When we first moved Devyn was terrified of the new bathtub. She would freak out and bath time was no longer fun. But now she is used to it and we are back to normal. This is the only picture I could seem to take of her in the bath. We got these new crayon things that let you write all over the tub! Pretty fun stuff!

I have become completely obsessed with the Twilight serious (Thanks Kara) I have finished 2 500 + page books in about a week and I am about 100 pages into the 3rd book. If you haven't read them you really should _ I did NOT want to jump on this bandwagon but it is sort of destroying my life right now because ALL I want to do is read!!

So when I saw Devyn doing this I about died! She climbed up on the chair and was going through my New Moon book. Hysterical!!



We have a waffle maker and I am terrible at using it! Brant has mastered it but me it takes about 4 tries before I get 1 waffle made! Anyway I decided to make Devyn a waffle. This is what she looked like after eating her waffle! She smelled like a big pile of syrup. It was pretty funny!!

I PASSED MY TEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christmas Card Photo Shoot!

I have been trying to capture the perfect photo for our Christmas card!! We have a TON of adorable pictures... of course Brant and I can't agree on the one to use!

I didn't put any of the top pictures here just in case we want to use them! It needs to be a surprise :-) Anyway here is a sneak peak of what our xmas card may look like.

A few that made me smile...

I have been really really bad with the camera lately. I just haven't had time! But don't worry _ our tree is up and I bought a santa outfit AND Aunt Kara bought Devyn some adorable new dresses so I have a feeling some cute pictures our on the way!! Warning: During Christmas I think I am pretty creative and artsy with the camera_ anyone who knows me knows I am not creative or artsy!!

I was looking through my girlfriends wedding photos today and I came across a couple that made me smile so I thought I would post them! I promise pictures of the new place will be up soon!