Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Birthday Tanner

This year we had Thanksgiving and Tanner's Birthday with Jonathan's Family and My Family on Thanksgiving Day. This is the first year that we are not having a Family Birthday party for him. It seems a little weird to be giving this up but he us having a party for all of his friends in December.

Tanner also got to spend the night with Great Grandma as he always does so that we we can go out shopping in the morning. Or this case we went to Toys R Us at midnight!

Tanner's Naked Angel Food Cake

Tanner's gift to belly bean

Tanner and his puppy cake that Great Grandma made him!

Tanner and his new swimming dog!

Baby Shower

Baby Shower for Aunt Julie and Belly Bean! On November 21, 2009 Mom, Dannette and I gave Julie a Baby Shower. We all made a onesie and had play the game who's water could break the fastest. Julie got a lot of great gifts and we all really cannot wait to me mr. belly bean!

Diaper Cake

A special gift for Uncle Dale for Grandma and Grandpa.

It was a John Deer Diaper Bag!

Great Grandma's Birthday and Christmas

On Great Grandma's 94th Birthday we all got together to celebrate her birthday and Christmas. There is a lot of people when we are all together but it is always a fun time. For Christmas everyone is to spend $5 sometime during the year and we see who can find the best bargain. Well, this year I was the bad one and wrapped out 2-$5 and put them in a big box. The funny thing is I told my cousin Brett about it the night before so the whole time that everyone was trading back and forth for the gifts Brynn and Brett both kept trying to keep the boxes that I had wrapped. It made for a fun day and in the end they each got there $5.

Happy with their $5 :)

Oh Casey what are you ever going to do with these???

Halloween with Woody

We stayed home for Halloween this year. Tanner had just got done being sick and I was still sick. Tanner also wanted to stay home because he was worried that the other people out trick or treating would not get candy if we were not home. So he planned his very own Halloween Party inviting Grandma, Great Grandma and Papa to come over. We tried to make it a little extra fun by getting a pumpkin pizza from Papa Murphy's which Tanner thought was the most silly thing he had ever seen. Tanner dressed up like Woody for Toy Story which we were lucky to get the last custom from the Disney Store!!! Overall we had a great night!

Tanner's biggest pumpkin that he got with Papa!


Woody

Trick or Treat

Pumpkin Pizza

Handing out candy I think we only had 10 people come the whole night!

Tanner's Harvest Party

Tanner harvest party at school on October 30, 2009. All the kids had fun playing games like pumpkin bowling, pin the nose on the pumpkin and bingo. It was also wear red day to show that that are drug free! Grandma Dyanna also came and helped at the party! Tanner could not have been happier!

Fall Field Trip

What a great day we had a ton of fun going to the orchard! We picked apples and pumpkins! Then we had lunch and played outside. Even though is was the middle of October is was freezing cold! But, all of the kids had a blast!

The Blue Group!

Tanner the wolf picking some apples!

Silly Faces after picking apples

Tanner and his pumpkin

The picture Tanner took of me after grabbing my camera!

Tanner's First Day of Pre-K

Tanner first day of pre-k was on September 14, 2009. He could not wait to start school!!! Although, when I picked him up from school I ask him how he liked his first day and this is what he said..."I like it! But... nap time was stupid and I know I am not suppose to say that word but it was stupid!" Got to love little boys!

Weekend in Detroit

We took a weekend trip in August to Detroit with my Mom. We had a top of fun as we stay at the Hyatt and went to the Henry Ford Museum. Tanner loves seeing all of the trains

Family Day

On July 24, 2009 we took a family day and then meet up with some friends! We started by going to the Art Museum and then had a picnic in the park outside of the Children's Museum and then meet up with Tina, Ana and CJ! What a great day!

