We love to visit our Aunt Christie! The family traveled to Dyersville for Cousin Luke's birthday party!!!

It's a growing group! But we all managed to squeeze in for a family photo of the grand kids.

Over break I stirred up some creativity and chalk board paint! While the other walls are yellow and indigo, one wall was painted with blackboard paint for the kids to write on the walls WITH permision :)

Nate jumped right in!

Mom couldn't resist too!

While visiting the River Museum in Dubuque, we toured

the William Black Boat and checked out their dining room. I guess we missed the dinner bell...

Nate and Meredith in front of the alligator exhibit!

Meredith was hoping to help Dad with the taxes
(and his bottle of Coke...)


Looks like we have another accountant
in the family!

Meredith makes Dad happy when she finds a
few extra deductions!

Winter Wonderland in Urbandale!

It finally warmed up enough to enjoy the snow! The
whole family was out and had a great time. The kids
couldn't wait to get the gardening tools out to help dad "shovel" the snow!

Ha!

Nate had a blast on the hill in the backyard. If only
his hat would cooperate :)

Meredith stuck close to the slide. It was a "hill" she
felt comfortable with. It took Meredith a while to get her
balance and confidence in the snow. In the end, we had to
drag her back inside.

We present to you the king and queen of the hill!

Long live the King!

We celebrated Meredith's birthday with our
second cousin, Drake, at Pump It Up!

Meredith enjoyed the slides.

Nate had a blast, too!

Even Dad couldn't resist!

Christmas with our Cousin Hailey!

We had a great time seeing our uncles over
Christmas break!

Meredith is quite the carpenter! She helped Mom put
her new shelves together.

Meredith worked inside and out. Quite the inspector!

Her favorite part was climbing through
the squares.

Hello from the Dante Family!

We hope to keep you posted
on all the happenings here!

Enjoy!

Resting after a hard day's work of raking!

Our last nice fall day!



Pumpkin seeds, anyone?

Mission complete... with no injuries!




Happy Halloween from Mario and Ms. Bumble Bee!





Where's Luigi?






We baked our first batch of cookies and they actually
turned out okay!






Move over, Martha! Here comes Meredith!






Nate arrives just in time for a cookie.