November 30, 2023

November 2023

The month where dad became the favorite ;)

November 2023

November 1st means sooo many clearance halloween costumes. We scored!!

Train station! We did two sessions and rode the train inbetween.

Logan + Ben enjoyed the park!

The following day they went to the train station while I got my nails done with friends.

We put up our Christmas tree and snapped some cute pictures!

Sugar cookies… of course!

Cutie pie Ben!

I texted Sabrina last minute and told her we were going to the duck park. She said she just got there! Haha. Funny coincidence.

Sooo we quit gymnastics. I have wanted to love it, but the instructor is a bitchy 50 year old lady and each week it seems to get worse. Soooooo we went to the botanical gardens instead! Brielle got a sucker and it looked like a bloody mess.

Ben was exhausted and went to sleep at 6:30! By 9, Logan and I were starving so we had a little date night with Culver’s by the Christmas Tree. :)

Okay who said you could be 12?!

Trip to the aquarium!

Oooooh a nice long nap!

Working out! :)

Santa Claus!!!!! And a lunch date with Dad. :)

Merry Christmas!

Ice cream cones! Yum!

I decided to order corn and fish food to have on hand for feeding fish and ducks! We had to try both of them out. Beautiful day!

This time change… ugh! It looks like the middle of the night and it’s really only 5:40pm! Cutie pie in the cart.

Benson woke up really wanting to go to Choo Choo Play… but they aren’t open today. :( I opted for the library… and that worked for a minute! He then asked for the fishes so off to the aquarium we went! We finished with lunch with Docta Carter.

Carousel ride 11/2023

All of that playing ended in a very sleepy boy.

Waiting on the porch for dad to come home!

Cookie time + fun find at Sam’s Club!

We finally put in a cabinet here. It looks soo much better!

I wasn’t feeling very good, Logan took benson to run a few errands and sent me some funny pictures.

We met up with Jaylee and Sabrina to do salt dough hand prints.

I finished all of the stockings! Now to figure out how to hang it and put things inside.

We love Saturday! Benson woke up asking for piranhas so I got tickets for all of us to go to the aquarium. When it was time to go he told me it was a boys only trip! So off they went. :)

They had a wonderful time together and I got the whole house cleaned. Success!!!

Logan is Superman and helped me build an a tree for my stocking advent calendar. I wish I would have done the stockings bigger… but oh well! It still turned out so cute!

I did something I never do… and went to Goodwill. We needed some ugly Christmas sweaters and Benson of course saw this and NEEDED it. Logan and I were both dying inside. He got a trip in the washing machine when we got home.

Cutest little stroller rider!

Attack of the friends!

Having some fun with the Snapchat filters…

We drove clear out to St. Charles with Brielle and Sabrina to try out another play place. eeehhhh. We ended up at Bass Pro!

We came home with quite the toy…..

How does this happen!!

It’s finally Thanksgiving Break! We enjoyed a meal from Adam’s smokehouse with the Maughan’s on Wednesday and I sadly have no pictures!

Thursday we relaxed! Ate leftovers, went on a walk and Benny loved having Dad home!

Friday we attempted to go to Powder Valley - it was closed so we rerouted to the Train Museum and WOW! It was packed!

Benny in the fall leaves at the park.

Firefighter Ben + new jammies!

Feels good to want to be creative again.

Santa Baby!

Ending November doing what we love most… making cookies. :)