Just Dance!

Devyn LOVES to dance!!  She is always saying "mommy, stand up!  lets dance."  So we dance!!  She definitely has better moves than I do.  I tape Ellen everyday, the other day we were watching it and Ciara was on.  Devyn was mimicking every move that she made and kept asking to do it again!  I got about the 20th time on video.  Brant and I were laughing pretty hard.  I wish you could see the tv because then you could see that she is really trying to dance the way that Ciara is.  At one point Ciara starts panting so Devyn stopped and started panting.  Anyway _ enjoy!

Tree House!!

Devyn and I spent the night at my parents place last night.  Brant went out with the boys and we got out of town!!  Brant is still in bed claiming to have the flu... Devyn and I had a ton of fun though!!  We went to Drew's hockey game on Friday night and then we went to this place called the Tree House on Saturday.  It was AWESOME!  It took forever to get there but it was worth it!!  Here are a few pictures.

Winter Wonderland!!

We had a great day today!!  We went to Navy Pier to Winter Wonderland! It was so much fun.  Normally when you read about stuff like this you go and just aren't at all impressed but this was amazing!  We stayed for 4 hours.  They had one of the ball rooms decked out with Christmas decorations, they had rides, slides, trains, an ice skating rink, a decorating cookie station.  It was awesome!  Here are some pictures from the day.  Oh and we got to see Santa :-)

Here is a pic of D and Brant right in front of the big Xmas tree.  Not a great picture...

Here is Devyn talking to an Elf before she got to talk to Santa.  She wasn't at all scared!  I was very impressed...huge improvement from last Christmas.

Here is D talking to Santa.  She walked right up to him and said "I want Cinderella" it was pretty funny! Good thing we already got her that :-)

And finally sitting on Santa's lap!

They had HUGE slides at this place.  Devyn and Brant must have gone down 100 times.  Here are 2 pics...at the top and then on the way down.

And finally Dave and Jacob!  Jacob is obsessed with hockey and he got to go ice skating today!  It was a pretty big moment!  I actually got a little teary eyed because I was so excited for him.  He did a great job!!  Here is the before picture.

It's SNOWING!!!!!

It's snowing!!!!  We woke up this morning to a couple inches of snow on the ground!!  Devyn was pretty excited!  Brant took her to the park and they made a snowman. Here are a few pictures!!  Looks like they had fun!!  

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a great Thanksgiving.  Spent the weekend at Baba and Papa's house.  Had lots of food and had a great time.  Thank you for having us!!

I am home today with the what I think may be the flu.  I was really sick yesterday and would have been pretty useless in the classroom today.  I am feeling pretty bad because I have no sub plans but when your sick your sick _ there wasn't much I could do on this one.

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving!  This is what happened when the kids first saw my mom.  She was trampled.

Baba set up a scavenger hunt for the kids.  Here is me and D getting all her stuff!!!  Which we left at Baba's...

Coloring with Brock.  They look like twins don't they???

Feeding her baby...with bright orange ear plugs in her ears..

At the computer with Papa!!  D looks like my mom in this picture!

And my favorite picture!!!  Time to go home and someone isn't happy about it!!  Check out her new kicks that she picked out herself!!

At the Disney store.  Devyn is such a girl lately!!  Always wanting to dance and watch Cinderella!

D made this hat in school. She had to wear it the whole way home and make Indian noises with her hands.  It was pretty funny!!

Weekend Pics!!

I can't believe that next week is Thanksgiving!!  Life has been pretty crazy lately.  Class is done for me _ I have 1 more paper to go and I am done!!  WooHoo!!!  I am not taking another class for  a VERY long time.  I can finally focus on other things.

Devyn is still doing great.  Talking up a storm.  I have been getting her to say "what you talking about Willis" and it is pretty funny when she does it.  We call everyone crazy and silly these days too!  And now we won't commute unless our window is rolled completely down.  She likes to stick her hands out and sometimes throw her Oreos out.  But for me it is so much better than hearing her scream "window please" every 20 seconds so I let her have it down.  There are worse things.

This weekend we met Jacob at the zoo and had some popcorn!  It was so nice to see them - it had been way too long!  Jacob asked Devyn if he would marry her and she said yes!  Looks like we have a wedding to plan :-)   Here they are eating popcorn.  Devyn can't go to the zoo without getting popcorn!  The minute we step inside she asks for it!

