2015....what a good year!

What an amazing 2015 we had! We are truly blessed. Here are a few of my favorites over the past year. 

Owen wins color day at school in January. 

Owen at crossfit kids

Wyatt's first time skiing.....everything is more fun with your cousins. 

The boys first time flying. Kris' parents took us to Disney! Definitely the highlight of 2015!

It was truly a magical experience. So fun!

11 years

Wyatt turned 5

Owen turned 8

Annual Mt. Baldie hike. 

Cherry picking

Goose lake with cousins

Date weekend with just the hubs

Camp barakel

School starts. 

Surprise trips after school to the cider mill

Our annual Halloween weekend. 

Owen wins his first blue ribbon in swim

The sky deck in the Willis tower in Chicago

Chicago botanical gardens

Wy- kindergarten

Owen- third

First snow fall. 15 inches in one day

Owen gets pneumonia really bad and misses a week of school

Grandma janes 92nd birthday party

Wyatt gets a mild case of pneumonia. 

Christmas morning!

Merry Christmas!

KThis year was so exciting for the boys. They couldn't wait to see what Santa would bring for them. We take a trip as their main gift so there really isn't much underneath our tree so they could hardly wait to see what they were getting. 

Owen made this nice tray of milk and cookies with some carrots for Rudolph. 

Here they are Christmas morning.....excited that Santa came!!

Santa brought them the Lego dimensions game and a bunch of fun packs to go along with it. Such happy boys. 

Later in the afternoon we headed to Grammy and Grampys house for more presents. The boys were thrilled with all of their Legos....Owen with his space shuttle and Wyatt with his polic station. Christmas Eve we celebrate with my family where the boys were spoiled as well!!

Hoping you and yours had a very merry Christmas as well!

Buddy the elf

Buddy came and surprised the boys again this year. He was pretty sneaky and didn't leave until both spotted him each day. 

Towards the end of his visits he started misbehaving and was really close to getting a time out!

Wyatt has pneumonia too!

We've had a rough December. First owen with pneumonia and now Wyatt! I had the flu over a weekend and thankfully kris has skimmed by so far without anything!

Can't wait for my boys to be back to good health soon!

Owen update

He finally went back to school today. That pneumonia put him out of commission for a little over a week. He's still on breathing treatments every four hours so I surprised him at school today to give him one :)

He is such a champ at them now!


I also got a call from his doctor today checking up on him. She said they were very worried about him. I'm glad that after two antibiotics, increased dose of steroids, breathing treatments and other otc medication he has finally started to perk up a bit!! We have a follow up appointment for next week so hope he's still trending good then so he will be back to normal in time for Christmas!

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Jill

Steak!

The boys first experienced filet while in Chicago last month. They loved it, so when they each came home with good report cards we decided to take them to a local steak place to celebrate.








They didn't like it as much as uncle Ronnies but I'm proud of them for trying it!

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Jill

School pics 2015

Wy in kindergarten


Owen in third.


Good lookers!

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Jill

Thanksgiving helpers

Owen was thrilled to be able to help with the turkey this year!


Wyatt preferred doing this!


Such different personalities!

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Jill

Our first big snow!

We hosted pierogi making day this year and encountered the craziest snowstorm to date. It was snowing all day long and never let up.

By around 6 this is what our deck looked like.




And when my family was trying to leave later that night.


Kris was out for a few hours, shoveling and snow blowing. He came in looking like this, he had no idea ice had formed in his goatee!


The next day the boys bundled up and headed out back....








They had a blast!


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Jill