Monday, January 1, 2018

2017 Year in Review

This post is to just highlight our year as a family in 2017. We traveled a lot and made a lot of wonderful memories. The boys finished first grade, turned 7 and then started second grade in September. We traveled to Florida, Chicago, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. We did a lot of fun things with our friends and family and are so blessed to have such good people surrounding us. Here are the Highlights:


January

Shrine Circus, Alex and Evan got the VIP treatment from the Clowns and Shriners of the Circus! We got to go behind the scenes and hang out after the show!




February

Florida, We spent a week in Florida, visited Walt Disney World for the first time and took a day trip over to Clearwater Beach. It was a trip full of wonderful memories!!





March

I celebrated 38 years and we all showed our support for CP Awareness by wearing Green!
 

Eric insists on putting all 38 Candle on

Someone wanted Cake
LOVE this Pic.


April

We celebrated Easter with both of our families with an Easter Egg Hunt, Baskets and Dinner!

Easter Bunny Came

My Parents with their grandsons

Eric's Mom and Dad with the boys
Cousins


May

We made it to the Zoo for the first time in May. 




June

The Boys and I along with Rachel, Lauren and Nathan went to Louisville, KY for a few days to visit Mammoth Cave National Park. They have an accessible cave that we were able to go down into via elevator. It was such a cool experience. We stayed in Louisville and visited Downtown, The Science Museum, The Riverfront and the Louisville Zoo. Such a fun (and HOT trip).





July

Super Busy, but super fun month! We saw 3 firework shows, did the Disability Day at the 4H Fair with Blake and Casey, Alex and Evan turned 7 with a Scooby Doo themed party, a new above ground pool from us and a trip to see Monster Trucks. A few days later we went to Chicago for a long weekend!











August

Eric Received his Bachelor's Degree from Baker College in August - SO PROUD OF HIM!

Then we headed down to Georgia for a week at the end of August. We visited our family, took a day trip to North Carolina and stopped in Gatlinburg, TN on the way home. We were also lucky enough to witness the full solar eclipse as well! Loved every moment of the trip!









September

Tigers Game, First Day of School, Septemberfest and Wojos Fall Family Fun Days!
GO TIGERS


Comerica Park
First Day of Second Grade

Septemberfest - Evan holding onto Alex on the merry go round


Septemberfest 

This was about as high as he got before he got too hot

Wojos Fall Family Fun Days

We love Fall!



October

Painting and Carving Pumpkins and Trick or Treating with Sapphire and Kingston on Halloween!


Swat Team and Fire Department!

It was unusually warm in October! We never get to wear shorts while picking pumpkins





November

We celebrated Eric turning 37 and made it up to Bronner's Christmas Wonderland to pick our Christmas ornaments!


Happy Birthday Eric!





December 
Our Annual Trip to the Santa House in Midland and a few Christmas Memories!







A White Christmas!


As always, Thank you for following along on our Journey. 
I hope to Blog more in 2018 than I did in 2017.

Love,
Eric, Keri, Alex and Evan


Thursday, December 7, 2017

November Adventures

November Adventures

We had a lot of great times in November! Check them out below.


Alex lost his top tooth on November 3rd. Look at that smile!



We went to a Bowling Birthday Party for our friend Jake on November 4th! 
We all had such a nice time!










Evan is always such a huge help to Alex when we go bowling
 Alex lost his second top tooth in the same weekend and now all he wants for Christmas is his two front teeth! Look how cute that smile is!


The boys didn't have school on November 7th, so we met up with their classmate Anthony and his brothers Issac and Damien at the mall for lunch. Then went to see the Lego Ninjago movie! It was a fun filled afternoon!




Due to a "Police Situation" in the township where we live, school was cancelled on the 15th of November. I didn't want to stay holed up in the house all day, so we ventured north to Bronner's Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth to pick out our Christmas ornaments. It is a tradition that we do every year. Evan picked a silver disco ball and Alex picked a red round glass ornament with Santa's face on it.













Evan couldn't wait to put the tree up and get his new ornament on!










November 18th, we visited Santa at Bass Pro Shops and spent the afternoon at Legoland



Being Goofy Together

Meeting Storm Troopers at Legoland
 November 19th was Blake and Casey's birthday party - also at a bowling party! 
We had a blast!

That Smile!

Best Buds


This is the best they could give me

Casey was super excited for his cupcake and dug right in!




 Thanksgiving - Matthew and Samantha came up from Georgia to visit!!






Alex and Evan LOVE their cousins
 Eric turned 37 on November 25th!!! I somehow only got pictures of the cake. We celebrated by going out to dinner and had cake and presents too!



 December is going to be busy with Christmas Activities!! Can't wait to share them with you next month. Thanks for following along.