Then we went to the park with daddy.  I love this picture for some reason!

We are 100% girl!  I love it too!  She is really into Beauty and the Beast lately so here she is playing with her Belle doll.

Bad Blogger

I have been the worst blogger lately.  I honestly don't have any time.  I am either driving to work or doing school work.  I will try and be better :-)

Devyn is a crackerjack these days.  She is hysterical.  The other day in the car she said mommy here...so I put my hand back to her and she started laughing and goes it's a booger!  She put a booger in my hand!  No idea where she got that from but I was laughing pretty hard!

Today I asked her if she wanted to take a bath or a shower - she surprisingly said shower.  So we went upstairs and took a shower and I couldn't get her out!  She was in there for at least 25 minutes.  Finally I told her that we had to save some water for Nemo and we got out!  Here are some pictures of her first shower.

Every morning we play games in the car and make each other laugh.  Here she is this morning being a total cheez-ball!

Happy Halloween!!

I will definitely have some Halloween pictures up for you to see tomorrow!!!  Devyn is pretty excited to wear her Minnie Mouse costume!!  We have been putting it on a lot lately :-)

It was our 5 year wedding anniversary yesterday _ Scott and Jenny watched Devyn so we could go to dinner!  Brant took me to our first date night spot!  We had an awesome time.  Thank you so much Scott and Jenny!!!  Love you both!

Devyn is going to start going to daycare 5 days a week now.  They had an opening and we took it.  I am really nervous about our Friday commute home but I am sure it will be okay!

Here D is ready for the Iowa/Michigan State game!!  I have so many babylegs that we are going to start using them on our arms!!

This picture makes me smile!!  She looks so grown up!!  I want her to stay 2 forever!!

Just hanging out!!

Weekend Pics!

Devyn and I slept at my parents this weekend because Brant was in Minnesota for a wedding!  We had lots of fun _ and both went to bed at 8 pm last night!!!  Woo hoo!!!  Here are a few new pictures of Devyn with her new hair cut and new vest.  She looks SO big!!  I don't want her to get any bigger!

Random Pics.

Nothing really new to report here!!  We have just been busy with work and life!

Devyn has been pretty funny lately.  She has become a little jokester and sometimes it shocks me!  She is talking more and more everyday.  We still sing Happy Birthday to everyone we know on our 90 minute commute home.  She loves school and tells us everyday that she wants to go to school today.  Yesterday she told me that her friend Braden was crying because he got hit by a ball.  I said oh that wasn't very nice that someone hit him.  Who hit him?  Her response was oh Devyn did.  I about lost it.  I was laughing at her pretty hard after she said that.

Anyway here are 2 random pictures that I thought I would put up.

I can't believe it's October!

I honestly can't believe how fast time is going by!!  It is October already.  It was about 86 degrees here today....I can't wait for fall weather.  I have been such a bad blogger lately so sorry to anyone who keeps checking and I have not been updating.  I feel like I have zero time lately.  But once my classes are over I will have more time and will be able to update more often :-)

Devyn has been hysterical lately.  She is starting to talk more.  She is loving school more now too.  She used to run to me when I would pick her up but now she could really care less.  She has made a few friends too.  She keeps talking about Bella and Tommy.  She is finally in 24 month clothing!!  So we are definitely growing which makes me happy!

Here we are at Target.  Our favorite place in the world.  She is playing with a Handy Manny toy.

This was probably my favorite morning ever!!  Brant was out of town at the Iowa game and Devyn was in the best mood.  She kept wanting to play dress-up.  We must have gone through 20 different outfits.  This was my favorite one!!

Then we went to the zoo and Devyn tried climbing up this crazy contraption.  She got to the top and then couldn't figure out how to get down.  She was freaking herself out and I couldn't go up and get it.  So finally a little boy said I will help her and he helped her down.  I was pretty scared.

I think she likes the zoo so much because she gets to eat popcorn.  And she eats the entire container by herself.  If only I could eat like that.

Then we rode the carousal.  She had to ride on Po...the panda from Kung Fu Panda.

Pumpkin Patch Part 2

Drew and Devyn got to go to the pumpkin patch again today!!!  Brant is at the Iowa game and I was out house hunting...here are a few pictures from the day!!