Christmas 2017

Christmas was awesome!!  Jacob got the best gifts ever - Buzz Light Year, Woody, and Rex.  He is in LOVE!!  We had a really fun Christmas Eve, enjoyed an ice skating date, and ate yummy cake with Kristi at The Cake Bake Shop.

A blogging resolution?

Is it much too late in the year to make a New Year's Resolution to blog more?  I don't know.. perhaps!  But I've got stuff to say and we've had stuff going on!  And, when I print out my blog every year it'd be nice if the page weren't blank.  ;)  Since I last blogged, like a zillion years ago...

Halloween happened!!  Jake was THE cutest little fireman and Ben & I had a total blast taking him trick-or-treating!  He got the hang of it pretty quickly and especially loved houses that had dogs.

After Halloween comes Thanksgiving, and we were blessed enough to have Nana & Grandpa come visit us!! 

Shopping at the Mall of America on Black Friday is exhausting!!

And of course, we went to the trampoline park and Jacob sprained his ankle.  Totally my fault.

For Christmas, we drove to Indiana and got to visit Nana & Grandpa again!  We had the best time!

Indiana

After leaving Los Angeles and visiting my family for a few weeks, we left California (sad day for me) and flew to Indiana to spend a couple of weeks with Ben's family!  Trying to soak in our last few weeks of Ben not working before we works, well . . for a long, long time.  We had such a blast in Indiana!

Buddy was a trooper on the airplane rides.  He's wild, be we hung in there.

Ben's friend Josh, who play in the NBA, had a bunch of guys over to play basketball one night and we stopped by.  We'll show Jake these pictures some day - playing basketball with an NBA star.  ;) 

Thanks to Usborne, I purchased my very own car all by myself!!  Isn't she a beauty?

We visited White Rock park, which was tons of fun - a swimming hole in an old rock quarry.

Jacob is very good at helping Nana clean.

And he loves arcade games!

Here is our little family now . . 

and here we are pre-marriage!  

 Jacob loved the water park and he absolutely adored the children's museum.

Sky Zone was a blast . . possibly more for me than for my boys.

This was just funny.

And we celebrated my 27th birthday before we left Indiana to begin our new adventure in Minneapolis!