We had a fun fiesta themed birthday party for Genna & Sammi so we could celebrate before they went back to school! It was a blast!
Dylan is starting to "talk". He loves trying to repeat things that people say and he has some great hand motions to go with his words (thanks to his aunts haha). One night in bed we decided to do some selfie videos to capture this :) We hosted small get together for NYE and got a little crazy! Dylan is learning beer pong at a young age :) I love Christmas!! We did our yearly tradition of church on Christmas Eve followed by food, drinks and presents with the Perkins side of the fam at the Farm. We did Christmas morning just the three of us at home (Santa came!) and then head over to the Hempen house for some more presents and breakfast :) What a great Christmas!! I really wanted to try to get some family pictures before the year ended (I want to make it a family tradition) so I asked Genna to come over and take pics of us! Thanks Genna! Even though we didn't get the "perfect" picture, I think a lot of them are awesome :)
We had a lot of fun family bowling! It was Dylan's first time and I think he really enjoyed it! He ran around yelling "ball". The second game got a little weird haha. A few fun pictures from December. I'm loving the time off work to hangout with Dylan & work on our cooking skills :)
On December 14th I did the Rudolph Ramble 8k in Chicago (that's about 5 miles). I ran it with Eric, Jenie & Brock (Sammi was our cheerleader and photographer - thanks Sammi)! It was fun, I had a great race!
We had a lot of fun going into the city a few times this month. We all went to see the Lincoln Park Zoo lights (it was so warm out) and Dylan also went into the city with Genna, Sammi and Grandma to Christkindlmarket. He sure loves the city :)
The whole fam did the McHenry Turkey Trot for Hospice 5k on Thanksgiving morning bright and early! Pretty difficult after the night out before!! :) We had a lot of fun making ridiculously adorable turkey shirts & running together! Dylan got reaaaally cold so him and Drew didn't actually do the race but they waited for us in the warm van :) My Mom got 2nd place in her age group and I got 2nd place in my age group too! It was a blast - can't wait to do it again next year! Then we went to the Farm for Thanksgiving and helped Grandpa set up his tree! Amy & I did our first 10k TRAIL run the weekend before Thanksgiving! We had a little too much fun celebrating but we did pretty well! We finished right around 60 mins and placed 4th and 5th in our age groups! It was freeeZIng but fun!
We had a fun get together on November 11th to celebrate Veteran's Day & Dylan's year and a half birthday! :)
The Silkers had an awesome Harvest Fest in the barn that Uncle John built! It was a really fun party! :)
Halloween was fun this year! We had some people over to greet the trick-or-treaters, drink and be merry :) Dylan really loved answering the door and handing out candy. Guess what he didn't like - HIS COSTUME! I don't think we got a single good picture of him in it! Oh well....maybe next year!!
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