Saturday, November 26, 2022

A Dozen Years!

It’s just not Thanksgiving in our family without a birthday celebration.  Zach is 12 today!!  Can you believe it?  We are road tripping back to Chicago today after a week in NC so we celebrated Zach all day yesterday.  Rich and I even got a hike in with just Zach and Scout.  It’s really fun to spend a little time with just one child and Zach was no exception.  

Zach is really becoming his own person and is definitely well on his way to being a teenager.  He can still be goofy and have fun with family but will also retreat from the group to have his own time/space with a good book.  Zach excels in school, loves swimming, loves reading, thinks a good prank is hilarious (especially at his siblings expense), still enjoys a good Lego set and playing with little kids and really appreciates any freedoms we afford him these days.  His gifts this year began to look different with his haul having less toys than years past. In fact we took the plunge and gave him his first phone!  Fingers crossed this all goes well!












Happy Birthday Zach!!!  We love you!!

Saturday, November 5, 2022

Boo!

Halloween fell on a Monday so I’m just getting a chance to show off the kids costumes.  We had quite the variety this year!









This was the first year that all the kids went trick-or-treating with friends so Rich and I hung back, enjoyed a fire and a few adult beverages and handed our candy to a ton of kids. 










And I often get the question, “how long is Hazel’s hair?” since it is typically pulled up.  Well….here it is!!



HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!