Wheaton Snow!

We are enjoying this Wheaton snow!! The first time it snowed, I came home to Calvin throwing these snowballs at me! Fun times :)

\On Sunday we got at least 2 to 3 inches of snow. So far it's not too bad driving in it becuase the city is so great about taking care of it. Jared shoveled our driveway for the first time yesterday morning at 6:30 am. What a good husband!  Don't worry, many more snow pictures to come. This weekend Cal and I are going ot make a snowman... we hope!

Our stocking collection is complete! Thank you to my wonderful mom who hand made them for us.

Chicken Pox!

My sweet boy got the chicken pox over Thanksgiving break! :( 

He is a trooper and is finally ready to go back to school. It was perfect timing since there were all kinds of distractions: cooking, decorating, eating, more eating, Legos, gingerbread house making, and watching Christmas movies! Adeline is healthy so far but I'm sure she will get it next week :)

Brown Family Turkey Fest 2013

This was a good but sad Thanksgiving for us. Every year since I was 3 year old, my family has rented a beach cabin in Galveston, TX. Since we are soooo far away and we will be flying home for Christmas in a few weeks, we stayed in Wheaton to celebrate.

Here it goes!! My first turkey that I made... it was delicious! Thank you to my Aunt Beth and mom for putting up with my calls all morning as I cooked :)

Cute kids the morning of thanksgiving Thank you Jared for carving the turkey

Centerpiece 

We had a blast celebrating with new friends! 

I would say Mr. Chris and "Turkey-Shoot" was the hit of the afternoon :)

(i.e. Chris ran around like a turkey and we threw toy balls at him)

Cute Kids

Fall Leaves

18 months old!

I can't believe my little girl is already 18 months old!!! She loves to talk, read books, puzzles, play house, cook in her play kitchen, cuddle, Elmo, and do whatever "Bubu" is doing!

 Attempted 18 month pictures...

Here the kids are before we went to downtown Wheaton for a Halloween event.

This picture explains it all.... she adores him!

She did NOT want to wear her costume on Halloween... so she was a cupcake :)

Visits

We are soooo blessed to have wonderful parents come and visit us so much! Russ and Cindy came to visit a few weeks ago, and then my mom just left yesterday after a week long stay. It is always so nice having them here. But of course I don't take many pictures....

Cosley Zoo Pumpkins

We went to Cosley Zoo to look at animals and check out all the pumpkins. We met Calvin's friend, Alex, and his family. Katherine loves taking care of Adeline :)

Cutest picture ever!!!

Popcorn Fun!

It all started with a brown paper sack and two ears of corn.

Put it in the microwave for 3 minutes.

Waiting......

Open....

Popcorn time!!!!!

Pictures

Calvin was so excited he did this puzzle set and it was as "tall as he was."

Look what we found!

Pumpkin Patch

Calvin didn't have school on Friday, so we went to a pumpkin patch/farm with some new friends: Annie & Sean. Sean is a few months older than Adeline and we had a blast!

Adeline was too busy trying to pick up all the pumpkins to take a picture.