I can't believe this is the last What's Up Wednesday for the year!!! This time I am just going to recap what we've been up to since my posts are severely lacking these days...
Brad and the girls have been busy at sporting events lately. First up was watching their cousin play state football at the US Bank Stadium in early November. Unfortunately they didn't win, but they sure had fun watching Zach play!
Next up was getting to see their first Vikings game with Brad. He was able to get 4 tickets and took the girls. They had a BLAST!
About 2 weeks later Brad was offered 3 tickets to see the Wild hockey play so he took the older two. Brad, Emma and I went several years ago and the seats are AMAZING! They are right behind the Wild bench and next to where they walk through to their locker room. The girls not only got to high five them, but one of them threw Rachel a puck! I love that they have these memories with Brad...
Rachel was able to get into the CNA program offered at her school. They only select a certain number of kids based on their grades. She absolutely loved it and will take her exam in January to become a CNA, mama is so proud as I was a CNA for 5 years and loved it!
Why does she look like she's 25??? Ugh....
We hosted Thanksgiving at our house again and had my brother and his family, my mom and my dad which was SO special for me. My parents divorced when I was 19, and thankfully they have always gotten along. We don't normally have all of us together for holidays, but it just so happened to work out. We had such a blast!
I just freaking love my family.
I think it's clear who we got our craziness from, haha!!
Friday night we put up the Christmas tree and all the decorations despite the fact that we were all wiped.
Saturday we had our annual Rothstein/Zimmer Christmas. We ate an amazing supper of crab legs, roasted potatoes and popovers. After supper I had a bunch of minute to win it games we played. We stayed up way to late but had a blast!
Sunday Brad and I made our way down to Children's Hospital to visit my sister who just had her sweet baby girl. Laura Grace was born on November 19 and had to stay in the NICU because she has some heart issues. She is absolutely gorgeous and boy did I love all the baby snuggles.
She is home now and doing awesome, but will need open heart surgery when she is 4-6 months old.
Alayna took a musical theater class in school and they performed the musical Dr.Suess's Whosical the Musical. She was a Wickershim Brother and did such a great job, such a fun little musical!
We are still in the throes of puppy hood. Sigh. She is adorable, but such a naughty little shit. If you could see my Christmas tree now you would see the bottom third of the tree has no lights. Puppies.
#sheatethem. #shegotlit.
#sheatethem. #shegotlit.
She eats socks like its candy, chases the cat like its her job and has chewed more towels and washcloths than I can count, but then at night is such a little snuggle bug, you completely forget about all the previous destruction.
Emma was a busy little bee making these ornaments to sell. She sold about 22 of these! That girl is so talented. #shegetsitfromgrandpa
St. Nick brought shirts for all the girls, Rachel didn't think this one was as funny as we did, HA!!
The first weekend in December we were able to head over to friends of ours who just built a lakehome for some Christmas cheer! We watched Christmas movies, the girls decorated cookies and then went skating on the lake.
I made a huge batch of Christmas Cheer again for us to enjoy, such a yummy treat!
Friends of ours hosted a little Christmas get together at a local brewery in town. The theme was to dress up as your favorite Christmas movie character. Brad and I had looked a little for something, but just couldn't find anything and didn't want to spend a fortune. So we wore our Christmas Vacation Todd/Margot shirts.
Everyone else killed it, the outfits were SO fun!!!
And lastly the girls made their gingerbread houses. Funny how some of those traditions you think they'd grow out of but they don't!
So that's a little of what we've been up to. The older the girls get, it seems the less stuff we do which makes me a little sad, but I also feel like we're really just enjoying the season. I am used to packing in as much Christmasy stuff in as we can, but with the girls school work and working, it just doesn't work. I am actually loving how chill they want to be when everyones home. They just want a hot meal and a good movie. Sign me up!
If you want to see some Christmas's past, click these:
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I hope you all have a very blessed Christmas! I pray that with all the crud going on in our world, that you can take some time to truly remember the biggest gift given to us, the birth of our Savior. Blessings to you all!
