My cousin Renee' had her baby this morning. She was only 26 weeks pregnant. Please keep them in your prayers!

There are also updates posted on my cousin's blog Peyton's Place. You can check out my uncle's blog at Aftermath as well. This picture is from Renee's blog.

Birthday celebration

This Sunday we had family over to celebrate Karli's 4th birthday. It was wonderful to have everyone over to the house. Karli's party was Tinkerbell themed, and the cake was wonderful (from Kroger)! She received lots of nice gifts.....can we re wrap them all for Christmas please! Maybe she won't notice. Below is a picture of "twinkle toes" prancing around in Karli's new skirt. Doesn't he look like he's having a blast! Chris hopes this is just a phase!

Our visit with Santa

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Today we went to the Christmas open house at the Chesterfield Library. What a nice setup! Santa came in and Karli gave him a big hug and Cameron said Hi (no tears!) I was shocked. They had a string quartet playing Christmas music. Cameron sat on Santa's lap first, while Karli had a shy moment. They had a goodie bag for each kid, a craft, cookies, and hot chocolate. Karli decided to wait a little while and come back later to visit Santa, even though she had just given him a big hug. Karli did her craft and then was ready to show Santa what she made and we got a few more pictures, still no line. Oh, and it was FREE!

This was last years pic:

Last week Karli celebrated her birthday at school and was the special person that day too. She brought treats, juice, and stickers for the class. They sang Happy Birthday to her, she wore this festive hat, and received this card from her teacher.

Last night for my work Christmas party I went on The Star Clipper Dinner train in Walled Lake. The train ride was about 3 1/2 hours long. It included a 5 course dinner and a murder mystery. Not quite what I expected, but something different from the norm. My meal was good, not much scenery to look at. We had fun waving at the cars that were stopped at the RR crossings and staring at people in through their door walls. The train traveled 4 miles east of the station then 4 miles west of the station very slowly. Not for people that may get motion sickness I think. What I hear from many people, I'm lucky to even have had a work Christmas party at all!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARLI!!!!!!!!!

This is a picture of Karli just moments after she was born. My sweet girl! I can't believe she is 4 years old!

Over the weekend....

We started our weekend with taking the kids to have their Christmas pictures taken on Friday. That went fairly well, then we went to lunch at Pei Wei....yummy! The mall was packed of course so we decided not to go shopping! We got out all of our Chrismas decorations and put the tree up. Saturday night we had our nephew Sam over for a sleepover. Our niece Natalie was celebrating her 9th birthday with an all girls sleepover party, so we agreed to take Sam overnight. That went very good as well. The kids slept in the fort that Chris made in Karli's room. At least Karli stayed there most of the night. After grocery shopping on Sunday we just relaxed and enjoyed watching the snow from the INSIDE!