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We decorated the house for Christmas! This tradition is usually done the weekend after Thanksgiving but since we will be in KC next weekend we did it yesterday.

We hung lights outside, put up our tree, and put up all of our fun decorations.

While we spread around our holiday cheer I tried out a new appetizer on Luke, ham and cheese Hawaiian rolls. They are SO good, and something new to make for parties this season!

We are stealing a tradition from my sister, getting an ornament each year that symbolizes something from that year, I found the perfect one while shopping at Cabala's, notice how they are marshmallows on chocolate and graham cracker? too cute! We also have some other ornaments that are special to us, one is from my sister, one from my friend Meghan, and of course Boomer has his own ornament he helped to put on!

Here are some pictures of our decorating day!

Halloween Weekend

How fun that Halloween was on a Friday this year, and with such great weather for all the kiddos! I have been trying to start some traditions for Luke and I and for when we start our own family. So Friday when I got home from work I started on a big pot of homemade chili, we lit our pumpkin and sat out in front and handed out candy, had some beers, and ate some GREAT Chili! I thought this would be something fun to start doing. We didn't get too many trick or treaters so after a little while we went over to a friends near by that was having people over. Saturday night we went to a BIG Halloween party, One of my moms friends threw it, the house is vacant so they had it decorated so neat! A bar, dance floor, and fire pit out in the front, the back had tables set up, and every room of the house had a different theme, it was amazing all the work they put in to it! Here are some pics from the night.

Luke was a prisoner, my mom and Laurie were future grandmas and I was a fancy mouse.

Here are all the Ya's and petite Ya's well most of them.