Tuesday, December 6, 2011

November and December 2011

We had some beautiful Fall days here in KC in November so we decided to put up Christmas light early. It has shaped up to be a mild winter but we enjoyed having them up! 
The rest of the month was full of birthday parties....

and wedding showers!


And since the lovely weather continued we could have friends over and all sit outside! 




Congrats to Todd and Whit who are now happily married! 

Emily Ann came to visit us before she headed to CA to see my Mom and sisters and the rest. We again had really great weather and a great time exploring KC! 


Yummy food at Blanc Burgers and enjoying the Nelson
Adam with Lucy and Jack at his Star Wars/Star Trek themed concert. It was such a great mix of people who wanted to listen to great music and others who liked the movies!  
Emily Ann and some of the McCrerys

We had a great group from church come and visit....here is us and the Johnsons! 

Emily Ann even joined us for Saturday Morning at the Shelter. This Saturday was a dress up day! 

We spent Thanksgiving at the Renos and then the evening we headed to the Plaza again to watch the lighting of the lights and the  fireworks.




We took Jack and Lucy to an inflatable indoor playground Thanksgiving weekend. I think we had just as much fun as they did! 


Before heading to a wedding in December we got to see Jon and Katy's new beautiful baby! 

And then see Laura get married...she was a beautiful bride! 

Us and the Johnsons again:-)

Could not resist some photos by the red door! 




Monday, December 5, 2011

PA and NO

End of September/Beginning of October we traveled to Baltimore to see some good friends of Adam's on the way to his cousins wedding. It was great to spend time with Tim and Brianne! 


I loved the colorful doors! I hope one day we get to live in the city! 

We then drove to PA to Adam's cousins wedding. It was fun to get to meet some of the family and the bride was beautiful! 

The whole group of us then traveled down to New Orleans for some good food and fun ~ lots of beignets of course were in order! 


Yummy Cafe Du Monde!!

Adam was not so sure about the living statue and we were covered in silver after this encounter:-) 





We had wonderful weather and fun exploring the city - It was interesting going back as an adult and fun to get to be in a city I had visited so often as a child! 

LOVE those doors! Brothers having fun!




Adam messing around after our cultural experience. 

So glad we got to see Aunt Myrtle while we were there. Ate some delicious Po Boys and chatted about old times
This is my Maw Maw and Paw Paws house post Katrina ~ It looks totally different but so glad that someone has given it so much TLC

A very fun part of the trip was scooters all over town - Adam had to ride the pink one as it was too tall for me! 



Even took the scooters through City Park ~ so FUN!



We came home and the next big event was Halloween. Adam was lined paper and I was a three hole punch. Very clever:-)
We had several free Saturday mornings - great for making perfectly round pancakes and just hanging around the house!


We had some more friends come with us to Saturday mornings at the shelter (ones that we were not making pancakes;-)) - it was great to have some new faces to love on the kids.