Christmas Program

Last night was the St. Cletus Christmas Program. All of the kids did a great job and looked adorable.

Silver Bells

This weekend we accepted that Christmas was coming, and soon...

Friday night the kids saw Santa at the St. Cletus Christmas Party.

Saturday, after swimming and birthday parties, we watched the Tree Lighting in downtown La Grange with friends.

Sunday morning after celebrating St. Nick's Day we got up bright and early to buy our tree and started decorating the house. The outside decorations look great under the light snowfall we had last night.

Turkey Surprise

It was just dad and the kids for dinner tonight so we put on our aprons and made some magic with the last of the our Thanksgiving leftovers.

Meg and Zach were so happy with the results they decided to make a movie!

Thanksgiving 2009

It was great seeing everyone for Thanksgiving. The meal was wonderful, as always, at Grandma Chris' house. Meg had a fever so she was quarantined upstairs, but she didn't seem to mind as she got to watch movies and play her DS all day.
Friday after some early morning shopping, we visited the McLeans in Indy. We took the kids to Holiday Park where Zach and the cousins had fun playing on the playground and hiking to the river.
Saturday we hiked Happy Hollow park in the morning and had lunch at the Triple XXX. We couldn't believe that after 40 yrs in Lafayette, this was Mom's first trip to the Triple XXX. After lunch we headed home to sing for 5pm Mass and had our traditional pizza and a movie night.
Sunday the kids did their homework and we went to open gym at the park district. We bought a membership, which should come in handy this winter.

Cantigny Trip

The kids were off school Thursday and Friday for Parent Teacher Conferences. Friday Chris took them to Cantigny with some of their friends. That night we had their friends stay for a sleepover, though I would've preferred there was more SLEEPING!

Saturday we had a nice day as a family going to swim lessons, basketball, Mass and then our traditional pizza and a movie night.

Sunday the boys got haircuts and we met some friends for the Children's Theatre of Western Springs production of Bunnicula.

For being a long weekend, Monday sure came up fast.

Friendly Competition

Sunday after singing for Fr. Gallagher's 90th Birthday Mass we met some friends for tennis and frisbee golf. The kids had a great time!

Busy Saturday

-Kids Swim Lessons
-Chris cleaned gutters
-Zach's 1st Basketball practice
-Birthday Party
-Chicago Fire Playoff Game (pictured)

Halloween

The kids had a great time at their class Halloween parties on Friday. Saturday the soccer games were cancelled so we met some friends at the La Grange Halloween walk in the morning. That evening we went trick-or-treating with our usual group.
Sunday at 9:30 Mass Meg got her reconciliation candle. She will make her first reconciliation in January.