Girls Date Night

This is my best friend, Lacey. She is actually a best friend to many. That is just how Lacey is. Her door is always open to everyone. She is always cheering people up, making them laugh, watching their kids or baking a treat. She is truly amazing. She is moving to Canada ver very soon and I will miss seeing her every day, but I know that we will be friends FORVER!

We see each other every day and we do lots of things together with our families, but we hardly ever hang out with just the two of us, so I decided to ask her out on a date. 

Here we are, ready for our date night.

We started out at Ringside. It was SO delicious. We hit up happy hour and sampled steak bites, bread basket, potato skins, caesar salad, calamari and virgin margaritas! So yummy! I highly recommend it to everyone. 

Now, it was time for the fun to begin, so of course, we headed to Wunderland. That is our local nickel arcade. I know that may sound silly to some of you, but we LOVED it!!! 

Here we are with our bags full of nickels ready to hit the slots, oh wait, I mean games!

Lacey was a big ball winner that night. You get a certain amount of tickets for the color of ball you get and the red balls are worth the most. She won like 8 balls!! 

Here we are a  gambling away and winning tickets galore. There were only a couple other people there (since it was 11:00 pm on a school night!) so we took lots of pictures and could play any games we wanted!

Here we are with our prizes. We got each of our boys a slinky, 4 little flashlights, 2 helicopters for Lacey's boys and a bag of tootsie rolls. 

It was definitely a night to remember! It was so fun to be out with Lace for one last date night!

Birthday Burger

I ate my favorite Bruschetta Chicken sandwich.

They sang to me and gave me balloons and ice cream.

 Miles "smiled" for a picture with his favorite Holly.

Luke smiled with his matching Daddy.

 Nate smiled because he is just so cute!

 Luke wanted some ice cream.

So, I gave it to him.

He liked it!

Then we all smiled!

The End!

Laughing at the Cousins

Here is a fun video of Lukey laughing at his cousins at Thanksgiving. 

Gingerbread Homes

 That's right folks! It's time to decorate some gingerbread. We couldn't do it without a little Nog!

 Miles is taste testing the gingerbread for us.

Luke is helping with the red and green frosting. 

There was some intense decorating going on.

 Happy Gingerbread families!! It was a little bittersweet because this is the last time we will be doing Gingerbread with the Poytress family because they move back to Canada in a couple weeks :(

Festival of Trees

 Today we headed out to the Festival of Trees with our Poytress brothers and Wagner girlfriends!

Here are the two cute baby boys!

 One Mama pushing the babies

One Mama holding the big boys hands

When we arrived we headed over to meet Santa Clause.

Here are our Poytress brothers with Santa. SO CUTE!

Next, it was Lukey's turn. I thought he would for sure cry because babies usually cry on Santa's lap, right? Nope, Luke was just checking out his beard, glasses and hat and he hammed it up for the camera. I almost got a little teary eyed seeing my baby meet Santa for the first time. He is such a cutie and this Santa was so adorable with his real beard! 

Now it was onto the teddy bear hospital where you get to name your bear and get him bandaged up, get his vaccines, sutures and a diaper. It was fun to actually have a kid to get the bear this year instead of just enjoying everyone else's children. I'm sure Luke will enjoy chewing on his bear. 

Here is Luke and Brownie (yes, I know it is such an original name)

Luke skipped the cookies. He is more into green beans and mum mums, but Miles enjoyed his cookie.

Lukey and Naters with their bears. 

 Here are all of our friends with their teddy bears! Erika, Megan, AJ, Luke and Nate!

AJ, Miles and Lace checking out the trains. 

This was the cutest tree display I have ever seen! I've been going to Festival of Trees my whole life and I just couldn't get over how awesome this tree was!!

Oh, and here is Lacey wearing a newborn diaper over her face....don't ask!!

We had such a fun day with the Poytress boys and Wagner girls! I can't wait until next year!!!