Welcome, Friends!

In a continued effort to meet my goal of 5 posts in December, I will now blog some mediocre pictures that I took while having a far better than mediocre time catching up with friends!
Jamie and DeAnna came over to play with Cade...

and eat some Dairy Free Stuffed Shells (recipe from Lauren's blog). Shells were okay. I feel like anything J & TW make is better than whatever we eat when they come to my house...but maybe it's just me?


We spent an evening with the Harwood's and got to meet their two-week old baby boy, Rivers. Jason and Stephanie moved to Seattle in 2007 so we feel lucky that we do get to reunite with them every Christmas when they make their annual trip to Kansas! We went to visit them when they first moved out there, remember?

Cade enjoyed getting to play with the Harwood cousins while we were there. They have the ultimate "grandparent house" as they have every toy imaginable.


Peggy also popped into town for the night to catch up and do some coloring with the Cade man. Thanks for taking a break from your fast-paced college life to enjoy a peaceful Friday night with Cade and I!


I'm over-joyed that Monday will come...and my alarm will not be going off at 6AM. Glorious. Very excited about what the next few days hold. A trip to Crown Center to see Santa, our church group Christmas party, a playdate with some friends on Monday, oh, and Matt has a "surprise" date night planned before we head to GB on Wednesday for Christmas. Surely I can squeeze out another post from all that fun stuff?!