Our Mary

Evelyn took her roll of Mary in her program very serious. Each day after she has dressed as Mary for most of the day. The outfits are getting hilarious. I do not think Mary was in a bikini!

Wednesday

Baby Jesus.

Friday

Saturday

Today

Breakfast With Santa

We had breakfast with Santa today. Evelyn was okay around Santa but would still not sit on his lap. Kate was terrified!

The Christmas Tree

Our Christmas Tree!

Photo to be retaken Christmas Day when the girls are dressed in the best attire.

I could not resist this though.....

Evelyn's Programs

Evelyn as Mary at her Little Lambs program.

Evelyn the red nose reindeer at ballet.

First Big Snow

Our first large snow fall of the season meant daddy and the girls going out to shovel.

The joys of owning a home!

Kate.

Evelyn helping shovel.

And Evelyn and the neighbor girls playing in the snow!

Princess Day

The girls playing dress up.

Oh Christmas Tree!

We went out in search for the perfect tree this year! Size was priority.

The place we went to you actually get a saw, find, and cut down your own tree. It was a lot of fun (until we picked a 13 foot tree about the furthest away from the truck as possible)!

We will definitly go back next year.

Evelyn thought it was cool to measure all the trees!

Daddy and Evelyn measuring what is now our Christmas Tree.

Cutting it down was easier than we thought!

New Home

A couple pics of the house compliments of Steve Mappa Photography.

Last ND Home Game

We headed down to South Bend for the last Notre Dame home game. Despite the chilly and some times rainy weather, we had a great time!!

Here are the girls enjoying the tailgate.

Meg, Kathy, Lisa and Leslie

The boys enjoying our after party at Rocco's pizza! The BEST!

John, Rob, Tommy and Matt

Finding Things To Do Indoors

Although we have had a nice warm fall, it is starting to get to cold to go outside which is forcing us to spend a lot of time in the house. Here we are trying to kill time.

Evelyn baking cupcakes.

Kate wrestling Evelyn.

Evelyn and her friend Grace playing dress up.

Halloween

Evelyn and her girl friends at preschool.

Trick or Treat.

Sorting through the goods.

Bed Time.

Kids Halloween Party

Evelyn and Kate had their friends over for a Halloween party today!

What fun to have all these kiddos running around in costume.

More pics here.

Pre Halloween Party

Tonight we had the Halloween party at the club. It is such a fun event. Lots of dancing and yummy treats. The girls were excited to try out the Halloween costumes.

Here is Evelyn and Kate pre party.

Evelyn the cat with her friend Mimi the bee.

Evelyn found her "costume twin" Mallory. They were BFF's the rest of the night!

The Great Pumpkin

We headed to the Pumpkin Patch with the Walkers in search of the perfect pumpkin and were lucky to also get pony rides, carnival rides and cotton candy!

Here are a few more pics!

Grandpa Ken Visits

Grandpa Ken came to visit from Florida this past weekend.

We had a lot of fun hanging out. Grandpa got a good taste off real Fall weather while he was here!!!

Fall Fun

We have been enjoying the beginning of fall.

Click to see a few random pics.

Where Did August Go??? (and September)

I can not believe we are only a week away from October!

The past two months have flown by. It was a nice end to summer and we have been enjoying our warm start to fall.

I finally went through the pics from our trip back to Iowa. Click here to see how much fun we had at the Iowa State Fair!!

Evelyn In The Pool

Not bad for a girl in a cast. Evelyn has been doing pretty good in the pool turning over to her back and then kicking around. Now if I could only get her water wings off.

Swim lessons are in her future.

Beach Babe

I just can not help but post this pic of Kate in her bikini. She is so stinkin cute!

Erin, Kendall and Cole visit!

Erin, Kendall and Cole Schindler came to visit us for a few days. We had so much fun swimming, playing and of course we got a little mom night out too curtesy of the babysitter!

Kendall and Evelyn had a great time together and Evelyn and Cole were buddies.

We miss them already.

More pics CLICK HERE!

Enjoying The Weekends In Elmhurst

One of the great things about the suburbs is the space.... space you can fill with all sorts of junk. So, we added to the pile of "stuff" and bought a bike trailer for the girls. It has been a lot of fun and we have been trying to ride any where we can locally.

Here are all the kids celebrating Mimi Fitzpatrick's 1st Birthday!

Spoon Lake

Another fun filled weekend at the White's Lake House!

The girls really enjoyed the water ~ and Evelyn even got on the tube!!!

Thanks Jim, Kathy, Casey and Jamie!

click here for more pics!

Happy 4th of July!

We had a low key 4th of July in Elmhurst. We went swimming with the Evanston Mulvihill's one day and Uncle Brad came over for the 4th BBQ and fire works!