Kentucky Thanksgiving

As always my entire family heads to Kentucky for Thanksgiving.  It is the one time each year where my whole family can be together (even if it is only for 24 hours in some cases).  The weather was gorgeous, so much so that while the turkey was baking we were outside playing baseball!  I think that must be a Thanksgiving first!  The little boys couldn't get enough of uncle Nick and they wanted to be sure to sit by him at the table.  It was cute to see. 

We were able to go to a University of Louisville football game while we were in town, but despite it being sunny, there was a definite chill in the air that I was not used to!  It was an exciting game that went in to overtime, but sadly didn't end in our favor. 

We also had a new family picture taken.  I took a few with my camera, and we have gotten a few back from the photographer, but I'm hoping they look better than these!   Such a great Thanksgiving.  We have so much to be thankful for and I couldn't think of a better way to spend it than with family.

Nick and Liam playing some Thanksgiving baseball!  I must document that it was 68 degrees and perfect outside!

 Nick and baby Tess taking a break from decorating my parents tree

Cousins-Tess and Henrik

Kevin's family:  Bennett, Rachel, Tess, Kevin, Liam

Kyle's family:  Kyle, Becky, Henrik

Us

I Love UofL

I was a cold but smiling fan

We fired up the pizza oven outdoors for a a delicious meal

Here is a group photo of everyone from the photographer

Our "professional" pic.  It was sure sunny outside, I needed some shades on.

Hopefully more family pics to come.  

Fall time and Friends

We had a busy fall this year spending time with some of our good friends.  I had so much girlfriend time in November and I loved it!!

I went to Time Out for Women in Phoenix this year for the first time with a few of my friends that live in West Phoenix, so I don't get together with them as often as I wish.  We had a great weekend listen to the speakers and the great music.  So much fun, love these ladies.

The same weekend a few of us wanted to help Brooke celebrate her upcoming wedding.  We had such a great time and stayed at a very nice resort in Scottsdale.

Brooke, the bride-to-be and me

Less than a week later we kept the celebration going by hosting a bridal shower for Brooke.

Haha, this picture makes me laugh.  Brooke had a photo booth at her wedding, and we were practicing our poses.  So glad Nick was in town for the occasion.

Our favorite couple the Badger's came to Arizona to play before Thanksgiving so we had such a great time as always.  So excited that they are having a baby in April!

The Ladies

 The Gentlemen

With all the craziness in our lives these days of living apart and bi-coastal, I've gotten to see this guy quite a bit the past two months! I'm going to be in some serious withdrawls once January comes.  Sure do love him and am so grateful for how hard he is working right now.

So much to be thankful for!

Now that we are almost caught up

In pictures here is what the month of October looked like!

I busted this handy machine out to fix a shirt that had gotten a rip in the side.  It may have taken 30 minutes just to thread the machine, but hey 2 hours later I fixed my shirt!  As much as I love my mom for getting me this machine for Christmas a few years ago, she should have also gotten me lessons :)

There have been some AMAZING Arizona sunsets

Nick came to AZ for a visit, and lucky for him we had even more great sunsets!

After much convincing, Nick finally agreed to braces now that invisalign is offered in my office!  Here he is loving the impressions.  He has them in now, and it is amazing how much I cannot even tell he is wearing them.

I've been in a total organizational mode lately.  I've been sorting through boxes of pictures and finally sent them to scanmyphotos.com.  I had bought a groupon awhile back and sent in a 1,000 pictures to be put on a digital cd.

Life is keeping us busy!