Update

Wow, so I have been thinking that I have not updated the blog in forever and it is true. My last update was in September. So here is the first update and then I will do little updates for all of the fun stuff that we have been up to. Jon was laid off after Thanksgiving and will only be working when it snows! So what can I say we are a family that loves snow! Tanner is loving school and is learning more and more every day I cannot believe how much he has gown this year! And I am starting a new business adventure with a friend and that is all the details that I am giving at this point more to come as the plans keep unfolding! That is it for the update and enjoy all the little updates!

Kaelynn Christine

Welcome Kaelynn Christine!
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#31 Chelsea's Baby Shower

July 18, 2009 was the Baby Shower for Chelsea. I was so happy to do this for her! Growing up Chelsea and I never really seen that much of each other. But, now that both of us are adults and we control are own lives I so happy that she is in my life. Only a few week from this point until we get to meet Kaelynn.

#66 Pack 'n Play

Now that we have one niece and another one on the way Jonathan and I wanted to get the pack and play from Grandma's basement. Yes, this was silly to put on the list but it makes me feel better to get some of it done! A few nice and easy ones. Plus, I do not know how many times we forgot to grab it. I will add a picture when I have a cute one of someone sleeping in it of playing in it.

#46 House Numbers

Grandma got really cool house numbers last summer that are solar powered and you could not see them from the road. So, she passed them along to us. They look great! Thanks Grandma!

#40 Fix the Van!!!!

Okay this one makes me sooooo happy! I had been without my van for 2 1/2 months and we really did not know that to do. With me not working it really did not need to be fixed but I hated being home without a car everyday. Mom and Grandma where great about coming to get Tanner and I when ever we needed to go somewhere but it still sucked. So, one weekend Jonathan replaced the fuel filter and pump and now it is back on the road! Yippy and Tanner and I have been having a lot more fun this summer! Thanks mom for your help and Jonathan for your hard work!

#38 Go to the Circus

Grandma Hice took us to see the circus in Hastings. It was a small circus but it was still a circus and this is something that Tanner had been wanting to do. I think that we will try and see a better circus because Tanner's favorite part was the elephant pooping. Why is it where ever we go we see an animal poop and Tanner thinks it is so funny. He is such a little boy.He also, got to ride an elephant! A nice surprise was when we got there we found some friends and were able to sit by them.

#37 Go to a Museum

We had a fun day as a family and went some place new with Tanner! We went to the Gerald R Ford Museum. We were only there for about an hour and Tanner started to get board but, we thought that it would be good to induce him to a different style of a museum. I hope also before the month is over that we also make it to the Grand Rapids Art Museum!

Well yet again it has been a few weeks and I find it funny that I have to go through my camera to remember all of the stuff that we have done from the last update. One of the things that we did was have a stay at home vacation day. We had a lot of fun! We went to the Gerald R Ford Museum (thanks to the membership to the children's museum we got in free), and then spent the night in grand Haven where we played at the beach with Derek and Robin and then watched the music fountain. It really was a great day and the best part was everything that we did was free. Tanner was also in his first parade. He was in the Caledonia 4th of July Parade. Later that night we watched the fireworks and had a little birthday party for Jonathan! Just a side note ice cream cake is not a good idea when it is in the 80's oh well live and learn. We also had a fun day at the zoo with Nett Nett. Tanner woke up one morning and we were talking about what we wanted to do for the day and he said "I got it call Nett Nett and she will come to the zoo!" So, that is what we did. On the 4th of July we went tubing with Dad, Lori, Chelsea, Zach, Cam, Kaitlyn, Casey and Chase. It was a blast. The only bad part is Jonathan got burnt pretty bad. Well that is really about it for the update. Chelsea's Baby Shower is this weekend so I have been spending my time getting ready for that and I think that it is all going to turn out very nice! Plus, I get to helpers to help me set up. Thanks Brynn and Brett! I'm sure we will have fun getting everything ready!

Tanner and Daddy

Making a sand castle

Tanner's 1st Parade

Jonathan's Birthday Party.

Tanner and Nett Nett at the Zoo

Casey, how many tubs do you need?

Jenny Lynn

She is getting so big!

Water balloon fight!