December Play Dates!

Brooklyn enjoyed a few play dates with the family in December.  Uncle Billy and Aunt Emily often come 1 night a week or every other week to get in some play time with Brooklyn.  Aunt Steph, Paige, and Jacob also came to play!

Extending Thanksgiving Festivities - Thanksgiving Weekend 2015

We had a holiday weekend jam-packed with celebrations and plenty to be thankful for.  Brooklyn made some new friends and even experienced her first time hanging Christmas lights (not pictured: Mom and Dad got some much needed kid-free time out with friends as well!)

On Friday we went out to Steph and Derek's house to visit with some of the 909ers (Mom's college roommates).  Most of us have one kid now, Steph has 2, and Carrie has Truffles (Kedzie-dog says Truffles definitely counts!)

 Brooklyn loved watching the older boys...Lucas was especially sweet to Brooklyn and really good about sharing his toys.  Nicholas had a lot of toys that Brooklyn decided she wanted for Christmas :)

 Grayson, Nicholas, Lucas, and Brooklyn

 Great friends can pick up where the left off no matter how much time goes by!

Brooklyn has a lot of boys in her life right now.  Over Thanksgiving she also got to meet Jack Hannon for California!  This time she got to show off her tricks to a younger boy and even let Grandpa Hannon feed her a bottle!  We love when the Hannon's come to town.

We topped of the weekend by getting our outdoor Christmas lights put up while it wasn't too cold.  Dad did most of the work but Mom did the little trees in front of the garage as is tradition.

Couldn't get over how big our 6 month old looked in her stroller without the infant seat!

Brooklyn's 1st Thanksgiving - November 26th, 2015

Brooklyn spent most of her 1st Thanksgiving at Grammy and Gramps' (Nana and Grandpa went to Lewiston to visit Great Grandma Rife!)  She enjoyed breakfast with all of the Z cousins in the morning, then we went back home and rested and took a nice family walk (Kedzie dog included) back to Grammy and Gramps' for dinner

Brooklyn loves watching and playing with cousin Jacob, she also tried her first non-cereal solid on Thanksgiving, she had pureed sweet potatoes for the occasion!  

 

 Brooklyn enjoying a family tradition from cousins Lucas and Anna...the turkey puppet!

 

 

best buds!

All bundled up for the walk to Grammy and Gramps

Attempting to self-feed

Brooklyn's not so sure about these solids but Kedzie-dog loves them!

All and all it was a wonderful and this captures just how much we have to be thankful for!

Nana's Birthday! - November 8th, 2015

Nana, Grandpa, Aunt Emily, & Uncle Billy came over to help celebrate Nana's birthday.  We enjoyed pizza and cake and Brooklyn had fun helping Nana with her candles!

Brooklyn's Baptism - November 22nd, 2015

Brooklyn was baptized on November 22nd.  The baptism was witness but much of our family and her Godparents, Uncle Billy and Aunt Emily.  We had a nice celebration at our house afterwards.  We were so thankful that Aunt Robin took pictures for us and Uncle Rob videoed!

 Brooklyn enjoying a morning nap with her Godfather before the festivities

 

Godparents: Uncle Billy & Aunt Emily

with Dad's Godmother

Brooklyn's with her Godparents and her Godmother's Godparents

 Brooklyn's baptismal gown was made from Nana's wedding dress...it was also the 1st time Brooklyn saw snow!

 Brooklyn had a lot of fun playing with her cousins at the after party

It was a wonderful celebration with family that we'll always cherish