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Alexis has become quite the talker these days, so we thought we should share some of her favorite big words with you...

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Thanksgiving

Happy Belated Turkey Day! We hope you had a good holiday. We were very fortunate to be able to spend our holiday with close to 60 family members!! That is definitely something to be thankful for.

Here is a picture of most of us... only a few are missing.

This is the best shot I could get of Alexis in her dress before she decided to run wild and free...

Our Florida relatives (Uncle Pat, Aunt Clare, Caitlin and Sean) came in to celebrate the holiday... and look what happened in the two years since we have seen them... 6 new babies!


Here are the 6 new ones... (L to R) Ellen, Johnny, Nolan, Alexis, Jack, and Kylie (trying to sneak away). Don't they all look thrilled to have their picture taken? Alexis was a good girl and held Nolan very nicely!

Hope you all had a great holiday!

Getting Ready For Thanksgiving

Look at all of the turkeys that got into Beth's house!

Uncle Brian

Uncle Brian was in town today! We went over to Gramma and Grampa's house to visit with him. He has a talk/interview on Friday at the University of Chicago. Good luck!!

Meeting Nolan

Yesterday Alexis and I had the day off together for Veteran's Day, so we went over to visit our new cousin Nolan. He is so cute! He is such a good baby and mostly slept the whole time we were there, except for during the major poop emergency he put his Mommy and Daddy through! We all got a good laugh out of it, except for Alexis, who was very unsure of what was going on!


Take a look at the picture below. Nolan is pretty much the exact same size as Alexis when she was born... can you believe the difference? In no time Nolan will be big enough to play with all of his cousins. Second cousins once removed? If anyone can shed some light on the exact relationship of Alexis and Nolan, now is the time to chime in!

Sedona Trip

Go figure, we went to Sedona for a week and returned to find out that we have ANOTHER new cousin! Nolan Ryan Leonard was born on Friday, November 2nd, at 6am. He is 8lbs 1oz. Congrats to Meg and Rick on their new arrival! We can't wait to meet him.

Stormy tried to sneak along in my suitcase... what is it about an empty box that forces cats to jump in?


We spent the last several days on vacation in Sedona, AZ. Sedona is in a red rock canyon and is gorgeous.

Here is the house that we stayed in. The balcony overlooked Oak Creek... very nice to fall asleep to the sound of the water rushing by!

Views from the balcony...

This is the driveway going up to the house that we stayed in... notice how the creek flows right over the road?? That was more than a little intimidating to drive through when we arrived at 11pm in total darkness!!!

Alexis with Gramma Debi enjoying the view...

Cort and I went on a jeep tour... the ultimate off road experience!

In Sedona, everyone goes Trick Or Treating around all of the little shops in town. It was a lot of fun and we saw tons of kids dressed in their costumes. Lots of dogs in costumes, too, which Alexis was really excited about. Here is our little clown...

A few more pictures from the trip...

Alexis was a really good traveler, and did us a huge favor by sleeping the entire flight home.... YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!! She was very excited to go on an airplane and see all sorts of new things. Her language skills are getting better and better... she is speaking in 5 or 6 word sentences a lot of the time, and we are loving having so much insight into what she is thinking. She wants to do everything by herself... her favorite sentence is "Noooo ME do it!" She has an amazing memory and only needs to see something once before she knows how to do it... so if we show her something new, we need to make sure we show her exactly how we want her to do it, because like it or not, that is the way she is going to do it from now on.